News & Events: 2004

Natalie Roe has been elected vice chair of the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Particles and Fields (DPF). She is now in line to become chair of the group in 2007. As vice chair, her duties will include organizing DPF sessions at the society's annual meeting, organizing joint activities with other divisions, and assisting with the selection of APS fellows.

Craig Tull, acting leader of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center's High Energy Physics Computing Group, has accepted a one-year assignment with the Office of High Energy Physics in the Department Of Energy's Office of Science. He will be working primarily with members of the offices of High Energy Physics, Advanced Scientific Computing Research, and Nuclear Physics. Among the project areas he will be working on are SciDAC (DOE's Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing initiative), computing for the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and high performance networking.

Deputy Director Pier Oddone and four other Berkeley Lab researchers were among the winners of awards and prizes for 2005 from the American Physical Society (APS). An APS award or prize is considered one of the highest honors a physicist can receive. Oddone will receive the W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in experimental particle physics for his conception of the asymmetric B-Factory.

On September 21, 2004, the result of the ATLAS Pixel Project Leader Election was announced. Congratulations to Kevin Einsweiler who was elected unanimously to become the new ATLAS Pixel Project Leader in February 2005.

Charles Shank, the outgoing director of LBNL, visited CERN on 26 May. His tour included visits to the ATLAS experiment's assembly hall, the test-beam facility for many of the experiment's components, and the underground cavern where he saw progress in installation. LBNL is making important contributions to the ATLAS Inner Detector, in particular for the silicon strip and pixel detectors that will sit closest to the interaction region in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Here Shank (right) is seen in the cleanroom facility for the Inner Detector together with Kevin Einsweiler from the Pixel System group at LBNL. Shank also visited the assembly hall for the CMS experiment and the test facility for the LHC magnets. See also the full section "Faces and Places" of the July issue of the CERN Courier.