Debating future of particle physics
The Open Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics was held in the beautiful town of Krakow on 10-12 September this year. This event – organised under the aegis of the European Strategy Preparatory Group – attracted around 500 particle physicists from across the world, with the aim of discussing the next research instruments and other future prospects for high energy physics.
The wide-ranging programme focused on the recent discovery of the Higgs-like particle at CERN…
Angela Bracco to be first female chairperson of NuPECC
Angela Bracco has been voted in as the chairperson-elect of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC), an Expert Committee of the European Science Foundation. Bracco, a member of NuPECC since 2007, will become the committee’s first female chairperson when she commences her three year term – taking over from Guenther Rosner – on 1 January next year.
Bracco, full professor of physics at the University of Milan, Italy, is a renowned expert in the field of nuclear structure. She has been the spokesperson of several experiments at a number of laboratories, including: Legnaro National…
