Stronger China-CERN Cooperation Expected

    Today is the first day of the 2005 China-CERN Workshop on Cooperation in High Energy Physics. About 10 CERN physicists, including Prof. Robert Aymar (the CERN Director-General) came to Beijing. On the Chinese side, many HEP physicists and a few officials from MoST (Ministry of Science and Technology), NSF (Natural Science Foundation) and CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) participated in this workshop.   

   In the opening session, Prof. H.S. Chen (the director of IHEP) presented an overview of high energy physics in China, and Prof. Aymar introduced the on-going CERN programs.

   Today’s subsequent sessions covered ATLAS, CMS, LHC-B, ALICE, LCG, SPL and CSNS projects. The workshop banquet will be held in the 全聚德烤鸭店 nearby IHEP, where people may try PRD (= Peking Roast Duck) in a professional fashion.

    Six parallel groups will work on the afore-mentioned topics or projects tomorrow. The status of BEPCII and the linear collider projects will also be discussed. A stronger and more fruitful cooperation between China and CERN is being expected.      

(Submitted by 邢志忠, 2005年5月14日下午)

Comments

[neil]

Thanks for the informative post. Good to see even stronger links developing between China and CERN
Neil