South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies (SEEIIST)

The South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies (SEEIIST) was proposed in 2016 at the World Academy of Art and Science, with the objective of building a facility for charged particle cancer therapy for the South Eastern European countries. SEEIIST will offer the world-class research needed to reduce or even revert the brain drain that is causing a shortage of talent and economic losses in South East Europe. There is no particle therapy in South-East Europe in spite of a growing number of cancers being diagnosed. The facility beam time will be shared 50:50 between treating patients and performing research with a wide spectrum of different light ions beyond the presently used protons and carbon ions, which will make the facility unique in the world. SEEIIST Project is presently in a Conceptual to a Design Phase, implemented with the support of the EU and the involvement of CERN and GSI. The next phase of the project realization will include a final technical design for the facility, a structure and a business plan for the organization and the definition of conditions for the site selection

The QGCW Project - Technological Challenges to Study the New World

The ISSP 2011 Status Report is a continuation of previous lectures on the QGCW (Quark Gluon Coloured World) Project and can therefore be short, only outlining developments during the last year

The LAA impact on technology R&D: from past to future

LAA was the first special program at CERN dedicated to prepare the future beyond the ongoing CERN Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) construction program 1980 to 1989. Unlike all previous CERN projects (PS, BOOSTER, BEBC, ISR, SPS)LEP approval was obtained under the condition to stay within the CERN budget level. No extra project budget was assigned for this major European scientific infrastructure project! This required to set priorities: CERN facilities and many experiments had to be closed to free resources for LEP construction and for the ongoing proton-antiproton SPS collider experiments -one of the few European science programs leading to a Nobel Prize

LEP I era (1984-1994) with a celebration of H. Schopper's 90th birthday

Abstract With the approval of the LEP programme and of the four LEP experiment proposals, followed by the groundbreaking start of LEP construction during the years 1980 to 1983, the year 1984 saw the closure of the ISR and bubble chamber programmes allowing CERN’s resources to be focussed on the new challenging activities associated with LEP. Based on contributions from colleagues, I will talk about the support for the LEP machine and describe CERN’s technical involvement with the collaborations of the four LEP experiments during the LEP construction period 1984 to 1989. In addition, I will talk about the preparations for the LEP energy upgrade and for the LHC during the LEP I operation period 1989 to 1994. Career summary 1965 Ph.D. thesis work in nuclear physics at the University of Heidelberg 1968 Staff member CERN, Geneva, Switzerland: Big European Bubble Chamber (BEBC) project 1981 Leader of BEBC Group at CERN 1984 Leader of Experimental Facility Division (EF) at CERN 1990 Leader of Accelerator Technology Division (AT/LHC) at CERN 1993 LHC Deputy Project Leader at CERN 1994 Research/Technical Director at CERN 2000 -2003 R&D superconducting RF cavities CERN-DESY /CERN Future Since 1982 Member of various boards (BMBF Bonn, DESY, GSI, Jülich) 1997-2000 Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board, Helsinki Institute of Physics 2000 – 2004 Member of Scientific Review Group for Norwegian Research Council 2000 – 2013 Member of Technology Panel, European Physical Society 2005 - 2013 Facility for Antiproton Ion Research, GSI Activities: Nuclear physics spectroscopy, bubble chamber physics, neutrino physics, LEP physics experiments, particle physics detector and accelerator R&

The LAA project and the consequences on LHC

The International Symposium on "Subnuclear Physics: Past, Present and Future", held at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences from 30 October to 2 November 2011, provided an excellent occasion to highlight the achievements of an important project at CERN: the LAA project