Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2008 APS April Meeting and HEDP/HEDLA Meeting
Volume 53, Number 5
Friday–Tuesday, April 11–15, 2008; St. Louis, Missouri
Session H6: Impact of Major Accelerator Projects on the Development of Emergent Countries |
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Sponsoring Units: DPB FIP Chair: Satoshi Ozaki, Brookhaven National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D |
Sunday, April 13, 2008 8:30AM - 9:06AM |
H6.00001: Indian Participation in LHC and a Glimpse of the Road Ahead Invited Speaker: Indian high energy physicists have been using overseas research facilities for a long time especially those at CERN. In 1991, Indian DAE brought such collaborations under an institutional framework and entered into a 10 year cooperation agreement with CERN, which later helped India join the LHC program with an expanded objective. Besides participating in detector development and physics studies, India agreed to contribute to accelerator construction, where RRCAT (earlier known as CAT, Indore) was the lead Indian institution. The 1991 cooperation agreement was extended for another 10 years and new protocols were added enabling Indian participation in the LHC Computing Grid Developments and, recently, to Indian involvement in hardware for CLIC Test facility 3 and LINAC-4. Successful India-CERN collaboration in accelerator construction has led to further Indian linkage to other international accelerator related projects such as FAIR and ILC. The talk will give an overview of the Indian contributions, benefits that have resulted through them, as well as a peek into collaborative programs for upcoming and also future projects. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:06AM - 9:42AM |
H6.00002: Impact of Pohang Accelerator on Large-scale Science Programs in Korea Invited Speaker: Emerging countries pursue their industrialization based mainly on technology. However, governments of these countries often encounter difficulties pursuing a fast-track approach to advanced R{\&}D programs due to a lack of resources, especially in trained man-power. There are a few successful countries, for example, in Korea. The government R{\&}D budget has been increased by more than five-fold in the last decade in Korea, which has stimulated a large number of trained scientists and engineers to return home to Korea. Satisfied with positive results for industrialization based on technology, the government has now begun to promote the basic science required for improving applied science and industries. At the same time, since the successful construction and operations of Pohang Light Source (PLS) initiated by POSTECH, the Korean government, and the steel company, POSCO, the Korean government has been promoting new large-scale scientific facilities for multi-disciplinary science, for example by joining the ITER tokamak project. This paper presents recent progress in and prospects for science and technology programs in Korea as an emerging country. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:42AM - 10:18AM |
H6.00003: The Impact of the SESAME Project on Science and Society in the Middle East Invited Speaker: SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) is a UNESCO-sponsored project that is constructing an international research laboratory, closely modeled on CERN, in Jordan (www.sesame.org.jo). Ten Members of the governing Council (Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Palestinian Authority, and Turkey) have responsibility for the project, led by Herwig Schopper, Council President since 1999. In late 2008 Chris Llewellyn-Smith will become Council President. SESAME was initiated by a gift from Germany of the decommissioned BESSY I facility. The BESSY I 0.8 GeV injector is now being installed in the recently completed building, funded by Jordan, as components are procured for a new 133 m circumference, 2.5 GeV third-generation storage ring with 12 locations for insertion devices. Beam line equipment has been provided by laboratories in France, UK, and US. Support also comes from EU, IAEA, ICTP, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the US Department of Energy and State Department, and laboratories around the world. The broad scientific program includes biomedical, environmental, and archaeological programs particularly relevant to the Middle East. Five scientific workshops and six annual Users' meetings have brought together several hundred scientists from the region, along with researchers from around the world. Training programs have enabled about 100 scientists from the region to work at synchrotron radiation laboratories. These activities have already had significant impact on science and society in the Middle East, for example leading to collaborations between scientists from countries that are not particularly friendly with each other, and to national planning emphasizing synchrotron radiation research. When research starts in 2011 this impact will grow as graduate students are trained in the region in many scientific disciplines, and scientists working abroad are attracted to return. [Preview Abstract] |
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