Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session L03: Honoring Helen EdwardsDiversity Invited
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Sponsoring Units: DPB DPF Chair: Sergei Nagaitsev, Fermilab Room: Sheraton Plaza E |
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 3:35PM |
L03.00001: Introducing Helen Edwards Invited Speaker: Young-Kee Kim I will present a brief overview of Helen's life and career. |
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:35PM - 3:55PM |
L03.00002: Helen Edwards and the Success of the Tevatron Invited Speaker: Michael S Witherell Helen Edwards was one of the leading accelerator scientists in the history of the field. She had a central role in the design, construction, commissioning, and operation of the Tevatron, the highest-energy collider in the world from 1992 to 2008. She brought to this effort a formidable command of accelerator science and technology and a deep understanding of accelerator operations. In addition, she was able to communicate to the entire team her sense of urgency and her conviction that all problems could be solved. The discovery of the top quark was the most profound of the many scientific achievements made using the Tevatron. In a perfect world, she would have won the Nobel prize in Physics. The citation for the Robert R. Wilson Prize she won in 2003 captured the depth and breadth of her contributions to science: "For her pivotal achievement and critical contribution as the leader in the design, construction, commissioning and operation of the Tevatron and for her continued contributions to the development of high gradient superconducting linear accelerators as well as bright and intense electron sources."
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:55PM - 4:15PM |
L03.00003: Hellen Thom Edwards at the SSC and Cornell Invited Speaker: Maury Tigner We review two important intervals in the life of this great person: her accomplishments as Technical Director of the SSC and her time and works at Cornell University. In the former she completed the site specific design of the SSC. In the latter she matriculated as a student in the Class of 1957 and worked through until the award of the PhD in 1966 after which she played a major role in bringing the then just finished 10 GeV electron synchrotron into operation in 1967. In 2001 she and Don endowed a chair in Accelerator Physics at Cornell. |
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:15PM - 4:35PM |
L03.00004: Helen and DESY Invited Speaker: Reinhard Brinkmann Helen Edwards had a close relationship to the DESY Laboratory in Hamburg for more than 30 years. It started in the 1980s with the invaluable advice which DESY got from FNAL on the construction and commissioning of the superconducting proton ring of the HERA ep collider. It continued then for many years with her strong involvement in the development of the superconducting RF TESLA technology. In this talk I present recollections of the collaboration with Helen and of the achievements which many colleagues and friends of Helen here at DESY made together with her in this extremely fruitful period of high-tech accelerator R&D, construction and operation. |
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:35PM - 4:55PM |
L03.00005: Helen Edwards as a mentor Invited Speaker: Timothy W Koeth For this aspiring physicist to have been in Helen Edwards group was really to have had the honor of being an apprentice in the guild of particle accelerator builders. This physicist will reminisce about his youthful days of being in the Fermilab A-Zero Photoinjector group and the direct impact it has had on his career. Beyond my specific case, Helen’s mentorship was global and impacted numerous accelerator personnel. Her understudies are now successful members of many institutions and agencies, such as Fermilab, SLAC, BNL, ANL, ORNL, LNAL, TJNAF, DOE, DESY, CERN, ESS, to name a few. I will will share examples, anecdotes and adventures to convey her ability as a mentor as well as demonstrate how her legacy continues. |
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