Announcements

September 12, 2008

DOE and NASA announce the opening of a new public website for the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM), a joint NASA/DOE space-based mission to investigate dark energy. The website will provide all public information and plans regarding the mission. The agencies also announced the formation of a Science Coordination Group to aid in establishing preliminary science requirements for a JDEM facility. Please see http://jdem.gsfc.nasa.gov for detailed information.

September 11, 2008

Success of the Large Hadron Collider PHysics program depends critically on using computing facilities all of over the world, linked by complex software infrastructure. The LHC community celebrates the deployment of this infrastructure called Grid Computing at GRIDFEST.

September 3, 2008

The first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider will be made on September 10, 2008. Several U.S. institutions involved in LHC will host first beam events.

July 15, 2008

The Office of High Energy Physics congratulates Professor Ronald C. Davidson of Princeton University for being selected by the American Physical Society to receive the 2008 James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics. The Office of High Energy Physics has supported advanced theoretical and numerical research on intense charged particle beams by Professor Davidson and his nonlinear beam dynamics group at Princeton University since 2000. This research applies many of the techniques developed in studying the properties of one-component nonneutral plasmas to investigate collective interaction processes and nonlinear dynamics of high-intensity charge bunches in high energy accelerators.

July 2, 2008

Dr. Dennis Kovar has been appointed to be the Associate Director of of the Office of Science for High Energy Physics. Dr. Kovar has been serving in this capacity since October 15, 2007, on detail from his former position as the Associate Director of the Office of Science for Nuclear Physics. This appointment is effective immediately.

May 30, 2008

Microsoft Vista AND Office 2007 Compatibility
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