NAL, University of Chicago to Co-host "Rochester Conference"
NAL and the University of Chicago will be co-hosts to the International Conference on High Energy Physics to be held September 6 through September 13, 1972.
It is one of the most significant regular meetings held in the international elementary particle physics community. Originally called "The Rochester Conference," the first meeting was held at the University of Rochester in 1950 and was organized by Professor Robert E. Marshak, physicist and astrophysicist, who recently was appointed president of the City College of New York. About fifty scientists attended the first meeting at the University of Rochester.
Dr. Edwin L. Goldwasser, NAL Deputy Director, and Dr. Robert G. Sachs, Department of Physics and Professor and Director, Enrico Fermi Institute, the University of Chicago, are co-chairmen for the 1972 meeting.
Mrs. Helen Peterson, a part-time employee of NAL's Director's Office, is coordinator for the 1972 meeting. Attendance will be by invitation and about 800 scientists from the United States, Western Europe and Soviet bloc countries are expected to attend. Other countries expected to send participants include Canada, Israel, Japan and Taiwan. It is expected that more than 1,000 visitors, including wives and family members, will come to the area as a result of the meeting.
The Conference is held every other year and rotates from the USA to Europe to USSR; thus in 1966, the Conference was held at Berkeley, California with the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory of the University of California as host. In 1968, it was held in Vienna, Austria; in 1970, in Kiev, USSR; and for 1972, the USA.
Present plans for the six-day meeting call for the first three days of the Conference to be held at the University of Chicago campus with parallel sessions -- as many as three or four at any one time. The meetings at the University of Chicago are scheduled for Wednesday, September 6; Thursday, September 7, and Friday, September 8.
There will be a free weekend for participants on Saturday, September 9, and Sunday, September 10. During the weekend, participants will come to housing facilities in the vicinity of NAL.
Plenary sessions will be held in the NAL auditorium Monday, September 11; Tuesday, September 12, and Wednesday, September 13. Tours of NAL facilities and other high energy physics research centers will be arranged for participants before, during and after the meetings.