Gruppenbild mit Physiker

 The organisers of the meeting in Rome last week just sent through the group photos we had taken, so I thought I'd share them here for posterity.

The first, from Thursday 16th April, shows those present at the Nuclear Science Symposium, organised as a satellite meeting to the IUPAP WG9/C12 AGM (don't ask me what all that means).  Those scheduled to attend the Friday meeting (including me), were invited to attend this symposium

 The second, from Friday 17th April, shows those present just for the Friday committee meeting of NuPECC (the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee).  I am standing at the back in the middle on both photos.  I'm pretty tall, and I usually head to the back in group photos

 

RIP Günther Rosner

I missed posting about this last month, but I have been reminded about the recent death of Günther Rosner as part of the chair's presentation in the NuPECC committee meeting I am attending today.

Günther was a professor in the UK (at Glasgow) when I started working at Surrey back in 2000, and I remember coming across him at various meetings over the years he was in the UK.  I never knew him personally, but I remember him as a very enthusiastic person who devoted much time to supporting the field politically.  

There's a short obituary of him at the FAIR website, from which I take the photo below

 

From the Enrico Fermi Research Centre

I'm at a meeting at the CREF - Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi - in Rome.  The building is inside a government compound shared with the Italian Interior Ministry, so is slightly bureaucratic to get into, but the centre is here as it is the building where Enrico Fermi worked.  There is a museum here which I hope to go to later, but as proof that this place has some nuclear physics history, here's a picture of a fountain with a plaque in front, which reads "Using the water of the goldfish fountain of his institute, Enrico Fermi established for the first time in the afternoon of 22 October 1934 the crucial role of hydrogenous substances on neutron-induced radioactivity thus opening the way to the use of slow neutrons in nuclear fission chain reaction"