Refilling the Physicist Pool
JUL 06, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.021263
Photonics.com : At the mention of the word “outsourcing,” most people probably think of manufacturing, not theoretical physics. But the scientists who develop theoretical predictions for high-energy particle physics experiments say outsourcing in their field has allowed the US to lag behind in high-profile, global science.
“This is the wrong kind of outsourcing,” said Ulrich Baur, PhD, a professor of physics at the University at Buffalo (UB) College of Arts and Sciences and a co-founder of the Large Hadron Collider-Theory Initiative (LHC-TI), a consortium of theoretical physicists. Their goal is to train more US graduate students in theoretical high-energy particle physics calculations relevant to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator being built near Geneva, Switzerland.
“We are behind the Europeans, and we believe very strongly that we shouldn’t just leave this work to the Europeans,” Baur said in a UB statement.
© 2007 American Institute of Physics
