Jammu, December 17 (Scoop News) –Dr. Paolo Giubellino, an eminent, internationally renowned scientist, who has been the Project leader of the ALICE Inner Tracking System Project, involving over two dozen research institutions in 12 countries, under the aegis of CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, called on the Governor, N. N. Vohra, here today.
Dr. Paolo is on a 2-day visit of the Jammu University to interact with the High Energy Physics Group and the Faculty of the Department of Physics of the University.
Dr. Paolo briefed the Governor about the various research projects being undertaken by his organization. The Governor discussed with him various issues relating to ALICE and the possibilities of research findings and experiences in identified arenas of science being shared on a meaningful scale with Universities and institutions of learning and research.
The Vice Chancellor, Jammu University, Prof. Varun Sahni, briefing the Governor, who is the Chancellor of the University, said that the High Energy Physics Group of the University of Jammu has been collaborating in various front line experiments based at CERN, Geneva, since 1985. He added that the Group members – physicists, engineers and research students – have contributed to various experiments in hardware and software development at various accelerator sites all over the world and, for the ALICE data acquisition and analysis, the Group is also involved in setting up of the GRID facility at Jammu with the aim of developing the High Energy Physics Lab at Jammu University to be viable for data analysis of large experiments.
The Governor thanked Dr. Giubellino for his visit to Jammu University and the extremely valuable exchanges and discussions held by him with the members of the Jammu University High Energy Physics Group. He invited Prof. Giubellino to come again.