The scientific work carried out by Prof. Allen Caldwell currently includes the development of novel particle accelerator technology based on plasma wakefields, the study of the quarks and gluons and their interactions, the fundamental properties of neutrinos and, more recently, the search for a new candidate for Dark Matter - axions. In addition, he has a great interest in probability and statistics, and lectures on data analysis techniques and Monte Carlo methods at the Technical University of Munich.
The plasma based accelerator experiment is explained in the video How can plasma and proton beams be used in building next generation particle accelerators?
Prof. Caldwell was born in Verdun/France in 1959 and has the double citizenship of the USA and France. He studied physics at Rice University in Texas, then moved to the University of Wisconsin where he earned his doctorate. He then spent 15 years at Columbia University, where he eventually became professor. In 1997, he became head of the ZEUS experiment at the HERA accelerator at DESY in Hamburg. In 1999, he was made director of the Nevis Laboratory at Columbia University in New York; since 2002 he has been a Member of the Board of Directors of the Max Planck Institute for Physics. He currently heads the AWAKE experiment at CERN .
Peter Schwabe is a scientific director at MPI-SP and also a professor at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His research is in the area of cryptography, specifically the design and secure implementation of cryptographic primitives. In recent years he is mainly working on post-quantum cryptography, i.e., cryptographic primitives that run on standard hardware, but remain secure even against attackers equipped with a large universal quantum computer. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for this work on engineering post-quantum cryptography. Peter is interested in high-assurance cryptography, an area that brings together techniques and tools from formal methods and research into cryptographic software to improve the quality of cryptographic systems we use every day to protect our digital assets.
Prof. Francesco Romanelli is the President of the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility at ENEA Frascati Research Center. He has been working in nuclear fusion since 1980. He has led from 1996 to 2006 the ENEA activities in Physics of Magnetic Confinement Fusion. In 2006 he became Leader of JET, the largest magnetic fusion experiment in operation, and from 2009 to 2014 Leader of the European Fusion Development Agreement. In 2015 he moved to the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” where he is now professor of Physics of Nuclear Energy. He is also Editor in Chief of Nuclear Fusion, the largest impact factor fusion journal.
