Veranstaltungskalender

GSI Kolloquium

• Dienstag, 22. Mai 2012   16.15 Uhr -- Hörsaal
  Reinhard Stock, University of Frankfurt
  "50 Years in Life and Science with Rudolf Bock"
  

  In honor of Rudolf Bock, at the occasion of his 85th birthday, I will recall some outstanding stations of his life in science. This ranges from the foundation of GSI and, at about the same time, the first crucial steps in extending heavy ion physics to relativistic energy, in the early 70ties. He founded the GSI-LBL Collaboration at the Berkeley Bevalac, which shaped all subsequent research in strongly interacting matter at high energy density until today due to the construction of large acceptance "4Pi" detector systems: an approach governing the future key experiments, from the CERN SPS NA49 and WA89 experiments via STAR at RHIC, to ALICE at the LHC. From initial insight concerning the hadronic matter equation of state at the Bevalac and at the SIS synchrotron of GSI, Rudolf Bock has moved onward with the field developing into the analysis of the "Quark Matter"-state of QCD, notably by securing a crucial role of GSI in constructing the CERN-SPS-program with ultrarelativistic Lead(Pb208) beams. This work has found a continuation to the present ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC, with GSI again contributing the heart of this detector. From the early Bevalac times, a second, completely novel research theme arose with the idea to induce thermonuclear pellet fusion by inertial confinement under bombardment with heavy relativistic nuclear beams of unprecedented luminosity. Rudolf Bock has rooted this research at GSI, and he still serves this program as a "spiritus mentor", until today! Congratulations, Rudolf!