Please join us at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, on October 8, 2015, to honor Konrad Gelbke’s outstanding career at MSU.
Konrad Gelbke stepped down in May after 23 years as director of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. To honor his remarkable career and outstanding leadership that brought the laboratory where it is today, we are planning a scientific symposium that will feature several speakers in two sessions.
The symposium will take place at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts, on the campus of Michigan State University.
The speakers and session chairs at the symposium are Konrad Gelbke’s former graduate students and postdocs who moved on to diverse careers in academia, national laboratories, and industry. In addition, Konrad’s broader impact on nuclear physics will be highlighted by representatives from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Session I, Chair: Thomas Glasmacher (Michigan State University)
2 p.m. Brad Keister (National Science Foundation)
2:20 p.m. Tim Hallman (Department of Energy)
2:40 p.m. Bill Lynch (Michigan State University)
3:05 p.m. Romualdo de Souza (Indiana University)
3:30 p.m. - Coffee break
Session II, Chair: David Bowman (National Nuclear Security Administration)
4 p.m. David Fields (Logos Technology)
4:20 p.m. Larry Phair (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
4:45 p.m. Mike Lisa (Ohio State University)
5:10 p.m. Sally Gaff (Ford Motor Company)
If you plan to attend the symposium, you are also welcome to attend a morning celebration and luncheon that we are planning for Facility for Rare Isotope Beam Laboratory employees: 50 Years of Beam at Michigan State University. As we transition from the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Project into the FRIB Laboratory, the program will honor our past and look to our future, commemorating 50 years since the first beam from the K50 cyclotron. The morning program begins at 9 a.m. at the Wharton Center and lunch is at noon right outside the Wharton Center.
To RSVP, visit the "Registration form" page. Please RSVP by September 10, 2015.
For more information about the 50 Years of Beam celebration, visit the Home page.
If you have questions, please email events@frib.msu.edu, or call Janell Kebler at 517-908-7726.
We look forward to seeing you!
Michigan State University is establishing FRIB as a scientific user facility for the Office of Nuclear Physics in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Operation of NSCL as a national user facility is supported by the Experimental Nuclear Physics Program of the U.S. National Science Foundation.