January 26, 2011: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

You are cordially invited to join the Oxford and Cambridge Dining Club of Geneva for a dinner and talk on 26th January at the restaurant of the Château de Penthes, Pregny.

The guest speaker will be Dr. David Myers, an English physicist with CERN. His after-dinner talk: "CERN: What and Why?" will be illustrated with slides and last for about 20 minutes, after which he will be pleased to answer questions. His talk will aim to give a brief, non-technical overview of what CERN does and a personal perspective as to why.

CHF 70.- per person
(Includes dinner, wine, mineral water, and coffee)
To be paid in cash to the restaurant on arrival   

No-shows will be charged unless cancellation is received by 21 January at 12 noon.

Program

7:00 PM-7:30 PM: Aperitif and networking

7:30 PM-9:30 PM: Dinner followed by talk by Dr. David Myers

Registration

Register By Email

Please register by Friday, January 21 at 12 noon via email to Philip Selby indicating you are a Chicago Booth graduate and copy Jonathon Whatley in your response.

Deadline: 1/21/2011

Questions

Jonathon Whatley, '96 (EXP-1),

Speaker Profiles

David Myer (Speaker), CERN

David Myers holds a doctorate in High Energy Physics from the University of Liverpool. He came to CERN as a Research Fellow in 1973. Working in informatics, he helped to introduce much new technology which later became  ubiquitous, including 3D Computer Graphics, Object-Oriented Computing, and Personal Workstations. He started the project which provided the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments (about 9,000 physicists from 60 countries), and many accelerator sub-systems, with a unified control system. Recently he was responsible for managing CERN's computer security.