The role of Big Laboratories

Accelerating Science and Innovation

R.-D. Heuer, CERN Nobel Symposium, 16 May 2013

“Definition”

Big Laboratory ≡ Research Infrastructure (RI)

Key Message

In today’s challenging period, all regions need to step up support for research and innovation in order to ensure, in a global competitive environment, the sustainable development of science and technology necessary for the upturn and growth of everybody’s economy.

Research Infrastructures are important ‘tools’ for this

Mission of Research Infrastructures

Research Push forward the frontiers of knowledge

Innovation Develop new, cutting-edge technologies

Education Train scientists and engineers of

tomorrow

Outreach Promote Science in Society

Key Message

In today’s challenging period, all regions need to step up support for research and innovation in order to ensure, in a global competitive environment, the sustainable development of science and technology necessary for the upturn and growth of everybody’s economy.

Research Infrastructures are important ‘tools’ for this,

are vital for large scale projects

Address - fundamental science questions at the forefront of research and technology Need - large and sustained infrastructures - global collaboration on long time scales Provide - unique equipment - challenging requests for high technology and innovation - stimulating ideas which in turn attract good people - occasion to bring people together

Large-scale Science Projects

Large International Collaborations

– a place where people learn to work together– collaboration and competition– diversity: good opportunity to recognize differences,

accept them and learn to use them– influence the way of thinking, planning at general level – information sharing: role of computing in

internationalization and communication– experience can be used by individuals and in other fields

management through ‘common goals’ management by ‘convincing partners’

Sociology

Large scientific projects stimulate innovation– Space : Apollo missions, Space Station, Pioneer/Voyager

Missions– Particle Physics : accelerators in general

• at CERN : LEP, LHC

Pushing the frontiers of technology. CERN Examples:– Superconductivity, magnets, cryogenics, vacuum,

survey/metrology.– Transport and installation of heavy equipment.– Solid-state detectors resistant to high-intensity radiation.– Large-scale industrial control systems.– Electronic and information systems.– Project management and co-ordination.

Innovation in Fundamental Research

• A concrete project with ambitious goals and a deadline• Highly competent and motivated teams in all domains

and at all levels• Open collaboration with competent partners

– universities and research institutes– industrial partners for key technologies

• Learning from others, sharing the results freely• Investment in training and education

Essential ingredients to drive innovation

- Scientific Excellence is key world-class, excellent infrastructures need excellent staff intellectual challenges for all staff in RIs important

Excellence and Cooperation

• Objective - strive for excellence– Aspects of excellence

• In individuals, co-operation, infrastructure (including intellectual challenges);

• National - Regional - International.– Excellence is not (necessarily) ‘being unique’; Competition promotes excellence.– Excellence will be attractive and inspiring to all region’s

research and innovation communities and to society at large.

Excellence

- Scientific Excellence is key world-class, excellent infrastructures need excellent staff intellectual challenges for all staff in RIs important

- International scientific cooperation is vital CERN: be global (in membership) but keep European component

- National scientific cooperation is vital Establish close cooperation of RIs with national facilities and universities

Excellence and Cooperation

- Excellent science and excellent RIs need excellent people Need mobility for all staff and users of RIs

- Staff transfers between RIs- Dual career partnerships- Education cost- Social security, e.g. pension benefits- . . .

- Excellent science and excellent RIs need excellent people Need training for all staff and users of Ris including management

Key Issue (I): Mobility and Training

- All countries need more scientists, engineers, staff, . . . - targeted outreach activities- encourage interest in careers in science

- Society needs to realize and appreciate science

Key Issue (II): Outreach

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- All countries need more scientists, engineers, staff, . . . - targeted outreach activities- encourage interest in careers in science

- Society needs to realize and appreciate science

- bring innovative science and exciting results achieved at RIs, and their application to societal challenges, to the notice of society- need more imaginative and ambitious outreach activities- science education through inquiry based novel teaching methods in primary and secondary schools- . . .

Key Issue (II): Outreach

- Cutting-edge science relies on cutting-edge instrumentation - RIs develop new technologies and techniques- significant market for hi-tech industry- high initial costs and long time scales

strengthen the relations between RIs and industry in the field of scientific instrumentation

promote knowledge and technology transfer

Key Issue (III): Scientific Instrumenation

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation Meeting CERN – Austrian industry, 29.01.2013

Knowledge Transfer through People

Every year, hundreds of students come to CERN to contribute to our research programs

An opportunity for young people to learn in a multicultural environment

Not only for physicists! Also engineers, computer scientists, administrative students…

- circulation of scientific knowledge needs to be improved - huge, strongly increasing amount of data and information- data preservation- open access to scientific publications- open access to data

Key Issue (IV): Access to Results

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation Meeting CERN – Austrian industry, 29.01.2013

Computing Technologies: the Grid

After filtering, CERN detectors select ~200 interesting collisions per second. Several MBs of data to be stored for each collision...

more than 25 Petabytes/year of data!

8 Megabyte (8MB)A digital photo

1 Gigabyte (1GB) = 1000MBA DVD movie

1 Terabyte (1TB)= 1000GBWorld annual book production

> 25 Petabytes (25PB)= 25000TBAnnual LHC data output

other areas of science are facing similar ‘problems’

We are TODAY in an exciting era of planning-design-construction-running for large scale science projects

and need intensified efforts on R&D and technical design work

to enable new projects global collaboration and stability on long time scales

(don‘t forget: first workshop on LHC was 1984)

more coordination and more collaboration required in particular for new projects

We have Discoveries/New Results

Need to present and discuss new large scale projects in an international context before making choices Need to present physics case(s) always taking into account latest results at existing facilities

Need to present (additional) benefits to society from the very beginning of the project Need to have excellent communication and outreach accompanying all projects

New Projects

We need to define the most appropriate organizational form and need to be open and inventive(scientists, funding agencies, politicians. . .)

Mandatory to have accelerator laboratories in all regionsas partners in accelerator development / construction / commissiong / exploitation

Planning and execution of HEP projects today need global partnership for global, regional and national projects in other words: for the whole program

Use the exciting times now to establish such a partnership

• Global Collaboration (I)•

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• Global Collaboration (II)•

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To advance accelerators at the energy frontier we need

- to maintain expertise in all regions; - ensure long term stability and support in all three regions; - engage all countries with particle physics communities;

- to integrate particle physics from developing countries (regions); - global view from funding agencies; - a closer linkage of partners for development of technologies;

• Membership for Non-European countries

• New Associate Membership defined

• CERN participation in global projects independent of location

CERN: opening the door…

The role of Big Laboratories: – innovate, discover, publish, share

… and bring the world together