Hello,
For those of you interested in historical articles (if any): In October 1990 I made a most amazing trip to the Soviet Union, invited by colleagues of ITEP (Moscow). For many years I had the impression that it would be worth the effort to write an article about that trip. Last October I realized that 20 years had passed since. So, I decided that "now or never" and I wrote the article the last week of December. It took still a few months until I got all the comments and corrections from the Russian colleagues involved in the story. So, below you can see the title and abstract of this article.
By the way, a few days ago my birthday took place but it coincided with the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, so the cake was cancel (it seems that I have some predestination ties with the Soviet Union).
Cheers, Beatriz
arXiv:1101.0135
Title: The Last Workshop on Theoretical Physics in the Soviet Union Authors: Beatriz Gato-Rivera Comments: Latex, 14 pages Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph); Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
Twenty years ago, in October 1990, I found myself attending a workshop on Theoretical Physics in Chernomorka (Ukraine) intended only for Soviet physicists. That trip to the USSR/CCCP as well as the preceding months at CERN were highly surrealistic with plenty of adventures, crucial events and anecdotes, the most amazing one involving Niels Bohr. A few months later the Soviet Union collapsed. In this article I make a personal account on the happenings of 1990, with emphasis on my incursions into the European communist world during, and also before, that year.
Beatriz Gato-Rivera Head, Department of Partice Physics and Cosmology Instituto de Fisica Fundamental CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Serrano 123, Madrid 28006, Spain
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