A fact of life for aspiring physicists is that others won't get to know who you are by reading your papers–they'll read your papers if they know who you are.
Physicists live to experiment: usually in a lab, but at times in different venues. The National Academies committee that recently looked into the future of US particle physics was a new kind of non-laboratory experiment for the physics community.
The neutrino experiment K2K (KEK to Kamioka) collaboration shares a logbook with Super-Kamiokande scientists at its far detector site 250 kilometers from KEK in Tsukuba.
It was very funny to read the cover-story of the March issue, when Ruth Howes mentions the feeling she got from fellow physicists: "It was about who could work hardest and who could be the tiredest"—this is indeed widespread in the physics community.
Using Nobel laureate Abdus Salam as an example, Mart (symmetry, February 2006) informed readers that papers of symposium proceedings received no citation count and fortunately, the Nobel committee dug out the paper in a proceeding and recognized the originality as well as priority of Salam's
Pakistan does not have a long history of domestic particle physics experiments, but the country is nevertheless finding ways to contribute to international efforts.
Armed with tin foil, GPS units, and sheets of black paper, two Fermilab educators headed to Bangalore to help high-school and college teachers set up a detector at a local planetarium.
A portion of US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman's remarks during his visit to Fermilab on April 7, 2006: "Successful futures are built on past successes, and in this respect, you have every reason to be optimistic and confident about your future."
A step away from the cars scuttling down the streets of Delhi, precisely arranged on a tame green lawn, is what looks like a giant's playground. Twin cylinders squat at the far end. A pole stands at the center of each, matching the windowed cylinders' radii and heights.
Although collaborations are still modest, golden physics opportunities exist in China, such as the BESIII experiment at BEPC-II (the upgraded Beijing Electron-Positron Collider) and the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment.
