The Last Workshop on Theoretical Physics in the Soviet Union

Beatriz Gato-Rivera

The Last Workshop on Theoretical Physics in the Soviet Union

General Physics 2011-05-02 v2 Popular Physics

Authors: Beatriz Gato-Rivera

Abstract

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.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1101.0135,
  title  = {The Last Workshop on Theoretical Physics in the Soviet Union},
  author = {Beatriz Gato-Rivera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.0135},
  year   = {2011}
}