description: Twenty-five years of Schladming Winter School 1. The Start Twenty-five years ago P. Urban had the idea of organizing a winter school in the Austrian mountains. The very concept of a school was not to bring physicists together in an environment which differs totally from the daily world of institutes and laboratories, to contrast hard classroom work in lectures by distinguished speakers with a relaxed atmosphere, to provide opportunities for entering newly developing fields and exchanging ideas, all this had already resulted in a few summer schools in southern Europe and the US. The idea of combining physics with skiing rather than swimming was, however, new. After some sampling by a few younger members of Ur­ ban's group, Schladming was selected as an appropriate place. At that time skiing was not very much developed here; there were few lifts, but a road to Hochwurzen and a regular bus service opened at least one longer track. The first meeting took place in a classroom of the local school, w here some 40 participants were squeezed into benches designed for children. In the next year we moved into the dining hall of a small inn, which does not exist any more (an attempt to serve beer during the lectures was stopped by the orga­ nizing committee). Only in later years did we find a permanent home here in the Stadtsaal.
language: English
title: Concepts and Trends in Particle Physics: Proceedings of the Xxv Int. Universitatswochen Fur Kerphysik Schladming, Austria, February 19-27, 1986 ... KARL-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITAT GRAZ// PROCEEDINGS)
titlecomplete: Concepts and Trends in Particle Physics: Proceedings of the Xxv Int. Universitatswochen Fur Kerphysik Schladming, Austria, February 19-27, 1986 ... KARL-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITAT GRAZ// PROCEEDINGS)
publisher: SPRINGER @ NY INC