People and things. CERN Courier Nov 1985, v. 25(9)

The article reports on achievements of various people, staff changes and position opportunities within the CERN organization and contains news updates on upcoming or past events. The European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) meets in plenary session twice a year. At the meeting at CERN earlier this year, ECFA Chariman Jean Sacton described the trend towards even greater internationalization of partide physics research and how arrangement have been completed to allow the exchange of observers between meetings of Plenary ECFA and the US High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP). After the success of the ESO (European Southern Observatory) CERN Symposium on Cosmology, Astronomy and Fundamental Physics, held at CERN in November 1983, the second Symposium is to be held at ESO, Garching bei Munchen, West Germany, from 17 to 21 March next year