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CERN and the European particle physics community have submitted a wealth of contributions to shape the future of the discipline
On 14 and 15 September 2019, CERN will open its doors to the general public
The seventh Thematic CERN School of Computing (tCSC 2019) will take place in Split, Croatia, from 12 to 18 May 2019
Registration is now open for the CERN Accelerator School’s course on High-Gradient Wakefield Accelerators, to be held in Sesimbra, Portugal from 11 March to 22 March 2019
Half a century ago, theorist Gabriele Veneziano visited CERN and wrote a paper that wound up marking the beginning of string theory
In October, for the first time, crystal collimators were used to improve the performance of the beam cleaning process at the LHC during a physics run
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