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Applications are now open for "Grid and Cloud Computing concepts and practical applications" in Varenna, Italy
Registration for the FCC meeting in Geneva 12-15 February is now open - deadline 31 January
Applications to the 2014 school, which will be held in the Netherlands, are open until 21 February
Aaron Richard Angerami of Columbia University in the US presents "Soft and hard probes of high-temperature matter with the ATLAS experiment"
This week LS1 successfully passed an important milestone: the first pressure test of a complete sector, sector 6-7
The excellent progress of the maintenance work on CERN's accelerators, which is overwhelmingly on schedule, was praised by the CERN Council last week
Recent results on Pb-Pb and p-Pb Ultra Peripheral Collisions will be presented. Watch the webcast at 11am CET
Updates from the EuCARD, TIARA, and HiLumi projects in Issue 8 of Accelerating News. Now available online
Testing on the LHC’s replacement RF cryomodule was completed last week in SM18
Watch Ugo Amaldi of the Technische Universitat Munchen and the TERA Foundation talk about the history of accelerators that heal
Today at 11am CET, Monica Vazquez Acosta will present direct measurements of the Higgs Boson fermionic couplings at CMS. Watch the webcast
The dismantling and extraction of a defective DFBA module from LHC Point 6, has been completed without a hitch