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Eckhard Elsen is Director for Research and Computing
Thirty years ago this week, the four experiments at CERN’s LEP collider published the first of their famous results: the Z0 line shape, which told us that there are three, and only three, families of fundamental particles in nature
The Granada symposium stimulated much lively discussion on the future of particle physics
With the update of the European strategy for particle physics underway, it’s timely to examine the case for a future collider to follow the LHC
The end of the LHC’s second run makes way for a busy long shutdown
At its September meeting, the CERN Council formally launched the European Strategy for Particle Physics update
CERN has a very rich physics programme not only at the high-energy frontier, let’s take a look at some of the interesting results it’s producing.
EPS-HEP covered a great range of topics and showed that the various disciplines that make up fundamental physics are coming closer and closer together
A first glimpse at the winter conferences of what the LHC’s extraordinary performance in 2016 means for physics
CERN's director for research and computing gives an overview about the CERN Neutrino platform activities
How the Theory Department contributes to the evolving research of particle physics and the CERN research programme
Large volumes of high-quality data may be a challenge, but addressing it brings innovation
Cloud technology offers a promising solution for the computing needs of particle physics