Category: At CERN

  • CERN awards major contract for computer infrastructure hosting to Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Hungary

    Geneva, 8 May 2012. CERN1 today signed a contract with the Wigner Research Centre for Physics2 in Budapest for an extension to the CERN data centre. Under the new agreement, the Wigner Centre will host CERN equipment that will substantially extend the capabilities of the LHC Computing Grid Tier-0 activities and provide the opportunity for

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  • Safety

    Safety is a priority for CERN. That is a message I conveyed in my New Year’s address

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  • CERN supports new business incubation centre in the UK

    Geneva, 23 April 2012. CERN and the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council announce the launch of a new Business Incubation Centre (BIC) at the STFC’s Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus. The centre will provide a new technology transfer opportunity to bridge the gap between basic science and industry, supporting businesses and entrepreneurs in taking

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  • LHC physics data taking gets underway at new record collision energy of 8TeV

    LHC physics data taking gets underway at new record collision energy of 8TeV

    Geneva, 5 April 2012. At 0.38am CEST this morning, the LHC shift crew declared "stable beams" as two 4 TeV proton beams were brought into collision at the LHC’s four interaction points. This signals the start of physics data taking by the LHC experiments for 2012. The collision energy of 8 TeV is a new

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  • First laureate for Collide@CERN-Geneva Prize announced

    Geneva, 29 March 2012. The first Collide@CERN-Geneva1 prize in Dance and Performance was today awarded by jury2 to the 47-year-old Swiss-born dancer and choreographer Gilles Jobin3 for his proposal to explore through interventions and dance the relationship between mind and body at the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. "When I walk in the street, I

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  • A growing family

    Serbia joins Israel as an associate member in the pre-stage to CERN membership, and council sends fact-finding missions to other applicant countries

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  • Paul Bouchardy (1937 – 2012)

    Paul Bouchardy (1937 – 2012)

    Respected and knowledgeable director of the Carlson Wagonlit travel agency at CERN for many years

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  • CERN welcomes its first artist in residence

    Geneva, 12 March 2012. Creative collisions have begun at CERN1 with the arrival of Julius von Bismarck as the laboratory’s first Collide @ CERN artist in residence. A rising star of the international arts scene, von Bismarck will team up with theoretical physicist James Wells as he works alongside the lab’s engineers and scientists for

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  • Opportunity and obligation

    The explosion of interest around the world in our science brings an opportunity to drive science up the popular and political agendas

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  • Major contract signed for supply of solar panels derived from CERN technology

    Major contract signed for supply of solar panels derived from CERN technology

    Geneva, 9 March 2012. At Geneva International Airport today SRB Energy delivered the first of the solar panels that will form one of the largest solar energy systems in Switzerland. Ultimately, some 300 high-temperature solar thermal panels will cover a surface of 1200 square metres on the roof of the airport’s main terminal building. The

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