Category: At CERN
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CERN launches 50th anniversary celebrations
Geneva, 1 March 2004. Celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of CERN1 officially begin on 8 March with the launch of a Swiss postage stamp dedicated to the Organization. At a press conference in Geneva, the stamp will be presented and details of events to mark the anniversary throughout the Organization's Member States will be
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CERN Council rings the changes for the upcoming years
Geneva, 19 December 2003. The CERN1 Council, where the representatives of the 20 Member States of the Organization decide on scientific programmes and financial resources, held its 126th session today under the chairmanship of Professor Maurice Bourquin. A review of the year’s activities by outgoing Director General Luciano Maiani, a new structure for CERN, and
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The Role of Science in the Information Society asserted in CERN conference
Geneva, 9 December 2003. In hosting the Role of Science in the Information Society (RSIS) conference, CERN1 takes a bold step forward into the policy arena. The conference, which was organised jointly by CERN, UNESCO, the International Council for Science, and the Third World Academy of Sciences, was held at CERN on 8-9 December as
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CERN signs agreement with New Zealand
Geneva, 4 December 2003. New Zealand’s particle physicists have joined the world’s most ambitious scientific undertaking with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between their government and CERN1. This agreement formalises the participation of New Zealand scientists in the laboratory’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project. The MoU, signed recently by New Zealand's Science
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Oracle joins Cern Openlab to advance Grid Computing
Geneva, 3 December 2003. CERN1 and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) today announced that Oracle is joining the CERN openlab for DataGrid applications to collaborate in creating new grid computing technologies and exploring new computing and data management solutions far beyond today’s Internet-based computing. The CERN openlab for DataGrid applications will see collaboration between CERN researchers
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CERN to host conference on the Role of Science in the Information Society
Geneva, 2 December 2003. On 8 and 9 December, CERN1 will host the Role of Science in the Information Society (RSIS) conference, together with UNESCO, the International Council for Science, and the Third World Academy of Sciences. A Summit Event to the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (Geneva, 10-12 December),
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Forum Engelberg 2004 to be launched in Bern on 13 November
Geneva, 7 November 2003. Former French science minister Hubert Curien will be among major figures from European politics and science meeting in Bern on 13 November to launch the Forum Engelberg 2004. A press conference introduced by the chief magistrate of the canton of Obwald, Alexander Höchli, will be held at the city's Hotel Schweizerhof
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Registration now open for landmark CERN conference
Geneva, 6 November 2003. Journalist registration is now available for the Role of Science in the Information Society (RSIS) conference, to be held at CERN1 on 8-9 December. To register, go to http://www.cern.ch/rsis/ and click on “participation”. A contributing event to the World Summit on the Information Society (Geneva, 10-12 December 2003), RSIS will explore
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Physics and Life: Teachers Meet Scientists at Major EIROforum event
Geneva, 5 November 2003. A year-long educational programme culminates with the Physics on Stage 3 festival during the European Science and Technology Week on 9-15 November 2003. More than 400 selected delegates from 22 European countries will take part in Physics on Stage 3, organised by the EIROforum research organisations (CERN1, EFDA, EMBL, ESA, ESO,
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CERN and Caltech join forces to smash Internet speed record
Geneva, 15 October 2003. CERN1 and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) will tomorrow receive an award for transferring over a Terabyte of data across 7,000 km of network at 5.44 gigabits per second (Gbps), smashing the old record of 2.38 Gbps achieved in February between CERN in Geneva and Sunnyvale in California by a Caltech,