Category: At CERN

  • IUPAP holds the 8th edition of the International Conference on Women in Physics

    IUPAP holds the 8th edition of the International Conference on Women in Physics

    CERN and IUPAP collaboration that led to the formation of the IUPAP Women in Physics working group has come a long way

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  • ALICE honours its PhD thesis award winners

    ALICE honours its PhD thesis award winners

    On 12 July 2023, the ALICE collaboration celebrated its PhD thesis award winners in a ceremony organised as part of the ALICE collaboration meeting at CERN.

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  • CERN Science Gateway: architecture at the service of knowledge

    CERN Science Gateway: architecture at the service of knowledge

    Science Gateway, the most recent of CERN’s iconic buildings, is the latest in a long line of innovative architectural concepts aiming to bring different communities together around scientific research

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  • Science Gateway will be a vibrant part of CERN life

    In a few short months from now, on 7 October, we’ll be formally inaugurating the CERN Science Gateway. The ceremony will mark the culmination of a project to which many of you have contributed, and the start of a new phase of sharing our passion and drive for science with our neighbours and people from

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  • Kitty Wakley (1928 – 2023)

    Kitty Wakley(1928 – 2023) — BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://home.cern/news/obituary/cern/kitty-wakley-1928-2023) A pillar of CERN is no more. Kitty Wakley, originally from Liverpool, started working at CERN in around 1960 and was the beloved leader of the document typing service (“typing pool”) until it was dissolved over 30 years later. Back in the

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  • Gender diversity on the right track at CERN

    Recent statistics on new arrivals at CERN are very encouraging: the proportion of women hired over the last five years has increased by 7.5%

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  • Alumni assemble! “Third collisions” event to take place in February 2024

    Alumni assemble! “Third collisions” event to take place in February 2024

    Major CERN alumni event to be held at Science Gateway on 9–11 February 2024

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  • Three teams of secondary school pupils from the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams from CERN and DESY

    Three teams of secondary school pupils from the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams from CERN and DESY

    Geneva and Hamburg, 28 June 2023. In 2023, for the second time in the history of the Beamline for Schools competition, the evaluation committee selected three winning teams. The team “Myriad Magnets” from the Philips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, United States, and the team “Particular Perspective”, which brings together pupils from the Islamabad College for

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  • Bike2Work at CERN reaches new heights

    Bike2Work at CERN reaches new heights

    More than 1000 Cernois have joined a “Bike to Work” team – take part in the upcoming Critical Mass event to celebrate this achievement!

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  • Roger Bailey (1954 – 2023)

    Roger Bailey(1954 – 2023) — BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://home.cern/news/obituary/cern/roger-bailey-1954-2023) It was with deep sadness that we learned that Roger Bailey passed away on 1 June while out mountain biking in Valais. He was 69. Roger began his career with a doctorate in experimental particle physics from the University of Sheffield in

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