Category: At CERN

  • Dutch and US students win 2019 CERN Beamline for Schools competition

    Dutch and US students win 2019 CERN Beamline for Schools competition

    Two teams of high-school students, one from the Praedinius Gymnasium in Groningen, Netherlands, and one from the West High School in Salt Lake City, USA, have won the 2019 Beamline for Schools competition

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  • CERN invites the public to explore the future at its Open Days

    CERN invites the public to explore the future at its Open Days

    On 14 and 15 September, CERN will throw its doors open wide and invite the public to spend the weekend exploring science.

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  • Ladislav Sandor (1941–2019)

    Ladislav Sandor(1941–2019) — Ladislav Sandor, one of the founders of the ALICE collaboration and leader of the ALICE-Košice team in Slovakia, passed away on 23 May, two days after his 78th birthday. Ladislav was born in the heart of a multicultural region called Spiš in north-eastern Slovakia, with plenty of historical monuments and areas of

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  • Marcello Giorgi (1939–2019)

    Marcello Giorgi(1939–2019) — Marcello Giorgi, one of the first members of the CERN–Trieste High-Energy Group, passed away on 1 May. In the 1960s, Giorgi worked on several experiments at CERN, first at the PS, and then, as soon as the SPS started operation, on the WA6 experiment. Later, in the 1980s, he participated in a

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  • CERN pays tribute to Murray Gell-Mann

    The Nobel laureate, who coined the name “quarks”, passed away on 24 May

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  • Olga Borisovna Igonkina (1973 – 2019)

    Olga Borisovna Igonkina (1973 – 2019)

    Olga Borisovna Igonkina(1973 – 2019) — It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague Olga Borisovna Igonkina, Senior Researcher at Nikhef, and professor by extraordinary appointment at Radboud University Nijmegen. Olga joined the ATLAS Collaboration in 2006 via the University of Oregon and moved to Nikhef in 2008.

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  • Accessibility: a necessity

    Global Accessibility Awareness Day offers a reminder that inclusivity requires accessibility for all

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  • Serbian flag raised at CERN

    The Serbian flag was raised today at a ceremony on the Esplanade des Particules to mark the country’s accession as CERN’s 23rd Member State

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  • Stay safe on the roads

    Next month, hundreds of CERNois will join the Bike2Work campaign with the aim of doing at least 50% of their commutes by bicycle or other green transport during the months of May and June. In addition, during the summer months the number of CERN cyclists always goes up, with summer students and associates coming from

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  • Arts at CERN announces ‘Quàntica’ and a new collaboration with Barcelona

    Arts at CERN announces ‘Quàntica’ and a new collaboration with Barcelona

    Arts at CERN announces two key ventures: ‘Quàntica’, an exhibition project at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and a partnership that begins this year with the city of Barcelona as co-host for the Collide International residency award.

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