Category: At CERN

  • Japanese artist, Ryoji Ikeda, wins the third Prix Ars Electronica Collide @ CERN

    Linz/Geneva, 14 January 2014. CERN1 data analysis will be the inspiration for the third Prix Ars Electronica2 Collide @ CERN, which was today awarded to the Japanese artist, Ryoji Ikeda3, who lives and works in Paris. Ryoji Ikeda is one of the world’s leading artists who create moving-image, sculptural, sound and new media works that

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  • Solid groundwork underlies a high-profile year

    This year has shown how decades of diligent groundwork lay the foundations for success, says CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer

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  • Ringing the changes in the ombuds office

    After three and a half years in office as CERN’s first Ombuds, the time has come for Vincent Vuillemin to pass on the baton

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  • Open Access publishing initiative, SCOAP3, to start on 1 January 2014

    Geneva 5 December 2013. After intense preparations and consensus building, CERN1 has today confirmed that the SCOAP3 Open Access publishing initiative will start on 1 January 2014. With the support of partners in 24 countries2, a vast fraction of scientific articles in the field of High-Energy Physics will become Open Access at no cost for

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  • The Music of Physics – Third open competition, Collide@CERN Geneva 2014 award announced

    Geneva, 26 November 2013. CERN1, the City and The Republic and Canton of Geneva announce today the 2014 open competition for the Collide @ CERN Geneva artist in residency award2. The form of art for 2014 will be music, which has a special affinity with physics. “Many physicists at CERN are also musicians, because patterns

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  • Energy for sustainable science

    Frédérick Bordry, chair of the second workshop on Energy for Sustainable Science, on how CERN is contributing to the Sustainable Science conversation

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  • CERN Stakeholder Relations Office

    Scientists, politicians, the public, students, our neighbours, you: these groups of people all have a stake in CERN, and all are important to us

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  • CERN receives the Prince of Asturias Award

    Geneva, 25 October 2013. CERN1, along with Peter Higgs and François Englert, will today receive the Prince of Asturias Award for “the theoretical prediction and experimental detection of the Higgs boson.” CERN Director General Rolf Heuer will accept the prestigious prize on behalf of the Laboratory during a ceremony at Oviedo’s Campoamor Theatre in Spain.

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  • CERN announces the Accelerate@CERN programme

    Geneva, 22 October 2013. CERN is launching Accelerate @ CERN, its new country specific one month research award for artists who have never had a longer stay at a science laboratory before. It is the sister strand of CERN1‘s successful flagship artists residency programme, Collide @ CERN2. Both are part of Arts @ CERN, which

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  • CERN to host international conference on thorium technologies for energy

    Geneva, 17 October 2013. CERN1 is to host the Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13 on 27-31 October, 2013. The Conference will address the scientific and technical advances offered by thorium in alternative nuclear technologies for energy production and for the destruction of nuclear waste. ThEC13 is organized by iThEC2 (international Thorium Energy Committee, Geneva) and IThEO3

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