Category: At CERN

  • Summertime for physicists

    Summer for particle physicists is the season for “summer conferences” and the past week saw two big meetings in full swing

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  • Envisioning better health

    Manjit Dosanjh, CERN’s life sciences advisor and member of the Knowledge Transfer group, explains benefits of multidisciplinary conferences for health

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  • CERN experiments put Standard Model to stringent test

    Geneva, 19 July 2013. New results to be presented at the EPS-HEP conference in Stockholm, Sweden, this afternoon have put the Standard Model of particle physics to one of its most stringent tests to date. The CMS and LHCb experiments at CERN’s1 Large Hadron Collider will present measurements of one of the rarest measureable processes

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  • CERN experiments to present latest results at summer conferences

    Geneva, 17 July 2013. Scientists working on CERN1 experiments are preparing to present their latest results at summer conferences. This year, two major conferences are coming up over the next couple of weeks: the European Physical Society’s High Energy Physics conference, EPS-HEP 2013, which is being held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 18-24 July, and Strangeness

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  • UN observer status: A chance to re-engage

    Director-General Rolf Heuer on his first major UN forum since CERN was granted observer status

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  • CERN and EUROVISION unite to attract “tweens” to science

    Geneva, 11 July 2013. CERN1 and EUROVISION2 are awarding grants to two production companies to develop multiplatform media proposals to spark the scientific curiosity of “tweens” – children aged eight to twelve. “Children are the most remarkable example of curiosity,” said Sergio Bertolucci, CERN’s Director of Research and Computing. “We should not limit this curiosity,

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  • Driving change with bicycles

    Jens Vigen reflects on the number of CERN people turning to cycling, and how this might drive change

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  • Collide @ CERN laureate, Bill Fontana, begins residency at CERN

    Geneva, 26 June 2013. The second winner of Prix Ars Electronica Collide @ CERN1, American sound sculptor, Bill Fontana2, begins his arts residency at CERN3 on 4 July 2013. Matching a great artist with a great scientist, Bill Fontana will start working with theorist Subodh Patil, his science inspiration partner during his time at CERN.

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  • Why energy talks at CERN?

    There are many things that can be done to manage energy in a way that makes science sustainable, says Technology department head Frédérick Bordry

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  • A new Director for Fermilab

    Today, Fermilab announced that Nigel Lockyer will be their new Director. And a very good choice they have made, says CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer

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