Category: At CERN

  • The Republic of Cyprus becomes a CERN Associate Member State

    The Republic of Cyprus becomes a CERN Associate Member State

    Geneva, 5 October 2012. The CERN1 Director-General, Rolf Heuer, and the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, George Demosthenous, today signed an agreement under which the Republic of Cyprus will become an Associate Member State in the pre-stage to Membership. The agreement will have to be ratified by the Parliament of

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  • Updating Europe’s strategy for particle physics

    Some 500 physicists went to Krakow to discuss their wishes for the future of the field as input to the CERN council’s strategy group

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  • SCOAP3 Open Access Initiative launched at CERN

    Geneva, 1 October 2012. Representatives from the science funding agencies and library communities of 29 countries are meeting at CERN1 today to launch the SCOAP32 Open Access initiative. Open Access revolutionizes the traditional scientific publishing model with scientific papers being made freely available to all, and publishers paid directly for their indispensable peer-review services to

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  • Professor Agnieszka Zalewska elected President of CERN Council

    Professor Agnieszka Zalewska elected President of CERN Council

    Geneva, 20 September 2012. CERN1 Council today elected Professor Agnieszka Zalewska as its 21st President for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2013. Professor Zalewska takes over from Michel Spiro who comes to the conclusion of his three-year term at the end of December. Geneva, 20 September

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  • CERN’s first artistic residency reaches a conclusion

    Geneva, 19 September 2012. Winner of the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN1 award and CERN2’s first artist in residence, Julius von Bismarck3, will present his work ‘Versuch unter Kreisen’, at the closing lecture of his residency at CERN on 25 September. This follows von Bismarck’s two-month stay at CERN earlier in the year, where he paired

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  • European particle physics refreshes long-term strategy

    Krakow, 12 September 2012. Some 500 particle physicists meeting in Krakow this week have been debating the long-term future of their field at the CERN Council Open Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics. This symposium comes at a turning point for the field, following hot on the heels of the announcement in July

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  • Inspiring a generation

    It was particularly pleasing to see science, the LHC and Higgs bosons featuring so strongly in the opening ceremony of the Paralympics last week

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  • Strength in diversity

    The laboratory is launching a new diversity programme aimed at strengthening our tradition of inclusiveness. I encourage all at CERN to take part

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  • LHC experiments bring new insight into matter of the primordial universe

    Geneva, 13 August 2012. Experiments using heavy ions at CERN1’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are advancing understanding of the primordial universe. The ALICE, ATLAS and CMS collaborations have made new measurements of the kind of matter that probably existed in the first instants of the universe. They will present their latest results at the Quark

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  • Celebrating a very scientific Endeavour

    Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour, who delivered the AMS detector to the ISS in 2011

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