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CERN confirms LHC start-up for 2007
Geneva, 23 June 2006. First collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will happen in November 2007, said LHC project leader Lyn Evans at the 137th meeting of the CERN1 Council held in Geneva today. A two month run in 2007, with beams colliding at an energy of 0.9 TeV will allow the LHC accelerator
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CERN launches second phase of openlab industry partnership
Geneva, 17 May 2006. The second phase of CERN openlab, a partnership between CERN1 and leading IT companies, was officially launched at a ceremony at CERN today. The industrial partners in this second phase are HP2, Intel3 and Oracle4. The second phase of CERN openlab builds on experience from the last three years, where the
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Bringing science out of the lab into the classroom
Heidelberg, 28 March 2006. Science is moving more rapidly than ever; one groundbreaking discovery chases the next at an incredible speed. School teachers have trouble keeping up with the pace, and many pupils call science classes “boring”. Today, Europe’s major research organisations launch Science in School1, the first international, multidisciplinary journal for innovative science teaching,
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Global Grid service for LHC computing succeeds in gigabyte-per-second challenge
Mumbai and Geneva, 15 February 2006 – Today, at the international Computing for High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2006 conference (CHEP’06) in Mumbai, India, the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid collaboration (WLCG) officially announced the successful completion of a service challenge. This challenge involved sustaining a continuous flow of physics data on a worldwide Grid infrastructure
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European particle physics sets course for the future
Orsay, 1 February 2006. “Particle physics has an exciting future” : this was the key message emerging from the Open Symposium on particle physics strategy in Europe, which concluded at Orsay, France, today. Organised by the CERN1 Council Strategy Group, this Symposium is the first of a series of events that will conclude in Lisbon
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ETICS to improve Grid quality
Geneva, 20 January 2006. The kick-off meeting for a new project called ETICS (eInfrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software) is being held at CERN1 today. The goal of this project, which is coordinated by CERN and funded partially by the European Commission, is to improve the quality of Grid and distributed software by
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CERN concludes year of strong progress towards the LHC
Geneva, 16 December 2005. Speaking at the 135th session of the CERN1 Council, the Organization’s Director General, Robert Aymar hailed a year of impressive progress towards the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project, scheduled to start-up in 2007. “In one year, we have made great progress,” he said. “The challenge is not over, of course, but
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A step forward for open access publishing
Geneva, 14 December 2005. A landmark decision has been reached on the future direction of scientific publishing. At a meeting hosted by CERN1 on 7-8 December, representatives of several major physics publishers, European particle physics laboratories, learned societies, funding agencies and authors from Europe and the US, came together for the first time to promote
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Beyond Einstein
Geneva, 18 November 2005. CERN1 and the World Year of Physics International Steering Committee are partnering with some of the world’s leading physics laboratories, science museums and technology partners to present a twelve-hour live webcast to celebrate Einstein and look beyond the World Year of Physics 2005. This unprecedented event will be broadcast live on
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CERN demonstrates commitment to goals of the World Summit for the Information Society
Geneva, 17 November 2005. Speaking today to international delegates meeting in Tunis for the second World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), CERN1 Director-General Robert Aymar highlighted some of the important achievements that CERN has contributed to since the first summit in Geneva in 2003. At the first summit, CERN worked actively to ensure that