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A major step forward for open-access publishing

Representatives from 29 countries are meeting at CERN today to launch the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics

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At CERN
01 October, 2012

CERN welcomes students for European Researchers Night

On 28 September over 250 young people aged between 13 and 18 spent a night visiting experiments and detectors at CERN, accompanied by researchers

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At CERN
01 October, 2012

LHC Grid tackles 270-year-old maths problem

The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid is taking on a mathematical conjecture first written down by Christian Goldbach in 1742

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Computing
27 September, 2012
Computing
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27 September, 2012

Glasgow students visit CERN

Twelve students from the east end of Glasgow visited CERN on a trip organized by the Ogden Trust

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At CERN
25 September, 2012
At CERN
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25 September, 2012

Aspen Center for Physics announces upcoming conferences

Applications are now open for eight conferences in topics from exoplanets to the Higgs boson

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At CERN
25 September, 2012

Agnieszka Zalewska elected president of CERN council

The polish physicist will serve for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2013

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At CERN
20 September, 2012

ATLAS Virtual Visits wins Digital Communication Award

The project was awarded "Best Online Event" at an awards ceremony in Berlin, Germany, last week

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Experiments
18 September, 2012
Experiments
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18 September, 2012

LHC experiments already planning for long shutdown

ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb are looking ahead to the 20-month shutdown from February 2013

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Accelerators
18 September, 2012
Accelerators
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18 September, 2012

ATLAS Virtual Visits wins Digital Communication Award

The project was awarded "Best Online Event" at an awards ceremony in Berlin, Germany, last week

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Experiments
18 September, 2012
Experiments
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18 September, 2012

LHC collides protons with lead ions for the first time

The switch - a test for a longer proton-lead run scheduled for January to February 2013 - presented numerous technical challenges

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Accelerators
13 September, 2012
Accelerators
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13 September, 2012