Tag: CERN community

  • Change at the helm of the CMS collaboration

    Change at the helm of the CMS collaboration

    The new spokesperson, Patricia McBride, and two deputies, Wolfgang Adam and Lucia Silvestris, will represent the Collaboration for the next two years.

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  • Sparks! announces its second edition of the Serendipity Forum

    Sparks! announces its second edition of the Serendipity Forum

    The second edition of Sparks! will be hosted at CERN on 17 and 18 November with the theme “Future Technology for Health”

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  • Computer security: Room at the top

    What do “Daniela.Wick@cern.ch”, “Kris.Avandal@cern.ch”, “Magnus.Fallbaum@cern.ch”, “Petra.Kosmanen@cern.ch”, “Ron.Waitmal@cern.ch” and “Stephanie.Porasky@cern.ch” have in common? No, they aren’t members of the personnel even if they pretend to have a CERN email address and their names sound similar to those of some of our colleagues in the CERN Computer Security team. No, they have no business with CERN at

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  • Call for crowdsourcing projects pursuing the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    Call for crowdsourcing projects pursuing the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    Crowd4SDG launches its final call for projects to tackle climate change and promote justice

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  • Mapping out the future of high-energy physics in the United States

    On 17 July 2022, hundreds of US high-energy physicists, along with colleagues from all over the world, gathered at the University of Washington in Seattle for a ten-day meeting to take one of the final steps in the latest US high-energy physics (HEP) community planning exercise. These exercises, hosted by the Division of Particles and

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  • Celebrating five years of the CERN Alumni Network, with gold!

    Celebrating five years of the CERN Alumni Network, with gold!

    On 8 June 2022, we celebrated the fifth anniversary of the CERN Alumni Network and its vibrant community

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  • ALICE congratulates its PhD thesis award winners

    ALICE congratulates its PhD thesis award winners

    On 28 July, the ALICE collaboration awarded the annual prizes for the best PhD theses at a ceremony held in the CERN Main Auditorium as part of the ALICE Physics Week. Since 2008, the collaboration has recognised the most outstanding PhD theses in the field of physics and instrumentation based on the excellence of the

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  • Strong CERN showing at the Atomiade Summer Games in Grenoble

    Strong CERN showing at the Atomiade Summer Games in Grenoble

    The sports competition, which brings together members of public research institutes across Europe, was back on track after a three-year hiatus

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  • “Collider Diaries” web series receives prestigious SCINEMA Festival award

    “Collider Diaries” web series receives prestigious SCINEMA Festival award

    CERN research made waves at the 22th edition of SCINEMA, the largest science film festival in the southern hemisphere

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  • Alain Brissonnaud (1939 – 2021)

    Alain Brissonnaud (1939 – 2021)

    Alain Brissonnaud(1939 – 2021) — It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of Alain Brissonnaud, a retired member of the CERN personnel who dedicated his career to budgetary and financial management of CERN's major projects, spanning the SPS, LEP, CLIC and the LHC. Alain began his career at CERN in

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