Tag: CERN community

  • Computer Security: Disaster for your crown jewels

    You, as a CERN service manager, data taker, control system expert, trigger master, software custodian or document librarian, have a professional responsibility to ensure that your crown jewels are properly protected and backed up

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  • Celebrating the role of basic science in sustainable development

    Celebrating the role of basic science in sustainable development

    Last week, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2022 the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD). An initiative championed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), which celebrates its 100th anniversary next year, the international year will be organised under the auspices of UNESCO. If COVID-19 has taught us

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  • Send a CERN e-card

    Send a CERN e-card

    Send colleagues, family and friends holiday greetings using the CERN e-card service. The video is available on YouTube. You can create your own personalised electronic cards by signing in with your CERN account on this site. Please note that this year’s cards will only be available virtually and that no physical copies will be distributed.

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  • CERN has a new Cultural Advisory Board

    CERN’s newly appointed Cultural Advisory Board will hold its first meeting

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  • Computer Security: A new bonbon to protect you

    With the new firewall in place (“Block the bad, grant the good access”) in addition to our dedicated malware-quarantining appliance that has been running smoothly for some years, it’s time for strike number three: the deployment of new anti-virus, anti-malware and endpoint detection and response software running on Windows and Mac computers. Our bonbon for

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  • Industry and research – joining forces to accelerate progress and innovation

    CERN’s industrial suppliers are crucial to advancing its scientific mission. It is through successful collaborations with businesses across a variety of industries that advancements in accelerators, detectors, computing and many other areas become realities. It is often stated that CERN is a city within a city, and this requires efficient services of all types from

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  • What like a beam can undeceive! (*With apologies to Herman Melville)

    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has recently completed a two-week beam test following a lengthy post-Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) campaign of hardware commissioning, magnet circuit powering tests and dipole training. The dipole training was not without issues. Two separate quench-induced faults made it necessary to warm up two sectors: one for a magnet exchange (sector

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  • Gennady Zinovjev (1941 – 2021)

    Gennady Zinovjev (1941 – 2021)

    Gennady Zinovjev(1941 – 2021) — Professor Gennady Zinovjev, a prominent theorist in the field of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the physics of strongly interacting matter, a pioneer in experimental studies of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and a leader of the Ukraine–CERN collaboration, passed away on 19 October 2021 at the age of 80. In a career

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  • President of the Swiss Confederation visits CERN

    The President of the Swiss Confederation, Guy Parmelin, honoured CERN with his presence on Friday, 5 November 2021. He was accompanied by representatives of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (DEFR) and the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAE). At Point 1 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Swiss Head of

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  • Environmental awareness: CERN’s process for minimising environmental noise

    Environmental awareness: CERN’s process for minimising environmental noise

    In the design phase of a new project, CERN takes into account the 2018 reference levels for noise limits, the new noise source characteristics, and noise from existing infrastructure. The data is then processed by a 3D georeferenced modelling software. Mitigation measures are defined where needed, based on the results of the modelling. Before the

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