Tag: CERN community

  • CERN theorist shares Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

    CERN theorist shares Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

    Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Z. Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen are recognised for their 1976 discovery of an influential theory called supergravity

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  • Dutch artist Rosa Menkman wins Collide International Barcelona Award

    Dutch artist Rosa Menkman wins Collide International Barcelona Award

    Dutch artist Rosa Menkman has been selected as the winner of the first Collide International award in Barcelona alongside four Honorary Mentions

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  • African librarians come to CERN to complete their training on Digital Libraries

    African librarians come to CERN to complete their training on Digital Libraries

    The second part of the CERN-UNESCO School on Digital Libraries took place at CERN at the end of June

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  • New Higgs results presented at 2019 EPS-HEP conference

    New Higgs results presented at 2019 EPS-HEP conference

    ATLAS and CMS have studied the Higgs boson with the largest sample of proton–proton collision data recorded so far

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  • Computing boost for Lebanon and Nepal

    Computing boost for Lebanon and Nepal

    Post-conflict nations establish supercomputing centres with CERN servers in a bid to stem brain-drain of highly-skilled graduates

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  • Dutch and US students win 2019 CERN Beamline for Schools competition

    Dutch and US students win 2019 CERN Beamline for Schools competition

    Two teams of high-school students, one from the Praedinius Gymnasium in Groningen, Netherlands, and one from the West High School in Salt Lake City, USA, have won the 2019 Beamline for Schools competition

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  • Migrating to open-source technologies

    Migrating to open-source technologies

    Taking back control using open software

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  • Accelerating innovation in computing technologies

    Last week, CERN openlab published its latest annual report, outlining progress made in 2018 on 17 joint R&D projects carried out between CERN and leading ICT companies. CERN openlab is a unique public-private partnership. It was founded by CERN in 2001 to provide a way to collaborate with leading technology companies to tackle tomorrow’s ICT

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  • Ladislav Sandor (1941–2019)

    Ladislav Sandor(1941–2019) — Ladislav Sandor, one of the founders of the ALICE collaboration and leader of the ALICE-Košice team in Slovakia, passed away on 23 May, two days after his 78th birthday. Ladislav was born in the heart of a multicultural region called Spiš in north-eastern Slovakia, with plenty of historical monuments and areas of

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  • Marcello Giorgi (1939–2019)

    Marcello Giorgi(1939–2019) — Marcello Giorgi, one of the first members of the CERN–Trieste High-Energy Group, passed away on 1 May. In the 1960s, Giorgi worked on several experiments at CERN, first at the PS, and then, as soon as the SPS started operation, on the WA6 experiment. Later, in the 1980s, he participated in a

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