Tag: CERN community
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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
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
Taking back control using open software
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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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CERN pays tribute to Murray Gell-Mann
The Nobel laureate, who coined the name “quarks”, passed away on 24 May
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Olga Borisovna Igonkina (1973 – 2019)
Olga Borisovna Igonkina(1973 – 2019) — It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague Olga Borisovna Igonkina, Senior Researcher at Nikhef, and professor by extraordinary appointment at Radboud University Nijmegen. Olga joined the ATLAS Collaboration in 2006 via the University of Oregon and moved to Nikhef in 2008.