Tag: CERN community
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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.
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In Granada, the European particle physics community prepares decisions for the future of the field
The European particle physics community is meeting this week in Granada, Spain, to discuss the roadmap for the future of the discipline
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Successful tests of a cooler way to transport electricity
A new superconducting electrical transmission line for the High-Luminosity LHC uses new materials, a new cooling system and unprecedented technologies