Tag: CERN community

  • HiLumi News: the cold sets in

    HiLumi News: the cold sets in

    The delivery of two huge compressors kicks off the installation of the new helium refrigerators for the High-Luminosity LHC

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  • Investigating beneath Lake Geneva

    Investigating beneath Lake Geneva

    This animation shows how different layers of the lake’s bed are being mapped as part of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Feasibility Study

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  • Computer Security: 20 years of securing controls (or trying to): nothing has changed?

    Computer Security: 20 years of securing controls (or trying to): nothing has changed?

    20 years ago, control systems used to be stand-alone systems, usually decoupled from the larger enterprise networks, using their own network cabling infrastructures and programming languages dedicated to control systems. But no more…

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  • Which bin should I use for my unwanted cast-iron blocks?

    Which bin should I use for my unwanted cast-iron blocks?

    Got any blocks of cast iron lying around in a corner of your office? They might be useful for the future Beam Dump Facility (BDF) for the SPS

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  • Fusing forces – accelerating open science through collaboration

    Fusing forces – accelerating open science through collaboration

    More than 350 participants from over 40 countries met at CERN to discuss the future of open science

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  • Firefighters’ fire safety put to the test

    Firefighters’ fire safety put to the test

    The CERN Fire and Rescue Service tested its own emergency preparedness in its first evacuation drill

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  • Eight CERN apprentices graduate in 2025

    Eight CERN apprentices graduate in 2025

    Seven technical apprentices and one library apprentice received their diplomas this year

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  • Four new members elected to the Senior Staff Consultative Committee (“The Nine”) in 2025

    Four new members elected to the Senior Staff Consultative Committee (“The Nine”) in 2025

    The Nine share the ideas and feedback of the senior staff with the Director-General and offer advice on questions concerning scientific activities, organisational matters and use of resources

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  • Information for members of the personnel residing in France: Energy Cheque in France

    Information for members of the personnel residing in France: Energy Cheque in France Written by: HR department — It has been noted that some members of the CERN personnel residing in France may have erroneously received assistance with paying their energy bills, in the form of an “energy cheque” (see https://chequeenergie.gouv.fr). This scheme, set up

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  • LHC inducted into TIME’s Best Inventions Hall of Fame

    LHC inducted into TIME’s Best Inventions Hall of Fame

    TIME has chosen the LHC as one of the 25 most iconic inventions from the past 25 years

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