Tag: CERN community

  • Max Klein (1951 – 2024)

    Max Klein (1951 – 2024)

    Max Klein(1951 – 2024) — Born in Berlin, Max earned his Diploma in Physics in 1973 from Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB, East Germany, GDR), with a thesis on low-energy heavy-ion physics. He received his PhD in 1977 from the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in

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  • Join CERN’s 70th birthday celebrations on 17 September!

    Join CERN’s 70th birthday celebrations on 17 September!

    Enjoy music, food, birthday cake and more to celebrate and thank our unique CERN community and our families – register by 31 August

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  • Accelerator Report: 10 000 LHC fills!

    Accelerator Report: 10 000 LHC fills!

    The LHC reached its 10 000th fill on 13 August 2024

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  • Arnau Brossa Gonzalo (1993 – 2024)

    Arnau Brossa Gonzalo (1993 – 2024)

    Arnau Brossa Gonzalo(1993 – 2024) — It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden loss of Arnau Brossa Gonzalo, a postdoctoral researcher at the Galician Institute of High Energy Physics (IGFAE), working on the LHCb experiment, who died in Santiago on 21 July 2024 of complications from a climbing accident. Arnau obtained a

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  • Olav Ullaland (1944 – 2024)

    Olav Ullaland (1944 – 2024)

    Olav Ullaland(1944 – 2024) — Olav Ullaland obtained his particle physics degree at the University of Bergen, Norway, in 1971. After a short research period at RAL, UK, he came to CERN in 1973 as a fellow and later became a staff member. He worked as a detector physicist until he retired from CERN in

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  • Revision of administrative circulars

    Revision of administrative circulars Written by: HR department — The following revised administrative circulars have been approved by the Director-General and will enter into force on 1 September 2024: These revisions cancel and replace Administrative Circular No. 12A (Rev.4) and Administrative Circular No. 12B (Rev.5), both dated July 2023. The modifications pertain to two paragraphs:

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  • Students pitch innovative ideas to tackle healthcare issues using particle accelerators in 10-day challenge

    Students pitch innovative ideas to tackle healthcare issues using particle accelerators in 10-day challenge

    Global healthcare issues – from prosthesis pain to severe burns – were targeted by four student teams in the I.FAST project’s third challenge-based initiative

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  • How can I use CERN IdeaSquare?

    How can I use CERN IdeaSquare?

    Workshops and hackathons, prototyping facilities, events and more: find out how the CERN community can benefit from IdeaSquare, the innovation space at CERN

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  • Computer Security: Audited for the better

    Computer Security: Audited for the better

    Summer 2023 was an intense season for CERN computer security…

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  • Re-engineering radiotherapy

    Re-engineering radiotherapy

    The Smart Technologies to Extend Lives with Linear Accelerators (STELLA) project aims to turn technology developed for particle physics into a novel radiotherapy system suited to the challenging environments of low- and middle-income countries

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