Tag: CERN community

  • Computer Security: Avoiding salmonella in your code

    Computer Security: Avoiding salmonella in your code

    Writing quality software is like preparing an amazing meal for your friends. Quality ingredients. Established utensils. A clean kitchen (at least initially). And regular tasting to avoid giving your friends a disappointment (or salmonella). The same thing applies to coding. Choosing a suitable programming language. Using established software and version management tools. Preparing clean and

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  • Empowering change – new ambassadors at the CERN & Society Foundation

    Empowering change – new ambassadors at the CERN & Society Foundation

    Get to know the Foundation’s new ambassadors

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  • Accelerator Report: Beams injected into the LHC ahead of heavy ion collisions

    Accelerator Report: Beams injected into the LHC ahead of heavy ion collisions

    The LHC resumes beam production, following the repair of the inner triplet vacuum leak, and gears up for heavy ion collisions

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  • HL-LHC: successful tests validate a new remote alignment system for magnets

    HL-LHC: successful tests validate a new remote alignment system for magnets

    The many CERN-developed sensors and software programs of the FRAS (Full Remote Alignment System) have been successfully tested on a prototype magnet in preparation for the HL-LHC

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  • The joy of summer conferences

    After the online conferences of the past years, there is something all the more special about coming together face-to-face, to share and discuss a wealth of results this summer

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  • Farewell to CERN’s astronaut

    Farewell to CERN’s astronaut

    Polish engineer, Slawosz Uznanski, said goodbye to CERN colleagues ahead of ESA astronaut training

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  • Lawrence W. Jones (1925 – 2023)

    Lawrence W. Jones (1925 – 2023)

    Lawrence W. Jones(1925 – 2023) — Lawrence W. Jones, an experimental particle physicist who contributed to important developments in accelerators and detectors, and a well-respected mentor and educator, passed away on 30 June 2023. Jones was born in Evanston, Illinois, USA, on 16 November 1925. He enrolled at Northwestern University in autumn 1943, but was

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  • Computer Security: I know what you did last summer

    Computer Security: I know what you did last summer

    Just in time for the end of the holiday season and with reference to a famous film of the 90s, we set out to study where you’ve been and what you did this (last) summer… without infringing on your privacy as you’re actually already publishing this information freely. Or, rather, your smartphone is. As discussed

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  • LHCb observes hypertriton production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC

    LHCb observes hypertriton production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC

    With its detection of hypertriton in proton-proton collisions, the LHCb experiment strengthens CERN’s role as one of the few places worldwide to study hypernuclei such as the hypertriton and its antipartner in detail

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  • SESAME, a growing focal point for regional scientific collaboration

    SESAME, a growing focal point for regional scientific collaboration

    SESAME, the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East laboratory, welcomes Iraq as its first Associate Member

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