Tag: CERN community

  • You’ll never guess these six unlikely benefits of being a CERN Guide

    You’ll never guess these six unlikely benefits of being a CERN Guide

    It may surprise you, but being a CERN Guide can give you unexpected benefits, especially with Science Gateway about to open this autumn.

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  • Three teams of secondary school pupils from the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams from CERN and DESY

    Three teams of secondary school pupils from the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams from CERN and DESY

    Geneva and Hamburg, 28 June 2023. In 2023, for the second time in the history of the Beamline for Schools competition, the evaluation committee selected three winning teams. The team “Myriad Magnets” from the Philips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, United States, and the team “Particular Perspective”, which brings together pupils from the Islamabad College for

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  • From physics to finance: how can CERN tools help to uncover market manipulation?

    From physics to finance: how can CERN tools help to uncover market manipulation?

    With its world-renowned expertise in the analysis of massive volumes of data, CERN has started a unique collaboration with leading market-surveillance experts to explore how particle physics could help to build future manipulation-detection techniques

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  • Bike2Work at CERN reaches new heights

    Bike2Work at CERN reaches new heights

    More than 1000 Cernois have joined a “Bike to Work” team – take part in the upcoming Critical Mass event to celebrate this achievement!

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  • Roger Bailey (1954 – 2023)

    Roger Bailey (1954 – 2023)

    Roger Bailey(1954 – 2023) — It was with deep sadness that we learned that Roger Bailey passed away on 1 June while out mountain biking in Valais. He was 69. Roger began his career with a doctorate in experimental particle physics from the University of Sheffield in 1979, going on to a postdoctoral position at

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  • CMS honours its 2022 Award and PhD Thesis Award winners

    CMS honours its 2022 Award and PhD Thesis Award winners

    CMS PhD Thesis Award winners 2022 Every year, the CMS collaboration recognises the outstanding achievements of young scientists through this award, highlighting the exceptional contributions made by doctoral researchers in advancing the field of high-energy physics. From the 32 nominations received this year, three winners were selected by the committee: Angira Rastogi, Willem Verbeke and

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  • LHCb celebrates prizewinners

    LHCb awarded its annual prizes at its recent collaboration week. As usual, prizes were awarded for outstanding contributions made by early-career scientists and for the best PhD theses. In addition, for the first time, awards were given for outstanding technical contributions to LHCb. The final industry award for contributions to LHCb Upgrade I was also

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  • Joan Heemskerk wins CERN’s Collide Copenhagen residency award

    Joan Heemskerk wins CERN’s Collide Copenhagen residency award

    Joan Heemskerk, one of the pioneers of web-based art, has been selected as the winner of this year’s edition

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  • A diverse meeting for a diverse fire brigade

    A diverse meeting for a diverse fire brigade

    CERN’s Fire and Rescue service hosts the 18th meeting of the CTIF Commission for Women in Fire and Rescue Services

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  • Computer Security: ChatNoSCRCY

    Instead of your former internet buddy, the good old search engine, giving you reams of answers to your search, the new hype on the market is “ChatGPT”, which produces for you the one and only best answer out there

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