Tag: CERN community

  • Collaboration with CERN – an asset for scientific communities in the Middle East

    Collaboration with CERN – an asset for scientific communities in the Middle East

    Across the Middle East and North Africa region, CERN has set up scientific collaborations to promote access to education and innovation

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  • Klaus Bätzner (1936 – 2022)

    Klaus Bätzner (1936 – 2022)

    Klaus Bätzner(1936 – 2022) — It was with great sadness that we recently learned that our friend and former colleague Klaus Bätzner passed away in December 2022. Klaus devoted his career to CERN. Among the many projects he worked on were the Proton Synchrotron (PS) and increasing the energy of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS)

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  • Computer security: A bank à la CERN

    When doing cybersecurity, protective measures must be adapted to your environment and needs. For a bank, it’s obvious that protecting physical and digital money, and confidential data about customers, is of the utmost importance. Hence, security is tight, well controlled and comes with lots of restrictions, giving attackers a very small attack surface to penetrate

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  • Eleven successful years and counting for the Be a Scientist project

    Eleven successful years and counting for the Be a Scientist project

    For 684 budding scientists from schools in the local area, the 11th edition of the Be a scientist project wrapped up on Thursday, 11 May 2023.

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  • Busy as a BE

    As head of the Beams department (BE), I am proud to report on a very successful recommissioning of the accelerator complex following a busy year-end technical stop (YETS), thanks to the dedication of all the groups involved from across the Accelerator and Technology sector, with the support of teams throughout CERN and our many external

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  • Computer security: CEO fraud, second attempt

    Computer security: CEO fraud, second attempt

    Members of a CERN board were recently targeted by so-called “CEO fraud”, following the same format as the incident that occurred at the end of 2020. CEO fraud is a social engineering method to extract money from a company, playing on several psychological techniques to prevent people thinking consciously: Like in 2020, this “new” fraud

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  • Celebrating 50 years of the CERN relay race – and details of this year’s event!

    Celebrating 50 years of the CERN relay race – and details of this year’s event!

    As this year’s edition of the legendary race approaches, the time has come to look back on 50 years of exuberance, silly costumes, beer drinking and the occasional bit of running

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  • Accelerator Report: mostly on schedule, sometimes not…

    Accelerator Report: mostly on schedule, sometimes not…

    The beam commissioning of the Antiproton Decelerator will start on 12 June, and the aim is to deliver antiprotons to the eagerly waiting AD-ELENA experiments on 30 June

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  • Yolande Agnosini (1933 – 2023)

    Yolande Agnosini (1933 – 2023)

    Yolande Agnosini(1933 – 2023) — Yolande Beatrix Agnosini, née Soriano, passed away on Saturday, 8 April at the age of 89. She is now reunited with her husband, Fausto Agnosini, who also worked at CERN. Yolande spent her entire career at CERN. Following a stint at the computer card punching service, she followed a course

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  • Giorgio Brianti (1930 – 2023)

    Giorgio Brianti (1930 – 2023)

    Giorgio Brianti(1930 – 2023) — Giorgio Brianti, a pillar of CERN throughout his 40-year career, passed away on 6 April at the age of 92. He played a major role in the success of CERN and in particular the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) project, and his legacy lives on across the whole of the accelerator

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