Tag: CERN community

  • 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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  • Accelerator Report: LHC pausing production for maintenance to stay strong and highly performing

    Accelerator Report: LHC pausing production for maintenance to stay strong and highly performing

    On Monday, 19 June, LHC operation was paused for one week to allow the technical teams to carry out preventive and corrective maintenance on the machine and its subsystems

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  • Connecting the small and the large scales

    Connecting the small and the large scales

    By collaborating with projects for future gravitational-wave observatories, CERN helps to find echoes from the past

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  • LHCb tightens precision on key measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry

    LHCb tightens precision on key measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry

    The LHCb collaboration’s new measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry in decays of beauty particles are the most precise yet of their kind

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  • Preparing for the next era of neutrino research

    Preparing for the next era of neutrino research

    The teams at CERN’s Neutrino Platform are currently upgrading and assembling multiple detectors to help large experiments in the USA and Japan to uncover these mysterious particles

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