Tag: Media
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CERN awards major contract for computer infrastructure hosting to Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Hungary
Geneva, 8 May 2012. CERN1 today signed a contract with the Wigner Research Centre for Physics2 in Budapest for an extension to the CERN data centre. Under the new agreement, the Wigner Centre will host CERN equipment that will substantially extend the capabilities of the LHC Computing Grid Tier-0 activities and provide the opportunity for
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CERN supports new business incubation centre in the UK
Geneva, 23 April 2012. CERN and the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council announce the launch of a new Business Incubation Centre (BIC) at the STFC’s Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus. The centre will provide a new technology transfer opportunity to bridge the gap between basic science and industry, supporting businesses and entrepreneurs in taking
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LHC physics data taking gets underway at new record collision energy of 8TeV
Geneva, 5 April 2012. At 0.38am CEST this morning, the LHC shift crew declared "stable beams" as two 4 TeV proton beams were brought into collision at the LHC’s four interaction points. This signals the start of physics data taking by the LHC experiments for 2012. The collision energy of 8 TeV is a new
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First laureate for Collide@CERN-Geneva Prize announced
Geneva, 29 March 2012. The first Collide@CERN-Geneva1 prize in Dance and Performance was today awarded by jury2 to the 47-year-old Swiss-born dancer and choreographer Gilles Jobin3 for his proposal to explore through interventions and dance the relationship between mind and body at the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. "When I walk in the street, I
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CERN welcomes its first artist in residence
Geneva, 12 March 2012. Creative collisions have begun at CERN1 with the arrival of Julius von Bismarck as the laboratory’s first Collide @ CERN artist in residence. A rising star of the international arts scene, von Bismarck will team up with theoretical physicist James Wells as he works alongside the lab’s engineers and scientists for
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Major contract signed for supply of solar panels derived from CERN technology
Geneva, 9 March 2012. At Geneva International Airport today SRB Energy delivered the first of the solar panels that will form one of the largest solar energy systems in Switzerland. Ultimately, some 300 high-temperature solar thermal panels will cover a surface of 1200 square metres on the roof of the airport’s main terminal building. The
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CERN experiment makes spectroscopic measurement of antihydrogen
Geneva, 7 March 2012. In a paper published online today by the journal Nature, the ALPHA collaboration at CERN1 reports an important milestone on the way to measuring the properties of antimatter atoms. This follows news reported in June last year that the collaboration had routinely trapped antihydrogen atoms for long periods of time. ALPHA’s
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3rd CinéGlobe international film festival at CERN
Geneva, 6 March 2012. CERN1 will be hosting the CinéGlobe international film festival from 27 March to 1 April. This 3rd edition will see 55 short films “inspired by science” in competition, including fictional pieces as well as documentaries. Selected from a long list of 1,400 short films from 107 countries, all the entrants have
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LHCb experiment squeezes the space for expected new physics
Geneva, 5 March 2012. Results presented by the LHCb collaboration this evening at the annual ‘Rencontres de Moriond’ conference, held this year in La Thuile, Italy, have put one of the most stringent limits to date on the current theory of particle physics, the Standard Model. LHCb tests the Standard Model by measuring extremely rare
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Big science teams up with big business to kick-start European cloud computing
Geneva, 1 March 2012. Today a consortium of leading IT providers and three of Europe’s biggest research centres (CERN1, EMBL2 and ESA3) announced a partnership to launch a European cloud computing platform. “Helix Nebula – the Science Cloud”, will support the massive IT requirements of European scientists, and become available to governmental organisations and industry