Tag: Press release
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CERN Council selects next Director-General
Geneva, 4 November 2014. At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN1 Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the Organization’s next Director-General. The appointment will be formalised at the December session of Council, and Dr Gianotti’s mandate will begin on 1 January 2016 and run for a period of five years. Council rapidly
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Arts@CERN announces 3 new awards and reaches Asia
Geneva, 28 October 2014. CERN1 is announcing today a new Collide @ CERN2 residency award award in cultural partnership with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, as well as two Accelerate @ CERN awards3 with the Ministry of Culture for Taiwan and the Austrian Federal Chancellery. All are part of the Arts @ CERN programme,
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UN and CERN celebrate science for peace and development and CERN’s 60th anniversary
New York, 20 October 2014. The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)1 celebrated science for peace and development highlighting the values of science and its ability to build bridges between nations. The event was the last in a series of celebrations organized by CERN to mark
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UN and CERN to celebrate science for peace and development
Geneva, 17 October 2014. The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN1) will gather eminent politicians and scientists to celebrate science for peace and development highlighting the values of science and its ability to build bridges between nations. Using CERN as an example, the event will highlight
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CERN turns 60 and celebrates peaceful collaboration for science
Geneva, 29 September 2014. Today, CERN1, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is blowing out 60 candles at an event attended by official delegations from 35 countries. Founded in 1954, CERN is today the largest particle physics laboratory in the world and a prime example of international collaboration, bringing together scientists of almost 100 nationalities.
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CERN and APS announce partnership for Open Access
Geneva, 18 September 2014. The American Physical Society (APS) and The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN1) jointly announce a partnership to make all CERN-authored articles published in the APS journal collection to be Open Access. Articles in APS’ Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, and Physical Review C in 2015 and 2016 will be
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Latest measurements from the AMS experiment unveil new territories in the flux of cosmic rays
Geneva 18 September 2014. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS1) collaboration has today presented its latest results. These are based on the analysis of 41 billion particles detected with the space-based AMS detector aboard the International Space Station. The results, presented during a seminar at CERN2, provide new insights into the nature of the mysterious excess
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A September packed with events to celebrate CERN’s 60th anniversary
Geneva, 1 September 2014. On 29 September 1954, the CERN1 Convention entered into force, officially establishing the European Organization for Nuclear Research with 12 European member states. Now the world’s biggest particle physics laboratory, CERN is celebrating “60 years of science for peace” with an official ceremony and several public events taking place throughout September.
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CERN looks to the future for the second edition of TEDxCERN
Geneva, 28 July 2014. Following the success of the first TEDxCERN event last year, CERN1 will be hosting a second TEDx conference on 24 September 2014 on the theme “Forward: Charting the future with science”. Some 15 speakers will present their innovative and ambitious projects, which apply science to respond to problems facing the world
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Results from CERN presented at ICHEP
Geneva, 7 July 2014. Speaking at press conference held during the 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP, in Valencia, Spain this morning CERN1 Director General Rolf Heuer gave a resume of results from CERN that are being presented. The conference, which began last Thursday with three days of parallel sessions, now moves on