Tag: Press release
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CERN celebrates 60 years of science for peace
Geneva, 18 March 2014. CERN1 is celebrating 60 years of science for peace in 2014, with events at the Organization’s Geneva laboratory and in its Members States. Festivities will focus on two key events. The first is on 1 July at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, where the Organization’s 12 founding members established the CERN Convention
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CERN to host 4th edition of the CineGlobe International Film Festival
Geneva, 13 March 2014. CERN1 is to host the CineGlobe International Film Festival from 18 to 23 March at the Globe of Science and Innovation in Meyrin. This 4th edition will present 66 short films inspired by science in competition, including fiction films and documentaries. Selected from a long list of over 1600 short films
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10th edition of the International Masterclasses in Particle Physics to attract more than 10,000 high-school students worldwide
Geneva, 10 March 2014. Each year in spring, research institutes and universities around the world invite students and their teachers for a day-long programme to experience life at the forefront of basic research. These International Masterclasses give students the opportunity to be particle physicists for a day by analysing real data from CERN1’s Large Hadron
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CERN prepares its long-term future
Geneva, 6 February 2014. Particle physics takes the long-term view. Originally conceived in the 1980s, the LHC took another 25 years to come into being. This accelerator, which is unlike any other, is just at the start of a programme which is expected to run for another 20 years. Even now, as consolidation work aimed
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CERN experiment produces first beam of antihydrogen atoms for hyperfine study
Geneva, 21 January 2014. The ASACUSA1 experiment at CERN2 has succeeded for the first time in producing a beam of antihydrogen atoms. In a paper published today in Nature Communications, the ASACUSA collaboration reports the unambiguous detection of 80 antihydrogen atoms 2.7 metres downstream of their production, where the perturbing influence of the magnetic fields
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CERN to admit Israel as first new Member State since 1999
Following a resolution unanimously adopted at today’s 169th session of the CERN Council, CERN is set to admit Israel as the Organization’s 21st Member State.
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Japanese artist, Ryoji Ikeda, wins the third Prix Ars Electronica Collide @ CERN
Linz/Geneva, 14 January 2014. CERN1 data analysis will be the inspiration for the third Prix Ars Electronica2 Collide @ CERN, which was today awarded to the Japanese artist, Ryoji Ikeda3, who lives and works in Paris. Ryoji Ikeda is one of the world’s leading artists who create moving-image, sculptural, sound and new media works that
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Open Access publishing initiative, SCOAP3, to start on 1 January 2014
Geneva 5 December 2013. After intense preparations and consensus building, CERN1 has today confirmed that the SCOAP3 Open Access publishing initiative will start on 1 January 2014. With the support of partners in 24 countries2, a vast fraction of scientific articles in the field of High-Energy Physics will become Open Access at no cost for
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The Music of Physics – Third open competition, Collide@CERN Geneva 2014 award announced
Geneva, 26 November 2013. CERN1, the City and The Republic and Canton of Geneva announce today the 2014 open competition for the Collide @ CERN Geneva artist in residency award2. The form of art for 2014 will be music, which has a special affinity with physics. “Many physicists at CERN are also musicians, because patterns
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CERN receives the Prince of Asturias Award
Geneva, 25 October 2013. CERN1, along with Peter Higgs and François Englert, will today receive the Prince of Asturias Award for “the theoretical prediction and experimental detection of the Higgs boson.” CERN Director General Rolf Heuer will accept the prestigious prize on behalf of the Laboratory during a ceremony at Oviedo’s Campoamor Theatre in Spain.