Tag: Press release
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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.
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CERN announces the Accelerate@CERN programme
Geneva, 22 October 2013. CERN is launching Accelerate @ CERN, its new country specific one month research award for artists who have never had a longer stay at a science laboratory before. It is the sister strand of CERN1‘s successful flagship artists residency programme, Collide @ CERN2. Both are part of Arts @ CERN, which
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CERN to host international conference on thorium technologies for energy
Geneva, 17 October 2013. CERN1 is to host the Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13 on 27-31 October, 2013. The Conference will address the scientific and technical advances offered by thorium in alternative nuclear technologies for energy production and for the destruction of nuclear waste. ThEC13 is organized by iThEC2 (international Thorium Energy Committee, Geneva) and IThEO3
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CERN congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
Geneva 8 October 2013. CERN1 congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the Nobel Prize in physics “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by
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CERN’s CLOUD experiment shines new light on climate change
Geneva, 6 October 2013. In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the CLOUD experiment at CERN1 reports a major advance towards solving a long-standing enigma in climate science: how do aerosols – tiny solid or liquid particles suspended in the air – form in the atmosphere, and which gases are responsible? This is
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CERN welcomes its first film maker in residence
Geneva, 4 October 2013. Seeing the invisible and discovering the meaning of life are the twin quests of CERN1’s first film maker in residence, Jan Peters the second winner of the Collide @ CERN Geneva2 prize, which is supported by the Canton and City of Geneva. Jan Peters is internationally known as a film maker
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Ukraine to become Associate Member State of CERN
Geneva 3 October 2013. CERN1 Director General Rolf Heuer and Mr. Kostyantyn Ivanovych Gryschenko, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine today signed a document admitting Ukraine to CERN Associate Membership, subject to ratification by Ukraine’s Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada. “Ukraine has been a strong participant in LHC experiments and computing over recent years,” said CERN Director
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Major European scientific organisations to take part in European Researchers’ Nights
Geneva, 18 September – CERN, ESA, ESO and UNESCO, in partnership with the Italian Institute of Astrophysics (INAF), invite the public to participate in “Origins 2013”, an exceptional event to take place simultaneously in Geneva, Paris and Bologna on European researchers’ night, Friday 27 September. People from around the world can follow the event live