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Work will be carried out at the crossroads by the Prévessin site entrance from the start of April until mid-July 2018
Artists from all over the world are invited to spend time at CERN and work alongside particle physicists and engineers
Applications are now open for CERN’s 41th School of Computing (CSC 2018), which will take place from 1 to 14 October 2018 in Tel Aviv, Israel
Can we make internal CERN software more user-friendly?
Care to share your passion for science with the public? Join Famelab, the international competition in science communication
WIT Diversity Talk with Eugenia Hatziangeli, leader of the Controls group at the Beams Department
Theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, has died on 14 March aged 76.
International Women’s Day is always an important reminder of our responsibility to support and promote diversity, in all its aspects.
Ten students of entrepreneurship will spend five-week residency at CERN this summer
The fourth Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics, AEPSHEP2018, is open for applications (deadline 1 April 2018)
The Mobility Centre and the Atelier Mobility will be closed on Tuesday 3 April 2018
Composition of the Joint Advisory Disciplinary Board (JADB / CPCD) for the 2018 exercise
