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Edmund 'Ted' Wilson, a particle physicist and visiting professor at Oxford University and former head of CERN Accelerator School died on 3 November
MAD-X 2016 is a yearly course series given at CERN within the framework of the 2016 Technical Training Program
S'cool Lab Summer Camp invites 16 to 19 year olds to spend 2 weeks exploring the fascinating world of particle physics at CERN
A new exhibition, which hopes to answer, at least in part, questions that have bothered humans for centuries, has recently opened in Vienna
CERN hosts its fourth TEDxCERN – “Ripples of Curiosity” – to explore how ideas in science, technology and education are converging and creating waves
The ASACUSA experiment reported new precision measurement of the mass of the antiproton relative to that of the electron based on spectroscopic measurements with antiprotonic helium.
CERN will offer two residential programmes for high school physics teachers
(Application of Articles R II 4.38 and R II 4.39 of the Staff Regulations)
Colloque Wright: Decoding the book of life – The genomic revolution – 7-11 November
The Knowledge Transfer group is starting a regular 1-day course on searching patent information databases
Our target for the integrated luminosity for 2016 was 25 inverse femtobarns. We reached 40
