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Two events in November featured CERN as a possible model for building trust across frontiers.
Closure of roads for an exceptional convoy on the Meyrin site, Tuesday, 1st of March
In this week's Bulletin find out how the amorphous carbon coating can be a solution to address the electron cloud issue in view of the HL-LHC upgrade
Genevieve Guinot, head of the diversity office, answers some questions about what it is really like to work in a diverse organization like CERN
The third Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics, AEPSHEP2016, to be held near Beijing, China, 12-25 October 2016, is open for applications
In this week's Bulletin find out how the LIGO and Virgo collaborations announce the direct detection of gravitational waves
This week saw the announcement of an extraordinary physics result: the first direct detection of gravitational waves.
The TED website now hosts even more TEDxCERN talks, reaching viewers of more than 1 million per video
