CERN Accelerating science

Colloquium

Public Lecture on Thursday 20 November: "Past, present future: LHC and future possibilities"

Prof. Günther Dissertori, Prof. Michelangelo Mangano and Dr Lucie Linssen will explore "Past, present future: LHC and future possibilities" in a public event that will take place in the Globe of Science and Innovation on 20 November 2014 Open…

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Public lecture: "The Long Road to the LHC"

Public lecture: "The Long Road to the LHC" by Prof. Lyn Evans, Dr Daniel Treille and Prof. Peter Jenni. Lecture by Lyn Evans The key to the discovery of the Higgs boson has been the development of particle accelerators at CERN through the years. I…

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TEDxCERN is back!

What are the big ideas in science that will help us address tomorrow’s major global challenges? Hosted by Brian Cox (Manchester and ATLAS), TEDxCERN will bring together inspirational speakers from around the world who have ideas worth sharing. The…

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The SESAME project

Great scientific ideas have been born, shaped and cultivated in the CERN corridors and cafeteria. But CERN was founded not only as a place where knowledge could be accumulated and advanced but also as a place where European healing was attempted …

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Neutrino properties from cosmology

Cosmology  has entered the precision era: we now have a standard model for cosmology where the content, history and evolution of the Universe are described by few parameters. These parameters are constrained by observations at the percent level or…

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A philosophical experiment

In 2008 a group of high-energy physicists, philosophers and historians of science decided to join forces to take a closer and critical look at the knowledge production which would accompany the first phase of operation of the LHC. In 2010, thanks to…

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