Category: Newsletter
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Big Science: What’s it Worth?
Big Science: What's it Worth? BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/big-science-whats-it-worth) The report “BIG SCIENCE: What’s it Worth?” was published last week by Science/Business Publishing (www.sciencebusiness.net). It offers a useful read both for scientists but also for those involved in outreach activities or actively involved in policy-making in fundamental research. In his foreword
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New website for TH division
New website for TH division TH's new website went live in February, after over a year of consultation, design and programming. It replaces the TH Unit's previous website, which was nine years old and in need of an overhaul. Aside from a new look, the site’s contents have been reorganised to facilitate navigation and supplemented
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A special visit to CERN’s new safety training centre
A special visit to CERN's new safety training centre Last month, Livio Mapelli, Head of the PH Department, Frederic Hemmer, Head of IT Department and Lluis Miralles, Head of the GS department, visited the new Safety Training Centre in Prévessin. Gilles Colin and Christoph Balle had organized this special visit for the management of the
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CERN 60 Public Computing Challenge: Completed
CERN 60 Public Computing Challenge: Completed As part of the celebrations for Organisation’s 60th anniversary, Citizen Cyberlab and CERN launched the CERN 60 Public Computing Challenge, which was completed on Saturday 20 December, with the aim of testing a new browser-based approach to volunteer computing. CERN physicists often use event generators to simulate particle collisions
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Interview with Savas Dimopoulos
Interview with Savas Dimopoulos Professor Dimopoulos is searching for answers to some of the most profound mysteries of nature. In this interview we discuss the recent findings of the LHC and his expectations about future HEP experiments, the quest for "truth" that seems to inform our scientific endeavours, as well as the relation between science
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2015 TH Winter School
2015 TH Winter School The 2015 CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings, and Gauge Theory took place, from Monday, February 2 to Friday, February 6, at CERN. It was organized by J. Drummond, K. Papadodimas, B. Pioline of the CERN Theory Division and sponsored by the CERN Theory Division, and the Arnold Sommerfeld Center at
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ERC rewards CERN researchers
ERC rewards CERN researchers The ERC fosters scientific excellence in Europe through competitive funding. Its grants are awarded to projects headed by researchers – both beginning-of-career and established – via an open, peer-reviewed competition. In December 2014, Magdalena Kowalska and Claude Duhr were awarded grants to pursue research in ultra-sensitive nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in
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Radiation Monitors Tested on Orion Space mission
Radiation Monitors Tested on Orion Space mission On Friday 5 December, NASA's new Orion spaceship, a capsule built to take humans further into space than ever before, made its first test flight. The flight marked the first time, since Apollo 17 was launched to the moon in 1972, that a spacecraft built for humans traveled
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Celebrating ISOLDE’s 50th anniversary
Celebrating ISOLDE's 50th anniversary On the 17th December 1964, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, who was strongly supporting diversity in CERN's scientific programme, gave the green light to a proposal for an isotope separator on-line with the CERN synchro-cyclotron, marking the beginning of ISOLDE's journey. The plan was to construct a first class facility to produce radioactive
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CERN’s strategy for neutrino physics
CERN's strategy for neutrino physics The understanding of the neutrino sector is a worldwide priority promising physics beyond the Standard Model in a unified theoretical framework that goes from the electroweak scale to the highest energy scales. Following the Higgs boson discovery, massive neutrinos are now firmly set at the frontier of knowledge in particle