Category: Newsletter
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TEDxCERN is back!
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 theme for 2014 is ‘Forward: Charting the Future with Science’. The speakers range
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CERN prepares beam line for schools
CERN prepares beam line for schools On 7 September, the winners of the Beam line for schools competition will arrive at CERN to claim their prizes. The two teams of high-school students – Odysseus’ Comrades from Varvakios Pilot School in Athens, Greece and Dominicuscollege from Dominicus College in Nijmegen in the Netherlands – will spend
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CERN as seen by a young scientist
CERN as seen by a young scientist Inspired by the event at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris that celebrated the anniversary of the signature of the CERN convention, Sophie Redford wrote about her impressions on joining CERN as a young researcher. A CERN fellow designing detectors for the future CLIC accelerator, she did her PhD
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Proton Synchrotron accelerator delivers first beams
Proton Synchrotron accelerator delivers first beams The CERN injectors, up to the PS, started operations mid-June. The long-running ISOLDE radioactive ion-beam facility on the PS Booster resumed operations by the end of July. Several experiments that use protons from the PS are already taking data, like nTOF, and R&D activities, including AIDA, which is a
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ICTP awards its 2014 Dirac Medal to String Theorists
ICTP awards its 2014 Dirac Medal to String Theorists BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/ictp-awards-its-2014-dirac-medal-string-theorists) Warm congratulations to Gabriele Veneziano, one of the three recipients of the 2014 Dirac Medal. Gabriele will share the award with Ashoke Sen (India) and Andrew Strominger (USA), all three physicists who have made crucial contributions to the
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DAMPE comes to CERN before going to Space
DAMPE comes to CERN before going to Space The evidence that some invisible (“dark”) matter exists in the universe was first observed many decades ago, by the Swiss physicist Fritz Zwicky in 1933, among others, from studying the relative movement of stars and galaxies, and was more recently confirmed by gravitational lensing effects. In spite
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Inauguration of the S’cool Lab
Inauguration of the S'cool Lab On 3 July 2014, the new CERN “S’cool Lab” was inaugurated, occupying about 200 m2 in the lower part of the Microcosm building. The idea behind S’cool Lab is to allow groups of school students visiting CERN to become acquainted with experiments crucial for the development of particle physics, and
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10th PATRAS Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs
10th PATRAS Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs The first PATRAS Workshop took place at CERN in 2005. Last July, it returned to CERN for its tenth anniversary. The initial aim of this series of workshops was to provide academic training to the new generations of scientists working within the EU – ILIAS network, which
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Maria Bader: Studying the mass spectra of particles
Maria Bader: Studying the mass spectra of particles It is without any doubt every particle physicist’s dream to be involved in a project at CERN. And my dream just came true. My name is Maria Bader and I’m from Germany. Currently, I’m pursuing a Master’s degree in Experimental Physics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands
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CERN: a new homeplace for Mohamad Tahawi
CERN: a new homeplace for Mohamad Tahawi A couple of years ago, I couldn’t imagine that one day I would be at CERN. It all started in the end of 2013. I met a former CERN summer student through an online course we were taking together. During our studying sessions we used to have breaks