Tag: seminar
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Past and Present of the LHC Physics Programme: A Viewpoint
Before the LHC began operations, expectations were immense. It was not perceived simply as CERN’s next machine after LEP, but as “the next machine after everything”—a collider expected to settle how electroweak symmetry is broken.
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CERN STEAM Academy puts the future of scientific software centre stage
C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup returned to CERN for a packed STEAM Academy seminar on the future of scientific software. From safer programming and simpler code to new language features and the demands of long-lived research infrastructure, he explored how C++ can continue to evolve alongside the computing challenges of modern science.
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In discussion with John Ellis: The Higgs, Patience and Perseverance in Science
In discussion with John Ellis: The Higgs, Patience and Perseverance in Science by Panos Charitos For John Ellis, the history of the Higgs boson is not a neat, short story that begins with a theory paper and ends with a discovery announcement. It is a long intellectual adventure, beginning in superconductivity, moving through the construction
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XENON1T probes deeper into Dark Matter WIMPs
XENON1T probes deeper into Dark Matter WIMPs Results from XENON1T, the world’s largest and most sensitive detector dedicated to a direct search for Dark Matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), were reported on the 28th May, by the spokesperson, Prof. Elena Aprile of Columbia University, in a seminar at the hosting