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The innovative cold powering system has been successfully installed in the HL-LHC Inner Triplet (IT) String test stand. This novel system comprises a long electrical transmission line, which has been specially developed to transport currents to the magnets across a wide range of temperatures.These upgrades will be tested in an above-ground facility at #CERN that has recently had its first superconducting system installed.
Find out more: https://home.cern/news/news/engineering/test-stand-high-luminosity-lhc
Contributors
Director: Paola Catapano, Corinne Pralavorio
Editor: Chetna Krishna
Animation by: Maximilien Brice, Ivan Snozzi
Narration by: Sarah Charley
On 29 September, 70 years ago, twelve European countries came together to establish what has become the world’s largest #ParticlePhysics laboratory, home to the #LHC, and where the #HiggsBoson was discovered twelve years ago.
In this video, representing our 24 Member States, CERN people share their birthday wishes in their native language.
A variety of events and activities, culminating in an official high-level ceremony on 1 October, will showcase the Laboratory’s rich past and its forward-looking vision.
Join us online on 1 October to discover spectacular scientific adventures and celebrate with us 70 years of scientific discovery and innovation.
In this event:
00:00 Family Photo
01:23 Announcement Trailer Klapisch
02:19 Trailer Klapisch
07:53 Arrival of delegations
10:26 Video CERN's foundation
12:31 Introduction Master of Ceremony
13:39 Speech Fabiola Gianotti
22:23 Video Seventy Years of Scientific Achievements
28:49 Francois Englert introduction by Fabiola Gianotti and Video message
31:04 HRH Princess Astrid de Belgique
37:24 Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
46:55 Prime Minister Evika Silina, Republic of Latvia
52:26 Young researchers testimonials
56:53 La Pavane, Orchestra des Nations
01:05:37 Peter Pellegrini, President of the Slovak Republic
1:12:54 Viola Amherd, Présidente de la confédération Suisse
1:17:24 Video From subatomic physics to society
1:22:55 Aleksandar Vucic, President of the Republic of Serbia
1:27:01 Rumen Radev, President of the Republic of Bulgaria
1:34:09 Video Charting the future of particle physics
1:39:29 Sergio Mattarella, President of the Italian Republic
1:46:06 President of CERN Council: Elizier Rabinovici
1:52:06 Closing speech
Find out more: https://home.web.cern.ch/events/cern70-official-ceremony-inspiring-future
#CERN #CERN70 #anniversary
CERN’s #PhotoOfTheWeek features four phone wallpapers we’ve created to celebrate #CERN’s 70th anniversary.
If you want to match with us, find the #CERN70 phone wallpapers here: https://design-guidelines.web.cern.ch/guidelines/70yrs-wallpapers-mobile-phones
40 years since the discovery of the W boson, its measurement is still a hot topic. Small variations in its measured value could indicate the presence of new physics beyond the Standard Model.
In the video, we explain why this is the case.
Contributors:
Written, produced and narrated by Piotr Traczyk
Standard Model animation: Daniel Dominguez
#CERN #physics #mystery
Find out more: https://home.cern/news/press-release/physics/cms-experiment-cern-weighs-w-boson-mass
Contributors:
Producer: Chetna Krishna
Through this collaboration, CERN's competencies in materials, cryogenics and leak-tightness can support those working to bring innovative technical solutions with invaluable societal benefits and positive global environmental impact.
#innovation #environment #CERN
Der Festakt im Namen der deutschen CERN-Community bietet ein vielfältiges Programm rund um CERNs wissenschaftliche Durchbrüche, seine Bedeutung für technologische Innovationen und seinen Beitrag für das Miteinander der Nationen. Der große Anteil Deutschlands an der Erfolgsgeschichte dieses großartigen Gemeinschaftsprojekts ist dabei stets im Mittelpunkt und zugleich bietet der Festakt beste Gelegenheit zur Vernetzung.
Dazu laden die großen Komitees, die deutsche Forschende am CERN vertreten, das Komitee für Elementarteilchenphysik (KET), das Komitee für Beschleunigerphysik (KfB) und das Komitee für Hadronen- und Kernphysik (KHuK), zusammen mit der deutschen Delegation im CERN-Rat herzlich ein.
Hier mehr Informationen zum Festakt: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1394260/
#wissenschaft #Deutschland #CERN
The collaboration recently presented the results of its first search for long-lived new #physics particles at the 42nd International Conference on High Energy Physics in Prague.
In memory of NA62 former technical coordinator, Ferdinand Hahn (1959–2018). Voiceover in this video was extracted from an old interview.
Find out more: https://www.home.cern/news/news/physics/na62-announces-its-first-search-long-lived-particles
Contributors
Director: Chetna Krishna
Editor: Thibaud Lawrence Morton
Drone videographer: Mike Struik
The purpose of TERAPET is to develop and commercialise innovative solutions for a safer, more precise and time-saving #protontherapy for cancer treatment.
Find out more: https://alumni.cern/news/1366820?lang=en-GB
Contributors
Director: Marzena Lapka
Editor: Piotr Traczyk
#innovation #CERNAlumni
SuperNode and CERN have initiated a collaboration to pioneer a novel type of insulation for superconducting cables. The primary goal is to enhance #energy transmission capabilities, thus accelerating the transition to #renewable energy.
Find out more: https://home.cern/news/news/knowledge-sharing/supernode-and-cern-collaborate-new-solutions-renewable-energy
Contributors
Director: Antoine Le Gall
Producer: Feza Tankut
The purpose of the Foundation is to support and promote the mission of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and disseminate its benefits to the wider public.
The Foundation operates nationally and internationally to pursue its mission, across three main areas: Education & Outreach, Innovation & Knowledge Exchange, and Culture & Creativity.
Find out more: https://cernandsocietyfoundation.cern/csf-10th-anniversary
Contributors
Producer: James Michael Pym
Contributors
Director: Gabrielle Pepin Fontaine De Bonnerive
Screenwriter: Paola Catapano
At this sixth and final public event in the series celebrating #CERN's 70th anniversary, we will explore the future of particle physics and the cutting-edge instruments set to revolutionise our understanding of the Universe’s most profound mysteries.
Renowned specialists will guide you through the current limitations and breakthroughs in technology in three insightful parts:
Event highlights:
Panel discussions moderated by Paola Catapano, in English with French simultaneous interpretation.
Panellists:
Advanced particle beam accelerators
Edda Gschwendtner – Senior Physicist and Project Leader of AWAKE, Beams Department, CERN
Mike Seidel – Accelerator Physicist, Center for Accelerator Science and Engineering, Paul Scherrer Institute
Enhanced detectors
Roxanne Guenette – Professor of Particle Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester
Petra Merkel – Senior Scientist and Detector R&D Coordinator, Fermilab
Werner Riegler – Technical Coordinator of ALICE and leader of the experiment studies for the Future Circular Hadron Collider, Experimental Physics department, CERN
Intelligent computing systems
Cristina Botta – Physicist, Experimental Physics department, CERN
Maria Girone – Head of CERN openlab, IT department, CERN
Andreas Lintermann – Coordinator of the European Center of Excellence in Exascale Computing RAISE and leader of the Simulation and Data Laboratory "Highly Scalable Fluids & Solids Engineering" at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Public event | Free entrance | In English with simultaneous interpreting into French | Recorded and webcasted
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Chapters
00:00 – 00:41 Higgs anniversary
00:41 – 01:59 Introduction
02:00 – 08:39 Exploring farther: Machines for new knowledge
08:39 – 49:42 Session 1: Advanced particle beam accelerators
49:42 – 59:08 Session 1 Q/A
59:08 – 1:41:16 Session 2: Enhanced detectors
1:41:16 – 1:50:20 Session 2: Q/A
1:50:20 – 02:22:20 Session 3: Intelligent computing systems
02:22:20 – 02:24:09 Digital Twin Demonstration
02:24:9 – 02:29:38 Session 3: Q/A
02:29:38 – 02:32:41: Final remarks
02:32:41 – end: Podcast special announcement
In this episode,
00:00 Teaser
00:13 Intro
03:29 4 July 2012
07:38 Why was this important?
14:29 Behind the discovery
28:19 Bosons and fermions
30:23 Books and metaphors
33:02 Since the discovery
37:47 High-Luminosity LHC
40:31 Physics at the HL-LHC
41:58 Detectors
42:30 The next era
42:52 Dark matter
44:28 Future machines
49:51 Question for you
Contributors:
Executive Producer: Jacques Fichet
Director and Producer: Chetna Krishna
Host: Steven Goldfarb
Social Correspondent: Joni Pham
Technical Lead: Ron Suykerbuyk
Studio Manager: Max Brice
Sound: Piotr Traczyk
Original Theme: Canettes Blues Band
Guests: Andre David and Heather Gray
Stay tuned!
#4July #Higgsboson #Emc2 #podcast
Contributors
Executive Producer: Jacques Fichet
Director and Producer: Chetna Krishna
Host: Steven Goldfarb
Social Correspondent: Joni Pham
Technical Lead: Ron Suykerbuyk
Studio Manager: Max Brice
Sound: Piotr Traczyk
Original Theme: Canettes Blues Band
In this episode,
00:00 Teaser
00:13 Intro
03:29 4 July 2012
07:38 Why was this important?
14:29 Behind the discovery
28:19 Bosons and fermions
30:23 Books and metaphors
33:02 Since the discovery
37:47 High-Luminosity LHC
40:31 Physics at the HL-LHC
41:58 Detectors
42:30 The next era
42:52 Dark matter
44:28 Future machines
49:51 Question for you
Discover us on your favourite podcast listening platform and CERN YouTube.
We value our listeners' opinions and encourage you to share your thoughts on the pilot episode via this feedback form surveyhero.com/c/podcast-pilot. The survey will only take a minute of your time and it will be highly valuable for us to hear from you!
Contributors
Director: Gabrielle Pepin Fontaine De Bonnerive
Screenwriter: Piotr Traczyk
Physicists have built laboratories spanning tens of kilometres to study nature at the smallest scales and sent telescopes into space to gather information about different forms of matter and energy. How much do we still not know about the Universe? What mysteries remain to be solved?
During the event, you will be taken on a journey through space, time, and the history of ideas in modern physics: what we know and what we do not know. Through the eyes of renowned physicists, you will be exposed to some of the greatest mysteries of the Universe. Why is there more matter than antimatter? What are dark energy and dark matter? How can we unify all the forces? What future experiments will reveal nature’s deepest secrets? Is the Universe made of vibrating strings? Is the Universe holographic? What are black holes made of? Could there be more than one Universe?
Prepare to be accelerated into a mind-boggling physics experience at CERN. Join us for this fifth public event, held in collaboration with the Strings 2024 conference, celebrating the Laboratory’s 70th anniversary.
Live performance by the Orchestre des Nations of "Open Questions", an original music piece for string orchestra by Domenico Vicinanza based on the sonification of scientific data, under the direction of Antoine Marguier.
Event highlights
Panel discussions in English with French simultaneous interpretation.
Moderator:
Jay Armas - Assistant professor at the UvA-Institute of Physics and coordinator of the Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena
Part I - Panelists:
Valerie Domcke – Theoretical physicist, Theory Department, CERN.
Christophe Grojean – Member of the DESY theory group in Hamburg and professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
David Gross – Chancellor’s Chair professor of theoretical physics and former director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Andrew Strominger – Gwill E. York Professor of Physics at Harvard University.
Live performance by the Orchestre des Nations.
Part II - Panelists:
Juan Maldacena – Carl Feinberg Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
Shiraz Minwalla – Distinguished Professor of Physics, Department of Theoretical Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Cumrun Vafa – Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy and Chair of the Physics Department, Harvard University
Irene Valenzuela – Theoretical physicist, Theory Department, CERN
Closing performance by the Orchestre des Nations
Public event | Free entrance | In English with simultaneous interpreting into French | Recorded and webcasted
#CERN70 #Universe #mysteries
Chapters:
0:00 - Opening video
06:23 - Introduction Panel 1
11:27 - Panel 1
01:06:51 - Orchestre des Nations: Open Questions
01:23:52 - Introduction Panel 2
01:28:39 - Panel 2
02:22:31 - Final remarks
02:25:09 - Orchestre des Nations: Symphony Nr. 5, Adagietto, Mahler
02:40:36 - Orchestre des Nations: Divertimento in F, 1st movement, Mozart
Discover CERN technologies and know-how to see their positive societal impact in fields like healthcare, environment, aerospace, digital and quantum. Through partnerships with industry and academia, as well as research institutions and hospitals and the support we offer to entrepreneurs, we promote innovation and the growth of industry in CERN's Member and Associate Member States.
Find out more: https://report2023-kt.web.cern.ch/
To learn more about the CERN Knowledge Transfer Group's activities, visit https://knowledgetransfer.web.cern.ch/
Contributors
Produced by: CERN Knowledge Transfer group & Eversis
#innovation #partnerships #technologies
Contributors
Director: Rachel Bray, Simona Kriva
Editor: Chetna Krishna
Videographer: Noemi Caraban, C.Krishna
Photography: Christopher Smith
Contributors
Editor: Gabrielle Pepin Fontaine De Bonnerive
Screenwriter: Paola Catapano
Event highlights:
#ScienceforAll – Panel discussion : join leading scientists and experts to explore the significance of international collaboration and open and inclusive science in advancing scientific knowledge.
Chair: Frédéric Donck
Panelists:
Ana Godinho – Head of CERN’s Education, Communications and Outreach group
Peter Jenni – A founding father and the first Spokesperson of the ATLAS experiment at CERN
Ana Persic – Programme Specialist for Science Technology and Innovation Policies and Open Science, UNESCO
Javier Serrano – Leader of CERN’s Open Hardware Initiative and Board Chair of the White Rabbit collaboration
Michel Spiro – Emeritus Research Director at CEA, President of IUPAP and Chair of the Board of the CERN & Society Foundation
For Everyone – The documentary screening (in English with French subtitles): in 1989, the world’s largest physics laboratory, CERN, was a hive of ideas and information stored on incompatible computers. Tim Berners-Lee conceived a unifying structure to link information across different computers, leading to the birth of the World Wide Web in 1991. This documentary traces the origins of the Web and its future implications, setting the stage for our second panel discussion.
Towards the Future: the Web and Beyond – Panel discussion (in English with French simultaneous interpretation): join Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web and CTO and co-founder of Inrupt, and other leading experts as we discuss the evolution of the Web, the democratisation of technology and the emerging frontiers in digital technologies and AI.
Chair: Frédéric Donck
Panelists:
Sir Tim Berners-Lee – Inventor of the Web and CTO and Co-founder of Inrupt
Raf Buyle – Innovation Lead, Athumi
Nadia Carlsten – Vice-President of Product, SandboxAQ
Andy Yen – Founder and CEO, Proton
With the participation of Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General.
Moderator:
Paola Catapano, CERN Education, Communications and Outreach Group
Speakers:
Tabea Arndt, professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), member of the board of directors at the Institute for Technical Physics (ITEP), Germany
Alain Aspect, Nobel Prize in Physics 2022, director of research emeritus at the CNRS, professor at the Institut d’Optique and the École Polytechnique, member of the Académie des Sciences, France
Amalia Ballarino, Deputy Head of Magnets, Superconductors, and Cryostats group, CERN
Reinhold Bertlmann, professor of physics at the University of Vienna, Austria
Daniela Bortoletto, head of particle physics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Nicolas Gisin, professor emeritus at the University of Geneva and professor at the Constructor University, Switzerland
Jan Jakubek, cofounder and scientific director at ADVACAM
Steffen Kappler, senior principal scientist, head of the global technology & innovation department for medical X-ray imaging products, SIEMENS Healthineers
Alessandra Lombardi, senior accelerator physicist, CERN
Michele Grossi, Quantum algorithm coordinator, CERN Quantum Technology Initiative
The event can also be followed with FRENCH interpretation here: https://webcast.web.cern.ch/event/i1399202
Meet one of the speakers of tomorrow's event, Michele Grossi, a physicist and Quantum algorithm coordinator at CERN Quantum Technology Initiative.
#CERN #quantum #technology
Contributors
Director: Chetna Krishna
ProtoDUNE has entered a pivotal stage: the filling of one of its two particle detectors with liquid argon. This argon-filled detector will be crucial to test the detector response for the next era of #neutrino research.
Watch a short time-lapse video of protoDUNE being filled with liquid argon.
Does this remind you of the #3bodyproblem series? 😉
Contributors
Editor: Chetna Krishna
Producer: Emanuele Villa
Find out more: https://home.cern/news/obituary/physics/cern-pays-tribute-peter-higgs
Contributors
Director: Jacques Herve Fichet
Watch this video to find out about the main upgrade works for the AMS detector ongoing at CERN.
Find out more: https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/amss-second-new-life
#CERN #darkmatter #SpaceXDragon
#space #CERN #ISS
Combining the concepts and forms of new media and performing arts, she attempts to rethink the possibilities of dance from the perspective of new media, extending the controversy and reflection of contemporary art in the face of the impact of digital technology. She has actively interacted and cooperated with local and international art communities through workshops, seminars, talks and performances. She is the artist-in-residence in the National Theater & Concert Hall in Taiwan 2017, Arts@CERN / European Organization for Nuclear Research, and EMPAC / Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. As one of Taiwan’s iconic figures in this field, SU received the Jury’s Special Award in the 9th Taishin Arts Award and Alternative Design Gold Award in the 2017 World Stage Design Award. In 2021, SU WENCHI’s collaboration with Swiss skincare house LA PRAIRIE was exclusively presented during Art Basel Miami Beach.
In collaboration with Arts at CERN. WenChi Su was artist in residence in 2016.
In search of what produces movement, I-Fang Lin transforms each gesture into revealing the solitudes and bonds we share. Originally from Taiwan, she refines her choreographic writing through collaboration with numerous artists; Mathilde Monnier, Christian Rizzo, François Verret, Emmanuelle Huynh, Pierre Droulers, Philippe Katerine, Jocelyn Cottencin, Louis Sclavis, Wen-Chi Su, Kosei Yamamoto, Xavier Le Roy, Boris Charmatz ... Practitioner of the Feldenkrais method, she teaches and incorporates on her work a physicality that unfolds in complete awareness. The precision, acuity and organicity of its performances elevate the body to its true value.
She founded Studio MAIASTRA, created “En Chinoiseries” (2016) and “Skein Relations” (2019) as a resident artist at NTCH in Taiwan, Au large (2021) as an accomplice artist of the Scènes Croisés de Lozère. “Ebloui “(2021-2022) co-written with visual artist Jocelyn Cottencin, “CO.M.BAT” 2023, “Ban-Ping Shan” 2023 and “Party”.
Watch this video to discover 70 years of scientific achievements at CERN.
Contributors
Director:
Gabrielle Pepin Fontaine De Bonnerive
#cern #science #discoveries
That medical imaging has taken great leaps forwards thanks to the crystals and chips developed for particle physics And that CERN is home to a facility that develops isotopes for #medical research? Ever since X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895, physics and medicine have been closely intertwined. Medical imaging and cancer treatments have benefited from developments in particle #physics over the years, and the innovations continue today, including in collaboration with CERN. As part of CERN’s 70th anniversary celebrations, doctors, biologists and physicists will walk you through how the collaboration between fundamental physics and medicine is leading to innovative #treatment methods and diagnostic techniques. One special patient – a researcher, writer and populariser of science – will share with us his experience of being treated for cancer in one of the four European centres for hadron therapy.
Contributors
Director:
Gabrielle Pepin Fontaine De Bonnerive
Ever since X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895, physics and medicine have been closely intertwined. Medical imaging and cancer treatments have benefited from developments in particle physics over the years, and the innovations continue today, including in collaboration with CERN.
As part of CERN’s 70th anniversary celebrations, doctors, biologists and physicists will walk you through how the collaboration between fundamental physics and medicine is leading to innovative treatment methods and diagnostic techniques. One special patient – a researcher, writer and populariser of science – will share with us his experience of being treated for cancer in one of the four European centres for hadron therapy.
Moderator:
Antoine Geissbühler, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva
Speakers:
Accelerators to treat cancer
Esther Troost, Chair of the Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology of the University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus of TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Manjit Dosanjh, Visiting Professor at University of Oxford, former senior advisor for medical applications at CERN
Ugo Amaldi, President of the TERA Foundation
Looking inside the human body
John Prior, Head of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Lausanne University Hospital
Magdalena Rafecas, Professor of Instrumentation in Medical Imaging, Head of the Nuclear Imaging research group, University of Lübeck
Michael Campbell, Senior scientist at CERN, Spokesperson of the Medipix Collaborations
The digital health revolution
John Prior, Head of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Lausanne University Hospital
Steve MacFeely, Director of Data and Analytics, WHO
Esther Troost, Chair of the Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology of the University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine
Carl Gustav Carus of TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany
The event can also be followed with FRENCH interpretation here: https://webcast.web.cern.ch/event/i1382946
More about the AEgIS result:
youtube.com/watch?v=VsJ-AGGI-ro
https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/physics/aegis-experiment-paves-way-new-set-antimatter-studies-laser-cooling-positronium
Narrated by Ruggero Caravita
Animations and music by Piotr Traczyk
Herwig has made landmark contributions to nuclear and particle physics and to related technologies. In his early career, he played a key role in shaping today’s physics research landscape in Germany, establishing laboratories and institutions before going on to leadership roles at #DESY and #CERN. Find out more: https://home.cern/news/news/cern/happy-hundredth-herwig
Contributors
Director: Paola Catapano
Producer: Jacques Herve Fichet
Text and Photographs: Kate Kahle, Corinne Pralavorio
Editor: Chetna Krishna
Mira is passionate about innovating responses to business and socio-economic challenges through technological innovation and digital transformation. In exploring what Responsible Quantum Computing entails, she is addressing the societal questions that arise with the development of useful Quantum Computing and Quantum-safe technologies.
Funded by the European Commission, HEARTS provides accelerated heavy ion beams in a laboratory setting, such that radiation effects in electronics, biological samples and shielding materials can be studied on Earth before embarking on a #space mission.
Recently, HEARTS welcomed the installation of a new LET booster in the CHARM facility at CERN that can modify the energy of the beam impacting a test sample by placing one or more plastic plates in the beam.
Find out more here: https://home.cern/news/news/knowledge-sharing/hearts-innovates-foster-european-access-space
Contributors
Director: Antoine Le Gall
Editor: Chetna Krishna
Music by Yinrui Yan
Robotic arm animation by GSI,
Space footage by ESA
Interviews by CERN
#CERNImpact #ValentinesDay #HorizonEurope #EUfunded
The event can also be followed with FRENCH interpretation here: https://webcast.web.cern.ch/event/i1372068
Find out more: https://www.home.cern/news/press-release/cern/cern-celebrates-70-years-scientific-discovery-and-innovation
#CERN70
Moderated by Clara Nellist
University of Amsterdam, Physicist ATLAS-LHC
Speakers:
Gian Francesco Giudice, CERN, Head of Theory Department
“Quantum Fields and Particles in the Universe”
David Gross, University of Santa Barbara California
2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics
“50 Years of Quantum Chromo Dynamics
Tara Shears, University of Liverpool, Physicist LHCb
“Antimatter”
Djuna Croon, Durham University, Theoretical Physicist
“Dark Matter”
Find out more: https://www.home.cern/news/press-release/cern/cern-celebrates-70-years-scientific-discovery-and-innovation
CERN was established after the Second World War by a handful of Europe’s leading scientists and diplomats with a mission to bring excellence in scientific research back to Europe and foster peaceful collaboration among nations. Today, CERN has 23 Member States, ten Associate Member States, and a vibrant community of 17 thousand people, representing more than 110 nationalities. With many mysteries of the fundamental nature of the Universe still to be unravelled, CERN is preparing to continue this inspiring journey of exploration.
We have put together a rich and beautiful programme to honour CERN’s contributions to scientific knowledge, technological innovation, and international collaboration over the past 70 years, culminating with an official ceremony on 1 October. From conversations with distinguished scientists to exhibitions showcasing CERN science and its people, to many public engagement initiatives at CERN, in Member States and Associate Member States, and beyond, there is something for everyone in this exciting programme.
Join us this year as we celebrate our glorious past and shape a bright future for CERN.
Correction: in minute 00:04, the person in the video is Swiss physicist Professor Paul Scherrer.
#CERN #CERN70
Contributors
Director: Jacques-Hervé Fichet