Category: Newsletter
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EDU group moves to CERN’s new Stakeholder Relations Office
EDU group moves to CERN's new Stakeholder Relations Office CERN recently launched the Stakeholder Relations Office, which will manage and sustain the Organization’s relationship with key audiences. Furthermore, it will take responsibility for the Organization’s reputation and ensure that CERN is “communicating optimally with everyone we care about and who cares about us” to use
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2014 CERN TH Winter School
2014 CERN TH Winter School CERN’s Winter School on Supergravity, Strings, and Gauge Theory is the analytic continuation of the yearly training school of the former EC-RTN string network “Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe”. The 2014 edition of the school took place from Monday February 3 to Friday February 7, at CERN.
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Rosalind McLachlan, a virtual artist exploring CERN
Rosalind McLachlan, a virtual artist exploring CERN “How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and
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25 years of Microelectronics at CERN: from LAA to the LHC
25 years of Microelectronics at CERN: from LAA to the LHC Last November, the success of the LAA R&D project that led to the development of microelectronics at CERN was celebrated. LAA was a well-defined R&D activity for the study of new detection techniques for the next generation of hadron-colliders that would reach the scale
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Letter from Sergio Bertolucci
Letter from Sergio Bertolucci Working with Philippe over the last five years has been a privilege and a pleasure. We had a pretty steep start in 2009, with the incident in the LHC forcing us to redefine our ambitions of early discoveries, with a non-LHC physics program that had been compressed close to extinction, and
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First beta release of ROOT 6
First beta release of ROOT 6 The ROOT team is proud to announce the first beta release of ROOT 6. This beta release is targeted at the LHC experiments' ongoing migration to ROOT 6. ROOT 6 is going to be a major update of the ROOT system. Notably the "good old" CINT C++ interpreter will
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First year of the LS1: a busy year for ALICE
First year of the LS1: a busy year for ALICE A very intense year for ALICE is coming to a close. The highly successful proton-lead run seems far in the past, although it actually took place at the beginning of this very year. The many interesting and unexpected results from this run have created a
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The new Geant4 release 10.0
The new Geant4 release 10.0 The new 2013 release of Geant4 is the first major release of the simulation toolkit since 2007. Release 10.0 incorporates many changes in almost all areas, including an evolved API for allowing efficient execution of simulation programs on modern parallel architectures, exploiting multi-threading with parallelisation at the event level. The
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The new ALICE Membership system
The new ALICE Membership system Catherine Decosse and Stefan Boettger have been collaborating closely with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) since the end of 2012 in order to create the new ALICE Membership system. The new system integrates, in an efficient way, functionalities in accordance with the requirements of the Run2 of
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Editorial – December 2013
Editorial – December 2013 Dear Colleagues 2013 has again been a great year. Let me thank all of you for your strong contribution and dedication to these successes. The future looks really bright! Time has come for me to pass the baton to Livio Mapelli and Roger Forty. It has been a great honour to