Sample records for cern heart days
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2003-01-01
14 & 15 OCTOBER 2003 The Medical Service and the Fire Brigade invite everyone working at CERN to participate in the above event. INFIRMARY 9 am to 16.30 pm Building 57, ground floor No need to book HEALTHY HEART? Evaluation of personal cardiac risks through the monitoring of: Blood pressure Cholesterol and sugar levels Body Mass Index ... and more Leaflets, information and advice concerning cardiac issues FIRE BRIGADE 9 to 12am - Building 65 Please book (limited to 15 people/day) FIRST AID COURSES What to do in a Cardiac Emergency (3 h. duration) Places are limited and on reservation only (15 people/day). To book, e-mail the Medical Services on: service.medical@cern.ch
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2003-01-01
14 & 15 OCTOBER 2003 The Medical Service and the Fire Brigade invite everyone working at CERN to participate in the above event. INFIRMARY 9 am to 16.30 pm Building 57, ground floor no need to book HEALTHY HEART? Evaluation of personal cardiac risks through the monitoring of: Blood pressure Cholesterol and sugar levels Body Mass Index ... and more Leaflets, information and advice concerning cardiac issues FIRE BRIGADE 9 to 12 am - Building 65 Please book (limited to 15 people/day) FIRST AID COURSES What to do in a Cardiac Emergency (3 h. duration) Places are limited and on reservation only (15 people/day). To book, e-mail the Medical Services on: service.medical@cern.ch
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2003-01-01
14 & 15 OCTOBER 2003 The Medical Service and the Fire Brigade invite everyone working at CERN to participate in the above event. INFIRMARY 9 am to 16.30 pm Building 57, ground floor HEALTHY HEART? ♥ Evaluation of personal cardiac risks through the monitoring of: Blood pressure Cholesterol and sugar levels Body Mass Index ... and more ♥ Leaflets, information and advice concerning cardiac issues FIRE BRIGADE 9 to 12am Building 65 FIRST AID COURSES ♥ What to do in a Cardiac Emergency (3 h duration) Places are limited and on reservation only (15 people / day) To book, E-mail the Medical Services on: service.medical@cern.ch
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2005-01-01
Do you have diabetes without knowing it? Following last year's successful campaign, the CERN Infirmary has organised two further diabetes prevention and screening days on 10th & 11th October 2005 from 9am to 4pm (INFIRMARY, Bldg 57, ground floor) open to everyone working on the CERN site who was unable to participate in 2004. Testing of blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar levels, Body Mass Index, etc. Information - documentation - personal and individual advice. Presence of a dietician from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. In cooperation with the NOVAE, DSR & AVENANCE restaurants Diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions in many countries and, if not diagnosed sufficiently early, can be a major cause of blindness and of heart and kidney disease, etc. Prevention is possible through screening and life-style changes such as improved dietary habits and regular physical exercise. Diabetes is not a serious condition in itself if it is diagnosed and treated early enough but it can have very serious consequences...
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2005-01-01
Do you have diabetes without knowing it? Following last year's successful campaign, the CERN Infirmary has organised two further diabetes prevention and screening days on 10th & 11th October 2005 from 9am to 4pm (INFIRMARY, Bldg 57, ground floor) open to everyone working on the CERN site who was unable to participate in 2004. Testing of blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar levels, Body Mass Index, etc. Information - documentation - personal and individual advice. Presence of a dietician from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. In cooperation with the NOVAE, DSR & AVENANCE restaurants. Diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions in many countries and, if not diagnosed sufficiently early, can be a major cause of blindness, heart and kidney disease, etc. Prevention is possible through screening and life-style changes such as improved dietary habits and regular physical exercise. Diabetes is not a serious condition in itself if diagnosed and treated early enough but it can have very serious consequences if und...
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Purcell, Andrew Robert
2015-01-01
The CERN openlab Open Day took place on 10 June, 2015. This was the first in a series of annual events at which research and industrial teams from CERN openlab can present their projects, share achievements, and collect feedback from their user communities.
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Burckhart, H; Schmid, P; Schuh, S
Celebrating its 50 years of existence, its achievements and to communicate its plans for the future, CERN is organizing an "Open Day" on Saturday 16 October 2004. This will be a major event for CERN's public relations; some 10000 visitors from near and far are expected to follow CERN's invitation. ATLAS has to, and will, play its role on this occasion. A small group of people (H. Burckhart, C. Potter, P. Schmid and S. Schuh) from the CERN ATLAS Team is acting as interface to CERN's organizing committee. This is all done in close collaboration with the ATLAS Outreach Coordinators. According to our present plans ATLAS will organize three visit sites: - The ATLAS "headquarters" will be in the future ATLAS control room at the pit. We shall show films (ATLAS specific and general HEP), distribute information material, sell our scarves, ties, T-shirts and watches, explain ATLAS in as many languages as we can and - most likely the major attraction - give the visitors the possibility to go down into the cavern. - ...
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CERN Open Days The LHC demystified!
2008-01-01
Lots of surprises are being planned for the CERN Open Days scheduled for 5 and 6 April (see 21 January edition of the Bulletin). Fred’s itinerary on 6 April 20089.00 a.m\tDeparture from SM12 at CERN (the pit down which all the LHC magnets were lowered into the tunnel)9.15 a.m. Saint-Genis theatre10.00 a.m.\tRoussillon communal hall in Crozet 10.50 a.m. La Chenaille communal hall in Echenevex 11.40 a.m. CMS Building SX5 at Cessy 2.30 p.m. La Forge communal hall in Versonnex 3.30 p.m. Le Levant communal hall in Ferney Voltaire4.40 Forum in Meyrin 5.30 p.m. Main Auditorium at CERN For instance, Fred, who fronts the French television programme "C’est pas sorcier" on France 3 will be taking part in the Open Day for the general public on Sunday, 6 April. He will be on board a CERN lorry carrying a 35 tonne 15 m long dipole magnet and will make halts at eight Swiss and French communes around the LHC Ring to meet the local inhabitants (see...
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2005-01-01
1 in 10 people suffer from hearing loss - do you? The Medical Service invites everyone working on the CERN site to participate in the NATIONAL HEARING DAY on: Thursday 10th March 2005 From 9am to 4pm The Infirmary, Blg. 57, Ground Floor We will be offering hearing tests (audiograms), as well as information and advice on hearing loss, tinnitus, etc. Deafness does not just affect the elderly: in Europe, 50% of the hearing-impaired are under the age of 55. Exposure to excessive noise is one of the main reasons for hearing problems but PREVENTION IS POSSIBLE. For example, hearing protection devices can prevent 80% of tinnitus cases.
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2005-01-01
1 in 10 people suffer from hearing loss - do you? The Medical Service invites everyone working on CERN premises to participate in the National Hearing Day on: Thursday 10th March From 9am to 4pm The Infirmary, Blg. 57, Gr.Fl. We will be offering hearing tests (audiogram); information, advice on hearing loss, tinnitus and more. Deafness does not just affect the elderly: in Europe, 50% the hearing-impaired are under the age of 55. Exposure to excessive noise is one of the main reasons for hearing loss. But PREVENTION IS POSSIBLE AND EFFECTIVE: for example, Hearing protection devices could reduce tinnitus cases by 80%.
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2005-01-01
1 in 10 people suffer from hearing loss - do you? The Medical Service invites everyone working on CERN premises to participate in the National Hearing Day on: Thursday 10th March From 9am to 4pm The Infirmary, Blg. 57, Gr.Fl. We will be offering hearing tests (audiogram); information, advice on hearing loss, tinnitus and more. Deafness does not just affect the elderly: in Europe, 50% the hearing-impaired are under the age of 55. Exposure to excessive noise is one of the main reasons for hearing loss. But prevention is possible and effective: for example, Hearing protection devices could reduce tinnitus cases by 80%.
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2005-01-01
1 in 10 people suffer from hearing loss ? do you? The Medical Service invites everyone working on the CERN site to participate in the NATIONAL HEARING DAY on: Thursday 10th March 2005 From 9am to 4pm The Infirmary, Blg. 57, Ground Floor We will be offering hearing tests (audiograms), as well as information and advice on hearing loss, tinnitus, etc. Deafness does not just affect the elderly: in Europe, 50% of the hearing-impaired are under the age of 55. Exposure to excessive noise is one of the main reasons for hearing problems but prevention is possible. For example, hearing protection devices can prevent 80% of tinnitus cases.
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CERN takes part in Expo.02's Geneva Day
2002-01-01
To mark Geneva's Day at Expo.02, everyone at CERN is invited to become an artist. On 26 July we will all be given the opportunity to take part in the creation of an artwork on the lawn by Restaurant No. 1. The sociologists, Ge.02 organisers and members of CERN at the discussion day held at CERN on 11 June. For the Geneva Day at Expo.02 on 14 September, the Canton of Geneva has decided to show Switzerland the many facets of its cultural life. The organisers of 'Ge.02' have chosen to experiment with the links between the communities of different nationalities living in Geneva, giving the event the subtitle 'De quoi GE me mêle'. Some thirty themes for Geneva have been identified, including relations between the various religions, the position of the elderly in a changing society and science in action at CERN. Each of these themes has been explored by a group of people of different cultural and social backgrounds, nicknamed the 'Ge.02 communities', which were formed over two years ago. A series of events ta...
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Open Days: information on CERN parking
2013-01-01
The organising team for the Open Days (28-29 September) would like to inform you that some parking sites in Meyrin and Prévessin will have to be kept free as of 18 September for the installation of tents and marquees. Next week, CERN Management will address parking concerns and give you more information on other parking possibilities. The Open Day organising team thanks you for your cooperation and apologises for any inconvenience.
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10 April 2014: Safety Day at CERN
Antonella Del Rosso
2014-01-01
A wide variety of chemicals is used every day in the different laboratories and workshops around CERN. Potentially toxic, corrosive, polluting or hazardous in other ways, these chemicals all have to be handled carefully, as we will be reminded by the Safety Day campaign to be held by the HSE Unit on 10 April to mark World Day for Safety and Health at Work. The use of chemicals at CERN is regulated by "Safety Regulation SR-C, Chemical Agents", which defines the minimum health and safety protection requirements for people exposed to the potentially hazardous effects of dangerous chemicals. This regulation is complemented by other Safety guides. Regretfully, despite strict procedures and regular inspections, accidents caused by the improper use of chemicals do occur every year. "Unfortunately, each year we see a small number of accidents related to the handling of chemicals," confirms chemicals expert Jonathan Gulley, who is a member of the Prevention and Sa...
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Andrew Purcell
2015-01-01
CERN openlab is the unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading companies in the field of information and communication technology. The programme is now entering an exciting new phase and is expanding to include other public research organisations for the first time. A special event will be held at CERN to mark this occasion. CERN openlab was created in 2001 and is now entering its fifth three-year phase (2015-2017). Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by the scientific community to control the operations of complex machines and to analyse the vast amounts of data produced by physics experiments. During Run 2 of the LHC, it is expected that the CERN Data Centre will store more than 30 petabytes of data per year from the LHC experiments, which is equivalent to about 1.2 million Blu-ray discs, or 250 years of HD video. Testing in this demanding environment provides the companies collaborating in CERN openlab with valuable feedback o...
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Burckhart, H.; Potter, C.; Schmid, P.; Schuh, S.
The CERN Open Day celebrating the 50th anniversary has been a big success. More than 30000 visitors came to discover CERN's activities at 50 different sites. ATLAS showed the assemblies in hall 180, the test-beam set-up in the North Area hall and - apparently one of the biggest attractions of all - the cavern and the control room at our pit. Technical Coordination put a lot of effort into preparing the visit itinerary at Point 1 and by operating both lifts during the entire day without interruption almost 4000 visitors got the chance to see this impressive hall and the first pieces of the detector already down there. Some people even waited for more than an hour to have their turn - they remained in good spirits also thanks to videos presented to them standing in the queue and guides explaining the site. What impressed visitors most was the sheer size of our detectors: an estimated 5000 people came to see the toroids and the LAr calorimeters in halls 180 and 191, where they could watch cosmic rays i...
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CERN openlab Open Day | 10 June
2015-01-01
CERN openlab is now entering an exciting new phase and is expanding to include other public research organisations for the first time. To mark this occasion, a first-of-its-kind ‘CERN openlab Open Day’ event will be held at CERN on 10 June 2015. CERN openlab is a unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading ICT companies. Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by CERN’s scientific community. The ‘CERN openlab Open Day’ event will take place in the Main Auditorium on 10 June and will be an opportunity to learn more about the work carried out through CERN openlab to help tackle the challenges faced by the scientific community. Find out more: http://indico.cern.ch/event/381083/
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CERN Open Days 2013, Point 6: Accelerator Systems
CERN Photolab
2013-01-01
Stand description: Each beam of protons that races around the Large Hadron Collider can contain as much energy as a French TGV train travelling at 150 km/hour. When it's time to shut the machine down, the Beam Dump System ensures that this energy is safely dissipated. In the tunnel at Point 6 you will be able to see the devices which form part of this system, as well as the blue LHC dipole magnets curving away into the distance. On surface no restricted access On the surface, you can explore a fascinating exhibition of equipment used in CERN's accelerators, with CERN engineers and physicists on hand all day to answer your questions. You will also see one of the cryogenics installations which keep the LHC at just few degrees above absolute zero and you can find out about the measures CERN has put in place to ensure safety and protect the environment.
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Open Days Guide: CERN, for a better life
CERN Bulletin
2013-01-01
At times, CERN research can seem rather “out there”. After all, how can this work possibly relate to daily life? So, let’s bring it back down to Earth with some real-life examples of CERN technology in action. A treatment room at the Italian centre for hadron therapy (CNAO). Image: CNAO. On the Open Days, visit these sites for a first-hand look at CERN’s important and innovative role in everyday technology: - The Knowledge Transfer (KT) visit point, where you will be introduced to hadron therapy, Positron Emission Tomography (PET), the Medicis project and Medipix. There, you will be able to see an immobilization mask, where patients are placed during hadron therapy treatment, as well as a “phantom” – a piece used to simulate the human body for radiobiology studies. (Map: A3). - Pôle Energie: Technologies developed for CERN accelerators have been used to design and build a high-tech solar thermal collector. Th...
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Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Podcasts
2009-09-01
For World Heart Day, learn more about what heart-healthy steps you can take in the workplace. Created: 9/1/2009 by National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP). Date Released: 9/9/2009.
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Cryogenic Ice Cream Days at CERN | 21-22 September 2016
2016-01-01
With the LHC being the world’s largest superconducting installation, it’s not surprising that CERN is a world leader in cryogenic safety. On 21 and 22 September, over 100 experts in cryogenic safety will be coming to CERN to take part in CERN’s first Cryogenic Safety Seminar, which aims to stimulate collaboration and further the state of the art in this increasingly important field. Come and learn more about the vital role played by CERN, and as the summer days start to fade, enjoy a taste of the deliciously light ice cream that results from rapid freezing with liquid nitrogen. *Building 500 lobby, 12:00-14:00 21 and 22 September*
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CERN birthplace of the World Wide Web relies on Day's Communiqué
2001-01-01
In close collaboration with CERN, Day developed a platform to enable interested research groups to integrate disparate data sources and to author content based on individual needs... Days Virtual Repository - The ContentBus - allows the integration of data sources and provides for the presentation of all work processes at CERN, from pure text to complex research data. With data procured in real time from the original location, it avoids data redundancy, insufficient scalability and unneccessary allocation of resources for constant data reconcilliation and additional database licenses.
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Highlights from the CERN/ESO/NordForsk ''Gender in Physics Day''
Primas, F.; Guinot, G.; Strandberg, L.
2017-03-01
In their role as observers on the EU Gender Equality Network in the European Research Area (GENERA) project, funded under the Horizon 2020 framework, CERN, ESO and NordForsk joined forces and organised a Gender in Physics Day at the CERN Globe of Science and Innovation. The one-day conference aimed to examine innovative activities promoting gender equality, and to discuss gender-oriented policies and best practice in the European Research Area (with special emphasis on intergovernmental organisations), as well as the importance of building solid networks. The event was very well attended and was declared a success. The main highlights of the meeting are reported.
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From the CERN Web: in theory, SuperKEKB, International Women’s Day and more
2016-01-01
This section highlights articles, blog posts and press releases published in the CERN web environment over the past weeks. This way, you won’t miss a thing... (Images: Silvia Biondi/ATLAS © CERN) ATLAS and CERN celebrate International Women’s Day 8 March – ATLAS Collaboration and Paola Catapano In honour of International Women’s Day, the ATLAS experiment shared the stories of seven women from the collaboration. “There are many misconceptions about our work as physicists,” says ATLAS physicist Reina Coromoto Camacho Toro. “Physics relates to everyday events but it still remains foreign to most people and this needs to change." CERN showcases some of the great women who have broken down barriers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through the six decades of CERN’s history. Continue to read here&...
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CERN Open Days 2013, Point 4: LHC Radio Frequency
CERN Photolab
2013-01-01
Stand description: At Point 4 visitors will descend into the LHC tunnel to see the "engine" of the collider: the accelerating cavities where the circulating particles get a small kick of energy as they pass by 11,000 times each second. During your visit underground, you will see the superconducting magnets as well as instruments for observing the beams. You will also walk through the huge cavern containing the Radio Frequency power plants which provide the particle beams with energy. On surface no restricted access Above ground, you will see the cryogenics installations which keep the accelerator at a just few degrees above absolute zero. Lots of fascinating information and exhibits about CERN's accelerators and experiments will be on display, with CERN engineers and physicists on hand all day to answer your questions.
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100th International Women’s Day Celebrated at CERN
Katarina Anthony
2011-01-01
In celebration of the 100th year of International Women’s Day on 8 March, a special colloquium looking at high energy physics from a gender studies perspective was held at CERN. Addressing a packed conference room, Helene Goetschel, a visiting gender studies researcher from Uppsala University, gave a presentation on a subject unfamiliar to most physicists: sociology. And more specifically, on the findings of gender researchers examining the field of high energy physics. “It was heartening to see so many CERN physicists interested in hearing how sociologists and historians see their community,” said Helene. “Examining our personal issues with gender is difficult, and I applaud anyone who takes an interest in the subject.” Helene Goetschel began her academic career in high-energy physics, but encountered a 'glass ceiling' in her work. In 1990, she decided to change the focus of her studies to the history of science – specifically looking ...
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CERN hosts the first day of the SMS Lake Geneva Conference on Strategic Management
Maximilien Brice
2013-01-01
CERN1 hosts the first day of a 3-day conference promoted by the Strategic Management Society, a non-profit organization operating exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes to promote and encourage research and practice in the field of strategic management.
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Sixty Days Remaining, Forty Years of CERN, Two Brothers, One Exclusive Interview
2001-01-01
Twins Marcel and Daniel Genolin while sharing memories of their CERN experiences, point out just how much smaller the Meyrin site once was. In a place such as CERN where the physical sciences are in many ways the essence of our daily lives and where technological advancement is an everyday occurrence, it is easy to lose track of the days, months, and even years. But last week twin brothers, Daniel and Marcel Genolin, hired in the early sixties and getting ready to end their eventful forty year CERN experiences, made it clear that the winds of time bluster past us whether we are aware or not. 'CERN was very small when we started' says Marcel, who has worked in transport during his entire time here. A lot has changed. 'When I got here there were no phones in peoples' houses' he recalls,'when there were problems in the control room with the PS (Proton Synchrotron) they used to get a megaphone and tell us {the transport service} to go and get the necessary physicists from their homes in the area. We had to lo...
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The GAC Committee
2004-01-01
Open Day To all CERN retired staff As part of the celebrations organised for the 50th anniversary of CERN, an Open Day will be held on Saturday 16 October 2004. Anyone willing to act as a guide, either to help and inform visitors at the reception points or to guide groups of visitors, sharing your knowledge with them, is invited to fill in the attached form. A preparatory meeting will be arranged for those who left CERN some time ago and whose knowledge of the site may no longer be quite up-to-date. The Open Day organisers need your help, which will be very much appreciated. We hope that many pensioners will participate. People with internet access may enrol directly without coming to CERN, http://www.cern.ch/CERN50/openday The GAC Committee OPEN DAY : CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS 16th October 2004 So now you are excited about the Open Day, how can you participate? As you can imagine, for such a large number of activities, we need many volunteers. Please return the following form to Elena Battis...
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Davis, Siona Ruth
2016-01-01
Themes: 1) You are here (location P5, Cessy) 2) CERN 3) LHC 4) CMS Detector 5) Magnet 6) Subdetectors (Tracker, ECAL, HCAL, Muons) 7) Trigger and Data Acquisition 8) Collaboration 9) Site Geography 10) Construction 11) Lowering and Installation 12) Physics
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Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)
Anon.
1984-11-15
September marked the 30th Anniversary of the coming into force of the Convention establishing the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). A formal ceremony, attended by the King of Spain, was the highlight of the celebrations. Throughout the month, an exhibition of many of the important documents from CERN's early history (including the original Convention, kindly loaned by UNESCO, with the signatures of representatives of the twelve founding States) was presented at CERN. A concert by the Geneva Orchestre de la Suisse Romande was given in CERN's honour. An Open Day at the Laboratory drew thousands of visitors. A full day's 'history seminar' enabled a team presently working on CERN history to consult with many of the pioneers.
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International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Anon.
1984-01-01
September marked the 30th Anniversary of the coming into force of the Convention establishing the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). A formal ceremony, attended by the King of Spain, was the highlight of the celebrations. Throughout the month, an exhibition of many of the important documents from CERN's early history (including the original Convention, kindly loaned by UNESCO, with the signatures of representatives of the twelve founding States) was presented at CERN. A concert by the Geneva Orchestre de la Suisse Romande was given in CERN's honour. An Open Day at the Laboratory drew thousands of visitors. A full day's 'history seminar' enabled a team presently working on CERN history to consult with many of the pioneers
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Open Days Guide for the CERN-savvy
Katarina Anthony
2013-01-01
Do you think you know your Laboratory? Been there, done that? Well then prepare to be proven wrong! The CERN sites are hosting some spectacular tours, demonstrations and events to surprise even the most well-versed of CERNois. Take a look. Do you have questions? We have the answers! If you’re heading straight for the Main Building on arrival, make sure to take a detour through the CERN Workshop (Map: B1). But be warned: this will be a long detour! Spread across six distinct areas, the CERN Workshop is the first-stop shop for accelerator and experiment prototypes. Welding, drilling, precision measurements, mechanical tests and even element design: it’s all done here. Technicians will be at work on dozens of machines and will be ready to answer your questions. It’s your chance to see detector components while they're still works-in-progress ( let us know if you spot any CLIC pieces! ) and to satisfy your inner “Bob the Builder”. Head...
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A day in the CERN Control Centre
Rosaria Marraffino
2015-01-01
The CERN Control Centre (CCC) is the nerve centre of the CERN beam systems. From this room, the experts prepare, monitor, adjust, and control the particle beams that circulate throughout the accelerator complex while ensuring that the services and the technical infrastructure work flawlessly. Buttons, screens, telephones, lights (but no sound): in the CCC, everything is ready to make it possible for the LHC to reach the unprecedented energies expected at Run 2. Seen from above, the CERN Control Centre resembles the shape of a quadrupole magnet. The consoles are distributed in four circles, called “islands”, dedicated to the LHC, the SPS, the PS Complex and the Technical Infrastructure (TI) respectively. Spread between TI and LHC are the Cryogenics consoles. Being in the same room allows the 24h-manned islands to be constantly in touch with one another, thus ensuring the best performance of the machines. At the LHC island, operators are currently busy training the magnet...
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Big Bang Day: The Making of CERN (Episode 1)
Lyn Evans; Francis Farley; Maria Fidecaro; Giuseppe Fidecaro; David S Coxill; Gunther Plass; James Gillies
2008-01-01
A two-part history of the CERN project. Quentin Cooper explores the fifty-year history of CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Switzerland. The institution was created to bring scientists together after WW2 .......
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See how people wished CERN a happy birthday with #MyCERN60
Kate Kahle
2014-01-01
In the run up to 29 September, the hashtag #MyCERN60 gave CERN people and CERN’s followers on social media the chance to wish CERN a happy 60th birthday. Here are some of the highlights. When tasked with wishing the European Laboratory for Particle Physics a happy 60th birthday, what would you do? Would you draw a picture? Bake a cake? #MyCERN60 on Twitter (EN, FR), Facebook, Google+ and social.cern.ch, gave people the opportunity to send a personal birthday greeting to the Organization. The results were heart-warming. Below is a selection of some of the messages received: Image credits: top left Sanam Ganjian via Google+, top right Rose Hannert via Twitter, middle left Anna P and Tina Nantsou via Facebook, middle right Francesco Palmonari via Twitter, bottom left Smita Darmora via Facebook, bottom middle Hannah McClow via Twitter, bottom right Katya Chong via Twitter. Croatian students from the "Fran Galović" Koprivnica school celebrating CERN...
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2002-01-01
Any trouble at CERN? The Technical Control Room operates the entire technical infrastructure of CERN every day, all year long. They deal with problems that go from simple water leaks to devastating power cuts. The Technical Control Room with Kenneth Olesen and Mark Harvey, minutes before their starting time. This big room is probably the liveliest at CERN, since there's always someone there, everyday, all year long. Laurent Randot and Eric Lienard working in the Technical Control Room at CERN in building 212. They've started at 7 a.m. and today has been a relatively quiet day. There have been some microcuts in the electric net because of the wind. But these have been repaired rather quickly... The relief: It's 2.30 p.m. Time for Laurent Randot and Eric Lienard to show their colleagues Mark Harvey and Kenneth Olesen what has been going on during the morning. They are the next TCR team of the day. Mark Harvey and Kenneth Olesen start their working day. They will work until 11p.m., when another team wil...
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Computer Security Team
2013-01-01
The Open Days are here!! From tomorrow onwards, we will be welcoming thousands of people to CERN. No barriers, no boundaries! For decades, we have welcomed researchers and visitors from around the world to work at CERN, discuss physics research and attend our training sessions, lectures and conferences. This is how fundamental research should be conducted!!! But have you ever noticed how you are welcome at CERN in the digital world, too? Once you are affiliated and are registered with CERN, you receive a CERN computing account and e-mail address. You can register your laptops, PCs and smartphones to use our (wireless) network, you can easily create your personal webpage, and profit from a vast disk space for file storage (AFS and DFS). CERN is indeed an Open Campus and not only during the Open Days. CERN is an Open Campus in the digital world. This digital Open Campus culture is exactly the reason why “computer security” has been dele...
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CERN Bulletin
2014-01-01
From 14 to 16 April, the first edition of the CERN Spring Campus took place in Spain. Taking place over three intensive days, this event brought experts from CERN together at the University of Oviedo, where they met the engineers and scientists of the future in a programme of scientific and technological dissemination and cultural exchange. The young participants of the first CERN Spring Campus and their instructors show their enthusiasm after the intensive three-day course. “This three-day school focuses on preparing young engineers for the job market, with a particular emphasis on computing,” explains Derek Mathieson, Advanced Information Systems Group Leader in the GS Department and Head of the CERN Spring Campus organising committee. “We organised talks on entrepreneurship and IT, as well as on job interviews and CV writing. It was also an important opportunity for the participants to meet CERN computing engineers to find out what it is like to work in I...
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CERN - at the heart of a network of excellence
2004-01-01
CERN's new Chief Scientific Officer, Jos Engelen, is looking forward to a diverse research programme for CERN, but not simply for diversity's sake. He sees the Laboratory playing an important role in the most challenging developments. In an interview this week, he told the Bulletin about his dreams for the coming five years.
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Maximilien Brice
2003-01-01
On 3 December the "tableau" on the 4th floor in building 30 indicated 1078 dipoles to completion - or in other words, 154 dipoles had by this day been delivered to CERN, enough to complete the first octant of the machine. CERN has also now received enough superconducting cable - the "heart" of the magnets - for 600 dipoles, nearly half the total number of 1232.
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Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)
Anon.
1991-06-15
On 22 April a forward-looking CERN also looked back for a day, when the 'SC-33' event reviewed the achievements of CERN's first machine, the 600 MeV SynchroCyclotron (SC), which closed down on 17 December after 33 years of valiant service.
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2004-01-01
Do you have diabetes without knowing it? The Medical Service invites everyone working at CERN to participate in the above PREVENTION and DETECTION campaign on the: 8 and 9 November 2004 from 9:00 to 16:00 at the infirmary, bldg. 57, ground floor Personal evaluation of diabetes risks, (blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar levels, Body Mass Index measurements and more...) will be offered as well as leaflets, information and advice, (diet, exercise). A dietician specialised in diabetes will be on hand from 14:00 until 16:00. Diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions in many countries due to an increase in obesity, sedentary lifestyles and poor diet. Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, cardio-vascular and kidney disease. An estimated 30-50% of these cases of diabetes go undetected, despite de fact that easy and efficient prevention exists. Diabetes discovered and treated early is not a severe condition but untreated and ignored it can have dire consequences.
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2004-01-01
Do you have diabetes without knowing it? The Medical Service invites everyone working at CERN to participate in the above PREVENTION and DETECTION campaign on the: 8 and 9 November 2004 from 9 am to 4 pm at the infirmary, bldg. 57, ground floor Personal evaluation of diabetes risks, (blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar levels, Body Mass Index measurements and more...) will be offered as well as leaflets, information and advice, (diet, exercise). A dietician specialised in diabetes will be on hand from 2 pm until 4 pm. Diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions in many countries due to an increase in obesity, sedentary lifestyles and poor diet. Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, cardio-vascular and kidney disease. An estimated 30-50% of these cases of diabetes go undetected, despite de fact that easy and efficient prevention exists. Diabetes discovered and treated early is not a severe condition but untreated and ignored it can have dire consequences.
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2005-01-01
From left to right: Maximilian Metzger, CERN's Secretary-General, Hermann Schunck, Director at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and Robert Aymar, CERN's Director-General, talking to Wolfgang Holler from Butting, one of the companies at the "Germany at CERN" exhibition. Far right : Susanne-Corinna Langer-Greipl from BMBF, delegate to the CERN Finance Committee. For three days, CERN's Main Building was transformed into a showcase for German industry. Twenty-nine companies from sectors related to particle physics (electrical engineering, vacuum and low temperature technology, radiation protection, etc.) were here for the ninth "Germany at CERN" exhibition, organised by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), which gave them the opportunity to meet scientists and administrators from the Laboratory. On 1 March the exhibition was visited by a German delegation headed by Dr Hermann Schunck, Director at BMBF.
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Metral, Elias; Biancacci, Nicolo; Buffat, Xavier; Carver, Lee Robert; Iadarola, Giovanni; Li, Kevin Shing Bruce; Persson, Tobias Hakan Bjorn; Romano, Annalisa; Schenk, Michael; Tambasco, Claudia; CERN. Geneva. ATS Department
2017-01-01
In this note the half-day internal review of LHC performance limitations (linked to transverse collective effects) during run II (2015-2016), which took place at CERN on 29/11/2016 (https://indico.cern.ch/event/589625/), is summarised and the next steps are discussed.
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Maximilien Brice
2010-01-01
The song was submitted to CERN Courier by Danuta Orlowska, a clinical psychologist with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London. It is written to be sung to the tune of The Hippopotamus Song, by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, which will be well known to many British readers. On 3 February, members of the CERN choir gathered to give a rendition in the CERN Control Centre – the nerve centre of the LHC, which lies at the heart of the lyrics.
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International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Anon.
1991-01-01
On 22 April a forward-looking CERN also looked back for a day, when the 'SC-33' event reviewed the achievements of CERN's first machine, the 600 MeV SynchroCyclotron (SC), which closed down on 17 December after 33 years of valiant service
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CERN's 50th anniversary open day attracts record number of visitors
Patrice Loiez
2004-01-01
Some of the biggest attractions were the huge detectors under construction for the Large Hadron Collider. Such tours helped the visitors gain a sense of the scale of CERN's work - and even those who already had some notion of CERN were awed by the gigantic detectors, caverns, and tunnels.
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Heart transplantation on the first day of life from an anencephalic donor.
Parisi, F; Squitieri, C; Carotti, A; Di Carlo, D; Gagliardi, M G
1999-05-01
Heart transplantation on the first day of life, and graft harvesting from anencephalic donors, have been very rare events in the history of transplantation. At Bambino Gesù Hospital (Rome), heart transplantation was performed on a newborn 9 h after birth, using a graft harvested from an anencephalic donor. This graft achieved a good cardiocirculatory function, but the recipient died of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) on post-operative day (POD) 10. Despite failure, this case and other reports support the concept that hearts from anencephalic donors can work normally, and indicate that heart transplantation on the first day of life may have a favorable outcome if postoperative maintenance of multi-organ balance and function is successful.
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Program 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course program in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE CERN EDMS Introduction (Français) 12.03 1 jour Sharepoint Collaboration Worskpace\t(Français) 17-18.03 2 jours CERN EDMS for Engineers (English) 20.03\t1 day CERN EDMS for Local Administrators (English) 27-28.03 1 day Word 2007: Short course I: HowTo. work with AutoTasks (Bilingual) 31.03 0.5 day/jour Word 2007: Short course II: HowTo mail merge (Bilingual)\t31.03\t0.5 day/jour Excel 2007: Short course III: How to pivot tables (Bilingual)\t01.04\t0.5 day/jour Excel 2007: Short course IV: How to link cells, worksheets and workbooks (Bilingual)\t01.04\t0.5 day/jour CERN EDMS MTF en pratique (Français)\t02.04\t1 jour In Design: Introduction (Français)\t07-08.04\t2 jours Windows VISTA (Français)\t...
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2004-01-01
To mark International Women's Day on 8 March, the Weekly Bulletin has looked at the careers of six female physicists, engineers and administrators working at CERN. A frequent question on the lips of newcomers to CERN as they take a quick look around them is 'But where are the women?' However, while it's true that the Laboratory has never had a huge number of female personnel, a closer look reveals that there are in fact quite a few around. To mark International Women's Day, the Bulletin has interviewed six women working at CERN to find out how they see the Organization, what they do and what they think about their daily working lives. Creating a link 'Maybe because I grew up during World War II, my parents always taught me to respect people of other nationalities, religions, colour, etc., so one thing I have always appreciated about CERN is that it promotes this tolerance and understanding by giving us the great privilege of working side by side with colleagues from many cultures and walks of life.' Pegg...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Program 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course program in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Office 2007 Novelties\t(English)\t03.03\t1 day Sharepoint designer / Frontpage, Niveau 2\t(Français) 06-07.03 2 jours CERN EDMS Introduction (Français) 12.03 1 jour Sharepoint Collaboration Worskpace\t(Français) 17-18.03 2 jours CERN EDMS for Engineers (English) 20.03\t1 day CERN EDMS for Local Administrators (English) 27-28.03 1 day Word 2007: Short course I: HowTo. work with AutoTasks (Bilingual) 31.03 0.5 day/jour Word 2007: Short course II: HowTo mail merge (Bilingual)\t31.03\t0.5 day/jour Excel 2007: Short course III: How to pivot tables (Bilingual)\t01.04\t0.5 day/jour Excel 2007: Short course IV: How to link cells, worksheets and workbooks (Bilingual)\t01.04\t0.5 day/jour CERN EDMS MTF en pratique (Français)\t02.04\t1 jour...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Program 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course program in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE CERN EDMS for Engineers (English) 20.03\t1 day CERN EDMS for Local Administrators (English) 27-28.03 2 days Word 2007: Short course I: HowTo. work with AutoTasks (Bilingual) 31.03 0.5 day/jour Word 2007: Short course II: HowTo mail merge (Bilingual)\t31.03\t0.5 day/jour Excel 2007: Short course III: How to pivot tables (Bilingual)\t01.04\t0.5 day/jour Excel 2007: Short course IV: How to link cells, worksheets and workbooks (Bilingual)\t01.04\t0.5 day/jour CERN EDMS MTF en pratique (Français)\t02.04\t0.5 jour Sharepoint Collaboration Worskpace\t(Français) 07-08.04\t2 jours Windows VISTA (Français)\t04.04\t1 jour CERN EDMS MTF in practice (English)\t09.04\t0.5 day Word 2007 : Niveau 1 ECDL (Français) ...
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Get all the official CERN holidays automatically added to your CERN mailbox calendar
CERN Mail Services
2013-01-01
A new tool has been created that makes it easy to check the official CERN holidays. These holidays will appear automatically in your calendar. Currently, to check the official CERN holidays, you had to consult either the CERN website or EDH. Now you can see these holidays in your CERN calendar together with absences, meetings and other events. To take advantage of this feature: add yourself as member of the e-group “holidays-to-calendar” here. You can also use this link. Your calendar will be updated the very next day.
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2004-01-01
http://www.cern.ch/cern50/ With 50 visit points, including theatre performances, debates and visits to installations that have never before been opened to the public, CERN's 50th anniversary Open Day is set to be a day to remember. Seven hundred volunteers have signed up to help for the day. The Open Day team truly appreciates this wonderful show of support! The Open Day would not be possible without their help. Car parking and Access Cars with a CERN sticker can access all CERN sites as normal. However, to avoid congestion on Meyrin site, we ask you to park in areas that will not be open to the public (see below) and to use the shuttle services wherever possible for your transport during the day. Private cars on the French side of the border without a CERN sticker will be diverted to a car park area in the Prévessin site. There is a shuttle service connecting the Meyrin and Prévessin sites via SM18 every 20 minutes. Private cars on the Swiss side of the border without a CERN sticker will be diverte...
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2004-01-01
At the end of June, nine experts from UK industry visited CERN to study techniques for developing distributed computing systems and to look at some specific applications. In a packed three-day programme, almost 40 CERN experts presented a comprehensive survey of achievements.
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Cern-Grid besteht Belastungsprobe
2005-01-01
In the European Center for Nuclear Research, CERN, in Geneva the Grid Computing infrastructure's building took a further hurdle: between CERN and seven Research Centers around the World, during 10 days, a continuous flow of about 600 MByte was achieved (¼ page)
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Program 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course program in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Office 2007 Novelties (English) – 03.03 - 1 day Sharepoint designer / Frontpage, Niveau 2 – (Français) - 06-07.03 - 2 jours CERN EDMS Introduction (Français) - 12.03 - 1 jour Sharepoint Collaboration Worskpace (Français) - 17-18.03 - 2 jours CERN EDMS for Engineers (English) - 20.03 - 1 day CERN EDMS for Local Administrators (English) - 27.03 - 1 day Word 2007: Short course I: HowTo. work with AutoTasks (Bilingue/Bilingual) - 31.03 – 0.5 day/jour Word 2007: Short course II: HowTo mail merge (Bilingue/Bilingual) - 31.03 – 0.5 day/jour Excel 2007: Short course III: How to pivot tables (Bilingue/Bilingual) - 01.04 - 0.5 day/jour Excel 2007: Short course IV: How to link cells, worksheets and workbooks (Bilingue/Bilingual) - 01.04 -...
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PREDICE score as a predictor of 90 days mortality in patients with heart failure
Purba, D. P. S.; Hasan, R.
2018-03-01
Hospitalization in chronic heart failure patients associated with high mortality and morbidity rate. The 90 days post-discharge period following hospitalization in heart failure patients is known as the vulnerable phase, it carries the high risk of poor outcomes. Identification of high-risk individuals by using prognostic evaluation was intended to do a closer follow up and more intensive to decreasing the morbidity and mortality rate of heart failure.To determine whether PREDICE score could predict mortality within 90 days in patients with heart failure, an observational cohort study in patients with heart failure who were hospitalized due to worsening chronic heart failure. Patients were in following-up for up to 90 days after initial evaluation with the primary endpoint is death.We found a difference of the significantstatistical between PREDICE score in survival and mortality group (p=0.001) of 84% (95% CI: 60.9% - 97.4%).In conclusion, PREDICE score has a good ability to predict mortality within 90 days in patients with heart failure.
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CERN Open Days 2013, Point 1 - ATLAS: ATLAS Experiment
CERN Photolab
2013-01-01
Stand description: The ATLAS Experiment at CERN is one of the largest and most complex scientific endeavours ever assembled. The detector, located at collision point 1 of the LHC, is designed to explore the fundamental components of nature and to study the forces that shape our universe. The past year’s discovery of a Higgs boson is one of the most important scientific achievements of our time, yet this is only one of many key goals of ATLAS. During a brief break in their journey, some of the 3000-member ATLAS collaboration will be taking time to share the excitement of this exploration with you. On surface no restricted access The exhibit at Point 1 will give visitors a chance to meet these modern-day explorers and to learn from them how answers to the most fundamental questions of mankind are being sought. Activities will include a visit to the ATLAS detector, located 80m below ground; watching the prize-winning ATLAS movie in the ATLAS cinema; seeing real particle tracks in a cloud chamber and discussi...
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Successful heart transplant after 1374 days living with a total artificial heart.
Gerosa, Gino; Gallo, Michele; Bottio, Tomaso; Tarzia, Vincenzo
2016-04-01
The CardioWest Total Artificial Heart (CW-TAH) has been approved as a temporary device for bridge to cardiac transplantation and is under investigation for destination therapy by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). We herein report the longest worldwide survival out of hospital (1374 days) of a patient supported with Cardio West Total Artificial Heart (CW-TAH). This experience is intended as a proof of concept of using CW-TAH as the destination therapy in patients with biventricular failure. © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.
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CERN Services Availability during the CERN Annual Closure 2011
IT & GS Departments
2011-01-01
General Services: Most of the services provided by the GS Department that do not depend on continuous human presence will remain available during the CERN annual closure. Support levels are reduced during this period, in general the target reaction time for problems will be ½ day. Apart from the heating system, no interruptions are scheduled. In case of failure, the reaction time for restoration of services depends on the arrangements that have been made on a service by service level. Incidents will be documented at http://gssb.web.cern.ch/ For more detailed information please consult the service-portal (http://cern.ch/service-portal). Computing Services Most of the services provided by the IT Department - including WLCG production services - will remain available during the CERN annual closure. No interruptions are scheduled but in case of failure, the restoration of services cannot be guaranteed. Problems will be dealt with on a best effort basis only. However, please note: Experts shoul...
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Katarina Anthony
2011-01-01
CERN was especially featured at the Lift11 conference, held in Geneva early this month. Tara Shears delivered a keynote speech at the event, while Paul Oortman Gerlings (DGS-SEE) and Erik van der Bij (BE-CO) – winners of the Bulletin’s Lift11 competition – organised the CERN workshop. Paul Oortman Gerlings takes questions at CERN's Lift11 workshop. Lift11 was an opportunity for CERN to reach today’s innovators and developers. “The event was filled with people eager to learn new ideas, who were not afraid to ask questions,” says Tara Shears, physicist from the LHCb Collaboration who presented an update on the status of the LHC. “People were amazed by what goes on inside CERN, by our science, our facilities – even by the way we carry out our day-to-day work. It is a branch of fundamental research that really seems to inspire everyone.” A small Lift11 group had the chance to take a tour of CERN, ...
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The LHC Physics Centre at CERN
CERN Bulletin
2010-01-01
Although raw physics data is produced at CERN, thanks to the GRID its analysis is performed in various institutes worldwide. In addition, workshops, conferences and meetings take place all over the world. The physicist community is decentralized, and CERN must continue to provide intellectual leadership. The LHC Physics Centre is the tool that will make this possible. Until the early days of LEP, a large part of the scientific activity related to CERN’s experiments was strongly centered at the Laboratory. Few places had the infrastructure to host activities such as the working groups preparing the Yellow Reports, and the limited access to information in the pre-web era made CERN the natural place to learn what was happening in the field. “I remember the days when we, the theorists, would come to CERN just to read the most recent preprints, which were reaching CERN's Library before we could get them in our institutes”, says Michelangelo Mangano, a member of the Theo...
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Sophie Louise Hetherton
2014-01-01
Created by filmmaker Liz Mermin, a new YouTube series puts the spotlight on CERN people. This set of short films offers new insight into the daily lives of CERN physicists. The new online video series, CERN people, takes you behind the headlines of some of the biggest physics breakthroughs of our time, capturing the invention and discovery in the lives of CERN’s scientists. “CERN offered a fascinating blend of people from so many different backgrounds combined with exciting and groundbreaking physics,” says filmmaker Liz Mermin. “So, my aim was to show the real-life characters – the ones that stay up all night analysing data and tweaking the code for the experiments – and communicate their passion for particle physics.” The films give a first-hand experience of what it’s like day-to-day at CERN by showing the ups and downs of working at the frontier of modern science. For the participants, it was an excellent opport...
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International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Anon.
1983-01-01
On 30 August CERN turned aside from its usual day-to-day preoccupations when Director-General Herwig Schopper played host to the Dalai Lama of Tibet and his entourage during the holy man's 1983 visit to Europe. In welcoming his visitor, Professor Schopper stressed the role of particle physics in helping to understand man's place in the cosmos, and how the Dalai Lama's interest would further the interrelation of science, philosophy and religion. The Dalai Lama visited the UA 1 experiment (rolled back into its 'garage' during the present fixed target operations at CERN) and the large installations for the neutrino experiments in the West Area of the SPS machine. There was an intriguing exchange of views with CERN theorists, who described how science has continually modified our view of the world around us
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Is 30-Day Mortality after Admission for Heart Failure an Appropriate Metric for Quality?
Faillace, Robert T; Yost, Gregory W; Chugh, Yashasvi; Adams, Jeffrey; Verma, Beni R; Said, Zaid; Sayed, Ibrahim Ismail; Honushefsky, Ashley; Doddamani, Sanjay; Berger, Peter B
2018-02-01
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) model for publicly reporting national 30-day-risk-adjusted mortality rates for patients admitted with heart failure fails to include clinical variables known to impact total mortality or take into consideration the culture of end-of-life care. We sought to determine if those variables were related to the 30-day mortality of heart failure patients at Geisinger Medical Center. Electronic records were searched for patients with a diagnosis of heart failure who died from any cause during hospitalization or within 30 days of admission. There were 646 heart-failure-related admissions among 530 patients (1.2 admissions/patient). Sixty-seven of the 530 (13%) patients died: 35 (52%) died during their hospitalization and 32 (48%) died after discharge but within 30 days of admission; of these, 27 (40%) had been transferred in for higher-acuity care. Fifty-one (76%) died from heart failure, and 16 (24%) from other causes. Fifty-five (82%) patients were classified as American Heart Association Stage D, 58 (87%) as New York Heart Association Class IV, and 30 (45%) had right-ventricular systolic dysfunction. None of the 32 patients who died after discharge met recommendations for beta-blockers. Criteria for prescribing angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, and mineralocorticoid receptor blockers were not met by 33 of the 34 patients (97%) with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction not on one of those drugs. Fifty-seven patients (85%) had a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) status. A majority of heart failure-related mortality was among patients who opted for a DNR status with end-stage heart failure, limiting the appropriateness of administering evidence-based therapies. No care gaps were identified that contributed to mortality at our institution. The CMS 30-day model fails to take important variables into consideration. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2009 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE CERN EDMS – Introduction\t(English)\t05.06\t1 day Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(Français)\t08-09.06\t2 jours Excel 2007 (Short Course I) –HowTo…Work with formulae (Bilingual)\t11.06\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course II) – HowTo…Format your worksheet for printing\t(Bilingual)\t11.06\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course III) – HowTo…Pivot Tables\t(Bilingual)\t12.06\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course IV) – HowTo…Link cells, worksheets and workbook\t(Bilingual)\t12.06\t0.5 jour/day Word 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t15-16.06\t2 jours CERN EDMS for Local Administrators\t(English)\t16-17.06\t2 days EXCEL 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t18-19.06\t2 jours EXCEL 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(English)\t25-26.06\t2 days CERN EDMS ...
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CERN Technical Training: Open Courses (July 2007)
2007-01-01
The following course sessions are currently scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2007: Automate de Sécurité (French): -> POSTPONED > from 9 to 11 October 2007 ! 10.7.-12.7.2007 (3 days, full) JCOP - Joint PVSS - JCOP Framework 09.07-12.07.2007 (5 days, full) CERN - EDMS - Introduction 10.07.2007 (1 day, 5 places available) Oracle - HTML DB 2.0: Develop Web Applications (English): 11.7.-13.7.2007 (3 days, 5 places available) Technique du vide (French): 11.7.-12.7.2007 (2 days, full) ANSYS - Classical (French) 16.7.-20.7.2007 (5 days, 2 places available) CERN - EDMS - MTF en pratique 17.07.2007 (1 day, 7 places available) Oracle - Programming with PL/SQL (English): 17.7.-19.7.2007 (3 days, 1 place available) WORD 2007 - Niveau 1 ECDL 24.7.-25.7.2007 (2 days, 8 places available) Introduction to Databases and Database Design (English) 24.7.-25.7.2007 (2 days, 3 places available) Technique du vide (French): 24.7.-25.7.2007 (2 days, 6 place...
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Sébastien Dellabella
2012-01-01
Consolidating phonebooks at CERN We have had many phonebooks in the past, Xwho (now decommissioned), the NICE phonebook on Windows PCs, and more recently the web site people.cern.ch. However, diversity doesn’t always equate to improved efficiency or quality. So in order to reduce the maintenance effort and to improve the user experience, we have consolidated these various phonebooks into a single web application: phonebook.cern.ch Motivations for change The NICE Phonebook was introduced in the year 2000 when Windows 95 was the major desktop platform. Since then, a lot has changed not only in technology and the desktop landscape but also in the variety of devices used to access the data (notably smartphones and tablets). Updating the NICE phonebook is slow. Once the master database is modified it can take up to two days for the data to propagate to the application. Thus, we are now planning the retirement of the NICE phonebook application. The new Phonebook.cern.ch The new phonebook.cern.ch...
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Staff Association
2016-01-01
In 1961, based on the finding that the evolution of the labour market created a growing need for qualified staff, a first agreement between the Republic and Canton of Geneva and CERN was signed. One of the objectives of this agreement was the vocational training of young electronics and physics laboratory technicians. CERN, an important stakeholder in the local economy, highlighted with this agreement its willingness to participate in the local social and economic development. The first apprentice arrived at CERN in 1965. In 1971, the apprenticeship centre was created; it now hosts over twenty apprentices in total and welcomes about six new apprentices each year. These apprenticeships are for young people aged between 15 and 21 years, coming from one of the CERN Member States, and having completed their mandatory education, e.g. 11th grade in Switzerland or 3ème in France. The training is divided between working time at CERN and one or two days per week at school (CFPT in Geneva for electronics or ...
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2007-01-01
The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, in the ATLAS cavern with, from left to right, Peter Jenni, ATLAS Spokesman, Vivian Heyl, CONICYT President, and Robert Aymar, CERN Director-General. Robert Aymar, CERN Director-General, and Vivian Heyl, CONICYT President, signing a cooperation agreement between CERN and Chile’s Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT).The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, paid a visit to CERN during her three-day tour of Switzerland. The charismatic Michelle Bachelet and her large delegation were greeted by the CERN Director-General and then taken to see the ATLAS experiment and the LHC. She also took time to meet the Chilean community working at CERN, comprising several physicists in the Theory Group and the ATLAS experiment. The meeting was followed by the signing of a cooperation agreement between CERN and Chile’s Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científi...
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Academic Training: Joint ILIAS-CAST-CERN Axion Training at CERN
Françoise Benz
2005-01-01
2005-2006 ACADEMIC TRAINING PROGRAMME 30 November, 1 and 2 December PLACE - DETAILS: http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a056218 Joint ILIAS-CAST-CERN Axion Training at CERN The ILIAS (Integrated Large Infrastructure for Astroparticle Science) is co-organising a 3 day academic training session together with the CAST collaboration and the CERN Academic Training Programme on physics related to axion research, including open discussions between theorists and experimentalists. The intention of the lectures is to provide academic training for scientists engaged in axion research and to facilitate the often missing link between experiment and theory with the aim of encouraging young researchers to communicate with experts in the field. The lectures include topics which are not regularly covered by standard lectures at universities and should lead to a deeper understanding of the physics related to axions, which covers a broad field from QCD to astrophysics and cosmology. There will be an opportunity for ...
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News regarding Mobility at CERN
2016-01-01
CERN Bikes CERN owns a fleet of more than 500 bikes, managed by the Mobility Centre (bdg. 6167). Members of CERN personnel (MPE and MPA) can use these free of charge during work-related activities at CERN (a security deposit is requested). Between 1st of June to 30th September anyone, except Summer Students, who wish to benefit from this service shall pay 1 CHF per day. As from the 1st of August, the CERN bike rental requests are done via the Service Now (SNOW) Portal. For more information, please consult: http://cern.ch/bike-rental. CERN Cars More than 60 vehicles are available for rent by members of personnel (MPE and MPA) at the Mobility Center (bdg. 6167). As from the 5th of September you can submit reservation requests via the new EDH Car Rental Request document. As a reminder, the Terms of Use are the following: Operational Circular n° 4 (rev.1), governing the use of CERN vehicles; Any use of the service must be authorised by the concerned Head of Department or Team Leader...
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Parking regulations on the CERN sites
General Infrastructure Services Department
2010-01-01
The site surveillance service is also responsible for supervising compliance with the parking regulations on the CERN site. In that context, it ensures that the following rules are complied with on the CERN car park: Vehicles may not be left on a CERN car park for longer than 5 consecutive working days. However, CERN users are entitled to leave their vehicles parked at CERN for a longer period in the car park near Building 588 , subject to completing the application form "Demande d'autorisation pour un stationnement de longue durée" (application for a long-term parking permit) and sending it to the Reception and Access Control Service (access.surveillance@cern.ch) prior to departure. Parking spaces, which are in short supply in many crowded areas of the CERN site, must not be occupied by abandoned vehicles/wrecks. The service organizes the disposal of such vehicles. Any CERN users wishing to get rid of a private vehicle parked on one of the CERN car pa...
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2002-01-01
Members of Parliament from the Islamic Republic of Iran visit SM18. From left to right : Ali Mojtahed-Shabestari, Deputy Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Geneva, Diether Blechschmidt, from CERN, Abdol-Rahim Baharvand and Hossain Amiri, from the Iranian Parliament, Norbert Siegel, from CERN, Hossain Afarideh, Rasool Seddighi and Ahmad Shirzad from the Iranian Parliament. Five members of the Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran visited CERN for three days at the beginning of May. All of them have PhD's in Physics, as well as holding their job in politics. They are involved in legislation for science, research and education funding in Iran. Apart from their interest in CERN in general, they were especially attracted to the CMS detector, since an Iranian contribution to the LHC is now starting through a collaboration with the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics in Tehran.
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Teachers come to learn at CERN!
Patrice Loïez
2003-01-01
PhysicsTeachers@CERN is an annual three-day meeting at CERN for teachers from all over Europe. The programme includes seminars, visits and educational activities. It is designed to give physics teachers new insights into contemporary particle physics. The fifty participants in the 2003 meeting, which took place from 21 to 23 February, are pictured in the garden adjoining Microcosm, CERN's on-site science centre.
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The CERN Data Centre readies for Run 2
Katarina Anthony
2015-01-01
While the world waits for Run 2 data with growing anticipation, the CERN Data Centre is battening down the hatches. Run 2 is set to see a significant increase in the amount of data produced by the LHC experiments, with more than one hundred additional petabytes expected over the next three years. How will CERN manage this flood of results? The Bulletin checks in with the IT Department to find out... The CERN Data Centre: the heart of CERN's entire scientific, administrative, and computing infrastructure. With every second of run-time, gigabytes of data will come pouring into the CERN Data Centre to be stored, sorted and shared with physicists worldwide. To cope with this massive influx of Run 2 data, the CERN Data and Storage Services group focused on three areas: speed, capacity and reliability. First on the list, the group set out to increase the rate at which they could store data. "During Run 1, we were storing 1 gigabyte-per-second, with the occasional peak of 6 giga...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Program 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course program in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). CERN EDMS for Local Administrators (English) 27-28.03 2 days Excel 2007: Short course III: How to pivot tables (Bilingual)\t01.04\t0.5 day/jour Excel 2007: Short course IV: How to link cells, worksheets and workbooks (Bilingual)\t01.04\t0.5 day/jour CERN EDMS MTF en pratique (Français)\t02.04\t0.5 jour Windows VISTA (Français)\t04.04\t1 jour Sharepoint Collaboration Worskpace\t(Français) 07-08.04\t2 jours CERN EDMS MTF in practice (English)\t09.04\t0.5 day Word 2007 : Niveau 1 ECDL (Français) 10-11.04\t2 jours Indico - Meeting Organization\t(Français)\t18.04\t1 day Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t18.04\t1 day Word 2007: Niveau 2 ECDL\t(Français)\t28-29.04\t2 jours Excel 2007 – Niveau 2 ECDL (Français)\t05-06.05\t2 jours In Design: Introduct...
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Maximilien Brice
2005-01-01
PhysicsTeachers@CERN is a three day conference for high school teachers. It is a great opportunity to meet colleagues from other countries and keep up-to-date with today's physics. The conference is designed to provide a valuable experience for high school physics teachers and give them new insights into contemporary particle physics. The conference is open to physics teachers from all CERN member states.
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2008-01-01
From 19 to 23 May, the IT-CO Group will be organising the first "Poster forum" at CERN on the theme of process control. Process control lies at the heart of numerous conferences across the world in which CERN takes an active part. Many posters have been produced, and these deserve to be presented to everybody in order to give value to, share and derive maximum benefit from the software, tools and methods developed and used at CERN in this field. This initiative will also allow each group, section and member of the personnel to present their work to others at the Laboratory. The forum will take place from 19 to 23 May in the main hall of Building 500, leading to Restaurant No. 1, on the Meyrin site. To stimulate discussions and exchanges, the authors will be in attendance by their posters on Thursday 22 May between 12 noon and 2.00 p.m. Interested? If you wish to take part and present your work, please contact mathias.philippe.dutou...
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Spaceflight participant visits CERN!
Kathryn Coldham
2016-01-01
On 15 July, CERN welcomed spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari. Anousheh Ansari’s grin stretches from ear to ear, during an intriguing conversation with Nobel laureate Samuel C.C. Ting at AMS POCC. (Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN) Iranian-American Anousheh Ansari was the first-ever female spaceflight participant, spending eight days on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2006. She now has a new addition to her list of extraordinary sights – the home of the world’s largest particle accelerator: CERN. On 15 July, Anousheh Ansari came to CERN and, unsurprisingly, visited the control room of the experiment attached to the ISS: the AMS. At the AMS Payload Operations Control Centre (AMS POCC) on CERN’s Prévessin site, she met the Nobel laureate Samuel Ting, spokesperson of the AMS experiment. Ansari and her accompanying guests were thrilled to expand their knowledge about CERN, its research and its...
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Cern Golf Club
2014-01-01
The Cern Golf Club Members are here with invited to the: Annual General Meeting which takes place Wednesday evening the 5th February 2014 at 18h00 in the Conference room in bldg 13-2-005. A committee member will be at CERN gate B, 17h50 and accompany “external” CGC members to the conference room. Agenda: 1. President’s report 2. Treasurer’s report 3. Election of the Committee for 2014 4. Election of Auditors 5. Draft schedule for 2014 CGC-competitions and other events 6. “Corpo” report 7. Proposals and any other business Please forward any proposals (to any of the committee members) you have, including candidature for the 2014 committee minimum three days in advance before the meeting. Cern Golf Club Les membres de club de golf de CERN sont invités à l’Assemblée Géné...
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CERN Industrials Exhibitions - Over 30 Years of Tradition
2001-01-01
Industrial exhibitions have been part of the CERN landscape for 33 years. At least once each year several companies from the same country come to CERN to present their products and services. Now, a new scheme of one-day visits is giving potential exhibitors at CERN a lighter option. The United Kingdom inaugurated the Industrial Exhibitions in 1968, and it wasn't till 1971 that other countries staged exhibitions at CERN. This photo was taken in 1969, at the second British exhibition, where 16 companies were present. Four years after joining CERN, Poland inaugurated its first exhibition at CERN in 1995 in the presence of the former Director-General Chris Llewellyn-Smith. Almost all the Member States have held industrial exhibitions at the Organization. May '68 wasn't only revolutionary in Paris. For the very first time, an industrial exhibition took place at CERN. Great Britain was first to come with eight companies and remains until this day the most devoted country to the programme with 17 exhibitions and ...
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Nursery School
2016-01-01
Registration for the CERN SA Day-camp are open for children from 4 to 6 years old From March 14 to 25 for children already enrolled in CERN SA EVE and School From April 4 to 15 for the children of CERN members of the personnel (MP) From April 18 for other children More information on the website: http://nurseryschool.web.cern.ch/. The day-camp is open to all children. An inscription per week is proposed, cost 480.-CHF/week, lunch included The camp will be open weeks 27, 28, 29 and 30, from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. For further questions, thanks you for contacting us by email at Summer.Camp@cern.ch.
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CERN hosts training event on international management
2007-01-01
CERN held its first training event on international management at the Globe on 2 October, sharing its expertise with high-level Swiss managers as part of their year-long part-time executive training programme on advanced management. CERN is often talked about in terms of impressive statistics: the coldest place in the universe, the largest accelerator, the greatest volume of data. Whilst the science is undeniably remarkable, it is backed by a management infrastructure that has to be as cutting-edge as the research it supports. On 2 October, the Learning and Development section of HR organised an event for 60 delegates to come to CERN to learn about international management from those who have taken on the management challenges at the heart of this unique institution. It was the first time that CERN had prepared such an event. SKU, a non-profit organisation, approached our management training team to arrange the event as part of a wee...
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UK semiconductor tracker parts head for CERN
Holland, Colin
2005-01-01
The last of the 4 barrels that make up the central part of the Semiconductor Tracker (SCT), the heart of the biggest physics collaboration in the world have left Oxford for its new home at the European Particle Physics Laboratory, CERN, near Geneva
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2009 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Word 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t15-16.06\t2 jours CERN EDMS for Local Administrators\t(English)\t16-17.06\t2 days EXCEL 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(English)\t25-26.06\t2 days CERN EDMS for Engineers\t(English)\t26.06\t1 day Office 2007 – Novelties\t(French)\t29.06\t1 day Novelties of Excel 2007\t(Français)\t30.06\t1 jour EXCEL 2007 – level 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t06-7.07\t2 jours Indico – Meeting Organization\t(English)\t07.07\t2 hours Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t07.07\t3 hours CERN EDMS MTF in practice\t(Français)\t08.07\t3.5 heures SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES Web Applications with Oracle Application Express (APEX) 3.2\t(English)\t16-19.06\t4 days JCOP – Finite State Machines in the JCOP...
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12th CERN-Fermilab Hadron Collider Physics Summer School
2017-01-01
CERN and Fermilab are jointly offering a series of "Hadron Collider Physics Summer Schools", to prepare young researchers for these exciting times. The school has alternated between CERN and Fermilab, and will return to CERN for the twelfth edition, from 28th August to 6th September 2017. The CERN-Fermilab Hadron Collider Physics Summer School is an advanced school targeted particularly at young postdocs and senior PhD students working towards the completion of their thesis project, in both Experimental High Energy Physics (HEP) and phenomenology. Other schools, such as the CERN European School of High Energy Physics, may provide more appropriate training for students in experimental HEP who are still working towards their PhDs. Mark your calendar for 28 August - 6 September 2017, when CERN will welcome students to the twelfth CERN-Fermilab Hadron Collider Physics Summer School. The School will include nine days of lectures and discussions, and one free day in the middle of the period. Limited scholarship ...
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CERN moves to http://home.cern
2015-01-01
A new top-level domain for CERN will be inaugurated next week, with the migration of the core website to http://home.cern. The new home.cern webpage. The .cern top-level domain is intended for the exclusive use of CERN and its affiliates, and will soon be open for applications from within the community. Clear governance mechanisms for registration and management of .cern domains have been put in place. Applications for domains may be submitted by current members of the CERN personnel, and must be sponsored by a CERN entity such as a department, experiment, project or CERN-recognised experiment. For more information please refer to the registration policy. The acquisition of the .cern top-level domain was negotiated via ICANN’s new gTLD programme by a board comprising members of the CERN Legal Service, Communications group and IT department. .cern is one of over 1,300 new top-level domains that will launch over the coming months and years. The .cern domain nam...
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Member State Event: Telling CERN's Story
2004-01-01
As part of the events to mark the Laboratory's fiftieth anniversary, members of the CERN personnel are telling the story of CERN. Robert Cailliau (on the right of the photograph), co-inventor of the Web and currently responsible for CERN's external communications, and Chiara Mariotti (in the center), a physicist working at CMS, were invited to talk about the history of CERN and the Web at a conference in the 'Science Thursdays' series entitled 'From the Quark to the Web' in Turin on 26 February. This was not their first appearance before a non-specialist audience (almost 1000 people that day!) eager to find out what goes on in a unique research centre like CERN as talking about the Laboratory's activities and its history are part and parcel of their work for the Organization. Anniversary Events in the Member States: This 'Science Thursday' event devoted to CERN was one of Italy's contributions to CERN's fiftieth anniversary celebrations. Coming up soon in the Member States: Italy International Centre...
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CERN Technical Training: Open Places for September 2007 Courses
2007-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2007. You may find the full Technical Training course program in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=300 ) or in next weeks paper bulletin. OFFICE SOFTWARE Introduction to Dreamweaver MX (French): 3.9.-4.9.2007 (2 days, places available) CERN EDMS MTF en pratique (French): 4.9.2007 – 9:00-12:30 (1/2 day, places available) Word 2007 (Short Course III) – How to work with long documents (Bilangue): 14.9.2007 – 14:00-17:30 (1/2 day, places available) Word 2007 Niveau 1 (French): 20.9.-21-9.2007 (2 days, places available) ACCESS 2007 – Level 1: ECDL (English): 20.9.-21.9.2007 – 9:00-17:30 (2 days, places available) Excel 2007 (Short Course I) – How to work with formulae (Bilangue): 21.9.2007 – 14:00-17:30 (1/2 day, places available) CERN EDMS Introduction (English): 24.09.2007 (1 day, places available) Outlook 2007 (Short Course II) – Calendar, Task...
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International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Anon.
1979-01-01
A summary is given of a talk presented by Victor Weisskopf to introduce the proceedings on CERN day at the European Physical Society's 1979 International Conference on High Energy Physics, held in Geneva. The significance of results from the experimental program at CERN are discussed. Some speculations on future discoveries and developments, as envisaged by Bjorn Wiik, are also presented. (W.D.L.).
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Laëtitia Pedroso
2010-01-01
Before, you had to go on the TPG website to find a tram-route, use Google Maps to see an aerial photo of CERN, and look for CERN buildings on map.web.cern.ch. Now, that's ancient history, with a new Geographical Information System (GIS) Portal set up by the Design Office and Patrimony Service (GS/SEM/DOP). It's a one-stop-shop for all this information and much more. A screenshot of the GIS Portal. Over the past few days, you might have noticed the new interface called MAPSearch that pops up when you make a building search using the Building and Roads field on the CERN homepage. This is a simplified version of the new GIS web Portal, a project on which the GS Department's Design Office and Patrimony Service has been working since January 2010. "In today's informatics age, we need to respond ever more quickly to increasing numbers of specific user requests," explains Project Leader Youri Robert. This is more than just a new release of an old tool, it's a completely n...
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Staff Association
2014-01-01
CERN CRICKET CLUB The CERN Cricket Club 2014 season has been a good one so far with the team qualifying for the Swiss Cup semi-finals, with home advantage on the Prevessin ground on Sunday, August 24th. Their opponents will only be known the day before when the final game in the Eastern Division is played. The CERN ground hasn’t quite recovered from the Bosons&More party last year, the wet weather making it impossible to roll the ground, but the new, wider strip is a big improvement. Net practice eventually started in late July, which is probably why the results at the beginning of the season weren’t so good. As match reports are too long to be included in the weekly bulletin, the full reports and the schedule can be found under “Matches (Fixtures, results, reports)” on the Cricket Club web site at http://cern.ch/Club-Cricket/ Anyone interested in playing cricket is welcome to join us at net practice, which takes pla...
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Women at CERN: the Laboratory's Equal Opportunities Policy in numbers
2001-01-01
On 16 March, eight days after International Women's Day, CERN is organizing a discussion on its Equal Opportunities Policy. This is a new chance for all at CERN to find out about the programme, and to get up to date with the position of women at CERN. This year CERN will mark International Women's Day with a special event on Friday 16 March: a chance for all at CERN to meet members of the Equal Opportunities Advisory Panel. You have probably already heard about the Panel, but you may have wondered what the Equal Opportunities Programme actually does to ensure fair treatment in the recruitment and career development of men and women, and to allow all to work in an atmosphere of safety, dignity, and mutual respect. Daniella Moraes of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro at work on electronics for the LHCb experiment. By attending this meeting CERN people will have the chance to learn about the work of the Panel, its recommendations to Management, and the subsequent actions taken by the Organization. The m...
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Nursery School
2016-01-01
Reminder Registration for the CERN Staff Association Day-camp are open for children from 4 to 6 years old More information on the website: http://nurseryschool.web.cern.ch/. The day-camp is open to all children. An inscription per week is proposed, cost 480.-CHF/week, lunch included The camp will be open weeks 27, 28, 29 and 30, from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. For further questions, thanks you for contacting us by email at Summer.Camp@cern.ch.
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Over one million followers reached in CERN TweetUp
Katherine Chapman
2012-01-01
More than a million followers were reached on Twitter during CERN’s first ever “TweetUp”. On 25 July, 5 lucky Twitter followers, or "Tweeps" as they are known, visited CERN to take part in events held on the same day with the STS-134 astronauts. The Tweetup gave the online community a chance to ask questions and explore areas of CERN through the eyes of the tweeps, prompting over 1,000 tweets and re-tweets between them in 24 hours. Loic Bommersbach, Lucy McKenna, Astrid Chantelauze (KIT), Nick Howes, Angeliki Kanellopoulou, Maud Ali-Cherif (ESA), Julien Harrod (ESA), Katherine Chapman (CERN), and Simon Bierwald outside the CERN Control Centre. Five winners of a competition announced on Twitter were invited to come to CERN and spend a day behind the scenes, taking part in events organised to celebrate the AMS experiment that was launched in May 2011. The aim was to give tweeps the opportunity to explore CERN and share their experiences, allowi...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2008 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You will find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE CERN EDMS – Introduction\t(Français)\t26.06\t1 jour Videoconferencing and collaborative tools\t(English)\t27.06\t2 hours CERN EDMS MTF in practice\t(Français)\t27.06\t½ journée A hands-on overview of EVO\t(English)\t27.06\t½ day CERN EDMS for Local Administrators\t(Français)\t30.06-01.07\t2 jours Excel 2007 – Level 2 ECDL\t(English)\t30.06-01.07\t2 days Access 2007 – Niveau 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t01-04.07\t4 ½ journées Hands-On Design Patterns for Object-oriented Programming (English)\t02-04.07\t3 days Windows Vista Advanced\t(Français)\t10.07\t½ journée Windows Vista\t(Français)\t11.07\t½ journée SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES JCOP – Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework\t(English)\t24-26.06\t3 days ...
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2007-01-01
The Education Group is expanding its courses for teachers: over 700 secondary school teachers will be going back to school at CERN this year. Thirty-seven teachers from various countries participated in the High School Teachers at CERN programme, with Rolf Landua, the head of the Education Group, Mick Storr, the Education Group’s programme coordinator and Robert Aymar, the CERN Director-General.From 3 to 8 July, CERN hosted the runners-up from the finals of the British Physics Olympiad, the prize for the winners being a trip to the International Physics Olympiad in Iran. The five students were invited to visit CERN to attend the summer student programme for three days. "This gives us an opportunity to study new subjects that are not necessarily part of the school curriculum. Even though I’ve heard about the various types of research, it is a real plus to be able to attend these lectures", explains Oliver Mac Farlane, a young stu...
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Beamline for Schools 2016: How to be a CERN scientist
2016-01-01
Two teams of high-school students from the UK and Poland had the opportunity to conduct their own experiments at a fully equipped CERN beamline. Students from the 2016 Beamline for Schools competition working on their experiment. (Image: Noemí Carabán Gonzalez/CERN) Two teams of high-school students from the UK and Poland had the opportunity to conduct their own experiments at a fully equipped CERN beamline, after winning the Beamline for Schools competition. The teams, ”Pyramid Hunters” from Poland and “Relatively Special” from the United Kingdom, spent 10 days at CERN conducting the experiments they had dreamt up in their winning proposals. The Beamline for Schools competition gives high-school students the chance to run an experiment on a fully equipped CERN beamline, in the same way researchers do at the Large Hadron Collider and other CERN facilities every day. To know more about their stay at CERN and the experiments they&r...
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CERN Technical Training - New courses available at CERN!
HR Department
2010-01-01
1. - The “JavaScript for web development” is a 3 day course. This hands-on JavaScript training course provides the knowledge needed to design and develop dynamic web pages using JavaScript. It introduces students to JavaScript and how the language can be used to turn static HTML pages into dynamic, interactive web pages. Students will learn the syntax of the JavaScript language, the Document Object Model, form validation, cookies, how to create functions. This course is for Web programmers who want to learn how to make their Web pages more interactive by using JavaScript. The course will take place, in English, from 5 to 7 May 2010 in the CERN Technical Training Centre. Registrations are open on the Technical Training page. For more information on our catalogue or for questions/comments, contact us at Technical.Training@cern.ch 2. - The “Web 2.0 development with AJAX” is a 3 day course. This hands-on AJAX course provides the knowledge needed to design and develop ...
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CERN Technical Training - New courses available at CERN!
HR Department
2010-01-01
1. - The “Web 2.0 development with AJAX” is a 3 day course. This hands-on AJAX course provides the knowledge needed to design and develop Web 2.0 websites. Through a series of lectures and practical examples you will learn the power of the JavaScript XML Http request object and how it can be used to add advanced interactivity to your website. This course gives an overview of the main AJAX frameworks and Web 2.0 techniques. The course will take place, in English, from 28 to 30 June 2010 in the CERN Technical Training Centre. Registrations are open on the Technical Training page. For more information on our catalogue or for questions/comments, contact us at Technical.Training@cern.ch 2. - “CAO = Allegro Design Entry HDL Front-to-Back Flow v16.3” is a 3 day course. In this course, you will learn how to create board-level schematic designs with Design Entry HDL. You will explore the integration between Design Entry HDL and other tools in the design flow, including the A...
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Upcoming opening of CERN's new Mobility Centre
2016-01-01
On 29 February, CERN’s brand new Mobility Centre opened in the Globe car park. The Centre has been created to cater to the transport needs of everyone at CERN, to simplify procedures and to centralise all the transport services on offer: the rental of CERN bikes and cars, the CERN car-sharing scheme and SIXT car rental. From 29 February onwards, the Mobility Centre in the Globe car park will be the place to go for all your duty travel needs: rental of CERN cars (with or without the CERN logo), SIXT car rental, CERN bike rental, distribution of cards allowing the use of CERN’s self-service bike- and car-sharing schemes. That same day, the premises currently housing the Car Pool in Building 130 will become the CERN garage, responsible for: upkeep and repairs on CERN bikes, minor maintenance work on CERN vehicles (e.g. replacing windscreen wipers, bulbs and fuses, refilling windscreen washer fluid, pumping up tyres, etc.), arranging and following up the repair and maintenan...
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Helping CERN give back to society
2014-01-01
The CERN & Society mission: ‘To spread the CERN spirit of scientific curiosity for the inspiration and benefit of society.’ Digital library schools in Africa, Arts@CERN, a beam line for schools competition and perhaps soon a dedicated biomedical research facility: CERN infrastructure and expertise have a great influence on society, and we have the potential to do much more. For that, however, we need help, and that’s why we have launched the CERN & Society initiative, which this week sees the publication of a new website for those who want to understand more about how our research touches everyday life, as well as for those who wish to help CERN in this new endeavour. Fundamental research fulfils a very human need. The quest to understand the universe we live in is as old as humanity itself, and CERN is in the vanguard of that effort today. For our scientists and engineers, pushing technology to the limit is part of their day job, and in doing so they ...
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CERN Bulletin
2011-01-01
CERN communicates with the outside world in many different ways – websites, publications, through the media and via twitter to name but a few. As of January, CERN has a new way of engaging with the world: a CERN institutional blog. CERN’s blog was launched on 10 January on the Quantum Diaries platform, adding a new strand to a well-established site. Quantum Diaries was launched in 2005 as an initiative for the World Year of Physics promoted by the InterAction collaboration, a group that brings together the communication offices of some of the world’s major particle physics labs and organisations. The launch of institutional blogs from Brookhaven, CERN, Fermilab and TRIUMF has added an extra dimension to Quantum Diaries. Visits to the site jumped to 3000 per day with the addition of the institutional blogs, and that number is already growing. CERN’s first post explains one of the reasons we’re doing this. With the incredible thirst for informati...
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CERN Bulletin
2015-01-01
On 2 March 2015, Mónica Bello will take the reins of the Arts@CERN programme. A few days before taking over the new job, the curator and art critic talked to the CERN Bulletin about her interest in arts and science, her motivations for the job, and her plans for the future of the programme. Mónica Bello. “The exciting nature of CERN almost demands an artistic programme like Arts@CERN,” says Mónica, former artistic director of VIDA (one of the most important competitions in digital and new media arts worldwide), who has recently been appointed as the new director of the Arts@CERN programme. “The programme is unique as it provides the artist not only with resources, but also with interesting scientific topics and a natural way for the artists to become involved. Thanks to this programme, artists can come to CERN, bring their individuality, and really benefit from the sharing experience with scientists.” Mónica,...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Windows Vista\t(Français)\t30.01\t3 heures ½ EXCEL 2007 level 1: ECDL\t(English)\t02-03.02\t2 days WORD 2007 - level 1 : ECDL\t(English)\t05-06.02\t2 days ACCESS 2007 - Level 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t09-10.02\t2 jours CERN EDMS – Introduction\t(English)\t10.02\t1 day CERN EDMS – Introduction\t(Français)\t11.02\t1 jour Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage)- Level 1\t(Français)\t12-13.02\t2 jours EXCEL 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t26-27.02\t2 jours SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES Oracle – SQL\t(English)\t02-04.02\t3 days Oracle Databases: Memory Management (10g & 11g) (English)\t05-06.02\t2 days JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition – Part 1: Web Applications\t(English)\t09-10.02\t2 days JCOP – Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t(English)\t09-13.02\t3 ½ da...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2009 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE EXCEL 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(English)\t25-26.06\t2 days CERN EDMS for Engineers\t(English)\t26.06\t1 day Office 2007 – Novelties\t(French)\t29.06\t1 day Novelties of Excel 2007\t(Français)\t30.06\t1 jour EXCEL 2007 – level 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t06-7.07\t2 jours Indico – Meeting Organization\t(English)\t07.07\t2 hours Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t07.07\t3 hours CERN EDMS MTF in practice\t(Français)\t08.07\t3.5 heures SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES JCOP – Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework\t(English)\t23-25.06\t3 days XML – Introduction\t(English)\t25-26.06\t2 days Business Object Basic\t(French)\t29-30.06\t2 jours JCOP – Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t(English)\t29.06-03.07\t4.5 days MECHA...
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Academic Training: Joint ILIAS-CAST-CERN Axion Training at CERN
Françoise Benz
2005-01-01
2005-2006 ACADEMIC TRAINING PROGRAMME 30 November, 1 and 2 December PLACE - DETAILS: http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a056218 Joint ILIAS-CAST-CERN Axion Training at CERN The ILIAS (Integrated Large Infrastructure for Astroparticle Science) is co-organising a 3 day academic training session together with the CAST collaboration and the CERN Academic Training Programme on physics related to axion research, including open discussions between theorists and experimentalists. The intention of the lectures is to provide academic training for scientists engaged in axion research and to facilitate the often missing link between experiment and theory with the aim of encouraging young researchers to communicate with experts in the field. The lectures include topics which are not regularly covered by standard lectures at universities and should lead to a deeper understanding of the physics related to axions, which covers a broad field from QCD to astrophysics and cosmology. There will be an opportunity for ...
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Prime-Minister of Malta visits CERN
2008-01-01
The Prime-Minister of Malta, Dr Lawrence Gonzi, visited CERN and met Director-General, Robert Aymar, on 10 January. The Prime-Minister of Malta, Dr Lawrence Gonzi, and CERN Director-General, Robert Aymar, signed a cooperation agreement. Dr Gonzi was given guided tours of the CMS experiment at Point 5 in Cessy and of the LHC magnet test facility, in which his country was involved. One of the high points of the day was the signing of a cooperation agreement between CERN and the Government of the Republic of Malta, aimed at the development of scientific and technical collaboration. "I’m really enthusiastic about this agreement, which constitutes a first step towards real collaboration between the Maltese government and CERN," said Nicholas Sammut, a Maltese engineer at CERN who was present throughout the visit (on the right). See also the video.
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Schonberger, Robert B.; Brandt, Cynthia; Feinleib, Jessica; Dai, Feng; Burg, Matthew M.
2012-01-01
Objectives We analyzed the association between outpatient beta-blocker type and day-of-surgery heart rate in ambulatory surgical patients. We further investigated whether differences in day of surgery heart rate between atenolol and metoprolol could be explained by once-daily versus twice-daily dosing regimens. Design Retrospective observational study. Setting VA Hospital Participants Ambulatory surgical patients on chronic atenolol or metoprolol. Interventions None. Measurements and Main Results Using a propensity-score matched cohort, we compared day of surgery heart rates of patients prescribed atenolol versus metoprolol. We then differentiated between once-daily and twice-daily metoprolol formulations and compared day of surgery heart rates within a general linear model. Day of surgery heart rates in patients prescribed atenolol vs. any metoprolol formulation were slower by a mean of 5.1 beats/min (66.6 vs. 71.7; 95% CI of difference 1.9 to 8.3, p=0.002), a difference that was not observed in preoperative primary care visits. The general linear model demonstrated that patients prescribed atenolol (typically QD dosing) had a mean day of surgery heart rate 5.6 beats/min lower compared to patients prescribed once-daily metoprolol succinate (68.9 vs. 74.5; 95% CI of difference: −8.6 to −2.6, p<0.001) and 3.8 beats/minute lower compared to patients prescribed twice-daily metoprolol tartrate (68.9 vs. 72.7; 95% CI of difference: −6.1 to −1.6, p<0.001). Day of surgery heart rates were similar between different formulations of metoprolol (95% CI of difference: −1.0 to +4.6, p=0.22). Conclusions Atenolol is associated with lower day of surgery heart rate vs. metoprolol. The heart rate difference is specific to the day of surgery and is not explained by once-daily versus twice-daily dosing regimens. PMID:22889605
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CERN Shop: Christmas Sale, 10 & 16.12.2004
2004-01-01
Looking for Christmas present ideas? Come to the Reception Shop Special Stand in Meyrin, Main Building, ground floor, on Friday 10 and/or on Thursday 16 December from 10:30 to 16:00. CERN 50th Anniversary sweat-shirt (grey in M, L, XL) 30.- CERN 50th Anniversary T-shirt, (S, M, L, XL) 20.- CERN 50th Anniversary silk tie (2 colours) 30.- Einstein silk tie (blue, grey) 45.- Silk scarf 40.- Swiss army knife with CERN logo 25.- Swiss Duo-Pack with CERN logo 30.- CERN 50th Anniversary watch (2 models) 40.- CERN pens (2 models) 5.- Small Open Day souvenirs (a few different items) 2.- CERN 50th Anniversary Book (English & French) 70.- "Prestigious Discoveries" at CERN (English/anglais) 32.- "Particle Odyssey" soft cover (English/anglais) 35.- If you miss this special occasion, the articles are also available at the Reception Shop in Building 33 from Monday to Saturday between 08:30 and 17:00 hrs. Education and Communica...
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Nursyamsiah; Hasan, R.
2018-03-01
Hospitalization in patients with chronic heart failure is associated with high rates of mortality and morbidity that during treatment and post-treatment. Despite the various therapies available today, mortality and re-hospitalization rates within 60 to 90 days post-hospitalization are still quite high. This period is known as the vulnerable phase. With the prognostic evaluation tools in patients with heart failure are expected to help identify high-risk individuals, then more rigorous monitoring and interventions can be undertaken. To determine whether hs-CRP have an impact on mortality within 90 days in hospitalized patients with heart failure, an observational cohort study was conducted in 39 patients with heart failure who were hospitalized due to worsening chronic heart failure. Patients were followed for up to 90 days after initial evaluation with the primary endpoint is death. Hs-CRP value >4.25 mg/L we found 70% was dead and hs-CRP value <4.25 mg/L only 6.9% was dead whereas the survival within 90 days. p:0.000.In conclusion, there were differences in hs-CRP values between in patients with heart failure who died and survival within 90 days.
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Schmeida, Mary; Savrin, Ronald A
2012-01-01
Heart failure readmission among the elderly is frequent and costly to both the patient and the Medicare trust fund. In this study, the authors explore the factors that are associated with states having heart failure readmission rates that are higher than the U.S. national rate. Acute inpatient hospital settings. 50 state-level data and multivariate regression analysis is used. The dependent variable Heart Failure 30-day Readmission Worse than U.S. Rate is based on adult Medicare Fee-for-Service patients hospitalized with a primary discharge diagnosis of heart failure and for which a subsequent inpatient readmission occurred within 30 days of their last discharge. One key variable found--states with a higher resident population speaking a primary language other than English at home--that is significantly associated with a decrease in probability in states ranking "worse" on heart failure 30-day readmission. Whereas, states with a higher median income, more total days of care per 1,000 Medicare enrollees, and a greater percentage of Medicare enrollees with prescription drug coverage have a greater probability for heart failure 30-day readmission to be "worse" than the U.S. national rate. Case management interventions targeting health literacy may be more effective than other factors to improve state-level hospital status on heart failure 30-day readmission. Factors such as total days of care per 1,000 Medicare enrollees and improving patient access to postdischarge medication(s) may not be as important as literacy. Interventions aimed to prevent disparities should consider higher income population groups as vulnerable for readmission.
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CERN's 60th anniversary celebrations: "Cook"ed to perfection
CERN Bulletin
2014-01-01
On 29 September, CERN celebrated its 60th anniversary with a gala celebration. Hundreds of CERN staff members and users, dignitaries from CERN Member States and representatives of international organisations filled the marquee for a ceremony featuring speeches as well as music from the EU Youth Orchestra. CERN Recruitment Unit section leader Anna Cook was called in at the last minute to host the ceremony. Anna had just got back from a run on her day off when she got the call. On the line CERN60 project leader Sascha Schmeling, Globe manager Bernard Pellequer and video editor Jacques Fichet had a problem. French-Swiss journalist Darius Rochebin, who had been pegged to host CERN's 60th anniversary ceremony, had been forced to cancel at the last minute, just three days before the event. Would Anna host the celebration – a ceremony to be attended by hundreds and broadcast around the world for all to see? After asking whether it was a joke, she said: “OK, I&rsquo...
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Pioneering CERN lab celebrates 50 years
2004-01-01
In a bid to raise local awareness and to celebrate its 50-year anniversary, CERN, a publicly-funded laboratory grouping scientists from 85 different countries, will hold a one-off open day in October for the general public. "We have added a lot to mankind's knowledge of the universe and that is what we were founded for", said CERN's chief spokesman James Gillies
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2006-01-01
Arrangements for the end of the year closure: Hostels on the CERN site During the closure of CERN for Christmas and the New Year, the hostels will be closed from mid-day on Friday, December 22, 2006 until Monday, January 8, 2007 at 7h30. All accounts must be settled and room keys returned to the Reception before 10 a.m. on Friday, December 22, 2006. Hostel in St. Genis-Pouilly The wing reserved for CERN will be closed from mid-day on Friday, December 22, 2006 until Monday, January 8, 2007 at 8h00. Anyone with no alternative but to stay in the hostel during this period can be accommodated in another part of the building, subject to the number of rooms available. The people concerned must make the appropriate reservations in person at the Reception of the St. Genis Hostel, as far in advance as possible and in any case no later than Friday, December 15, 2006. The total length of stay during the two weeks in question must be paid for in advance, no later than Friday, December 15, 2006. All reservations r...
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2003-01-01
1. Arrangements for the end of the year closure 1.1 Hostel on the CERN site During the closure of CERN for Christmas and the New Year, the hostel will be closed from mid-day on Friday, December 19, 2003 until Monday, January 5, 2004 at 8h00. All accounts must be settled and room keys returned to the Reception before 10h00 on Friday, December 19, 2003. 1.2 Hostel in St. Genis-Pouilly The wing reserved for CERN will be closed from mid-day on Friday, December 19, 2003 until Monday, January 5, 2004 at 8h00. Anyone with no alternative but to stay in the Hostel during this period can be accommodated in another part of the building. The people concerned must make the appropriate reservations in person at the Reception of the St. Genis Hostel, as far in advance as possible and in any case no later than Friday, December 12, 2003. The total length of stay during the two weeks in question must be paid for in advance, no later than Friday, December 12, 2003. All reservations remaining unpaid after this date will be canc...
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2004-01-01
Arrangements for the end of the year closure Hostel on the CERN site During the closure of CERN for Christmas and the New Year, the hostel will be closed from mid-day on Friday, December 17, 2004 until Monday, January 3, 2005 at 8h00. All accounts must be settled and room keys returned to the Reception before 10h00 on Friday, December 17, 2004. Hostel in St. Genis-Pouilly The wing reserved for CERN will be closed from mid-day on Friday, December 17, 2004 until Monday, January 3, 2005 at 8h00. Anyone with no alternative but to stay in the Hostel during this period can be accommodated in another part of the building. The people concerned must make the appropriate reservations in person at the Reception of the St. Genis Hostel, as far in advance as possible and in any case no later than Friday, December 10, 2004. The total length of stay during the two weeks in question must be paid for in advance, no later than Friday, December 10, 2004. All reservations remaining unpaid after this date will be cancell...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Program 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course program in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Excel 2007: Short course III: How to pivot tables (Bilingual)\t01.04\t0.5 day/jour Excel 2007: Short course IV: How to link cells, worksheets and workbooks (Bilingual)\t01.04\t0.5 day/jour CERN EDMS MTF en pratique (Français)\t02.04\t0.5 jour Windows VISTA (Français)\t04.04\t1 jour Sharepoint Collaboration Worskpace\t(Français) 07-08.04\t2 jours CERN EDMS MTF in practice (English)\t09.04\t0.5 day Word 2007 : Niveau 1 ECDL (Français) 10-11.04\t2 jours Indico - Meeting Organization\t(Français)\t18.04\t1 day Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t18.04\t1 day Word 2007: Niveau 2 ECDL\t(Français)\t28-29.04\t2 jours Excel 2007 – Niveau 2 ECDL (Français)\t05-06.05\t2 jours In Design: Introduction (Français)\t13-14.05\t2 jours Sharepoint Col...
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CERN Technical Training 2006: ANSYS Course Sessions (August-September 2006)
2006-01-01
The following ANSYS course sessions are currently scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2006, and in collaboration with CAD-FEM AG (CH): ANSYS Design Modeler (course in French): 29-30.8.2006 (2 days) ANSYS Workbench (course in French): 12-15.9.2006 (4 days, only 2 places available) If you are interested in attending any of the above course sessions, please discuss with your supervisor and/or your DTO, and apply electronically via EDH from the course description pages that can be found at under "Upcoming course sessions", with the detailed course programmes. The complete training offer of ANSYS courses at CERN can be found at the same website, under the Mechanical Design curriculum. CERN Technical Training courses are open only to the members of CERN personnel (staff members and fellows; associates, students, users, project associates; apprentices: employees of CERN contractors, with some restrictions). In particular, quoted prices and programmes refer specifically to the CERN ...
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Open Access Policy for CERN Physics Publications
2014-01-01
CERN is committed to Open Access. It represents one of the values written in our Convention sixty years ago and is increasingly important for our Member States. In the last edition of the Bulletin, this article described how CERN is doing with regards to open access publishing today. On Thursday this week, the Open Access Policy for CERN Physics Publications* was endorsed by the Scientific Information Policy Board (SIPB) and approved by the Director-General the same day . For any clarifications regarding the policy, please contact the Scientific Information Service library.desk@cern.ch. * A French version of the policy will be made available shortly.
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Neasan O'Neill
2011-01-01
In early September, GridPP, the collaboration that manages the UK’s contribution to the worldwide LHC Computing Grid (wLCG), celebrated a decade of work by holding its twenty-seventh collaboration meeting at CERN. Officially launched in September 2001, GridPP was one of the original partners in wLCG, funding much of the early work at CERN. Over the last decade GridPP has gone from a mere proposal to almost 30,000 CPUs working for researchers scattered across the globe. Twice a year, GridPP meets to discuss the progress and future plans of the community and this year, for the first time since 2004, decamped to CERN for this biannual meeting on the theme “GridPP in the International Context”. The main meeting was held over 2 days in the IT auditorium and was the perfect opportunity to have contributions from experts based at CERN, alongside those from within GridPP. Opening with a welcome from Frederic Hemmer, Head of the IT Department at CERN, the meeting began with...
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Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)
Anon.
1994-11-15
CERN celebrated its 40th anniversary with a special family day on 17 September where the accent was on fun, games and entertainment for staff and their families. After a brief opening ceremony, pomp gave way to play, formality to frivolity. The following extracts from the DG's speech of welcome were freely translated from the French original: 'Forty is the traditional age for taking stock of the past and assessing future prospects. CERN is no exception to this rule and it is particularly appropriate at what is clearly a major turning point in its existence. Before looking to the future, allow me to say a few words about our past.
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150 Bulgarian students visit CERN
Alizée Dauvergne
2010-01-01
Between 27 March and 8 April 2010, 150 Bulgarian students from the Astronomical Observatory in Varna visited CERN as part of the “From Galileo to CERN” programme. Bulgarian students participating in the "From Galileo to CERN" educational programme. “It’s interesting to combine astronomy and particle physics”, explains Svejina Dimitrova, organiser of the programme and Director of Varna Astronomical Observatory. The three groups, each one comprising 50 students, first visited Pisa, Padua and other places in Italy related to Galileo’s life. “Thanks to the visit, students understood telescopes and why Galileo is such an important scientist”, says Svejina. After Italy, they came to CERN for three days and visited several sites: Linac, the Computer Centre CCC, etc. Another group of Bulgarian students in their visit to CERN. “They became aware that particle physics is not only the...
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International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Anon.
1988-01-01
Over the years the efforts at CERN to stimulate exchange of technological information with industry have steadily gained momentum. A 'Meeting on technology arising from high energy physics' was held in April 1974. Over 300 participants from industry, other research centres and universities heard three days of review talks on advanced technology and were able to see over 250 exhibits of equipment and the techniques emerging from the European particle physics programme
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Laëtitia Pedroso
2010-01-01
From 23 to 26 November CERN played host to an unusual group of visitors, who arrived in a red-and-white striped camper. On the tenth anniversary of "Les Zèbres”, a children’s broadcast on Swiss radio, the show’s makers invited 8th and 9th grade pupils from Swiss schools to conduct a live broadcast from CERN. Students in the cryogenic hall: cryolab. Popular Franco-Swiss host Jean-Marc Richard brought Les Zèbres to the Laboratory with a live broadcast. The idea was to let the children themselves host the broadcast. Accompanied by their physics teachers, pupils from junior secondary schools in Golette, Colombières and Drize were given the opportunity to spend half a day at CERN. Each day, one class came to find out about a particular aspect of the Laboratory and then conduct a live broadcast with Jean-Marc Richard from 12:10 to 12:30. The young people, aged 13 to 15, had a chance to explore the Universe of Particles exhibitio...
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An important day for European science
2009-01-01
Today is an important day for the future of European science. It is the day on which CERN’s relationship with the European Union reaches maturity. Ever since the early 1950s, CERN and the European project have grown together. CERN was a child of the European movement: the first discussions at Denis de Rougemont’s European Cultural Conference in Lausanne in 1949 led directly to the foundation of CERN in 1954. More recently, the European Union has become an Observer at the CERN Council, links between CERN and the EU have strengthened as Europe has pursued the goal of creating a European Research Area, and CERN has benefited from European support for projects as varied as Grid computing and future accelerator R&D, not forgetting, of course, the numerous Marie Curie fellows whose careers have received a boost thanks to European funds. Today, that collaboration goes one step further with the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding between CERN and the European C...
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CERN tours: more popular than ever
Anaïs Schaeffer
2016-01-01
According to TripAdvisor, CERN is Geneva’s top tourist attraction, welcoming almost 110,000 visitors per year. The Visits Service received a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence for the quality of its tours. From left: Marc Tassera, Carole Ledoux, Vanya Guerre, Bernard Pellequer, Dominique Bertola, Yesika Romand, Chloé Pillonel, Alejandra Lorenzo Gomez. (Image: Jacques Herve Fichet/CERN) Since the start-up of the LHC in 2008 and the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, CERN’s visitor numbers have gone through the roof. On 15 July, we hit a record number of 755 visitors in one day (the average is around 400 per day). “This peak can partly be explained by the presence of participants in the International Physics Olympiad,” says Bernard Pellequer, head of the Visitors and Local Engagement section. “A tour of CERN was part of their excursion programme and it was a great pleasure for us to show them around the Laboratory.” But...
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Abha Eli Phoboo
2013-01-01
CERN hosted the second TEDx European Organisers meeting last week with around 80 organisers attending from all over Europe. They were given an introduction to CERN and a tour of the LHC experiments. The participants of the TEDx European Organisers meeting held at CERN last week. Among the attendees was Bruno Giussani, European director of TED, who delivered the welcome address. The TEDx European organisers shared their experiences in workshops and brainstormed about how to work on different aspects of organising a TEDx event, and about improving the relationship between TEDx and TED. “The goal of this meeting was for veteran TEDx organisers to help younger ones, help each other, bring the community together and have better quality events,” said Claudia Marcelloni, head of TEDxCERN. TEDx is an independently organised TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talk event, which has grown exponentially all over the world. There are hundreds of TEDx events every day and it n...
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Laëtitia Pedroso
2011-01-01
CERN's fascinating history, from the period preceding its creation right up to the present day, has inspired many people to take up pen and paper over the years. Recently, Marie Mazzone, a 19-year old student at Geneva's Collège Sismondi, chose it as the subject for her "travail de maturité", which she presented in the form of a comic book. Cover of "the Accelerator of Peace" comic book by Marie Mazonne. In her comic book, which she entitled "L’accélérateur de paix" (the Accelerator of Peace, see the full PDF), Marie traces CERN's history back to its creation, explaining how the needs of post-war Europe led to the construction of an international scientific laboratory. Marie's four grandparents are all former CERN employees, so the Organization has been part of her life ever since she was small. "I'd always been familiar with the word CERN," she tells us. "But I...
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Sanders, E.; Moorman, A. F.; Los, J. A.
1984-01-01
Immunofluorescence studies were performed on serial sections of three days embryonic chicken hearts using antibodies specific for adult atrial and ventricular myosin heavy chains respectively. The anti-ventricular myosin serum reacted with the entire myocardium showing a decreasing intensity going
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International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Anon.
1994-01-01
CERN celebrated its 40th anniversary with a special family day on 17 September where the accent was on fun, games and entertainment for staff and their families. After a brief opening ceremony, pomp gave way to play, formality to frivolity. The following extracts from the DG's speech of welcome were freely translated from the French original: 'Forty is the traditional age for taking stock of the past and assessing future prospects. CERN is no exception to this rule and it is particularly appropriate at what is clearly a major turning point in its existence. Before looking to the future, allow me to say a few words about our past
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New co-operation agreement between CERN and JINR
CERN Bulletin
2010-01-01
CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer (left) and JINR Director Alexei Sissakian (right). On Thursday 28 January, CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer and JINR Director Alexei Sissakian signed a new enlarged co-operation agreement to continue and enhance the scientific and technical co-operation of the two institutes in the field of high-energy physics. CERN and JINR have a long and successful history of collaboration extending back to the earliest days of their existence. The first informal meeting on international co-operation in the field of high-energy accelerators took place at CERN in 1959. It was attended by senior scientists from the United States, the USSR (including JINR) and CERN. Both JINR and CERN have played the role of a bridge between East and West for decades, contributing to the development of international scientific co-operation. In 1992 JINR signed a co-operation agreement with CERN that included an important number of protocols covering JINR’s participation in the construction of th...
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2011-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2011 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies C++ Part 1 - Hands-On Introduction\t25-Jan-11\t28-Jan-11\tEnglish\t4 days CERN openlab/Intel Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop\t15-Feb-11\t16-Feb-11\tEnglish\t2 days CERN openlab/Intel Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop\t08-Feb-11\t09-Feb-11\tEnglish\t2 days JAVA - Level 2\t17-Jan-11\t20-Jan-11\tEnglish\t4 days Python - Hands-on Introduction\t07-Feb-11\t10-Feb-11\tEnglish\t4 days Secure coding for Java\t12-Jan-11\t12-Jan-11\tEnglish\t1 day Secure coding for PHP\t14-Jan-11\t14-Jan-11\tEnglish\t1 day Secure coding for Python\t13-Jan-11\t13-Jan-11\tEnglish\t0.5 day Secure coding for Python\t13-Jan-11\t13-Jan-11\tEnglish\t0.5 day Electronic design Technologie S-Web\t12-Jan-11\t13-Jan-11\tFrench\t2 jours Mechanical Design ANSYS Workbench advanced\t31-Jan...
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CERN Technical Training : Vista !
HR Department
2009-01-01
Are you running Vista on your new PC – or are you planning to install it? The Technical Training service is organizing a half-day training course on the new features of the VISTA operating system. This course introduces the new interfaces and presents the new functionalities for people who are experienced in the use of Windows XP. The next bilingual session of this course will take place on 30 January 2009. Register using our catalogue: http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9 or contact us with your questions/comments at mailto:Technical.Training@cern.ch
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CERN Technical Training : Vista !
HR Department
2008-01-01
Are you running Vista on your new PC – or are planning to install it? The Technical Training service is organizing a half-day training course on the new features of the VISTA operating system. This course introduces the new interfaces and presents the new functionalities for people who are experienced in the use of Windows XP. The next bilingual sessions of this course will take place on 12 December 2008 and 30 January 2009. Register using our catalogue: http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9 or contact us with your questions/comments at Technical.Training@cern.ch
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CERN Technical Training : Vista !
HR Department
2008-01-01
You are running Vista on your new PC – or are planning to install it? The Technical Training service is organizing a half-day training course on the new features of the VISTA operating system. This course introduces the new interfaces and presents the new functionalities for people who are experienced in the use of Windows XP. The next bilingual sessions of this course will take place on 12 December 2008 and 30 January 2009. Register using our catalogue: http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9 or contact us with your questions/comments at mailto:Technical.Training@cern.ch
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CERN Technical Training : Vista !
HR Department
2008-01-01
Are you running Vista on your new PC – or are you planning to install it? The Technical Training service is organizing a half-day training course on the new features of the VISTA operating system. This course introduces the new interfaces and presents the new functionalities for people who are experienced in the use of Windows XP. The next bilingual sessions of this course will take place on 12 December 2008 and 30 January 2009. Register using our catalogue: http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9 or contact us with your questions/comments at mailto:Technical.Training@cern.ch
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CERN Technical Training : Vista !
HR Department
2008-01-01
You are running Vista on your new PC – or are planning to install it? The Technical Training service is organizing a half-day training on the new features of the VISTA operating system. This course introduces the new interfaces and presents the new functionalities for people who are experienced using Windows XP. The next bilingual sessions of this course will take place on December 12, 2008 and January 30, 2009. Register using our catalogue : http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9 or contact us with your questions/comments at Technical.Training@cern.ch
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Staff Association
2017-01-01
On Saturday, 4 March 2017, the Children’s Day-Care Centre EVE and School of CERN Staff Association opened its doors to allow interested parents to visit the structure. Staff Association - Carole Dargagnon presents the EVE and school during the open day. This event was a great success and brought together many families. The Open Day was held in two sessions (first session at 10 am and second at 11 am), each consisting in two parts: a general presentation of the structure by the Headmistress Carole Dargagnon, a tour of the installations with Marie-Luz Cavagna and Stéphanie Palluel, the administrative assistants. The management team was delighted to offer parents the opportunity to participate in this pleasant event, where everyone could express themselves, ask questions and find answers in a friendly atmosphere.
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Open Day at Crèche and School of the CERN Staff Association
Staff Association
2018-01-01
In the morning of Saturday, 3 March 2018, the Crèche and School of the CERN Staff Association opened its doors for parents who wished to visit the establishment. Once again, the Open Day was a great success and brought together more than 50 families for two information sessions, which included: a general presentation of the establishment by the Headmistress, and a visit of the facilities led by the Headmistress and her deputy. At the end of the visit, parents were invited for a drink. This was an opportunity for both parents and professionals to have interesting discussions regarding the general conditions of the establishment and the pedagogical approach applied in the crèche and the school. The management team was delighted to offer the parents the opportunity to participate in this event, where everyone could express their views, ask questions and find answers in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.
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Zimpfer, Daniel; Netuka, Ivan; Schmitto, Jan D; Pya, Yuriy; Garbade, Jens; Morshuis, Michiel; Beyersdorf, Friedhelm; Marasco, Silvana; Rao, Vivek; Damme, Laura; Sood, Poornima; Krabatsch, Thomas
2016-09-01
The objective of this study was to describe the operative experience and 30-day outcomes of patients implanted with the HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) during the Conformité Européenne (CE) Mark clinical trial. Adult patients met inclusion and exclusion criteria defining advanced-stage heart failure and included the indications of bridge to transplant and destination therapy. Operative parameters, outcomes, adverse events, physical status and quality-of-life parameters were assessed in the first 30 days after LVAS implant. Fifty patients were implanted with the HeartMate 3 at 10 centres in 6 countries. The 30-day survival rate was 98%. The median operative and cardiopulmonary bypass times were 200 (range: 95-585) min and 84 (range: 47-250) min, respectively. Patients required transfusion with packed red blood cells (3.6 ± 2.3 units), fresh frozen plasma (6.5 ± 5 units) and platelets (2 ± 1 units). Six patients (12%) required reoperation for postoperative bleeding and 10 patients (20%) did not require blood transfusion. The median intensive care time was 6 days (range: 1-112 days) and the total hospital stay was 28 days (range: 14-116 days). The most common adverse events were bleeding (15, 30%), arrhythmia (14, 28%) and infection (10, 20%). There were 2 (4%) strokes. The 30-day outcomes following implantation of the HeartMate 3 demonstrates excellent survival with low adverse event rates. The LVAD performed as intended with no haemolysis or device failure. NCT02170363. HeartMate 3™ CE Mark Clinical Investigation Plan (HM3 CE Mark). © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE WORD 2007 - level 1 : ECDL\t(English)\t05-06.02\t2 days ACCESS 2007 - Level 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t09-10.02\t2 jours CERN EDMS – Introduction\t(English)\t10.02\t1 day CERN EDMS – Introduction\t(Français)\t11.02\t1 jour Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage)- Level 1\t(Français)\t12-13.02\t2 jours Windows Vista\t(Français)\t24.02\t3 heures ½ EXCEL 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t26-27.02\t2 jours Indico – Meeting Organisation\t(Français)\t02.03\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organisation\t(English)\t02.03\t3 hours Excel 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t03-04.03\t2 jours CERN EDMS for Local Administrators\t(English)\t04-05.03\t2 days Novelties Office 2007: Word 2007\t(Français)\t09.03\t1 jour Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 2\t(English)\t18-19.03\t2 d...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE ACCESS 2007 - Level 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t09-10.02\t2 jours CERN EDMS – Introduction\t(English)\t10.02\t1 day CERN EDMS – Introduction\t(Français)\t11.02\t1 jour Windows Vista\t(Français)\t24.02\t3 heures ½ EXCEL 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t26-27.02\t2 jours Indico – Meeting Organisation\t(Français)\t02.03\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organisation\t(English)\t02.03\t3 hours Excel 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t03-04.03\t2 jours CERN EDMS for Local Administrators\t(English)\t04-05.03\t2 days Novelties Office 2007: Word 2007\t(Français)\t09.03\t1 jour Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 2\t(English)\t18-19.03\t2 days Access 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t30-31.03\t2 jours SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES Oracle 10 g Certified Prof...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE ACCESS 2007 - Level 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t09-10.02\t2 jours CERN EDMS – Introduction\t(English)\t10.02\t1 day CERN EDMS – Introduction\t(Français)\t11.02\t1 jour Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage)- Level 1\t(Français)\t12-13.02\t2 jours Windows Vista\t(Français)\t24.02\t3 heures ½ EXCEL 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t26-27.02\t2 jours Indico – Meeting Organisation\t(Français)\t02.03\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organisation\t(English)\t02.03\t3 hours Excel 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t03-04.03\t2 jours CERN EDMS for Local Administrators\t(English)\t04-05.03\t2 days Novelties Office 2007: Word 2007\t(Français)\t09.03\t1 jour Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 2\t(English)\t18-19.03\t2 days Access 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t30-31.0...
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Six new projects will bridge gap between CERN and society
Anaïs Rassat, Knowledge Transfer Group
2016-01-01
Knowledge Transfer Fund awarded over six hundred thousand Swiss francs to six projects in 2016. Computer racks at the CERN Data Centre, the heart of CERN’s entire scientific, administrative, and computing infrastructure. CERN has awarded funding to six new projects with the aim to bridge the gap between technology and society. Over 600,000 CHF (€ 542,766) of capital was granted through its competitive Knowledge Transfer Fund (KT Fund). The fund is issued as part of CERN’s goal to maximize its overall impact on society. The selected projects cover new applications for CERN technology in a broad range of fields beyond high-energy physics, ranging from cancer diagnostics and aerospace applications, to next-generation cloud computing, radiation safety, and digital preservation. The technologies were developed at CERN as part of the variety of high-energy physics needs, and arise from several research departments: Engineering, Information Technology, Be...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Program 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course program in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Sharepoint Collaboration Worskpace\t(Français) 07-08.04\t2 jours CERN EDMS MTF in practice (English)\t09.04\t0.5 day Word 2007 : Niveau 1 ECDL (Français) 10-11.04\t2 jours Indico - Meeting Organization\t(Français)\t18.04\t1 day Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t18.04\t1 day Word 2007: Niveau 2 ECDL\t(Français)\t28-29.04\t2 jours Excel 2007 – Niveau 2 ECDL (Français)\t05-06.05\t2 jours In Design: Introduction (Français)\t13-14.05\t2 jours Sharepoint Collaboration Worskpace\t(English)\t19-20.05\t2 days Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 1 ECDL\t(English)\t29-30.05\t2 days SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES C++ Programming Part 1 – Java 2 Enterprise Edition: Part 2 Enterprise JavaBeans (English)\t14-16.04 3 days Oracle SQL (En...
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CERN Bulletin
2010-01-01
Viruses, phishing, malware and cyber-criminals can all threaten your computer and your data, even at CERN! Experts will share their experience with you and offer solutions to keep your computer secure. Thursday, 10 June 2010, 9.30, Council Chamber Make a note in your diary! Presentations in French and English: How do hackers break into your computer? Quels sont les enjeux et conséquences des attaques informatiques contre le CERN ? How so criminals steal your money on the Internet? Comment utiliser votre ordinateur de manière sécurisée ? and a quiz: test your knowledge and win one of the many prizes that will be on offer! For more information and to follow the day's events via a live webcast go to: http://cern.ch/SecDay.
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CERN welcomes Korea as an official collaborator
2006-01-01
His Excellency Mr. Won-Hwa Park, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Switzerland, with CERN's Director-General at the signature ceremony to mark Korea as an official collaborator. On 25 October, the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Switzerland, His Excellency Mr Won-Hwa Park, visited CERN. He came to sign, together with the Director-General Dr Robert Aymar, a formal Cooperation Agreement between CERN and the Government of the Republic of Korea, witnessed by Dr Joo-Han Kim of the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology. With this agreement that covers the development of scientific and technical cooperation in high-energy physics, Korea's participation in the experimental physics programme of CERN has now been formalised. Two days earlier, Dr Myung-Bak Lee, the former Mayor of Seoul, paid a visit to CERN, accompanied by ten members of his staff and fifteen Korean journalists. CERN was one of the destinations in Europe (together with GSI in Germany) on Dr Lee's agenda to gain information and to estab...
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Blocking of CERN Accounts after 28 February 28 2011
IT Department
2011-01-01
Since last year, all persons owning a CERN computer account must follow the obligatory CERN Computer Security Course. This course takes usually less than 15 minutes and is available online from inside and outside CERN at http://cern.ch/computersecuritycourse. Failure to pass this course by February 28th 2011 will lead to blocking the corresponding account. If you haven't taken it yet, do it NOW! Accounts of users who have not followed this course yet will be blocked during the first weeks of March. As a consequence, these users will not able anymore to log into any CERN computing resource with their primary account. Affected users should contact the CERN Service Desk at 77777 (+41 22 76 77777 from outside CERN) or http://cern.ch/service-desk in order to get their account unblocked. They will be given a grace-period of five days to follow the course or the account will be blocked again. Please see also the announcement in a previous issue of the Bulletin. Thank you for your collaboration, CERN Computer Sec...
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies Business Objects advanced\t20-Oct-10\t20-Oct-10\tEnglish\t1 day C++ Part 2: Object-Oriented and Generic Programming\t22-Nov-10\t25-Nov-10\tEnglish\t4 days CERN openlab Multi-threading and Parallelism Workshop\t9-Nov-10\t10-Nov-10\tEnglish CERN openlab/Intel Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop\t22-Sep-10\t23-Sep-10\tEnglish\t2 days ITIL Foundations (version 3)\t22-Nov-10\t24-Nov-10\tEnglish\t3 days ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION\t28-Oct-10\t28-Oct-10\tEnglish\t1 hour JAVA - Level 1\t25-Nov-10\t29-Nov-10\tEnglish\t3 days JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition - Part 1: Web Applications\t27-Oct-10\t28-Oct-10\tEnglish\t2 days JCOP - Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework\t17-Nov-10\t19-Nov-10\tEnglish\t3 days JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t11-Oct-10\t15-Oct-10\tEnglish\t4...
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CERN exhibition a big hit in Bulgaria
2005-01-01
The first CERN exhibition in Bulgaria attracted many visitors. In the first ever CERN exhibition to be held in Bulgaria, over 1,400 visitors, many of them students and young physicists, visited the 10-day event in Sofia. The CERN mini-exhibition took place at the National Earth and Mankind Museum between 8 and 17 November. Permanently staffed by young physicists from Sofia University, there were exhibits on display about research activities at CERN, as well as four additional posters describing Bulgaria's participation. The inauguration took place on the morning of 8 November in the presence of the Vice-Minister for Science and Education, Mrs. Vanya Dobreva, and some 200 guests. A series of short speeches were followed by a visit to the exhibition. CERN's representative at the event, Ray Lewis, was then asked by Professor Matey Mateev, President of the Union of Physicists in Bulgaria, to say a few words on behalf of the Organization. Numerous journalists were also present at the inauguration. A painting enti...
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Finding buildings at CERN is not a treasure hunt any more
CERN. Geneva; POL, Adrian Alan
2015-01-01
"Where's Waldo?" - the question of every human, on the first day of work at CERN. Hundreds of buildings and paper map does not help as much as we can get in the XXI century. In this presentation we will discuss the CERN Android Maps, an application that makes you move at CERN like a pro.
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2004-01-01
History came full circle on Saturday 23 October, when CERN's 50th anniversary celebrations drew to a close with a ceremony at Geneva University's Institut de Physique. For it was here, on the banks of the River Arve, that CERN's first staff members, from the PS Magnets Group, came to work in October 1953. Since that day, there has not been a break in the collaboration between CERN and the Institut de Physique de Genève. "We cooperate very closely in the fields of experimental and theoretical particle physics, of course, but also in applied and materials physics," says Alain Blondel, Professor at Geneva University (ATLAS member and neutrino factory promoter) and organiser of the ceremony. "For instance, the Physics Section has just developed a superconducting magnet capable of reaching a continuous magnetic field of 21.3 Tesla, which is of great interest to CERN." The ceremony, interspersed with "cosmic" musical interludes, was an opportunity to recall this partnership that is more than fifty years old. A c...
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Museum professionals meet at CERN
2005-01-01
As part of the World Year of Physics, CERN organised a day of meetings attended by professionals from French and Swiss science museums. The poster for the Einstein exhibition that will open in Bern on 16 June 2005. Around thirty professionals from science museums, as well as representatives of France's Office de Coopération et d'Information Muséographiques (OCIM) and the Suisse Romande Réseau Science et Cité, congregated at CERN on 10th February with the purpose, among other things, of exchanging ideas and information on proposed exhibitions for the World Year of Physics. "We thought that it would be a good idea to start the World Year of Physics with a meeting at CERN that could provide inspiration for future exhibitions", explains Emma Sanders, Head of the Visits Service and Microcosm. Many scientific museums are trying to improve the way they cover contemporary science, and CERN is an ideal place to observe science in the making. Other goals of the meeting were to strengthen links between French and...
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First Tuesday @ CERN: Industrial Impact of Information Technology from CERN
CERN. Geneva
2004-01-01
CERN is where the web was born, and remains a hothouse of innovation in information technology (IT). In this fourth First Tuesday @ CERN, we look at industrial partnership at CERN in the IT area from several different angles. The approach taken by CERN with software licencing - a very hot topic in the world of IT - will be discussed. The benefits that CERN hardware and software suppliers gain from working with CERN will be presented, and the CERN openlab, a new approach to industrial partnership at CERN, will be covered. A novel ingredient of this First Tuesday @ CERN is that it will be run in parallel with a similar event for the business community in London, and there will be webcast presentations between the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London and CERN during the event. Thus, First Tuesday @ CERN will take on a truly European dimension, to reflect CERN's European character.
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CERN exhibition attracts over 100,000 visitors in Belgrade
Antonella Del Rosso
2012-01-01
“This must be an 'all-time record',” says Ray Lewis, CERN travelling exhibition manager. “In all my time with the various permanent and travelling exhibitions that have taken place locally and within our Member States I have never experienced such figures.” Zarko Obradovic (left), Serbian Minister of Education, Science and Technology, and Rolf Heuer (right), CERN Director-General, at the CERN travelling exhibition in Belgrade. Indeed, in approximately 20 days of exhibition time about 120,000 people, mainly school visiters and the general public, visited the 100 m2 CERN mini-exhibition. It was set up in the centre of Belgrade in October, in association with the meeting of the Restricted European Committee for Future Accelerators (RECFA). After attending the RECFA meeting, CERN's Director-General Rofl Heuer opened the CERN exhibition on the evening of 19 October. Lectures about CERN were held every afternoon, and two public de...
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First Tuesday @ CERN: Industrial Impact of Information Technology from CERN
CERN. Geneva
2004-01-01
CERN is where the web was born, and remains a hothouse of innovation in information technology (IT). In this fourth First Tuesday @ CERN, we look at industrial partnership at CERN in the IT area from several different angles. The approach taken by CERN with software licencing - a very hot topic in the world of IT - will be discussed. The benefits that CERN hardware and software suppliers gain from working with CERN will be presented, and the CERN openlab, a new approach to industrial partnership at CERN, will be covered. A novel ingredient of this First Tuesday @ CERN is that it will be run in parallel with a similar event for the business community in London, and there will be webcast presentations between the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London and CERN during the event. Thus, First Tuesday @ CERN will take on a truly European dimension, to reflect CERN's European character. More information: http://www.rezonance.ch, or view the joint UK event program
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A quality improvement plan to reduce 30-day readmissions of heart failure patients.
Simpson, Monica
2014-01-01
An evidence-based quality initiative to decrease heart failure 30-day readmissions was implemented at a hospital in Florida. Heart failure education and postdischarge telephone contact were provided to patients determined to be at high risk of readmission using risk stratification tools. The rate during the project decreased 13% as compared to the same time period in the previous year and 8.5% from the 2012 year to date rate.
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Important changes for cern.market and other newsgroups at CERN
2007-01-01
The "cern.market" is moving to the web! You should now use http://cern.ch/cern.market to read and post messages. After 25 June it will no longer be possible to post messages from a newsreader. More generally, the CERN newsgroup service (news.cern.ch) will be progressively decommissioned in June/July 2007. The newsgroup functionality for CERN discussion forums such as the cern.market is moving to web-based discussion forums and RSS feeds. As of 9 July, public services will need to be used to access public newsgroups (those not starting with "cern"), as the internal news.cern.ch server will cease to provide them. Please read http://cern.ch/mail/help/?fdid=33 for more information. The Mail Services team
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CERN Scientific Book Fair 2013
CERN Library
2013-01-01
The CERN Bookshop and CERN Library invite you to attend the 2013 CERN Book Fair, a two-day scientific event offering you the opportunity to meet key publishers and to browse and purchase books at significant discounts. Key publishers will present a selection of titles in physics, technology, mathematics, engineering, computing and popular science. You are welcome to come along and meet the publishers’ representatives or simply have a look at the books on sale. The fair will take place in the Main Building (Bldg. 500) on the ground floor near Restaurant 1 on Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 September. Participating or represented publishers include: Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Springer, Wiley, and World Scientific-Imperial College Press. Fair opening times: - Monday 9 September 9:00 - 18:00 - Tuesday 10 September 9:00 - 18:00
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Three European ministers visit CERN
2007-01-01
There have been three ministerial visits to CERN this month. Gediminas Kirkilas, Prime Minister of Lithuania, and Robert Aymar, CERN’s Director-General.On 2 July, the Prime Minister of Lithuania, Gediminas Kirkilas, was welcomed by CERN’s Director-General, Robert Aymar, before being taken on a visit of the ATLAS cavern at Point 2 and the LHC tunnel. Michal Sewerynski, Poland’s Minister for Science and Higher Education, and Robert Aymar, CERN’s Director-General.Ten days later, Poland’s Minister for Science and Higher Education, Michal Sewerynski, visited the CMS cavern and assembly hall and the LHC tunnel. He was also given a tour of the LHC Computer Centre and the CERN Control Centre. His visit was rounded off with a presentation of Polish companies involved in CERN’s activities, followed by a meeting with Polish personnel working at CERN. J�...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Office 2007 – Novelties\t(Français)\t29.09\t1 jour Novelties Office 2007: Word 2007\t(Français)\t30.09\t1 jour Excel 2007 (Short course II) – HowTo…format your worksheet for printing\t(Bilingual)\t03.10\t0.5 day Windows Vista Advanced\t(English)\t03.10\t0.5 day Excel 2007 – Level 1 : ECDL\t(English)\t06-07.10\t2 days Project Planning with MS-Project\t(English)\t06-17.10\t2 days CERN EDMS For Local Administrators\t(French)\t08-09.10\t2 jours Excel 2007 (Short course IV) – HowTo…link cells, worksheets and workbooks (Bilingual)\t10.10\t½ day Outlook 2007 (Short course III) – Meetings and Delegation\t(Bilingual)\t10.10\t½ day Introduction to Dreamweaver MX\t(Français)\t13-14.10\t2 jours Indico – Meeting Organization\t(Français)\t15.10\t2 heures Ind...
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CERN Technical Training: available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Word 2007 – Level 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t22-23.09\t2 jours Novelties Office 2007: Word 2007\t(Français)\t30.09\t1 jour Excel 2007 (Short course II) – HowTo…format your worksheet for printing\t(Bilingual)\t03.10\t0.5 day Windows Vista Advanced\t(English)\t03.10\t0.5 day Excel 2007 – Level 1 : ECDL\t(English)\t06-07.10\t2 days Project Planning with MS-Project\t(English)\t06-17.10\t2 days CERN EDMS For Local Administrators\t(French)\t08-09.10\t2 jours Excel 2007 (Short course IV) – HowTo…link cells, worksheets and workbooks (Bilingual)\t10.10\t½ day Outlook 2007 (Short course III) – Meetings and Delegation\t(Bilingual)\t10.10\t½ day Introduction to Dreamweaver MX\t(Français)\t13-14.10\t2 jours Indico – Meeting Organization\t(Français)\t15.10\t2 heu...
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Important update of CERN Mail Services
IT Department
2009-01-01
The CERN Mail Services are evolving. In the course of June and July 2009, all CERN mailboxes will be updated with a new infrastructure for hosting mailboxes, running Exchange 2007. This update is taking place in order to provide the capacity upgrade for the constantly growing volume of CERN mailboxes. It is also the opportunity to provide a number of improvements to CERN mailboxes: new and improved Outlook Web Access (the web interface used to access your mailbox from a web browser, also known as "webmail"), new features in the Out-of-Office auto-reply assistant, easier spam management... The update will preserve the mailbox configuration and no specific action is required by users. During the next weeks, each mailbox will be individually notified of the upcoming update the day before it takes place. We invite all users to carefully read this notification as it will contain the latest information for this update. The mailbox will be unavailable for a short time during the ni...
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Google Science Fair winner visits CERN
Katarina Anthony
2012-01-01
Google Science Fair Grand Prize winner Brittany Michelle Wenger today wrapped up a day-and-a-half's visit of the CERN site. Her winning project uses an artificial neural network to diagnose breast cancer – a non-invasive technique with significant potential for use in hospitals. Brittany Michelle Wenger at CERN's SM18 Hall. Besides winning a $50,000 scholarship from Google and work experience opportunities with some of the contest hosts, Brittany was offered a personal tour of CERN. “This visit has just been incredible,” she says. “I got to speak with [CERN's Director for Accelerators and Technology] Steve Myers about some of the medical applications and technologies coming out of the LHC experiments and how they can be used to treat cancer. We talked about proton therapy and hadron therapy, which could really change the way patients are treated, improving success rates and making treatment not such an excruciating process. That ...
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Maximilien Brice
2002-01-01
Right to left: Thomas Wobmann and Markus Zemp visit the LHC tunnel at CERN with G nther Dissertori and Marcel Wyler of ETH Zurich. Their visit was part of the top prize for a competition organised by the ETH department of physics to coincide with its open day in June. Residents of Zurich and surrounding Swiss cantons were invited to answer five physics questions broadcast on local radio and the Internet the week before the open day. The two winners' reward for knowing who did not believe that God plays dice, among other things, was a flight offered by Swiss International Air Lines to Geneva and a VIP tour of CERN. One highlight was a trip to the underground site of the future CMS experiment, where the scale of the enormous cavern makes construction machines look like children's toys.
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Important changes for cern.market and other newsgroups at CERN
2007-01-01
The "cern.market" is moving to the web! You should now use http://cern.ch/cern.market to read and post messages. After 25 June it will no longer be possible to post messages from a newsreader. More generally, the CERN newsgroup service (news.cern.ch) will be progressively decommissioned in June/July 2007. The newsgroup functionality for CERN discussion forums such as the cern.market is moving to web-based discussion forums and RSS feeds. As of 9 July, public services will need to be used to access public newsgroups (those not starting with "cern"), as the internal news.cern.ch server will cease to provide them. Please read go there for more information. The Mail Services team
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Building an Immersive CERN Data Centre Virtual Visit System
CERN. Geneva; VALSAN, Liviu
2015-01-01
Interested in working on building an immersive, panoramic virtual visit of the CERN Data Centre? We'll show the system used during CERN Open Days, its limitations and plans on how to take it to the next level as a permanent installation to be used by visitors from around the world.
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Anesthetic management of a 2-day-old with complete congenital heart block
Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)
Puneet Khanna
2014-01-01
Full Text Available Maternal connective tissue disorders such as Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (most common, Sjogren′s syndrome, mixed connective tissue disorders may lead to the rare condition of complete congenital heart block in the neonate. Rare fetal syndromes such as myocarditis, 18p syndrome, mucopolysaccharidoses and mitochondrial diseases are other causes. The mortality rate of this condition is inversely propotional to the age of presentation being 6 % in the neonatal age group. As the cardiac output in the neonate is heart rate dependent, it is crucial to maintain the heart rate in these patients. Pharamacological interventions with dopamine, isoprenaline, epinephrine and atropine are known for their variable response. Although permanent pacing is the most reliable mode of management, the access to it is often not readily available, especially in the developing countries. In such cases temporary pacing methods become lifesaving. Of all the modalities of temporary pacing (transcutaneous, transesophageal and transvenous transcutaneous pacing is the most readily available and immediate mode. In this case report we present a two day old neonate with isolated complete congenital heart block and a resting heart rate of 50-55/min in immediate need of palliative surgery for trachea-esophageal fistula (TEF. With pharmacological intervention the heart rate could only be raised to 75-80/min. The surgery was successfully carried out using transcutaneous pacing to maintain a heart rate of 100/min.
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IT Services Availability during the Annual CERN Closure 2006
2006-01-01
Most of the physics, technical, administrative and communications services provided by the IT Department, including LCG (EGEE) production services, will remain available during the CERN annual closure (although EDH requests will stay queued). No interruptions are scheduled (beyond PABX maintenance work on 3-5 January 2007) but restoration of services in case of failure cannot be guaranteed. Problems which arise should be addressed within about half a day except around Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (24 and 25 December) and New Year's Eve and New Year's Day (31 December and 1 January). Incidents will be documented at http://cern.ch/ssb. Although the backup service will be operational, backups cannot be guaranteed and file restores will not be possible. Damaged tapes in Castor will not be processed. Please note that the Helpdesk will be closed but an operator service will be maintained throughout and can be reached at extension 75011 or by email to computer.operations@cern.ch where urgent problems may be ad...
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The story of CERN a 50 year journey to the heart of matter
Mann, Christopher
2004-01-01
This film chronicles the history of the CERN the world's largest laboratory for studying the nature of the matter. Using fascinating archive footage, interviews, stunning video and state-of the art computer generated images, it spans half a century, from the homes and vision of CERN's founding fathers to the laboratory's latest particle accelerator,the 27-km Large Hadron Collider. This special feature presents a rare opportunity to hear Professor Peter Higgins talking abaut his life and the hunt for the mass-conferring particle named after him, the Higgs boson.
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2009-01-01
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of Argentina, in the ATLAS cavern with Minister of Science and Technology, Lino Barañao. The President of Mozambique, Armando Guebuza, being shown a crystal from the CMS calorimeter by Jim Virdee, CMS spokesperson, and Felicitas Pauss, CERN Coordinator for External Relations. The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and the First Lady visited the CMS experiment. It was a busy day for many at CERN on 15 June with visits from the Presidents of Argentina, Poland and Mozambique all in one day! The three Presidents were in Geneva for a summit organized by the International Labour Organization (ILO), and couldn’t resist the opportunity to see CERN before heading home. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of Argentina, visited the ATLAS cavern with Minister of Science and Technology, Lino Barañao. While at CERN Kirchner signed an agreement be...
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CERN Technical Training: Open Courses (July 2007)
2007-01-01
The following course sessions are currently scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2007: ANSYS – Classical (French) 16.7.-20.7.2007 (5 days, 2 places available) CERN – EDMS – MTF en pratique 17.07.2007 (1 day, 6 places available) WORD 2007 – Niveau 1 ECDL 24.7.-25.7.2007 (2 days, 9 places available) Introduction to Databases and Database Design (English) 24.7.-25.7.2007 (2 days, 2 places available) Technique du vide (French): 24.7.-25.7.2007 (2 days, 6 places available) Excel 2007 – Niveau 1 ECDL 26.7.-27.7.2007 (2 days, 8 places available) If you are interested in attending any of the above course sessions, please discuss with your supervisor and/or your DTO, and apply electronically via EDH from the course description pages that can be found here under ‘Upcoming course sessions’, with the detailed course programs. Please do check our web-site for the latest number of places available for a given scheduled course. The complet...
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Visits to CERN by Norwegian and Portuguese officials
2003-01-01
During his visit to CERN on 30 April 2003, Mr Bjørn Haugstad, State Secretary, Ministry of Education and Research, Norway, toured the LHC magnet test hall and the installations of ATLAS and the European Computing Grid project. Seen here, at a luncheon given in his honour, from left to right: Bjørn Haugstad, State Secretary, Ministry of Education and Research, Norway, Cecilia Jarlskog, CERN Adviser on Member State Relations, Morten Knutsen, CERN Purchasing Service, Jens Vigen, CERN Library, Steinar Stapnes, physicist at the ATLAS experiment and Professor at the University of Oslo, Carlo Wyss, CERN's Director for Accelerators (standing) and Leif Westgaard, Norwegian delegate to the CERN Council and member of the Norwegian Research Council. His visit was followed a few days later, on 6 May, by that of the Portuguese Minister for Science and Higher Education, H. E. Mr Pedro Augusto Lynce de Faria, who was also given a tour of various ATLAS and LHC installations. The Minister also had the opportunity to meet me...
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One step ahead of technology Cern and HP - an ideal team project
Garvey, Kelsey
2009-01-01
"In 2004, the It team at Cern recognized the comprehensiveness and future of the LHC Computing Grid Project and realized that the IT infrastructures were not sufficient enough to manage the data. Cern therefore partnered with HP ProCurve the following year to minimize the day-to-day workload and improve infrastructure for data output" (1 page)
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Alizée Dauvergne
2010-01-01
Recently, ten new semi-automatic defibrillators were installed at various locations around CERN. This is a preventive measure intended to provide cardiac arrest victims with the best possible response. The first responder could be you! The Director-General has welcomed the initiative of the Medical Service and Fire Brigade for the installation of ten new semi-automatic defibrillators. You have probably seen them on your way to the restaurant, for example: brand new semi-automatic defibrillators, ready for an emergency. Housed in a white wall-mounted case, the bright red defibrillators are marked with a white heart symbol crossed by a lightning bolt (see photo). The defibrillator is designed so that anyone can use it. “Anyone can use it, you don’t need to be a health professional,” says Dr Reymond from CERN's Medical Service. Together with the CERN Fire Brigade, he is behind the initiative to have these units put in place. And with good reason, as the unit...
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CERN, accelerator of motivation
François Becler
2014-01-01
Have your dreams ever come true? My dream did, when I was lucky enough to be allowed into the world’s largest particle physics laboratory and spend five whole days there. François, in front of LEP's DELPHI detector, displayed in the LHCb cavern. François was given the opportunity to visit the experiment during his placement at CERN. I’m a pupil in my last year at the Collège Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Saint-Julien-en-Genevois and was on a work experience placement at CERN from 16 to 20 December last year. I’m so happy I was chosen because working alongside physicists and engineers of all nationalities was like a dream come true. The first thing that impressed me was the size of the site, its infrastructures and facilities but also the fact that I was working in a prestigious, world-renowned organisation. I spent lots of time looking at the map and trying to find my way around... CERN's such a massive place ! Th...
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People and things. CERN Courier, Nov 1979, v. 19(8)
International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Anon.
1979-01-01
The article covers the celebration of the 'Journée du Personnel' (Staff Day), where over 3000 CERN staff turned up to enjoy various attractions like games, sports, sideshows, competitions, films, music and entertainment, and dancing that went on into the small hours. One highlight was the playing of 'Happy Birthday, CERN — From Fermi lab', recorded at Fermi lab. In other news, the article reports on various people, staff changes within the CERN organization and recent news updates
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People and things. CERN Courier, Nov 1979, v. 19(8)
Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)
Anon.
1979-11-15
The article covers the celebration of the 'Journée du Personnel' (Staff Day), where over 3000 CERN staff turned up to enjoy various attractions like games, sports, sideshows, competitions, films, music and entertainment, and dancing that went on into the small hours. One highlight was the playing of 'Happy Birthday, CERN — From Fermi lab', recorded at Fermi lab. In other news, the article reports on various people, staff changes within the CERN organization and recent news updates.
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Ahmed, Ali; Bourge, Robert C.; Fonarow, Gregg C.; Patel, Kanan; Morgan, Charity J.; Fleg, Jerome L.; Aban, Inmaculada B.; Love, Thomas E.; Yancy, Clyde W.; Deedwania, Prakash; van Veldhuisen, Dirk J.; Filippatos, Gerasimos S.; Anker, Stefan D.; Allman, Richard M.
BACKGROUND: Heart failure is the leading cause for hospital readmission, the reduction of which is a priority under the Affordable Care Act. Digoxin reduces 30-day all-cause hospital admission in chronic systolic heart failure. Whether digoxin is effective in reducing readmission after
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Remote video conferencing teaching from CERN
Harold Ogren
For those of us who are teaching at a university, coming to CERN for a week means that someone else has to be found to teach our course. Recently, thanks to an initiative of CERN's Education Group who in collaboration with the IT department have buit a Remote Video Conference (VC) room for outreach communication with schools, I have been able to test teaching class back home whilst at the same time being at CERN! On Monday October 5, at 16:00, (10:00 at Indiana University), I attempted my first remote class. Of course, I could not do this alone. Back in the main auditorium in the physics Department, Hal Evans and Fred Luehring had rolled in a portable teleconference center, set up lecture demos and started a class computer. At CERN, Knut Bjorkli had the teaching center teleconference screen active, and had also connected to my class website when I arrived. The first day startup was a bit rocky - there were fire wall problems (?) that required that we connect to the Indiana VC unit rather than the other way a...
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CERN to start producing medical isotopes
Anaïs Schaeffer
2012-01-01
A promising project that was hailed at the ICTR-PHE 2012 medical conference (see Bulletin issues 10-11/2012 and 12-13/2012) has seen the light of day at CERN. The project, known by the name of MEDICIS, will make it possible to produce a large variety of radioactive isotopes for medical research. This image of a brain, superimposed on a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, was taken by a PET scanner after injecting a molecule containing a positron-emitting isotope. CERN-MEDICIS will produce new isotopes for imaging which will be able to show up cancerous tissues and destroy them by emitting local radiation as the isotopes decay. In the United States, a new radium-based drug which targets bone metastases is about to go on the market. Radium, which can be brought to bear at the cell level, is a potent weapon in the fight against certain types of cancer, and is opening the way to a new form of medicine. This is the direction that CERN has decided to follow through the CERN-MEDICIS* (Medical Isotopes...
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Make-A-Wish recipient visits CERN
Ashley WennersHerron
2012-01-01
Katie Kemp, an 18-year-old from Seattle, wants to know how the Universe operates. On 22 June, she started working on the answer with help from CERN and Make-A-Wish Switzerland, a foundation that grants wishes to children and young adults in Switzerland living with life-threatening conditions. Katie Kemp, during her visit to CERN. “Switzerland has been amazing,” Katie said. “I've met a ton of fantastic people and seen all kinds of fascinating things.” A serious student who plans to study engineering and physics this autumn at the University of Washington, Katie was particularly fascinated by the magnets in SM-18. “We just finished studying electromagnetism at school,” Katie said. “It was great to see the magnets.” Diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy when she was 15 years old, Katie isn’t letting the heart condition stop her from working towards a bright future. “I want to k...
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Stephanie McClellan
2013-01-01
Supported by host Helen Keen from BBC4’s "It is Rocket Science", six amateur performers from CERN (Sam Gregson, Alex Brown, Benjamin Frisch, Claire Lee, Hugo Day and Clara Nellist) were joined on stage by geek-pop sensation Jonny Berliner and comedians Pierre Novellie and Lieven Scheire for a night of science stand-up comedy. Host Helen Keen starts off the comedy event. (Image: Piotr Traczyk). Like the genesis of most great things, the LHComedy event began as an idea. Sam Gregson, a PhD student at CERN, had been a regular at the Cambridge Bright Club. This public engagement event promotes scientists’ research through stand-up comedy. Sam thought, “If people came to watch Bright Club at Cambridge and enjoyed the research, why can’t we do it at the biggest scientific experiment in the world?” Sam’s idea gained momentum after being introduced to FameLab participants at CERN. Similar to Bright Club, FameLab is a com...
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CERN scientific book fair 2010
CERN Library
2010-01-01
The CERN Bookshop and CERN Library invite you to attend the 2010 CERN Book Fair, a two-day scientific event offering you the opportunity to meet key publishers and to browse and purchase books at significant discounts. Some twelve companies will be present and will bring with them a selection of titles in physics, technology, mathematics, engineering, computing and popular science. You are welcome to come along and meet the publishers’ representatives or simply have a look to the books on offer. The Fair will take place in the Main Building (bldg. 500) on the ground floor near the Restaurant 1 on Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th September. Participating or represented publishers include: Cambridge University Press, EPFL Press – PPUR, Oxford University Press, Imperial College Press, McGraw-Hill, Oxford University Press, Pearson Education, Princeton University Press, Springer, Taylor and Francis, Wiley, World Scientific. Fair opening times: Tuesday 7 September 9:00 &ndash...
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CERN Scientific Book Fair 2008
DSU Unit
2008-01-01
The CERN Bookshop and CERN Library invite you to attend the 2008 CERN Book Fair 2008, a three-day scientific book festival offering you the opportunity to meet key publishers and electronic book suppliers and to browse and purchase books at significant discounts. Some ten companies will be participating and will bring with them a selection of titles in physics, technology, mathematics, engineering and popular science. There will also be a number of tie-in events intended to give you an insight into the writing and publishing process from authors within our own community. Come along and meet the authors, discuss your book ideas with the publishers’ representatives or simply browse the books on offer. The Fair will take place in Building 500 in the area near the Main Auditorium, and special presentations (as detailed below) will be held in rooms nearby or in the Library. Participating publishers and book traders include: Cambridge ...
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International Geneva comes to CERN
Antonella Del Rosso
2015-01-01
To strengthen even more its links with the United Nations and the world of multilateral diplomacy, CERN is launching a new series of seminars aiming to introduce other international organisations to CERN’s internal audience. The Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) will lead the way with a seminar on 20 February. You are all invited to take part. Although everybody knows where the Palais des Nations is, not everybody has visited it and even fewer people know about the complex mechanisms that make the UN work. On 20 February, Mr Michael Møller, Acting Director-General of UNOG, will discuss the topics that the international organisation par excellence deals with every day, its relationship with the headquarters in New York and the challenges that lie ahead, as well as the cooperation between UNOG and CERN. Since 2010, CERN has considerably strengthened its relationships with the other international organisations in Geneva and beyond. Cooperation Ag...
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Patrice Loiez
2004-01-01
When CERN opened its doors to the public for its open day on 16 October, the laboratory took on the air of a county fair. Children took rides around the site in a big lorry, visitors ate ice cream that had been handmade in a flash using liquid nitrogen, and crowds strolled the lanes as they visited more than 50 events across various sites in Switzerland and France.
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IT Services Availability during the CERN Annual Closure 2005
2005-01-01
Mail, CERN Windows (NICE), Web services, LXPLUS, LXBATCH, AFS, the automated tape devices, Castor, CDS Search, Submit and Agenda, InDiCo, EDMS (in collaboration with TS Department), Campus Network, Remedy, and Security services will be available during the CERN annual closure. All production databases will remain available (but not development databases such as devdb and devdb10). Problems occuring on scheduled services should be addressed within about half a day, except around Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (24 and 25 December) and New Year's Eve and New Year's Day (31 December and 1st January). As far as administrative computings services are concerned, ERT (Electronic Recruitment Tool) and PPT (Project Progress Tracking) for EGEE will be the only operational services; all other AIS applications such as EDH, CET, HRT, etc. will be unavailable from Wednesday 21/12 12:00 to Thursday 5/01/2005 8:00. The CERN LCG Production Services will be run on a 'best effortâ basis. All other services (such as the ...
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Chasseur de rayons cosmiques au CERN
Brouet, Anne-Muriel
2003-01-01
Alvaro de Rújula swims every day in the macro and the microspace. At CERN since 25 years, he shares his time between his appointment as a professor in Boston and his researches to satisfy his scientific curiosity
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CERN Technical Training 2005: "Introduction to ANSYS"
Davide Vitè
2005-01-01
Course Session (28.6 - 1.7.2005) The following course session is scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2005, and in collaboration with CAD-FEM AG (CH): Introduction to ANSYS (course in English): 28.6 - 1.7.2005 (4 days, 6 places available, estimated cost: approx. 1'200.- CHF per person). The price quoted above may vary, depending on the number of confirmed participants. If you are interested in attending the above course session, please discuss with your supervisor and/or your DTO, and apply electronically via EDH from the course description pages that can be found at http://www.cern.ch/TechnicalTraining/ under "Places Available", with the detailed course programmes. Due to the short notice, please send at the same time an e-mail to Technical.Training@cern.ch, announcing your registration. The complete training offer of ANSYS courses at CERN can be found at the same website, in the Mechanical Design curriculum, Finite Element Methods section. Organiser: Davide Vit&egr...
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Count-down to CERN's 50th Anniversary
2003-01-01
Exactly 50 years ago, on 1 July 1953, CERN's founding convention was signed. A year later, after it was ratified by the founding Member States, the Organization itself saw the light of day. CERN is getting ready to celebrate the historic anniversary. The preparations are beginning for a year of festivities in 2004 and you can already access the graphics for it.
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies Agile Project Management with Scrum 11-FEB-10 12-FEB-10 2 days English C++ Part 1 - Hands-On Introduction 17-Mar-10 19-Mar-10 3 days English CERN openlab/Intel Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop 09-FEB-10 10-FEB-10 2 days English Developing secure software 22-Mar-10 22-Mar-10 0,5 days English Emacs - way beyond Text Editing 26-Mar-10 26-Mar-10 1 day English Introduction to Databases and Database Design 11-Mar-10 12-Mar-10 2 days English JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition - Part 2: Enterprise JavaBeans 22-Mar-10 24-Mar-10 3 days English JCOP - Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework 9-Mar-10 11-Mar-10 3 days English JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework 22-FEB-10 26-FEB-10 3 days English Object-Oriented Analysis and Design using UML 23-Mar-10 25...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Excel 2007 – Level 1 : ECDL\t(French)\t06-07.10\t2 jours Project Planning with MS-Project\t(English)\t06-10.10\t2 days CERN EDMS For Local Administrators\t(French)\t08-09.10\t2 jours Excel 2007 (Short course IV) – HowTo…link cells, worksheets and workbooks (Bilingual)\t10.10\t½ day Outlook 2007 (Short course III) – Meetings and Delegation\t(Bilingual)\t10.10\t3 hours Introduction to Dreamweaver MX\t(Français)\t13-14.10\t2 jours Indico – Meeting Organization\t(Français)\t15.10\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t15.10\t3 heures Word 2007 – Niveau 2 : ECDL\t(Français)\t20-21.10\t2 jours Novelties Office 2007 : PowerPoint 2007 (English)\t27.10\t1 day Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(Français)\t06-07.11\t1 ½ day Excel 2007 ...
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2000-01-01
H. E. Mr Christopher Hulse, Ambassador of United Kingdom in Switzerland, CERN Director General Luciano Maiani, Sir David Wright, Chief Executive of British Trade International and Roger Cashmore, CERN Director of research visit the Britain at CERN exhibition. From 14 to 17 November 30 British companies exhibited leading edge technologies at CERN. This is Britain's 18th exhibition at CERN since 1968. Out of the 30 companies, which attended the Britain at CERN exhibition in 1998, 25 have received an order or a contract relating to CERN during the last two years. The exhibition was inaugurated on Tuesday by Sir David Wright, Chief Executive of British Trade International. He was accompanied by H.E. Mr Christopher Hulse CMG, OBE, Her Majesty's Ambassador to Switzerland, and Mr. David Roberts, Deputy Head of Mission and Director of Trade Promotion at the British Embassy in Bern. CERN Director-General, Professor Luciano Maiani, underlined the major contribution of British physicists to CERN, pointing out the fact ...
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Lung Function before and Two Days after Open-Heart Surgery
Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)
Charlotte Urell
2012-01-01
Full Text Available Reduced lung volumes and atelectasis are common after open-heart surgery, and pronounced restrictive lung volume impairment has been found. The aim of this study was to investigate factors influencing lung volumes on the second postoperative day. Open-heart surgery patients (n=107, 68 yrs, 80% male performed spirometry both before surgery and on the second postoperative day. The factors influencing postoperative lung volumes and decrease in lung volumes were investigated with univariate and multivariate analyses. Associations between pain (measured by numeric rating scale and decrease in postoperative lung volumes were calculated with Spearman rank correlation test. Lung volumes decreased by 50% and were less than 40% of the predictive values postoperatively. Patients with BMI >25 had lower postoperative inspiratory capacity (IC (33±14% pred. than normal-weight patients (39±15% pred., (P=0.04. More pain during mobilisation was associated with higher decreases in postoperative lung volumes (VC: r=0.33, P=0.001; FEV1: r=0.35, P≤0.0001; IC: r=0.25, P=0.01. Patients with high BMI are a risk group for decreased postoperative lung volumes and should therefore receive extra attention during postoperative care. As pain is related to a larger decrease in postoperative lung volumes, optimal pain relief for the patients should be identified.
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Lung Function before and Two Days after Open-Heart Surgery.
Urell, Charlotte; Westerdahl, Elisabeth; Hedenström, Hans; Janson, Christer; Emtner, Margareta
2012-01-01
Reduced lung volumes and atelectasis are common after open-heart surgery, and pronounced restrictive lung volume impairment has been found. The aim of this study was to investigate factors influencing lung volumes on the second postoperative day. Open-heart surgery patients (n = 107, 68 yrs, 80% male) performed spirometry both before surgery and on the second postoperative day. The factors influencing postoperative lung volumes and decrease in lung volumes were investigated with univariate and multivariate analyses. Associations between pain (measured by numeric rating scale) and decrease in postoperative lung volumes were calculated with Spearman rank correlation test. Lung volumes decreased by 50% and were less than 40% of the predictive values postoperatively. Patients with BMI >25 had lower postoperative inspiratory capacity (IC) (33 ± 14% pred.) than normal-weight patients (39 ± 15% pred.), (P = 0.04). More pain during mobilisation was associated with higher decreases in postoperative lung volumes (VC: r = 0.33, P = 0.001; FEV(1): r = 0.35, P ≤ 0.0001; IC: r = 0.25, P = 0.01). Patients with high BMI are a risk group for decreased postoperative lung volumes and should therefore receive extra attention during postoperative care. As pain is related to a larger decrease in postoperative lung volumes, optimal pain relief for the patients should be identified.
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"At CERN, the infrastructures come second to the people behind them"
Antonella Del Rosso
2014-01-01
The daily responsibilities of Lluis Miralles Verge, Head of the GS Department since August 2013, range from overseeing the CERN "master plan" and the construction of new buildings and infrastructures to managing the Organization's roads and access to its different sites. However, he stresses that none of this is as fundamental to the smooth running of the Laboratory as the people behind the services concerned. Lluis Miralles Verge. Lluis Miralles worked as an engineer with the ATLAS collaboration and with various Spanish institutions before arriving at CERN last year (see CV), so he was no stranger to the complexities of working in a scientific environment. That is not to say that CERN did not hold any surprises for him! "When I took up the post of GS Department Leader I quickly realised just how complex the day-to-day running of a laboratory like CERN can be", he says. "My department alone comprises experts in logistics, project managem...
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DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
Andersson, Charlotte; Gislason, Gunnar H; Hlatky, Mark A
2014-01-01
BACKGROUND: Heart failure is an established risk factor for poor outcomes in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery, yet risk stratification remains a clinical challenge. We developed an index for 30-day mortality risk prediction in this particular group. METHODS AND RESULTS: All individuals...... with heart failure undergoing non-cardiac surgery between October 23 2004 and October 31 2011 were included from Danish administrative registers (n = 16 827). In total, 1787 (10.6%) died within 30 days. In a simple risk score based on the variables from the revised cardiac risk index, plus age, gender, acute...... by bootstrapping (1000 re-samples) provided c-statistic of 0.79. A more complex risk score based on stepwise logistic regression including 24 variables at P heart failure, this simple...
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Physics teachers go back to school at CERN
2004-01-01
Fifty physics teachers came together at CERN during a lovely spring weekend at the beginning of May to revitalise their teaching methods. CERN held the third of its programmes for physics teachers during the first weekend of May. This was the occasion for the presentation of the second 'CERN Education Award'. The fifty physics teachers who came to CERN to find exciting ideas to stimulate the interest of their pupils hardly had a spare minute during their three-day stay, which included a detailed tour of CERN, and different seminars. From their visit, which lasted from the evening of 29 April until 2 May, they came away with information on the latest developments in physics and a host of new ideas for teaching the subject (see Bulletin 11/2002). 'One of the reasons why I wanted to take part in the programme was to gain a better understanding of today's big physics projects and the results of the latest research,' explains Luigia Cazzaniga, a teacher from Italy. 'As a physics teacher, I wanted to make my pupil...
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Signing the golden book on CERN's 50th Anniversary
Patrice Loiez; Michel Blanc
2004-01-01
CERN's 50th Anniversary Official Celebration: one of the high moments of the day, the signing of the golden book by the King of Spain, Juan Carlos; the President of the Republic of France, Jacques Chirac and the President of the Swiss Confederation, Joseph Deiss. Spanning the Franco-Swiss border, and formed soon after the Second World War, CERN relies heavily on international cooperation at every level.
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The CERN analysis facility-a PROOF cluster for day-one physics analysis
International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Grosse-Oetringhaus, J F
2008-01-01
ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) at the LHC plans to use a PROOF cluster at CERN (CAF - CERN Analysis Facility) for analysis. The system is especially aimed at the prototyping phase of analyses that need a high number of development iterations and thus require a short response time. Typical examples are the tuning of cuts during the development of an analysis as well as calibration and alignment. Furthermore, the use of an interactive system with very fast response will allow ALICE to extract physics observables out of first data quickly. An additional use case is fast event simulation and reconstruction. A test setup consisting of 40 machines is used for evaluation since May 2006. The PROOF system enables the parallel processing and xrootd the access to files distributed on the test cluster. An automatic staging system for files either catalogued in the ALICE file catalog or stored in the CASTOR mass storage system has been developed. The current setup and ongoing development towards disk quotas and CPU fairshare are described. Furthermore, the integration of PROOF into ALICE's software framework (AliRoot) is discussed
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Italian students win a trip to CERN
2006-01-01
The six winners of the Progetto Lauree Scientifiche came to CERN to discover the LHC experiments. Six Italian high-school students visited CERN last week as part of a biennial project sponsored by the Italian Research ministry, the University of Ferrara and INFN. A total of 160 enthusiastic students took part in the project, which aims to introduce and foster interest in higher levels of science and technology. The Progetto Lauree Scientifiche prize was awarded to these students for their excellent grades in an examination covering various areas of physics, including laser, solid and particle physics. The winners spent six days at CERN touring the Laboratory and seeing first-hand the various aspects of research in one of the leading European centres, as well as the excitement of the particle physics adventure.
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CERN Press Office. Geneva
1998-01-01
CERN, the Laboratory which invented the World-Wide Web has re-invented its public Web site. The new face of CERN has gone live at http://www.cern.ch/ Public . CERN's new Web pages have been designed to give visitors an informative introduction to the fascinating world of particle physics. For those whose whirl around the Web only allows a short stop, there's the 'CERN in two minutes' page.
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IT Services availability during CERN annual closure
2003-01-01
Mail, Cern Windows (NICE ), Web services, LXPLUS, LXBATCH, Automated tape devices, Castor, Backups, software license servers, Sundev, CVS and Print Servers, CDS and Agenda-Maker, EDMS (in collaboration with EST Division), CMS disc servers, Campus Network, Remedy, Security and VPN services will be available during the CERN annual closure. The physics database cluster, replication location service as well as accdb, cerndb and admsdb are the only databases available, CCDB will be closed for public access. Problems developing on scheduled services should be addressed within about half a day except around Christmas Eve and Christmas Day ( 24 and 25th December ) and New Year's Eve and New Years Day (31st December and 1st Janauary. All other services will be left running mostly unattended. No interruptions are scheduled but restoration of the service in case of failure cannot be guaranteed. Please note that the Helpdesk will be closed, that no file restores from backups will be possible and damaged tapes wi...
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2004-01-01
The 15th CERN Hardronic Festival took place on 17 July on the terrace of Rest 3 (Prévessin). Over 1000 people, from CERN and other International Organizations, came to enjoy the warm summer night, and to watch the best of the World's High Energy music. Jazz, rock, pop, country, metal, blues, funk and punk blasted out from 9 bands from the CERN Musiclub and Jazz club, alternating on two stages in a non-stop show. The night reached its hottest point when The Canettes Blues Band got everybody dancing to sixties R&B tunes (pictured). Meanwhile, the bars and food vans were working at full capacity, under the expert management of the CERN Softball club, who were at the same time running a Softball tournament in the adjacent "Higgs Field". The Hardronic Festival is the main yearly CERN music event, and it is organized with the support of the Staff Association and the CERN Administration.
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2008 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You will find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Access 2007 – Niveau 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t01-04.07\t4 ½ journées Windows Vista\t(Français)\t11.07\t½ journée SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES Oracle 10g Certified Professional\t(English)\t30.06-04.07\t5 days Advanced Python-Hands-on\t(English)\t07-09.07\t3 days Hands-On Design Patterns for Object-oriented Programming (English)\t02-04.07\t3 days MECHANICAL DESIGN ANSYS CFX\t(Français)\t28-31.07\t4 jours If you are interested in attending any of the above course sessions, please talk to your supervisor and/or your DTO, and apply electronically via EDH from the course description pages that can be found at: http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9 under ‘Technical Training’ with the detailed course program. Registration for all courses is alw...
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Two major open days this spring
2008-01-01
CERN will be organising two Open Days in April 2008, one for CERN employees and their families from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, 5 April, and another for the general public from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, 6 April.
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Staff Association
2015-01-01
Do you like singing? The CERN Choir is looking for basses and tenors Join us! Programme Spring Session 2015: Donizetti: Misere & Missa di Gloria e Credo Bellini: Salve Regina Bruckner: Requiem in D minor Next concert: Sunday 31 May 2015 at 17:00 Musicales de Comesières (GE) Rehearsals at CERN Main Auditorium, building 500 On Wednesdays from 20.00 to 22:00 Membership fee: January to June 150 CHF September to December: 100CHF Contact: Baudouin.bleus@cern.ch Facebook/Choeur-du-CERN
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The Google Science Fair winner comes to CERN
CERN Bulletin
2011-01-01
Shree Bose, the Google Science Fair Grand Prize winner, will come to CERN for a three-day internship. She is looking forward to it and hopes to sit in the CERN Control Room, and to learn more about ALICE and in general the work going on here right now. Google Science Fair winners Lauren Hodge (left) Shree Bose (middle) and Naomi Shah (right). (Image Copyright Google) Despite her young age, Shree Bose is already an experienced researcher. Indeed, she has already been awarded prestigious prizes in various science fairs and competitions. Aged 17, she found a way to improve ovarian cancer treatment for patients when they have built up a resistance to certain chemotherapy drugs. The project won the Grand Prize at the Google Science Fair, and together with an amazing 10-day trip to the Galapagos Islands with National Geographic Expeditions, she also won a trip to CERN. “Shree will visit several experimental sites here and will sit next to our physicists and engineers, in the CCC an...
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Stefania Pandolfi
2016-01-01
CERN celebrated the fourth anniversary of the historical Higgs boson announcement with special pizzas. 400 pizzas were served on Higgs pizza day in Restaurant 1 at CERN to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the announcement of the discovery of the Higgs Boson (Image: Maximilien Brice/ CERN) What do the Higgs boson and a pizza have in common? Pierluigi Paolucci, INFN and CMS collaboration member, together with INFN president Fernando Ferroni found out the answer one day in Naples: the pizza in front of them looked exactly like a Higgs boson event display. A special recipe was then created in collaboration with the chef of the historic “Ettore” pizzeria in the St. Lucia area of Naples, and two pizzas were designed to resemble two Higgs boson decay channel event displays. The “Higgs Boson Pizza Day” was held on Monday, 4 July 2016, on the fourth anniversary of the announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boso...
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CERN Technical Training: Signal Processor
HR Department
2009-01-01
A new training is going to be held at CERN on the ADSP SHARC Family. The "System Development and Programming with the Analog Devices’ SHARC Family" course is a 3.5-day hands-on training on Analog Devices SHARC DSPs, focusing on the latest ‘368/9 and 37x families. General DSP architecture, peripherals available, booting up process and DSP code development will be covered. Hardware tools, debugging and hardware design guidelines will be introduced as well. The course id designed for System Designers needing to make informed decisions on design tradeoffs, Hardware Designers needing to develop external interfaces, and Code Developers needing to know how to get the highest performance from their algorithms. The course will take place, in English, from 31 March to 4 April in the CERN Technical Training Center. Few places are still available. Registrations are opened on the Technical Training page. More information on our catalogue: http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9 or contact us with your que...
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Signing the golden book on CERN's 50th Anniversary
Patrice Loiez; Michel Blanc
2004-01-01
CERN's 50th Anniversary Official Celebration: one of the high moments of the day was the signing of the golden book by the King of Spain, Juan Carlos; the President of the Republic of France, Jacques Chirac and the President of the Swiss Confederation, Joseph Deiss. Spanning the Franco-Swiss border and formed just after the Second World War, CERN heavily relies on international cooperation at every level.
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CERN firefighters win medals in New York
Joannah Caborn Wengler
2011-01-01
This year CERN's firefighters have taken part for the first time in the World Police and Fire Games,held in New York at the end of August. After an intensive training programme and some glorious achievements, the members of the CERN Fire Brigade taking part in the event enthusiastically share their experience with us. Tomi Salmi (left) and Toni Rasanen (next to him) with their medals. Everybody has heard of the Olympic Games, but did you know that every two years firefighters and police officers from around the world hold their own version, which is second in size only to the Olympics? Since the mid-1980s, the World Police and Fire Games have taken place on three different continents, making waves in the cities that have hosted them. This year, the CERN Fire Brigade was part of a 10-day sports extravaganza in the city that never sleeps. Five CERN firefighters, two from Britain and three from Finland, participated in the Games in their chosen disciplines of triple jump, open water ...
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CERN School of Computing: reversing the roles
2005-01-01
Robert Aymar, CERN's Director-General, gives the floor to Sebastian Lopienski, one of the 77 students at CSC2004. The CERN Schools of Computing (CSC), which have been running since 1970, are two-week events organized once a year in one of the Member States, in collaboration with a national institute, to deliver theoretical and hands-on training to up to 80 students coming from all over the world. The objectives are to create a common knowledge background on key information technologies for young engineers/scientists collaborating in the CERN programme, as well as to transfer skills in computing techniques beyond particle physics. An intriguing event called the "inverted CSC" will take place at CERN from the 23rd to the 25th of February. The Weekly Bulletin has interviewed François Fluckiger, the CSC Director. Why this title, what is inverted? Well, the answer is in the subtitle: "Where students turn into teachers". This is a three-day series of lectures, organized and delivered by selected students of the...
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CERN celebrates science over and over again!
Anaïs Schaeffer
2013-01-01
CERN is getting ready to open its doors for two days of science and entertainment, but the celebrations don’t stop here. From 9 October 2013, France’s Fête de la Science will take up the reins. With more than 1,000 events all over France on the theme “From the infinitely large to the infinitely small", one of them is bound to be taking place near you. Part of the programme from the Fête de la science in 2013 in the Rhône-Alpes region. Download the full programme here. The nearest one to CERN will be in Divonne-les-Bains. Put Wednesday, 9 October in your diary, because CERN will be taking part! From 10.30 a.m., join the members of Divonnelectro, an association set up by a group of CERN retirees, for a visit to France's oldest hydroelectric factory. At 2.30 p.m., head to the Esplanade du Lac in Divonne-les-Bains, where members of the Université pour tous du Pays de Gex will be offering ...
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Albert Einstein, guide spirituel du CERN
Sandraz, Raphaël
2005-01-01
The year 2005, proclaimed "World year of Physics" by UNESCO, dedicates the 100th anniversary of the theory of relativity and the 50th anniversary of the death of his discoverer: Albert Einstein. The CERN in Geneva applies every day his theories (1 page)
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Bosons & More: Celebrating CERN / Part 2
Team, CERN
2013-01-01
The "Bosons & More" event for CERN people this evening celebrated the success of the Open Days, and the exceptional achievements of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The British progressive rock band the Alan Parsons Live Project lead the celebrations until late in the night.
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Chamberlain, Ronald S; Sond, Jaswinder; Mahendraraj, Krishnaraj; Lau, Christine Sm; Siracuse, Brianna L
2018-01-01
Chronic heart failure (CHF), which affects >5 million Americans, accounts for >1 million hospitalizations annually. As a part of the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, the Affordable Care Act requires that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reduce payments to hospitals with excess readmissions. This study sought to develop a scale that reliably predicts readmission rates among patients with CHF. The State Inpatient Database (2006-2011) was utilized, and discharge data including demographic and clinical characteristics on 642,448 patients with CHF from California and New York (derivation cohort) and 365,359 patients with CHF from Florida and Washington (validation cohort) were extracted. The Readmission After Heart Failure (RAHF) scale was developed to predict readmission risk. The 30-day readmission rates were 9.42 and 9.17% (derivation and validation cohorts, respectively). Age readmission risk after hospitalization for CHF. The RAHF scale was created and explained the 95% of readmission variability within the validation cohort. The RAHF scale was then used to define the following three levels of risk for readmission: low (RAHF score readmission rate), moderate (RAHF score 12-15; 9.78% readmission rate), and high (RAHF score >15; 12.04% readmission rate). The relative risk of readmission was 1.67 for the high-risk group compared with the low-risk group. The RAHF scale reliably predicts a patient's 30-day CHF readmission risk based on demographic and clinical factors present upon initial admission. By risk-stratifying patients, using models such as the RAHF scale, strategies tailored to each patient can be implemented to improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs.
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Ministers from Belgium and the Netherlands visit CERN
2005-01-01
The Belgian Minister of Economy, Energy, Foreign Trade and Science Policy, Marc Verwilghen, with CERN's Director-General, Robert Aymar.From left to right, Frank Linde, Director of the Netherlands National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics (NIKHEF), Jos Engelen, CERN's Chief Scientific Officer, Maria van der Hoeven, Netherlands Minister for Education, Culture and Science, and Herman Ten Kate, Head of the ATLAS magnet project, visiting the ATLAS assembly hall. Marc Verwilghen, Belgian Minister of Economy, Energy, Foreign Trade and Science Policy, came to CERN on 8 April 2005, where he visited the CMS assembly hall and underground cavern, as well as the hall where the LHC superconducting magnets are being tested. A few days later, on 21 April, the Netherlands Minister for Education, Culture and Science, Mrs Maria van der Hoeven, was welcomed to CERN by the Director-General, Robert Aymar, and the Chief Scientific Officer, Jos Engelen. Minister van der Hoeven visited the ATLAS installations, t...
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Taking CERN physics to South Asia
Abha Eli Phoboo
2015-01-01
CERN physicists travelled to South Asia last month to bring a plethora of particle physics events to schools, universities and public venues. The initiative was the first of its kind in the region, and brought CERN particle physics to a new audience in Nepal and India. Kathmandu University students take part in an ATLAS virtual visit. On 19 December 2014, students from Kathmandu University and Tribhuvan University, Nepal and 16 schools in Punjab, India took part in a joint virtual visit to ATLAS. The visit, which was the first of its kind in South Asia, followed a two-day Masterclass in particle physics that took place simultaneously in the two countries. The Masterclass was organised as a part of Physics Without Frontiers, an International Centre for Theoretical Physics project in partnership with CERN. Besides the Masterclass, physics workshops led by ATLAS physicists Kate Shaw, Joerg Stelzer and Suyog Shrestha were held for high school students and science teachers in three different d...
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CERN Technical Training: Digital Signal Processors
HR Department
2009-01-01
A new training is going to be held at CERN on the ADSP SHARC Family. The “System Development and Programming with the Analog Devices' SHARC Family” course is a 3.5-day hands-on training on Analog Devices SHARC DSPs, focusing on the latest ‘368/9 and 37x families. General DSP architecture, peripherals available, booting up process and DSP code development will be covered. Hardware tools, debugging and hardware design guidelines will be introduced as well. The course id designed for System Designers needing to make informed decisions on design tradeoffs, Hardware Designers needing to develop external interfaces, and Code Developers needing to know how to get the highest performance from their algorithms. The course will take place, in English, from 31 March to 4 April in the CERN Technical Training Center. Few places are still available. Registrations are opened on the Technical Training page. More information on our catalogue: http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9 or conta...
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Beamline for Schools Safety Awareness Day
Photo Service, CERN
2014-01-01
The first two teams to participate in CERN's Beamline for Schools project spent their first day at CERN at the Safety Training Center in Prévessin. They covered amongst others radiation protection, cryogenics and fire-fighting. The teams will spend the rest of the week at the T9 beamline.
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Programme for International Women’s Day
Laëtitia Pedroso
2010-01-01
CERN will be organising a number of actions to mark International Women’s Day on 8 March. Women working in differents sectors of CERN. As the main aim of the event is to enhance the visibility of women working at CERN, women will be in the majority at the controls of the experiments and accelerators throughout the day, as well as acting as guides for CERN’s official visits. There will also be several photo and poster exhibitions, mainly in the “Pas Perdus” area of the Main Building, but also at various points open to the public. An exhibition by Italy's National Institute for Particle Physics (INFN) on Italian women working in the LHC experiments and other photo collections will also be on display. Paola Catapano of the Communication Group will interview women physicists at work in the control rooms of all four experiments and in the CCC throughout the day. On CERN’s initiative, other laboratories will also take part in th...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2008 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You will find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Windows Vista\t(Français)\t11.07\t½ journée SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES Advanced Python-Hands-on\t(English)\t07-09.07\t3 days MECHANICAL DESIGN ANSYS CFX\t(Français)\t28-31.07\t4 jours If you are interested in attending any of the above course sessions, please talk to your supervisor and/or your DTO, and apply electronically via EDH from the course description pages that can be found at: http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9 under ‘Technical Training’ with the detailed course program. Registration for all courses is always open – sessions for the less-requested courses are organized on a demand-basis only. CERN Technical Training courses are open only to members of the CERN personnel (staff members and fellows; associates, stude...
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CERN'S TECHNICAL CONTROL ROOM (TCR) A CENTRAL SERVICE FOR EVERYONE
Mario Batz
2002-01-01
The Technical Control Room (TCR) monitors and operates the entire technical infrastructure of CERN 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It registers and dispatches troubleshooting requests to the appropriate CERN equipment services or contractors. In addition, the TCR executes first-line interventions on the entire CERN site. Troubleshooting requests are transmitted to the TCR either via a computerised control system or via the phone number '72201'. More than 10'000 such requests are dispatched and dealt with every year. The TCR's diverse field of activity covers the following systems: electrical and fluid distribution networks, heating, cooling, ventilation, air-conditioning and gas equipment, safety and communication installations, electromechanical systems (e.g. lifts, cranes, machine tools, motorised doors), sanitary systems (leaks, sewage), control and monitoring infrastructure equipment, and buildings. These systems can either be part of the administrative infrastructure, such as offices or restaur...
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News from the Library: CERN Library and Collide@CERN present media artist Nataša Teofilović
CERN Library
2012-01-01
The Serbian media artist Nataša Teofilović creates virtual characters which are living art works, often employing animation techniques. She won an honorary mention for her work in the first Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN competition for her outstanding digital works which cross the boundaries between virtual and real spaces. As part of her prize, Arts@CERN offered Nataša the opportunity for a two-day visit to CERN, which is being funded by a Swedish foundation travel grant. Nataša talks about why and how she creates her digital work and virtual beings, shows examples and reveals insights into the role and status of an artist in her native Serbia. Nataša Teofilović has an PhD and MA in Digital Art (Belgrade University of Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies) and holds a BA in Architecture from Belgrade University of Architecture. She lives in Pančevo, Vojvodina, Serbia. See examples of Nataša’s work here. &quo...
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Model United Nations comes to CERN
Anaïs Schaeffer
2012-01-01
From 20 to 22 January pupils from international schools in Switzerland, France and Turkey came to CERN for three days of "UN-type" conferences. The MUN organisers, who are all pupils at the Lycée international in Ferney-Voltaire, worked tirelessly for weeks to make the event a real success. The members of the MUN/MFNU association at the Lycée international in Ferney-Voltaire spent several months preparing for their first "Model United Nations" (MUN), a simulation of a UN session at which young "diplomats" take on the role of delegates representing different nations to discuss a given topic. And as their chosen topic was science, it was only natural that they should hold the event at CERN. For three days, from 20 to 22 January, no fewer than 340 pupils from 12 international schools* in Switzerland, France and Turkey came together to deliberate, consult and debate on the importance of scientific progress fo...
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CERN. Geneva; Kieffer, Robert; Blas Temino, Diego; Bertolucci, Sergio; Mr. Decelière, Rudy; Mr. Hänni, Vincent
2014-01-01
CERN, the Republic and Canton of Geneva, and the City of Geneva are delighted to invite you to “Collide@CERN Geneva Music”. Come to the public lecture about collisions between music and particle physics by the third winners of Collide@CERN Geneva, Vincent Hänni & Rudy Decelière, and their scientific inspiration partners, Diego Blas and Robert Kieffer. The event marks the beginning of their residency at CERN, and will be held at the CERN Globe of Science and Innovation on 16 October 2014 at 19.00. Doors will open at 18.30.
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CERN Photo club
2016-01-01
The CERN Photo Club organizes in collaboration with Canon Switzerland a photo contest open to all members of the CERN (Persons with a CERN access card). The only restriction is that the photos must have been taken with a CANON camera (DSLR, bridge or compact) between 1 and 31 October 2016. Send your three best pictures at Photo.Contest@cern.ch with a short description explaining the images. Further information on the Photo club website: http://photoclub.web.cern.ch/content/photo-contest-october-2016
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CERN Cricket Club
2010-01-01
CERN Cricket Club Match Reports The cricket season is well under way, despite the weather, and several matches have been played. The match reporters have, however, found it too difficult to limit their reports to ¼ of a page, hence the reports have not appeared in the bulletin. All reports can be found at http://cern.ch/Club-Cricket/reports/reports.html The list of forthcoming matches can be consulted at http://cern.ch/Club-Cricket/fixtures.html Further information about the CERN Cricket Club can be found at http://cern.ch/Club-Cricket/
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Sandfort, Veit; Johnson, Alistair E W; Kunz, Lauren M; Vargas, Jose D; Rosing, Douglas R
2018-01-01
We sought to evaluate the association of prolonged elevated heart rate (peHR) with survival in acutely ill patients. We used a large observational intensive care unit (ICU) database (Multiparameter Intelligent Monitoring in Intensive Care III [MIMIC-III]), where frequent heart rate measurements were available. The peHR was defined as a heart rate >100 beats/min in 11 of 12 consecutive hours. The outcome was survival status at 90 days. We collected heart rates, disease severity (simplified acute physiology scores [SAPS II]), comorbidities (Charlson scores), and International Classification of Diseases (ICD) diagnosis information in 31 513 patients from the MIMIC-III ICU database. Propensity score (PS) methods followed by inverse probability weighting based on the PS was used to balance the 2 groups (the presence/absence of peHR). Multivariable weighted logistic regression was used to assess for association of peHR with the outcome survival at 90 days adjusting for additional covariates. The mean age was 64 years, and the most frequent main disease category was circulatory disease (41%). The mean SAPS II score was 35, and the mean Charlson comorbidity score was 2.3. Overall survival of the cohort at 90 days was 82%. Adjusted logistic regression showed a significantly increased risk of death within 90 days in patients with an episode of peHR ( P < .001; odds ratio for death 1.79; confidence interval, 1.69-1.88). This finding was independent of median heart rate. We found a significant association of peHR with decreased survival in a large and heterogenous cohort of ICU patients.
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CERN Cricket Club
2018-01-01
The CERN Cricket Club 2018 season begins soon, the first net practice is scheduled (weather permitting) for Thursday April 12th, at 18.00! The club is always looking for new players and newcomers will be made very welcome. Anyone who is interested in joining the club should sign up on our web site: http://cern.ch/cricket/ or turn up for net practice, which takes place each Thursday evening (apart from CERN official holidays) until the end of September (starting at 18:00 to around 20:00) at the CERN Prévessin site: http://cern.ch/cricket/CERN-Ground.html The first matches will be in the Geneva T20 competition on Saturday and Sunday, April 14th / 15th.
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CERN cars drive by the Geneva Motor Show
CERN Bulletin
2011-01-01
One of CERN's new gas-fuelled cars was a special guest at the press days of the Geneva motor show this year. The car enjoyed a prominent position on the Gazmobil stand, right next to the latest Mazeratis and Ferraris. Journalists previewing the motor show could discover CERN's support for green technologies and also find out more about the lab - home to the fastest racetrack on the planet, with protons in the LHC running at 99.9999991% of the speed of light.
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Un ministre britannique inaugure au CERN les journées WWW
CERN Press Office. Geneva
1995-01-01
On 8 March, UK Science Minister David Hunt opened CERN's 'World-Wide Web Days', a conference designed to give journalists, educators and communication experts a practical introduction to this new telecommunications revolution. Citing CERN's invention of the Web as the latest in a long line of unforseeable spin-offs, the Minister praised the vital role played by fundamental research: "By working at the extreme limits of present technology", said Hunt, "CERN and other basic research laboratories help to break new technological ground and sow the seeds of what will become mainstream manufacturing in the future."
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CERN bringt Grid-Netz auf Touren
2005-01-01
CERN reached a miliaire stone in the development of its network Grid according to its own indications. Thus the scientists, over a ten days duration, had a constant output of data of 600 Mo a second between eight research centers in Europa and the US (1/4 page)
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2008 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Indico – Meeting Organization\t(Français)\t02.03\t3 heures Excel 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t03-04.03\t2 jours CERN EDMS for Local Administrators\t(Français)\t04-05.03\t2 days Novelties Office 2007: Word 2007\t(Français)\t09.03\t1 jour Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 2\t(English)\t18-19.03\t2 days Access 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t30-31.03\t2 jours Office 2007 – Novelties (Français)\t20.04\t1 jour Novelties Office 2007: Powerpoint 2007\t(Français)\t21.04\t1 jour Introduction to Dreamweaver MX\t(Français)\t23-24.04\t2 jours Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(English)\t27-28.04\t1 jour ½ Excel 2007 (Short Course I) –HowTo…Work with formulae (Bilingual)\t29.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course II) – HowTo…Format ...
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2009-01-01
CERN pays tribute to the work of Georges Charpak at a colloquium in honour of his 85th birthday. var flash_video_player=get_video_player_path(); insert_player_for_external('Video/Public/Movies/2009/CERN-MOVIE-2009-008/CERN-MOVIE-2009-008-0753-kbps-480x360-25-fps-audio-64-kbps-44-kHz-stereo', 'mms://mediastream.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Video/Public/Movies/2009/CERN-MOVIE-2009-008/CERN-MOVIE-2009-008-Multirate-200-to-753-kbps-480x360.wmv', 'false', 480, 360, 'https://mediastream.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Video/Public/Movies/2009/CERN-MOVIE-2009-008/CERN-MOVIE-2009-008-posterframe-480x360-at-10-percent.jpg', '1167500', true, 'Video/Public/Movies/2009/CERN-MOVIE-2009-008/CERN-MOVIE-2009-008-0600-kbps-maxH-360-25-fps-audio-128-kbps-48-kHz-stereo.mp4'); Watch the video conference of Georges Charpak. On 9 March CERN’s Main Auditorium was the venue for a fascinating and moving celebration marking the 85th birthday of Georges Charpak, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1992 for his inven...
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2003-01-01
From Monday you can see on the web the new edition of CERN's Video News. Thanks to a collaboration between the audiovisual teams at CERN and Fermilab, you can see a report made by the American laboratory. The clip concerns the LHC magnets that are being constructed at Fermilab. Also in the programme: the spectacular rotation of one of the ATLAS coils, the arrival at CERN of the first American magnet made at Brookhaven, the story of the discovery 20 years ago of the W and Z bosons at CERN. http://www.cern.ch/video or Bulletin web page.
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CERN Press Office. Geneva
1996-01-01
On 8 October, H.E. Mr David Beattie, British Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr John R. Nichols, H.M. Consul-General in Geneva and, Prof. Christopher Llewellyn Smith, CERN*'s Director General, formally opened the industrial exhibition of thirty-three British hi-tech companies at CERN, which takes place from 8 to 11 October, 1996. The exhibition offers British companies the opportunity to display their products in fields that are of immediate importance to the scientists, engineers and technicians working at CERN, and also to scientists from non-Member States who take part in research projects at CERN.
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2004-01-01
In view of 50th anniversary of CERN, about 20 young artists will be visiting CERN from 26 to 31 January to learn about the laboratory's research and the mysterious world of particle physics. The impressions they take home will be the main inspiration for the artwork they will then produce for an exhibition to be inaugurated in October 2004 as part of CERN's 50th anniversary celebration. We are looking for scientists who are interested in the Art-Science synergy and who can volunteer to discuss their work at CERN to these young artists during this week (25-31/01). Please contact renilde.vanden.broeck@cern.ch if you are interested. The project is called Young Artists@ CERN and for more information look at this website: http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/~andy/CERNart/
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CERN Cricket club
2015-01-01
The CERN Cricket Club 2015 season begins soon, the first net practice is scheduled (weather permitting) for Thursday April 16th, at 18:00! The club is always looking for new players and newcomers will be made very welcome. Anyone who is interested in joining the club should sign up on our web site: http://cern.ch/Club-Cricket/ or turn up for net practice, which takes place each Thursday evening from April 16th (apart from CERN official holidays) until the end of September (starting at 18:00 to around 19:30) at the CERN Prévessin site: http://club-cricket.web.cern.ch/Club-Cricket/CERN-Ground.html The first match will be at home on Sunday, April 19th against Rhone CC from Lyon.
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CERN Table Tennis Club
2014-01-01
CERN Table Tennis Club Announcing CERN 60th Anniversary Table Tennis Tournament to take place at CERN, from July 1 to July 15, 2014 The CERN Table Tennis Club, reborn in 2008, is encouraging people at CERN to take more regular exercise. This is why the Club, thanks to the strong support of the CERN Staff Association, installed last season a first outdoor table on the terrace of restaurant # 1, and will install another one this season on the terrace of Restaurant # 2. Table tennis provides both physical exercise and friendly social interactions. The CERN Table Tennis club is happy to use the unique opportunity of the 60th CERN anniversary to promote table tennis at CERN, as it is a game that everybody can easily play, regardless of level. Table tennis is particularly well suited for CERN, as many great physicists play table tennis, as you might already know: “Heisenberg could not even bear to lose a game of table tennis”; “Otto Frisch played a lot of table tennis;...
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Medical Service
2002-01-01
The CERN Medical Service is joining in with the world no tobacco day, which takes place on 31 May 2002. We encourage you to take this opportunity to stop smoking for good. Nurses and Doctors will be present on that day to give out information on methods to stop smoking and to assist you in your efforts.
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CERN and UNESCO reach out to Rwanda
2009-01-01
CERN already has a successful relationship with some African countries. However, much remains to be done to improve the dialogue with that continent. A recent trip to Rwanda provided a new opportunity to share knowledge and technology and create a connection that may last for many years. CERN’s Jean-Yves Le Meur, second from the right, teaches participants how to install the digital library system on their computers.In addition to physics research, CERN’s key missions also include training and international collaboration. Recently, thanks to funding from UNESCO, CERN’s Scientific Information Service was able to provide face-to-face training of digital library software developed at CERN, and the CERN Education Group organised a two-day high-school teacher training programme. "Many African countries are in the process of digitising their libraries," explains John Ellis, CERN’s Coordinator for non-Member States. "A workshop was ...
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Determinants of ischemic heart disease in Seventh-day Adventists: a review.
Fraser, G E
1988-09-01
Most data from several countries shows Seventh-day Adventist men to have lower rates of ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality. Similar data for women are somewhat conflicting. There is clear evidence that Adventists have lower serum total cholesterol and lower serum HDL cholesterol with the ratio of total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol being similar to that of non-Adventists. The risk relationships of this ratio may differ in different populations. There is a certain amount of evidence that vegetarians may have lower blood pressures but this is not clearly supported by data from Seventh-day Adventists. The lower risk for IHD in Adventist men, at least, is probably related to their dietary habits, nonsmoking status, possibly their better exercise habits, and greater social support.
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Precision machining, sheet-metal work and welding at the heart of CERN
2001-01-01
From the writing of specifications and the production of high-tech components, to technology transfer and call-out work on-site, the MF group in EST Division offers CERN users a wide variety of services. Its full range of activities is presented in a new brochure. In addition to its many physicists and engineers, CERN also has teams of mechanics, welders and sheet-metalworkers whose expertise is a precious asset for the Organization. Within the MF Group (Manufacturing Facilities, EST Division) these teams perform precision machining, sheet-metal work and welding. As an example, the Group has been responsible for producing radiofrequency accelerating cells to a precision of the order of 1/100th mm and with a surface roughness of only 0.1 micron. The Group's workshops also manufactured the stainless steel vacuum chamber for the brand new n-TOF experiment (Bulletin n°47/2000), a 200-m long cylindrical chamber with a diameter of just 800 millimetres! The MF Group is assisted in its task of providing me...
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies Business Objects Basic\t18-Oct-10\t19-Oct-10\ttbc\t2 days Business Objects Advanced\t20-Oct-10\t20-Oct-10\tEnglish\t1 day CERN openlab/Intel Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop\t22-Sep-10\t23-Sep-10\tEnglish\t2 days ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION\t28-Oct-10\t28-Oct-10\tEnglish\t1 hour JAVA 2 Entreprise Edition - Part 1: Web Applications\t27-Oct-10\t29-Oct-10\tEnglish\t2 days JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t11-Oct-10\t15-Oct-10\tEnglish\t4,5 days Oracle Database SQL Tuning\t25-Oct-10\t27-Oct-10\tEnglish\t3 days Oracle Databases: Advanced PL/SQL Programming\t27-Sep-10\t29-Sep-10\tEnglish\t3 days PERL 5 - Introduction 25-Oct-10\t26-Oct-10\tEnglish\t2 days Python - Hands-on Introduction\t18-Oct-10\t21-Oct-10\tEnglish\t4 days Secure coding in C/C++\t12-Oct-10\t13-Oct-...
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2011-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2011 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies Business Objects Basic\t21-Feb-11\t22-Feb-11\t2 days\tEnglish CERN openlab/Intel Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop\t15-Feb-11\t16-Feb-11\t2 days\tEnglish Introduction to Databases and Database Design\t10-Mar-11\t11-Mar-11\t2 days\tEnglish JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition - Part 2: Enterprise JavaBeans\t16-Mar-11\t18-Mar-11\t3 days\tEnglish JCOP - Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework\t5-Apr-11\t7-Apr-11\t3 days\tEnglish JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t14-Mar-11\t18-Mar-11\t4.5 days\tEnglish Linux LPI 101 - Introduction à Linux et LPI 102 Administration systèmes sur Linux\t8-Mar-11\t11-Mar-11\t4 days\tEnglish Oracle - SQL\t16-Mar-11\t18-Mar-11\t3 days\tEnglish Oracle Databases: Advanced PL/SQL Programming\t21-Mar-11\t23-Mar-11\t3 days\tEnglish El...
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies Agile Project Management with Scrum\t15-Nov-10\t16-Nov-10\tEnglish\t2 days Business Objects advanced\t20-Oct-10\t20-Oct-10\tEnglish\t1 day C++ Part 2: Object-Oriented and Generic Programming\t22-Nov-10\t25-Nov-10\tEnglish\t4 days CERN openlab Multi-threading and Parallelism Workshop\t9-Nov-10\t10-Nov-10\tEnglish\t2 days ITIL Foundations (version 3)\t22-Nov-10\t24-Nov-10\tEnglish\t3 days ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION\t28-Oct-10\t28-Oct-10\tEnglish\t1 hour JAVA - Level 1\t25-Nov-10\t29-Nov-10\tEnglish\t3 days JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition - Part 1: Web Applications\t27-Oct-10\t28-Oct-10\tEnglish\t2 days JCOP - Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework\t17-Nov-10\t19-Nov-10\tEnglish\t3 days JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t11-Oct-10\t15-Oct-10\tEnglish\t4.5 days Linux LPI 101 - Introdu...
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2011-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2011 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies JCOP - Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework\t05-APR-11\t07-APR-11\t3 days\tEnglish JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t09-MAY-11\t13-MAY-11\t4.5 days\tEnglish Object-oriented Design Patterns\t11-APR-11\t13-APR-11\t3 days\tEnglish Python - Hands-on Introduction\t09-MAY-11\t12-MAY-11\t4 days\tEnglish Python: Advanced Hands-On\t28-Mar-11\t31-Mar-11\t4 days\tEnglish JAVA - Level 1\t13-APR-11\t15-APR-11\t3 days\tEnglish JCOP - Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework\t24-MAY-11\t26-MAY-11\t3 days\tEnglish CERN openlab Multi-threading and Parallelism Workshop\t09-MAY-11\t10-MAY-11\t2 days\tEnglish ITIL Foundations (version 3)\t09-MAY-11\t11-MAY-11\t3 days\tEnglish ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION\t23-MAY-11\t23-MAY-11\t1 hour\tEnglish Dealing efficiently with Oracle Performance Iss...
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies Agile Project Management with Scrum\t11-FEB-10\t12-FEB-10\t2 days\tEnglish C++ Part 1 - Hands-On Introduction\t17-Mar-10\t19-Mar-10\t3 days\tEnglish CERN openlab/Intel Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop\t09-FEB-10\t10-FEB-10\t2 days\tEnglish Developing secure software\t22-Mar-10\t22-Mar-10\t0.5 day\tEnglish Emacs - way beyond Text Editing\t26-Mar-10\t26-Mar-10\t1 day English Introduction to Databases and Database Design\t11-Mar-10\t12-Mar-10\t2 days\tEnglish JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition - Part 2: Enterprise JavaBeans\t22-Mar-10\t24-Mar-10\t3 days\tEnglish JCOP - Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework\t9-Mar-10\t11-Mar-10\t3 days\tEnglish JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t22-FEB-10\t26-FEB-10\t5 days\tEnglish Object-Oriented Analysis and Design using UML\t23-Mar-10\t25...
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CERN Technical training: available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies Agile Project Management with Scrum\t11-FEB-10\t12-FEB-10\t2 days\tEnglish C++ Part 1 - Hands-On Introduction\t17-Mar-10\t19-Mar-10\t2 days\tEnglish CERN openlab/Intel Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop\t09-FEB-10\t10-FEB-10\t2 days\tEnglish Developing secure software\t22-Mar-10\t22-Mar-10\t2 days\tEnglish Emacs - way beyond Text Editing\t26-Mar-10\t26-Mar-10\t2 days\tEnglish Introduction to Databases and Database Design\t11-Mar-10\t12-Mar-10\t2 days\tEnglish ITIL Foundations (version 3)\t8-Mar-10\t10-Mar-10\t3 days\tEnglish ITIL Foundations (version 3)\t12-APR-10\t29-APR-10\t3 days\tEnglish ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION\t25-Mar-10\t25-Mar-10\t1 hour\tEnglish JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition - Part 2: Enterprise JavaBeans\t22-Mar-10\t24-Mar-10\t3 days\tEnglish JCOP - Fi...
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Olofsson, Simon
2018-01-01
The CERN Medtech:Hackathon, organised by CERN Knowledge Transfer, was held in IdeaSquare during 6-9 April. Teams from all around the world gathered, by using CERN technology, to solve problems posed by the Medtech industry.
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Laëtitia Pedroso
2011-01-01
A competition will soon be launched to select the architect, urban planner or landscape designer to undertake the first phase of redevelopment of the parking area by the flagpoles, between Entrances A and B. This will be the first stage in a wider development project aimed at sprucing up the CERN site and enhancing its image. Work to create a pleasant and harmonious area at the CERN entrance will start in 2013 while preparatory work for other developments inside the CERN site has already begun… CERN as it is today. By 2030, CERN will be a greener place, much like a university campus. The arrival of the tramway on 30 April will be an opportunity to forge ahead with the urban plan aimed at rejuvenating the CERN site and redefining how it is organised. "Nearly sixty years after CERN's first buildings went up, this plan will help transform the site and give it a welcoming, friendly face, a bit like a university campus," explains Thierry Chanard, urban plannin...
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Worse Prognosis in Heart Failure Patients with 30-Day Readmission
Tung, Ying-Chang; Chou, Shing-Hsien; Liu, Kuan-Liang; Hsieh, I-Chang; Wu, Lung-Sheng; Lin, Chia-Pin; Wen, Ming-Shien; Chu, Pao-Hsien
2016-01-01
Background Heart failure (HF) readmission results in substantial expenditure on HF management. This study aimed to evaluate the readmission rate, outcome, and predictors of HF readmission. Methods Patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF readmission rate, mortality and predictors of readmission. Results A total of 433 de novo HF patients with LVEF readmission rates were 10.9% and 27%, respectively. At the end of the 6-month follow-up, the readmission group had higher mortality than the non-readmission group (27.66% vs. 10.36%; p = 0.001). The survivors of the 30-day readmission had similar mortality rates at 6 months, regardless of the cause of readmission (cardiovascular vs. non-cardiovascular: 25% vs. 30.43%, p = 0.677). Among all the parameters, prescription of beta blockers independently reduced the risk of 30-day readmission (odds ratio 0.15; 95% confidence interval 0.02-0.99; p = 0.049). Conclusions Those HF patients who suffered from 30-day readmission had worse prognosis at the 6-month follow-up. Regardless of the readmission causes, the patients surviving the 30-day readmission had similar mortality rates at 6-month follow-up. These results underscored the importance of reducing readmission as a means to improve HF outcome. PMID:27899857
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CERN Bulletin
2010-01-01
Rolf Heuer, CERN Director General, visits the exhibition "La France au CERN". The exhibition France at CERN, organized by UBIFRANCE in collaboration with CERN's GS/SEM (Site Engineering and Management) service, took place from Monday 7 to Wednesday 9 June in the Main Building. The 36 French firms taking part came to present their products and technologies related to the Organization's activities. The next exhibition will be "Netherlands at CERN" in November.
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At the heart of CERN for one night
CERN Bulletin
2011-01-01
Some 200 young people, mostly from neighbouring Switzerland or France – but also from Italy, Great Britain and Poland – took part in Researchers Night on Friday, 23 September. Interviewed by the Bulletin after they had returned from the control rooms of the LHC and its experiments, the pupils were full of enthusiasm following, by all accounts, an unforgettable evening. Participants of the 2011 Researchers Night enjoy their visit to CMS. The second edition of CERN Researchers Night was a great success, with international participants as well as a substantial local contingent. Some 200 young people aged 13 to 18 registered on the event’s website and spent two hours in one of the control rooms of the LHC machine and its experiments. Laëtitia Pedroso, a member of the Communication Group who participated in the organisation of this event, noted with satisfaction: “Most of the pupils came from neighbouring France and Switzerland, but we also welcom...
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Visits & Exhibition Service/ETT-VE
2001-01-01
11-13.12.2001 Looking for Christmas present ideas? Come to the Reception Shop Special Stand in Meyrin, Main Building, ground floor, from Tuesday 11 to Thursday 13 December from 10.30 to 16.00. CERN Calendar 10.- CERN Sweat-shirts(M, L, XL) 30.- CERN T-shirt (M, L, XL) 20.- New CERN silk tie (2 colours) 35.- Fancy silk tie (blue, bordeau) 25.- Silk scarf (light blue, red, yellow) 35.- Swiss army knife with CERN logo 25.- CERN watch 25.- CERN baseball cap 15.- CERN briefcase 15.- Book 'Antimatter' (English) 35.- Book 'How the web was born' (English) 25.- The Search for Infinity (French, Italian, English, German) 40.- If you miss this special occasion, the articles are also available at the Reception Shop in Building 33 from Monday to Saturday between 08.30 and 17.30 hrs.
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CERN Photo Club (CPC) / Canon Contest - My View of CERN
Steyaert, Didier
2016-01-01
The CERN Photo Club has organized in collaboration with Canon Switzerland a photo contest open to all members of the CERN (Persons with a CERN access card). The only restriction is that the photos must have been taken with a CANON camera (DSLR, bridge or compact) between 1 and 31 October 2016.
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Porting of $\\mu$CernVM to AArch64
Scheffler, Felix
2016-01-01
$\\mu$CernVM is a virtual appliance that contains a stripped-down Linux OS connecting to a CernVM-Filesystem (CVMFS) repository that resides on a dedicated web server. In contrast to “usual” VMs, anything that is needed from this repository is only downloaded on demand, aggressively cached and eventually released again. Currently, $\\mu$CernVM is only distributed for x86-64. Recently, ARM (market leader in mobile computing) has started to enter the server market, which is still dominated by x86-64 infrastructure. However, in terms of performance/watt, AArch64 (latest ARM 64bit architecture) is a promising alternative. Facing millions of jobs to compute every day, it is thus desirable to have an HEP virtualisation solution for AArch64. In this project, $\\mu$CernVM was successfully ported to AArch64. Native and virtualised runtime performance was evaluated using ROOT6 and CMS benchmarks. It was found that VM performance is inferior to host performance across all tests. Respective numbers greatly vary between...
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies Agile Project Management with Scrum\t15-Nov-10\t16-Nov-10\tEnglish\t2 days Business Objects advanced\t20-Oct-10\t20-Oct-10\tEnglish\t1 day C++ Part 2: Object-Oriented and Generic Programming\t22-Nov-10\t25-Nov-10\tEnglish\t4 days CERN openlab Multi-threading and Parallelism Workshop\t10-Nov-10\t11-Nov-10\tEnglish\t2 days Emacs - way beyond Text Editing\t09-DEC-10\t09-DEC-10\tEnglish\t3 days ITIL Foundations (version 3)\t22-Nov-10\t24-Nov-10\tEnglish\t1 day ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION\t28-Oct-10\t28-Oct-10\tEnglish\t1 hour ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION\t13-DEC-10\t13-DEC-10\tEnglish\t1 hour JAVA - Level 1\t25-Nov-10\t29-Nov-10\tEnglish\t3 days JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition - Part 1: Web Applications\t27-Oct-10\t28-Oct-10\tEnglish\t2 days JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition - Part 2: ...
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CERN Technical Training: available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies Agile Project Management with Scrum,\t11-FEB-10\t12-FEB-10,\t2 days,\tEnglish CERN openlab/Intel Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop,\t09-FEB-10\t10-FEB-10,\t2 days,\tEnglish Developing secure software,\t22-Mar-10\t22-Mar-10,\t1.5 hour,\tEnglish Introduction to Databases and Database Design,\t11-Mar-10\t12-Mar-10,\t2 days,\tEnglish JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition - Part 2: Enterprise JavaBeans,\t22-Mar-10\t24-Mar-10,\t3 days,\tEnglish JCOP - Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework,\t9-Mar-10\t11-Mar-10,\t3 days,\tEnglish JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework,\t22-FEB-10\t26-FEB-10,\t4.5 days,\tEnglish Object-Oriented Analysis and Design using UML,\t22-Mar-10\t24-Mar-10,\t3 days,\tEnglish Secure coding for Java,\t12-FEB-10\t12-FEB-10,\t1 day, English Secure coding for Perl,\t10...
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies Business Objects Basic\t18-Oct-10\t19-Oct-10\ttbc\t2 days Business Objects Advanced\t31.aug.10\t31.aug.10\tEnglish\t1 day Business Objects Advanced\t20-Oct-10\t20-Oct-10\tEnglish\t1 day C++ Part 1 - Hands-On Introduction\t20-Sep-10\t23-Sep-10\tEnglish\t4 days CERN openlab/Intel Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop\t22-Sep-10\t23-Sep-10\tEnglish\t2 days Developing secure software\t6-Sep-10\t6-Sep-10\tEnglish\t3,5 hours ISTQB International Software Testing Qualifications Board\t13-Sep-10\t16-Sep-10\tEnglish\t4 days ITIL Foundations (version 3)\t4-Oct-10\t6-Oct-10\tEnglish\t3 days ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION\t28-Oct-10\t28-Oct-10\tEnglish\t1 hour JAVA 2 Entreprise Edition - Part 1: Web Applications\t27-Oct-10\t29-Oct-10\tEnglish\t2 days JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framew...
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies Business Objects Basic\t18-Oct-10\t19-Oct-10\ttbc\t2 days Business Objects advanced\t20-Oct-10\t20-Oct-10\ttbc\t1 day C++ Part 1 - Hands-On Introduction\t20-Sep-10\t23-Sep-10\tEnglish\t4 days CERN openlab/Intel Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop\t22-Sep-10\t23-Sep-10\tEnglish\t2 days Developing secure software\t6-Sep-10\t6-Sep-10\tEnglish\t3,5 hours ISTQB International Software Testing Qualifications Board\t13-Sep-10\t16-Sep-10\tEnglish\t4 days ITIL Foundations (version 3)\t4-Oct-10\t6-Oct-10\tEnglish\t3 days ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION\t28-Oct-10\t28-Oct-10\tEnglish\t1 hour JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t30-AUG-10\t3-Sep-10\tEnglish\t4,5 days JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t11-Oct-10\t15-Oct-10\tEnglish\t4,5 days Oracle Database SQL Tuning\t25-Oct-10\t27-Oc...
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CERN technical training: available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2009 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies Developing secure software\t07-DEC-09\t07-DEC-09\t0.5 day\tEnglish PERL 5 - Advanced Aspects\t10-DEC-09\t10-DEC-09\t1 day\tEnglish Project Development using Python\t01-DEC-09\t04-DEC-09\t4 days\tEnglish Electronic design Advanced VHDL for FPGA Design\t30-Nov-09\t04-DEC-09\t5 days\tEnglish LabVIEW - Working efficiently with LabVIEW 8\t07-DEC-09\t07-DEC-09\t1 day\tEnglish LabVIEW Basic I with RADE introduction\t30-Nov-09\t02-DEC-09\t3 days\tEnglish LabVIEW Basics 2\t03-DEC-09\t04-DEC-09\t2 days\tEnglish Mechanical design Office software Dreamweaver CS3 - Level 2\t04-DEC-09\t04-DEC-09\t1 jour\tFrench CERN EDMS - Introduction\t02-dec-09\t02-dec-09\t1 jour\tFrench Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) - Level 1\t07-DEC-09\t08-DEC-09\t2 days\tEnglish Special course Egroups training\t15-DE...
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2011-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2011 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies Business Objects Basic\t21-feb-11\t22-FEB-11\tEnglish\t2 days CERN openlab/Intel Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop\t08-Feb-11\t09-Feb-11\tEnglish\t2 days Introduction to Databases and Database Design\t10-Mar-11\t11-Mar-11\tEnglish\t2 days JAVA 2 Entreprise Edition - Part 2: Enterprise JavaBeans\t16-Mar-11\t18-Mar-11\tEnglish\t3 days JCOP-Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t14-Mar-11\t18-Mar-11\tEnglish\t4.5 days Linux LPI 101 - Introduction à Linux et LPI 102 Administration systèmes sur Linux\t8-Mar-11\t11-Mar-11\tFrançais\t4 jours ORACLE-SQL\t16-Mar-11\t18-Mar-11\tEnglish\t3 days Oracle Databases: Advanced PL/SQL Programming\t21-Mar-11\t23-Mar-11\tEnglish\t3 days Electronic design LabVIEW for beginners\t21-Mar-11\t23-Mar-11\tBilingual\t3 days/...
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CERN Video productions
2011-01-01
On Monday 7 November at 4pm in English and 4.20pm in French, watch "What's new@CERN" on webcast.cern.ch. In this second episode: LHC performance, a journey to the particle source and this past month's news. var flash_video_player=get_video_player_path(); insert_player_for_external('Video/Public/Movies/2011/CERN-MOVIE-2011-164/CERN-MOVIE-2011-164-0753-kbps-640x360-25-fps-audio-64-kbps-44-kHz-stereo', 'mms://mediastream.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Video/Public/Movies/2011/CERN-MOVIE-2011-164/CERN-MOVIE-2011-164-Multirate-200-to-753-kbps-640x360-25-fps.wmv', 'false', 480, 360, 'https://mediastream.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Video/Public/Movies/2011/CERN-MOVIE-2011-164/CERN-MOVIE-2011-164-posterframe-640x360-at-30-percent.jpg', '1394250', true, 'Video/Public/Movies/2011/CERN-MOVIE-2011-164/CERN-MOVIE-2011-164-0600-kbps-maxH-360-25-fps-audio-128-kbps-48-kHz-stereo.mp4');
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2008 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You will find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE ACCESS 2007 – Niveau 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t27-28.05\t2 jours Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 1\t(English)\t29-30.05\t2 days Sharepoint Collaborative Services\t(Francais)\t02-03.06\t2 days Indico – Meting Organization\t(Français)\t03.06\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t03.06\t3 heures Introduction to Dreamweaver MX\t(English)\t05-06.06\t2 days Outlook 2007 (Short Course II) – Calendar, Tasks and Notes\t(Bilingue)\t09.06\t½ day/jour Outlook 2007 (Short Course III) – Meetings and Delegation\t(Bilingual)\t09.06\t0.5 day Excel 2007 – Niveau 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t10-11.06\t2 jours Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 2\t(English)\t12-13.06\t2 days PowerPoint 2007 – Niveau 1: ECDL...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Novelties Office 2007 : PowerPoint 2007 (English)\t27.10\t1 day Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(Français)\t06-07.11\t1 ½ day Excel 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(English)\t10-11.11\t2 days Word 2007 (Short course III) – HowTo…Work with long documents\t(Bilingual)\t13.11\t½ jour Excel 2007 (Short course III) – HowTo…Pivot tables (Bilingual)\t14.11\t½ day Word 2007 (Short course II) – HowTo…Mail merge (Bilingual)\t14.11\t½ day Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Niveau 2\t(Français)\t17-18.11\t2 jours Word 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(English)\t24-25.11\t2 days Indico – Meeting Organization\t(Français)\t27.11\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t27.11\t3 heures Sharepoint Designer (Frontpa...
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2015-01-01
The Procurement Service, in collaboration with the Communications group’s Design team, has recently launched a new information campaign targeted at companies wishing to supply their products and services to CERN. This campaign comprises: A brochure, available in hard and soft copy: http://procurement.web.cern.ch/brochures/doing-business-with-cern. A 6-minute video overview: https://procurement-dev.web.cern.ch/doing-business-with-cern. This campaign is intended for Member State firms with whom CERN is yet to do business. The key objectives are: To emphasise that CERN can be considered a major customer across a wide range of activities; To present CERN’s procurement procedures in a dynamic and digestible way; To highlight the information available on CERN’s procurement website: http://procurement.web.cern.ch. Furthermore, a new section called “Having a contract with CERN” is also now ava...
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Hester, Alec G
1968-01-01
Any advanced research centre needs a good Library. It can be regarded as a piece of equipment as vital as any machine. At the present time, the CERN Library is undergoing a number of modifications to adjust it to the changing scale of CERN's activities and to the ever increasing flood of information. This article, by A.G. Hester, former Editor of CERN COURIER who now works in the Scientific Information Service, describes the purposes, methods and future of the CERN Library.
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2014-01-01
With international women’s day coming up on 8 March, along with the recent appointment of a new Diversity Programme Leader, it seems timely to take a look at how far we’ve come over recent years in promoting gender equality at CERN. In short, the news is good, but we still have some way to travel. CERN does not have a policy of positive discrimination, but rather one of presenting a level playing field. We work to ensure, for example, that the diversity of candidates presented for interview reflects the diversity of applicants. It’s an approach that is having the desired effect. Overall, the percentage of female staff members has risen from 17% to 20% over the last decade, with parity being achieved among professional administrators and significant advances being made among research and applied physicists, engineers and technicians. At recruitment, our approach is working: we’re managing to attract growing numbers of women. This brings us to the phen...
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CERN's Tree of Science at the Summit
2004-01-01
The World Summit on the Information Society held its closing session at Palexpo on 12 December. During the Summit, CERN organised the SIS Forum, the Tree of Science, at Palexpo. Kofi Annan and Tim Berners-Lee, sending a message to 800 schools around the world, from the first Web server will remain one of the abiding images of the Science Stand organised by CERN as part of the World Summit on the Information Society last December. According to its designer, François Fluckiger (IT Department) this stand was not intended purely as an exhibition or as a lecture point but as a forum. Thirty-two scientific institutions throughout the world made their own contributions to the information society over the five days of the exhibition. In all, 42 science projects were exhibited to several thousand visitors under four themes: education and culture; health; environment, development and risks; fundamental sciences and enabling technologies. CERN's stand represented a tree with a trunk in the centre with scre...
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Anaïs Schaeffer
2013-01-01
After many years of discussion, the CERN Staff Association’s first crèche will open its doors in September to welcome up to 20 babies and toddlers. A delicate operation: the installation of 11 modules above the Nursery's School canteen. Image: Sigrid Knoops. The CERN Staff Association’s Nursery School, which will soon turn 50, is pleased to announce the establishment of CERN’s first crèche. This project, which has come to fruition over the past academic year with the support of the CERN Management, meets an established and growing need among the Laboratory’s personnel and users. As a modular construction, the Nursery School’s new second floor was assembled above the existing canteen in a matter of days. Its 11 modules are ultra-modern – they’re even equipped with underfloor heating. “Thanks to this extension, we will be able to accept around twenty babies at the start of the academ...
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Computer Security: Your privacy at CERN matters
Stefan Lueders, Computer Security Team
2015-01-01
Congrats to all those who spotted that our last contribution to the CERN Bulletin (“CERN Secure Password Competition” – see here) was an April Fools’ Day hoax. Of course, there is no review and no jury and there won’t be any competition. Consequently, we are sorry to say that we cannot announce any winners. The extension of the password history rule and the initiative of finding password duplicates are absolute nonsense too. In fact, the Computer Security team, just like the CERN Account Management service, the Single Sign-On team and the ServiceDesk, does not know and has no need to know your password. Passwords are actually salted and hashed using the SHA256 cryptographic hash function. Thus, there is no literal password database and no way that anyone apart from you can know your password – unless you have given it away intentionally or inadvertently… Remember, your password is yours and only yours, so please do not...
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From the CERN web: knowledge transfer, sustainability, CERN openlab and more
2015-01-01
This section highlights articles, blog posts and press releases published in the CERN web environment over the past weeks. This way, you won’t miss a thing... Previous successful Knowledge Transfer enterprises have helped to develop several useful technologies, such as these photonic crystals, which glow when high-energy charged particles pass through, and are used for medical imaging. New Knowledge Transfer website to grow CERN’s industry links 23 November – by Harriet Jarlett CERN’s Knowledge Transfer Group has just launched a new tool to encourage CERN researchers and businesses to share their technologies, ideas and expertise. It’s hoped that by facilitating these exchanges the tool will inspire new ways to apply CERN technologies commercially, to help benefit industry and society. Continue to read… The power station at CERN's Prévessin site. (Image: Margot Frenot/CERN). CERN an...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2008 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Windows Vista\t(Français)\t24.02\t3 heures ½ EXCEL 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t26-27.02\t2 jours Excel 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t03-04.03\t2 jours CERN EDMS for Local Administrators\t(Français)\t04-05.03\t2 days Novelties Office 2007: Word 2007\t(Français)\t09.03\t1 jour Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 2\t(English)\t18-19.03\t2 days Access 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t30-31.03\t2 jours Office 2007 – Novelties (Français)\t20.04\t1 jour Novelties Office 2007: Powerpoint 2007\t(Français)\t21.04\t1 jour Introduction to Dreamweaver MX\t(Français)\t23-24.04\t2 jours Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(English)\t27-28.04\t1 jour ½ Excel 2007 (Short Course I) –HowTo…Work with formulae (Bilingual)\t29.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel...
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CERN and ESA’s common roots to fly into space
Antonella Del Rosso
2012-01-01
ESA has named a space ferry after Edoardo Amaldi, one of the founding fathers of CERN but also of ESRO, the ancestor of ESA. Although they have developed in different ways, the three large European scientific organisations – CERN, ESO and ESA – have common roots. A webcast on the day of the launch of the spaceship from Kourou (French Guiana) will celebrate this fact with historic recollections and the participation of members of the Amaldi family. The ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) number three will fly a document which has a very clear title: “Edoardo Amaldi, an ESA pioneer”. Given the fact that Edoardo Amaldi was also one of the founding fathers of CERN and that CERN gave birth to ESO, the idea to mark the event with a common action came quite naturally. The live webcast will take place on 23 March at 3 p.m. with the participation of Ugo Amaldi, CERN physicist and son of Edoardo Amaldi, Arturo Russo, historian and author with John...
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Redesign of CERN LINAC3 RFQ for Lead 29+
Benedetti, Stefano; Lallement, Jean-Baptiste; Lombardi, Alessandra; CERN. Geneva. ATS Department
2018-01-01
CERN Linac3 is at the heart of the CERN Heavy Ion Facility, providing 4.2 MeV/u ion beams to the Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR). It mostly accelerates 208Pb29+, though in recent years runs were performed with 40Ar11+ and 129Xe22+, in view of the raising interest of the physics community towards lighter ions experiments. In the framework of the LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) project, measurements and beam dynamics simulations showed that a transmission bottleneck of Linac3 is represented by the RFQ. As this accelerator was originally designed for 208Pb25+, the lower beam rigidity of the heavy ions currently in used – and planned to be used – permits a redesign of the RFQ aimed at increasing its transverse acceptance, and thus the transmitted beam current. The methodology adopted and the results of this study are presented.
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies C++ Part 2: Object-Oriented and Generic Programming 25-MAY-10 28-MAY-10 English 3 days CERN openlab Multi-threading and Parallelism Workshop 04-MAY-10 05-MAY-10 English 2 days ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION 29-APR-10 29-APR-10 English 1 hour JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition - Part 2: Enterprise JavaBeans 21-JUN-10 23-JUN-10 &...
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2007-01-01
"The Large Hadron Collider (pages 1-3) is being built at CERN, the European Centre for Nuclear Research near Geneva. CERN offers some extremely exciting opportunities to see "big bang" in action. (1 page)
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE WORD 2007 - level 2 : ECDL\t(Français)\t12-13.01\t2 jours EXCEL 2007 - Level 2: ECDL\t(English)\t15-16.01\t2 days Novelties Office 2007: WORD 2007\t(Français)\t19.01\t1 jour Windows Vista\t(Français)\t30.01\t3 heures ½ EXCEL 2007 level 1: ECDL\t(English)\t02-03.02\t2 days WORD 2007 - level 1 : ECDL\t(English)\t05-06.02\t2 days ACCESS 2007 - Level 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t09-10.02\t2 jours Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage)- Level 1\t(Français)\t12-13.02\t2 jours SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES Linux System Administration\t(English)\t22-27.01\t4 days Oracle – SQL\t(English)\t02-04.02\t3 days Oracle Databases: Memory Management (10g & 11g) (English)\t05-06.02\t2 days JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition – Part 1: Web Applications\t(English)\t09-10.02\t2 days ...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2008 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You will find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Outlook 2007 (Short Course II) – Calendar, Tasks and Notes\t(Bilingue)\t09.06\t½ day/jour Outlook 2007 (Short Course III) – Meetings and Delegation\t(Bilingual)\t09.06\t0.5 day Excel 2007 – Niveau 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t10-11.06\t2 jours Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 2\t(English)\t12-13.06\t2 days PowerPoint 2007 – Niveau 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t19-20.06\t2 jours Videoconferencing and collaborative tools\t(English)\t27.06\t2 hours A hands-on overview of EVO\t(English)\t27.06\t½ day Excel 2007 – Level 2 ECDL\t(English)\t30.06-01.07\t2 days Hands-On Design Patterns for Object-oriented Programming (English)\t02-04.07\t3 days Windows Vista\t(Français)\t11.07\t½ jour SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES Java – Level 2\t(English)\t9-12.06\t4 days ...
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2011-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2011 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies CERN openlab/Intel Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop\t08-Feb-11\t09-Feb-11\tEnglish\t2 days Introduction to Databases and Database Design\t10-Mar-11\t11-Mar-11\tEnglish\t2 days JAVA - Level 2\t17-Jan-11\t20-Jan-11\tEnglish\t4 days JCOP-Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t14-Mar-11\t18-Mar-11\tEnglish\t4.5 days ORACLE-SQL\t16-Mar-11\t18-Mar-11\tEnglish\t3 days Oracle Databases: Advanced PL/SQL Programming\t21-Mar-11\t23-Mar-11\tEnglish\t3 days Linux LPI 101 - Introduction à Linux et LPI 102 Administration systèmes sur Linux\t8-Mar-11\t11-Mar-11\tFrançais\t4 jours Electronic design Siemens - STEP7: Level 1\t15-feb-11\t18-feb-11\tFrançais\t4 jours Mechanical Design ANSYS Workbench advanced\t31-Jan-11\t03-Feb-11\tEnglish\t4 days ANS...
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies C++ Part 2: Object-Oriented and Generic Programming\t25-MAY-10\t28-MAY-10\tEnglish\t3 days CERN openlab Multi-threading and Parallelism Workshop\t04-MAY-10\t05-MAY-10\tEnglish\t2 days ITIL Foundations (version 3)\t31-MAY-10\t02-JUN-10\tEnglish\t3 days ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION\t22-JUN-10\t22-JUN-10\tEnglish\t1 hour JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition - Part 2: Enterprise JavaBeans\t21-JUN-10\t23-JUN-10\tEnglish\t3 days JavaScript for web development\t05-MAY-10\t07-MAY-10\tEnglish\t3 days JCOP - Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework\t22-JUN-10\t24-JUN-10\tEnglish\t3 days JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t31-MAY-10\t04-JUN-10\tEnglish\t4.5 days Le Langage C (ANSI et C99)\t24-JUN-10\t02-JUL-10\tEnglish\t4 days Object-oriented Design Patterns\t10-MAY-10\t12-MAY-10\tEnglish\t3 days Orac...
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The CERN's year; L'annee du CERN
Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)
Chadli, M. [Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, CREA, 80 - Amiens (France); Coppier, H. [Ecole Superieure d' Ingenieurs en Electrotechnique et Electronique d' Amiens - ESIEE Amiens, 80 - Amiens (France); Pezzeti, M. [Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), Geneve (Switzerland)
2007-12-15
CERN, the European organization for nuclear research, has just celebrated its fifty years of existence. Its first goal was to counterbalance the migration of physics scientists towards the USA by the creation of a physics laboratory gathering scientists from the different European countries. Today, the CERN's mission has changed and has overcome all the expectations of its founders. In 2008, it will become, with the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), the biggest particle accelerator in the world. The CERN employs about 3000 physicists, engineers, technicians and workers. There is also 6500 people from 80 different countries who use the CERN's facilities during the year. The CERN is controlled by 20 European member states and 6 observer countries, and 20 non-member countries participate to the programs in progress. The CERN's power comes from its international and cosmopolitan spirit. The whole most famous physicists of the world can work together for the progress of science and for a better understanding of matter, of its interactions and of our universe. Two Nobel prices of physics come from the CERN: C. Rubbia and S. Van der Meer in 1983 for the discovery of W{sup +}, W{sup -} and Z{sub 0} bosons, and G. Charpak for the development of particle detectors. One can foresee that the LHC will allow new scientific achievements, like for instance, during experiments for the quest of the famous Higgs boson. It is important also to mention that the CERN has been at the origin of several technological innovations in all technical and engineering domains in the framework of its fundamental physics researches. (J.S.)
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From the CERN web: Collide@CERN, Fermilab neutrinos and more
2015-01-01
This new section highlights articles, blog posts and press releases published in the CERN web environment over the past weeks. This way, you won’t miss a thing... Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. (Photo: Matthias H. Risse). Collide@CERN Ars Electronica Award goes to “Semiconductor” 10 August – Collide@CERN Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, two English artists collaborating under the name Semiconductor, are this year’s recipients of the Collide@CERN Ars Electronica Award. In the coming months, they will begin a two-month residency at CERN. Continue to read… Illustration: Fermilab/Sandbox Studio. Fermilab experiment sees neutrinos change over 500 miles 7 August - Fermilab press release Scientists on the NOvA experiment saw their first evidence of oscillating neutrinos, confirming that the extraordinary detector built for the project not only functions as planned but is also making great p...
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CERN Technical Training: available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2009 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Outlook 2007 (Short Course 1) – E-mail\t(Bilingual)\t25.05\t3 hours Outlook 2007 (Short Course II) – Calendar, Tasks and Notes (Bilingual)\t25.05\t3 hours Word 2007 (Short Course III) - Working with long documents: Styles and tables of content (Bilingual)\t28.05\t3 hours Excel 2007 (Short Course I) –HowTo…Work with formulae (Bilingual)\t11.06\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course II) – HowTo…Format your worksheet for printing\t(Bilingual)\t11.06\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course III) – HowTo…Pivot Tables\t(Bilingual)\t12.06\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course IV) – HowTo…Link cells, worksheets and workbook\t(Bilingual)\t12.06\t0.5 jour/day Word 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t15-...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Novelties Office 2007 : PowerPoint 2007 (English)\t27.10\t1 day Excel 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(English)\t10-11.11\t2 days Word 2007 (Short course III) – HowTo…Work with long documents: styles and tables of contents\t(Bilingual)\t13.11\t3 hour Excel 2007 (Short course III) – HowTo…Pivot tables (Bilingual)\t14.11\t½ day Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Niveau 2\t(Français)\t17-18.11\t2 jours Word 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(English)\t24-25.11\t2 days Indico – Meeting Organization\t(Français)\t27.11\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t27.11\t3 heures Excel 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(English)\t01-02.12\t2 days Novelties of Excel 2007\t(Français)\t04.12\t1 jour Outlook 2007 (Short Course I) – E-mail (Bilin...
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Running Club
2010-01-01
This year’s CERN Relay Race will take place around the Meyrin site on Thursday 20th May at 12h00. This annual event is for teams of 6 runners covering distances of 1000m, 800m, 800m, 500m, 500m and 300m respectively. Teams may be entered in the Seniors, Veterans, Ladies, Mixed or Open categories. The registration fee is 10 CHF per runner, and each runner receives a souvenir prize. As usual, there will be a programme of entertainments from 12h in the arrival area, in front of the Restaurant no. 1. Drinks, food, CERN club information and music will be available for the pleasure of both runners and spectators. The race starts at 12h15, with results and prize giving at 13:15. For details of the race, and of how to sign up a team, please visit: https://espace.cern.ch/Running-Club/CERN-Relay The event is organised by the CERN Running Club with the support of the CERN Staff Association.
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2002-01-01
The library is launching a 'sharing resources@CERN' campaign, aiming to increase the library's utility by including the thousands of books bought by individual groups at CERN. This will improve sharing of information among CERN staff and users. Until now many people were unaware that copies of the same book (or standard, or journal) are often held not only by the library but by different divisions. (Here Eduardo Aldaz, from the PS division, and Isabel Bejar, from the ST division, read their divisional copies of the same book.) The idea behind the library's new sharing resources@CERN' initiative is not at all to collect the books in individual collections at the CERN library, but simply to register them in the Library database. Those not belonging to the library will in principle be unavailable for loan, but should be able to be consulted by anybody at CERN who is interested. "When you need a book urgently and it is not available in the library,' said PS Division engineer Eduardo Aldaz Carroll, it is a sham...
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Anaïs Schaeffer
2013-01-01
With new machines, new services and new opening hours, the CERN Printshop has turned over many new leaves at the start of 2013. Come and find out more from 25 to 27 March at the Printshop open days! The CERN Printshop’s new 8-metre long black and white printer. The CERN Printshop’s new 8-metre long black-and-white printer is a technical marvel. It can produce 160 pages per minute (it prints on both sides in one pass) and can also staple, punch holes, do thermal binding and make A4 or A5 brochures. The new colour printer is more discreet but no less efficient: it churns out 70 A4 or A3 pages per minute. Once they are printed, colour documents can be inserted into the black and white machine to be hole-punched, made into brochures or bound. They can even be mixed in with black-and-white pages and, as if by magic, come out in the right order! Having recently acquired a state-of-the-art large-format printer, the CERN Printshop can now print posters in A2, A1 or A0 format. ...
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CERN Technical Training 2006: ANSYS Course Sessions (August-September 2006)
Davide Vitè
2006-01-01
If you wish to participate in one of the following courses, please tell to your supervisor and apply electronically from the course description pages that can be found on the Web at: http://www.cern.ch/Training/ or fill in an 'application for training'form available from your Departmental Secretariat or from your DTO (Departmental Training Officer). Applications will be accepted in the order in which they are received. The following ANSYS course sessions are currently scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2006, and in collaboration with CAD-FEM AG (CH): ANSYS DesignModeler (course in French): 29-30.8.2006 (2 days) ANSYS Workbench (course in French): 12-15.9.2006 (4 days, only 3 places available) If you are interested in attending any of the above course sessions, please discuss with your supervisor and/or your DTO, and apply electronically via EDH from the course description pages that can be found at http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=300 under 'Upcoming course sessions', with th...
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Hangout with CERN: a direct conversation with the public
Rao, Achintya; Goldfarb, Steven; Kahle, Kate
2016-04-01
Hangout with CERN refers to a weekly, half-hour-long, topical webcast hosted at CERN. The aim of the programme is threefold: (i) to provide a virtual tour of various locations and facilities at CERN, (ii) to discuss the latest scientific results from the laboratory, and, most importantly, (iii) to engage in conversation with the public and answer their questions. For each ;episode;, scientists gather around webcam-enabled computers at CERN and partner institutes/universities, connecting to one another using the Google+ social network's ;Hangouts; tool. The show is structured as a conversation mediated by a host, usually a scientist, and viewers can ask questions to the experts in real time through a Twitter hashtag or YouTube comments. The history of Hangout with CERN can be traced back to ICHEP 2012, where several physicists crowded in front of a laptop connected to Google+, using a ;Hangout On Air; webcast to explain to the world the importance of the discovery of the Higgs-like boson, announced just two days before at the same conference. Hangout with CERN has also drawn inspiration from two existing outreach endeavours: (i) ATLAS Virtual Visits, which connected remote visitors with scientists in the ATLAS Control Room via video conference, and (ii) the Large Hangout Collider, in which CMS scientists gave underground tours via Hangouts to groups of schools and members of the public around the world. In this paper, we discuss the role of Hangout with CERN as a bi-directional outreach medium and an opportunity to train scientists in effective communication.
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2013-01-01
Do you have last-minute gifts to get? Stuck for ideas? The CERN Shop and the ATLAS and CMS secretariats have some wonderfully unique gifts and stocking-fillers for sale this year - perfect for the physics fanatics in your life. Let's take a look... 1. CERN Notebook, 10 CHF - 2. CERN Pop-up book, 30 CHF - 3. USB Stick 8GB, 25 CHF - 4. CERN Tumbler, 12 CHF 5. ATLAS 3D Viewer, 5 CHF - 6. ATLAS Puzzle, 15 CHF - 7. CMS Umbrella, 25 CHF These gifts are all available at the CERN Shop, with the exception of the ATLAS 3D Viewer and the CMS umbrella, which are only available from the respective secretariats. Don’t forget! If you’re from CERN, you still have time to take advantage of a 10% off discount at the CERN shop. Offer ends 20 December.
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IT Services Availability during the 2007 Annual CERN Closure
IT Department
2007-01-01
Most of the physics, technical, administrative and communications services provided by the IT Department - including LCG (EGEE) production services - will remain available during the CERN annual closure (although EDH requests will stay queued). No interruptions are scheduled but in the event of failure, the restoration of services cannot be guaranteed. Problems will be dealt with on a best effort basis only. However, for the following services: Network, Databases, Mail, Web, Windows & Terminal Services, Indico, CDS, Grid (SAM, FTS, VOMS, GridView, Resource Brokers): experts should be reachable to start investigations within about half a day except around Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (24 and 25 December) and New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day (31 December and 1 January). Incidents will be documented at http://cern.ch/ssb; The backup service: will remain operational, but backups cannot be guaranteed and file restores will not be possible; Castor: damaged tapes wi...
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IT Services Availability during the CERN Annual Closure 2010
2010-01-01
Most of the services provided by the IT Department - including WLCG production services - will remain available during the CERN annual closure. No interruptions are scheduled but in case of failure, the restoration of services cannot be guaranteed. Problems will be dealt with on a best effort basis only. However, please note: •\tExperts should be reachable to start investigations on the following services within about half a day except around Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (24 and 25 December) and New Year's Eve and New Year's Day (31 December and 1 January) -- Network, Databases, Linux, Mail, Printing, Telecom, Web, Windows & Windows Terminal Services, Account Management, Castor, Indico, Inspire, Invenio, Grid (SAM, Gridview, Nagios, messaging), and the room booking system, Incidents will be documented at http://cern.ch/ssb. •\tThe backup service will remain operational, but backups cannot be guaranteed and file restores may not be possible. •\tFor the Castor serv...
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International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Chadli, M.; Coppier, H.; Pezzeti, M.
2007-01-01
CERN, the European organization for nuclear research, has just celebrated its fifty years of existence. Its first goal was to counterbalance the migration of physics scientists towards the USA by the creation of a physics laboratory gathering scientists from the different European countries. Today, the CERN's mission has changed and has overcome all the expectations of its founders. In 2008, it will become, with the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), the biggest particle accelerator in the world. The CERN employs about 3000 physicists, engineers, technicians and workers. There is also 6500 people from 80 different countries who use the CERN's facilities during the year. The CERN is controlled by 20 European member states and 6 observer countries, and 20 non-member countries participate to the programs in progress. The CERN's power comes from its international and cosmopolitan spirit. The whole most famous physicists of the world can work together for the progress of science and for a better understanding of matter, of its interactions and of our universe. Two Nobel prices of physics come from the CERN: C. Rubbia and S. Van der Meer in 1983 for the discovery of W + , W - and Z 0 bosons, and G. Charpak for the development of particle detectors. One can foresee that the LHC will allow new scientific achievements, like for instance, during experiments for the quest of the famous Higgs boson. It is important also to mention that the CERN has been at the origin of several technological innovations in all technical and engineering domains in the framework of its fundamental physics researches. (J.S.)
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies C++ Part 2: Object-Oriented and Generic Programming\t25-MAY-10\t28-MAY-10\tEnglish\t3 days CERN openlab Multi-threading and Parallelism Workshop\t04-MAY-10\t05-MAY-10\tEnglish\t2 days ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION\t29-APR-10\t29-APR-10\tEnglish\t1 hour JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition - Part 2: Enterprise JavaBeans\t21-JUN-10\t23-JUN-10\tEnglish\t3 days JavaScript for web development\t05-MAY-10\t07-MAY-10\tEnglish\t3 days JCOP - Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework\t27-APR-10\t29-APR-10\tEnglish\t3 days JCOP - Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework\t22-JUN-10\t24-JUN-10\tEnglish\t3 days JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t19-APR-10\t23-APR-10\tEnglish\t4.5 days JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t31-MAY-10\t04-JUN-10\tEnglish\t4.5 days Le Langage C (ANSI et C99)\t24-JUN-10\t02-J...
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2011-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2011 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies CERN openlab Multi-threading and Parallelism Workshop\t9-May-11\t10-May-11\t2 days\tEnglish Dealing efficiently with Oracle Performance Issues\t26-May-11\t26-May-11\t1 day\tEnglish Developing secure software\t2-May-11\t2-May-11\t3.5 hours\tEnglish Emacs - way beyond Text Editing\t30-Jun-11\t30-Jun-11\t1 day\tEnglish ITIL Foundations (version 3)\t9-May-11\t11-May-11\t3 days\tEnglish ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION\t23-May-11\t23-May-11\t1 hour\tEnglish JAVA - Level 1\t13-Apr-11\t15-Apr-11\t3 days\tEnglish JavaScript for web development\t22-Jun-11\t24-Jun-11\t3 days\tEnglish JCOP - Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework\t24-May-11\t26-May-11\t3 days\tEnglish JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t9-May-11\t13-May-11\t4.5 days\tEnglish JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t20-Jun-11\t24-Jun-...
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CERN Technical training: available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies C++ Part 2: Object-Oriented and Generic Programming\t25-MAY-10\t28-MAY-10\t3 days\tEnglish Le Langage C (ANSI et C99)\t12-APR-10\t15-APR-10 English ITIL Foundations (version 3)\t12-APR-10\t14-APR-10\t3 days\tEnglish ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION\t25-Mar-10\t25-Mar-10\t1 hour\tEnglish ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION\t29-APR-10\t29-APR-10\t1 hour\tEnglish JAVA - Level 1\t22-Mar-10\t24-Mar-10\t3 days\tEnglish JCOP - Joint PVSS-JCOP Framework\t19-APR-10\t23-APR-10\t4.5 days\tEnglish JCOP - Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework\t27-APR-10\t29-APR-10\t3 days\tEnglish CERN openlab Multi-threading and Parallelism Workshop\t04-MAY-10\t05-MAY-10\t2 days\tEnglish Oracle - SQL\t22-Mar-10\t24-Mar-10\t3 days\tEnglish Oracle - Programming with PL/SQL\t06-APR-10\t08-APR-10\t3 days\tE...
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Department, HR
2015-01-01
In the fulfillment of its mission, CERN relies upon the trust and material support of its Member States and partners, and is committed to exercising exemplary stewardship of the resources with which it is entrusted. Accordingly, CERN expects the highest level of integrity from all its contributors (whether members of the personnel, consultants, contractors working on site, or persons engaged in any other capacity at or on behalf of CERN). Integrity is a core value of CERN, defined in the Code of Conduct as “behaving ethically, with intellectual honesty and being accountable for one’s own actions”.
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The CMS CERN Analysis Facility (CAF)
Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)
Buchmueller, O [Imperial College (United Kingdom); Bonacorsi, D [Universita and INFN, Bologna (Italy); Fanzago, F [Universita and INFN, Padova (Italy); Gowdy, S; Malgeri, L; Panzer-Steindel, B; Schwickerath, U; Spiga, D; Toebbicke, Rainer [Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN) Switzerland (Switzerland); Kreuzer, P [Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (RWTH) (Germany); Mankel, R [Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) (Germany); Metson, S [University of Bristol (United Kingdom); Sanches, J Afonso; Teodoro, D, E-mail: Peter.Kreuzer@cern.c [Universidade do Estado do Rio De Janeiro (UERJ) (Brazil)
2010-04-01
The CMS CERN Analysis Facility (CAF) was primarily designed to host a large variety of latency-critical workflows. These break down into alignment and calibration, detector commissioning and diagnosis, and high-interest physics analysis requiring fast-turnaround. In addition to the low latency requirement on the batch farm, another mandatory condition is the efficient access to the RAW detector data stored at the CERN Tier-0 facility. The CMS CAF also foresees resources for interactive login by a large number of CMS collaborators located at CERN, as an entry point for their day-by-day analysis. These resources will run on a separate partition in order to protect the high-priority use-cases described above. While the CMS CAF represents only a modest fraction of the overall CMS resources on the WLCG GRID, an appropriately sized user-support service needs to be provided. We will describe the building, commissioning and operation of the CMS CAF during the year 2008. The facility was heavily and routinely used by almost 250 users during multiple commissioning and data challenge periods. It reached a CPU capacity of 1.4MSI2K and a disk capacity at the Peta byte scale. In particular, we will focus on the performances in terms of networking, disk access and job efficiency and extrapolate prospects for the upcoming LHC first year data taking. We will also present the experience gained and the limitations observed in operating such a large facility, in which well controlled workflows are combined with more chaotic type analysis by a large number of physicists.
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The CMS CERN Analysis Facility (CAF)
International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Buchmueller, O; Bonacorsi, D; Fanzago, F; Gowdy, S; Malgeri, L; Panzer-Steindel, B; Schwickerath, U; Spiga, D; Toebbicke, Rainer; Kreuzer, P; Mankel, R; Metson, S; Sanches, J Afonso; Teodoro, D
2010-01-01
The CMS CERN Analysis Facility (CAF) was primarily designed to host a large variety of latency-critical workflows. These break down into alignment and calibration, detector commissioning and diagnosis, and high-interest physics analysis requiring fast-turnaround. In addition to the low latency requirement on the batch farm, another mandatory condition is the efficient access to the RAW detector data stored at the CERN Tier-0 facility. The CMS CAF also foresees resources for interactive login by a large number of CMS collaborators located at CERN, as an entry point for their day-by-day analysis. These resources will run on a separate partition in order to protect the high-priority use-cases described above. While the CMS CAF represents only a modest fraction of the overall CMS resources on the WLCG GRID, an appropriately sized user-support service needs to be provided. We will describe the building, commissioning and operation of the CMS CAF during the year 2008. The facility was heavily and routinely used by almost 250 users during multiple commissioning and data challenge periods. It reached a CPU capacity of 1.4MSI2K and a disk capacity at the Peta byte scale. In particular, we will focus on the performances in terms of networking, disk access and job efficiency and extrapolate prospects for the upcoming LHC first year data taking. We will also present the experience gained and the limitations observed in operating such a large facility, in which well controlled workflows are combined with more chaotic type analysis by a large number of physicists.
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CernVM Online and Cloud Gateway: a uniform interface for CernVM contextualization and deployment
International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Lestaris, G; Charalampidis, I; Berzano, D; Blomer, J; Buncic, P; Ganis, G; Meusel, R
2014-01-01
In a virtualized environment, contextualization is the process of configuring a VM instance for the needs of various deployment use cases. Contextualization in CernVM can be done by passing a handwritten context to the user data field of cloud APIs, when running CernVM on the cloud, or by using CernVM web interface when running the VM locally. CernVM Online is a publicly accessible web interface that unifies these two procedures. A user is able to define, store and share CernVM contexts using CernVM Online and then apply them either in a cloud by using CernVM Cloud Gateway or on a local VM with the single-step pairing mechanism. CernVM Cloud Gateway is a distributed system that provides a single interface to use multiple and different clouds (by location or type, private or public). Cloud gateway has been so far integrated with OpenNebula, CloudStack and EC2 tools interfaces. A user, with access to a number of clouds, can run CernVM cloud agents that will communicate with these clouds using their interfaces, and then use one single interface to deploy and scale CernVM clusters. CernVM clusters are defined in CernVM Online and consist of a set of CernVM instances that are contextualized and can communicate with each other.
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Tunnel Linking the CERN Sites: Discontinuation of the (small) 'Attestation CERN'
Service des Relations avec les Pays-hôtes
2004-01-01
With effect from 1st June 2004, members of the personnel whose contracts with the Organization are too short for them to hold legitimation documents issued by the Host States will be required to carry only the following documents to use the Tunnel linking the CERN sites: their national identity card, if accepted by the French and Swiss regulations, or their passport (with a visa/visas if required by the French and/or Swiss regulations) and their blue CERN card (access card). The (small) 'Attestation CERN' (CERN certificate) issued by the Users Office or the Human Resources Department will no longer be required. This amendment to paragraph 10 b) and to Annex 3 of the Rules for Use of the Tunnel (ref. CERN/DSU-DO/RH/8200) is related to the addition of an expiry date on blue CERN cards, which has been compulsory since 1st January 2003, and to the recording of all relevant information in the database used for the systematic checking of tunnel users by means of card readers installed at the tunnel. Relations...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Excel 2007 – Niveau 2 : ECDL\t(Français)\t08-09.09\t2 jour Excel 2007 (short course I) – HowTo..Work with formulae\t(Bilingual)\t15.09\t1 day Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(English)\t15-16.09\t1 ½ day Windows Vista Advanced\t(Français)\t15.09\t0.5 jour Novelties of Excel 2007\t(English)\t16.09\t1 day WORD 2007 (Short Course III) - HowTo... Work with long documents\t(Bilingual)\t19.09\t3 hours Word 2007 – Level 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t22-23.09\t2 jours Excel 2007 (Short course II) – HowTo…format your worksheet for printing\t(Bilingual)\t03.10\t0.5 day Windows Vista Advanced\t(English)\t03.10\t0.5 day Excel 2007 – Level 1 : ECDL\t(English)\t06-07.10\t2 days Project Planning with MS-Project\t(English)\t06-17.10\t2 d...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Excel 2007 – Niveau 2 ECDL (Français)\t05-06.05\t2 jours Novelties of Excel\t(Français)\t09.05\t1 jour In Design: Introduction (Français)\t13-14.05\t2 jours Windows Vista\t(Français)\t20.05\t0.5 jour Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 1\t(English)\t29-30.05\t2 days Word 2007 – Level 2 : ECDL\t(English)\t02-03.06\t2 days Excel 2007 – Niveau 2 ECDL\t(English)\t05-06.06\t2 days Outlook 2007 (Short Course III) – Meetings and Delegation\t(Bilingual)\t09.06\t0.5 day Word 2007 (Short Course III) – HowTo….Work with long documents\t(Bilingual)\t09.06\t0.5 day Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 1 ECDL\t(English)\t29-30.05\t2 days PowerPoint 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t19-20.06\t2 jours SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES XML Introduction...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE ACCESS 2007 – Niveau 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t27-28.05\t2 jours Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 1\t(English)\t29-30.05\t2 days Sharepoint Collaborative Services\t(Francais)\t02-03.06\t2 days Indico – Meting Organization\t(Français)\t03.06\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t03.06\t3 heures Introduction to Dreamweaver MX\t(English)\t05-06.06\t2 days Outlook 2007 (Short Course III) – Meetings and Delegation\t(Bilingual)\t09.06\t0.5 day Word 2007 (Short Course III) – HowTo….Work with long documents\t(Bilingual)\t09.06\t0.5 day Excel 2007 – Level 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t10-11.06\t2 jours Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 2\t(English)\t12-13.06\t2 days PowerPoint 2007 – Niveau 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t19-20.06\t2 jours Exce...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2008 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You will find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Sharepoint Collaborative Services\t(Francais)\t02-03.06\t2 days Indico – Meting Organization\t(Français)\t03.06\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t03.06\t3 heures Introduction to Dreamweaver MX\t(English)\t05-06.06\t2 days Outlook 2007 (Short Course II) – Calendar, Tasks and Notes\t(Bilingue)\t09.06\t½ day/jour Outlook 2007 (Short Course III) – Meetings and Delegation\t(Bilingual)\t09.06\t0.5 day Excel 2007 – Niveau 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t10-11.06\t2 jours Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 2\t(English)\t12-13.06\t2 days PowerPoint 2007 – Niveau 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t19-20.06\t2 jours Videoconferencing and collaborative tools\t(English)\t27.06\t2 hours A hands-on overview of EVO\t(English)\t27.06\t½ day Excel 2007 – Level...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2008 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You will find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE PowerPoint 2007 – Niveau 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t19-20.06\t2 jours Videoconferencing and collaborative tools\t(English)\t27.06\t2 hours A hands-on overview of EVO\t(English)\t27.06\t½ day Excel 2007 – Level 2 ECDL\t(English)\t30.06-01.07\t2 days Access 2007 – Niveau 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t01-04.07\t4 ½ journées Hands-On Design Patterns for Object-oriented Programming (English)\t02-04.07\t3 days Windows Vista Advanced\t(Français)\t10.07\t½ jour Windows Vista\t(Français)\t11.07\t½ jour SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES Python-Hands-on Introduction\t(English)\t16-18.06\t3 days JCOP – Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework\t(English)\t24-26.06\t3 days Oracle 10g Certified Professional\t(English)\t30.06-04.07\t5 days Advanced Python-Hands-on\t(English)\t0...
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CERN - better than science fiction!
2007-01-01
From left to right: Allan Cameron (Production Designer), Sam Breckham (Location Manager), James Gillies (Head of Communication at CERN), Jacques Fichet (from the CERN audiovisual service), Rolf Landua (former spokesman of the ATHENA antihydrogen experiment at CERN and Head of CERN's Education Group), Ron Howard, and Renilde Vanden Broeck (CERN press officer).
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TPG: Unireso travel cards soon to be available for purchase at CERN
2013-01-01
In the framework of a partnership between CERN and the TPG, all active and retired members of the CERN personnel will be able to purchase Unireso travel cards from the CERN Hostel - Building 39 (Meyrin site) from 1 February 2013. At the same time, the CERN Staff Association will stop selling cards to its members. How to order a travel card From 1 February onwards, travel cards can be ordered* directly from the reception of the CERN Hostel (Building 39) between the hours of 7.30 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. Mondays to Fridays: → a digital photograph will be taken when you order your card, → the card must be paid for, by credit card (EuroMaster, Visa or American Express) or in cash (Swiss francs only), when the order is placed. *Please note that cards ordered at CERN will not be valid until at least 8 working days after purchase. No reimbursement will be possible once the order has been placed. Prices Travel cards will be on sale at the following prices (including 8% VAT): Regi...
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Jarlskog, Cecilia
2014-01-01
CERN, currently the largest organization in the world for particle physics, was founded in 1954. Originally located in Meyrin, at the outskirts of the city of Geneva in Switzerland, it has with time extended into neighboring France. The Theoretical Study Division of CERN, however, was created already in 1952, i.e., before the official inauguration of CERN. It was situated in Copenhagen. Christian Møller [1] was appointed (part-time) as the Director and there were two full time senior staff members, Gunnar Källén and Ben R. Mottelson. While constructing buildings and accelerators were in progress, an international conference was organized by CERN in the city of Geneva. This “CERN Symposium on High Energy Accelerators and Pion Physics”, 11–23 June 1956, attracted about 250 participants from outside CERN, among them at least 18 Nobel Laureates or future Laureates. Unfortunately, the participants from CERN are not listed in the Proceedings [2]. The conference focused on measuring devices such as bubbl...
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2013-01-01
The stickers on your vehicles will cease to be valid at the end of 2013. We kindly request that you inform us as soon as possible if you no longer own a vehicle that is in our records. In particular, please inform the CERN Registration Service (Building 55, first floor) if you receive a sticker for a vehicle that you no longer own. Stickers for 2014 are valid immediately and can be displayed as soon as you receive them. The Guards Service will continue to allow cars displaying a 2013 sticker into the CERN site until no later than 31 January 2014. After that date, the Guards Service will be obliged to deny access to any vehicles not displaying a valid sticker. Please see Operational Circular No. 2 for more details. We wish you a pleasant day and happy holidays, GS/DI security and access control service
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Latest from TPG - annual tickets for sale at CERN
2012-01-01
Starting in early 2013, TPG’s annual tickets will be for sale at CERN for 650 CHF, instead of the typical 700 CHF. Further details on their sale will be communicated as soon as possible. With effect from 9 December, the TPG (Transports publics genevois) network will be introducing several improvements to its services: - The existing 14 tram service (CERN - Bel-Air) will become the 18 (CERN - Stand), and its frequency will be increased to a tram every 10 minutes; - The Y bus service (Ferney-Voltaire-Mairie - Val-Thoiry via CERN and Geneva airport) will also be improved: • from Monday to Friday, there will be a bus every 15 minutes at rush hours (between 6.30 a.m. and 9.30 a.m. and between 4.30 p.m. and 7 p.m.), i.e. an increase of 50%, • on Saturdays, the frequency of this service will be increased to a bus every 45 minutes, • on Sundays, there will be one bus per hour throughout the day between 6 a.m. and midnight. You can consult t...
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CERN openlab to host innovation and entrepreneurship event | 26 November
CERN openlab
2015-01-01
Do you have a bright idea for a business? The first-of-its-kind ‘CERN openlab Innovation and Entrepreneurship Event’ is a great opportunity for you to explore it further. The event, which is being organised in collaboration with the CERN Knowledge Transfer Group and IdeaSquare, will take place on Thursday, 26 November. This full-day event is also supported by CERN openlab partner company Intel as part of a joint project (see here) on innovation and entrepreneurship. During the morning session, experts from a variety of organisations will speak on diverse subjects related to both innovation and entrepreneurship. From commercialisation and start-up funding to marketing and social impact, the broad range of topics covered by these talks will provide a valuable learning opportunity. CERN personnel and users are encouraged to come forward with their own innovative ideas for the event. There will be the opportunity to privately discuss these ideas on a one-to-one basis with the ex...
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CERN-BINP Workshop for Young Scientists in $e^{+}e^{-}$ Colliders
Linssen, Lucie; eCOL 2016
2017-01-01
The "CERN-BINP workshop for young scientists in e+e- colliders" is organised in the framework of the EU-funded CREMLIN project. The CREMLIN project aims at strengthening science cooperation between six Russian megascience facilities and related research infrastructure counterparts in Europe. BINP and CERN coordinate a dedicated CREMLIN work package focusing on a future super-charm-tau factory (SCT) at BINP. SCT aims at producing e+e- collisions with up to 5 GeV centre-of-mass energy and at very high luminosity. In parallel CERN is hosting design studies for two possible high-energy e+e- colliders: FCC-ee and CLIC. In matters of physics, design and technologies the BINP and CERN studies address technological and scientific questions of common interest. Similar issues are dealt with in the framework of other flavour factories and energy frontier e+e- colliders worldwide. The 3-day workshop provides young scientists (at the student and postdoc level) opportunities to present their work and exchange experiences. ...
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Sitting into the limelight: Lonely Chairs at CERN turns one
Katarina Anthony
2015-01-01
A picture may be worth a thousand words - but a picture of a chair? It’s worth a story all by itself. Over the past year, the "Lonely Chairs at CERN" photography blog has let the chairs do the talking. Along the way, these chairs have inspired and enchanted people across the globe with their honest depiction of the Laboratory. This lonely chair outside Building 32 was one of the first Rebeca photographed. When CMS physicist Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez created Lonely Chairs at CERN back in April 2014, she was not expecting the immediate reaction it garnered. Within days, the blog had picked up thousands of followers and was featured in Gizmodo and The Guardian. "The response inside CERN was very positive, but the response outside was overwhelming," says Rebeca. "I’ve got a lot of followers who are really into science and are very excited about CERN. They comment about wanting to work here - sometimes on the ugliest chair I&rsqu...
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Integrating digital content the CERN solution
Vigen, Jens
2002-01-01
Facing the digital world with all it's challenges is not a new situation for librarians, it is just that creative solutions have to be implemented far quicker than what was required in the era of printed publications. Complex libraries comprising collections of preprints, reports, journals, books etc., with all their holdings neatly listed in card catalogues, bibliographies, abstract journals etc., are about to be merged into one unique "simple" information source: the digital library. CERN Scientific information Service is playing an active role in these developments. Digital content is being integrated to the highest possible level in order to meet the requirements of the particle physics community. The paper gives an overview of the steps CERN has made towards the digital library from the day the laboratory conceived the World Wide Web to present.
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2003-01-01
The 12th of June 2003 Is the French National Hearing Day. The Medical Service invites everyone working at CERN to come and have an ear test at the infirmary. Bld. 57, ground floor, between 9h00 and 16h00 Tel. 73802
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2003-01-01
The 12th of June 2003 Is the French National Hearing Day. The Medical Service invites everyone working at CERN to come and have an ear test at the infirmary. Bld. 57, ground floor, between 9h00 and 16h00 Tel. 73802
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2011-01-01
The Chinese community at CERN and the CERN CineClub, on the occasion of the Chinese New Year, invite everyone to two days of films Thursday 3 February 2011 at 20:30 - CERN Council Chamber Eat drink man woman Directed by Ang LEE (Taiwan, 1994) 122 min. With Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-Lien Wu, Kuei-Mei Yang Senior Master Chef Chu lives in a large house in Taipei with his three unmarried daughters, Jia-Jen, a chemistry teacher converted to Christianity, Jia-Chien, an airline executive, and Jia-Ning, a student who also works in a fast food restaurant. Life in the house revolves around the ritual of an elaborate dinner each Sunday, and the love lives of all the family members. Original version Mandarin with English subtitles Friday 4 February 2011 at 19:30 - CERN Council Chamber Adieu, ma concubine Directed by Chen KAIGE (China / Hong Kong, 1993) 171 min. With Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong "Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in t...
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Effect of spironolactone on 30-day death and heart failure rehospitalization (from the COACH Study).
Maisel, Alan; Xue, Yang; van Veldhuisen, Dirk J; Voors, Adriaan A; Jaarsma, Tiny; Pang, Peter S; Butler, Javed; Pitt, Bertram; Clopton, Paul; de Boer, Rudolf A
2014-09-01
The aim of our study is to investigate the effect of spironolactone on 30-day outcomes in patients with acute heart failure (AHF) and the association between treatment and outcomes stratified by biomarkers. We conducted a secondary analysis of the biomarker substudy of the multicenter COACH (Co-ordinating Study Evaluating Outcomes of Advising and Counseling in Heart Failure) trial involving 534 AHF patients for 30-day mortality and HF rehospitalizations. Spironolactone therapy was initiated and terminated at the discretion of the treating physician; 30-day outcomes were compared between patients who were treated with spironolactone and those who were not. Outcomes with spironolactone therapy were explored based on N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide, ST2, galectin-3, and creatinine levels. Spironolactone was prescribed to 297 (55.6%) patients at discharge (158 new and 139 continued). There were 19 deaths and 30 HF rehospitalizations among 46 patients by 30 days. Patients discharged on spironolactone had significantly less 30-day event (hazard ratio 0.538, p = 0.039) after adjustment for multiple risk factors. Initiation of spironolactone in patients who were not on spironolactone before admission was associated with a significant reduction in event rate (hazard ratio 0.362, p = 0.027). The survival benefit of spironolactone was more prominent in patient groups with elevations of creatinine, N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide, ST2, or galectin-3. In conclusion, AHF patients who received spironolactone during hospitalization had significantly fewer 30-day mortality and HF rehospitalizations, especially in high-risk patients. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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MapCERN: the CERN map on your mobile
Anaïs Schaeffer
2011-01-01
On the initiative of the GS Department, a new smartphone application called MapCERN has just been released. Available in two different versions – one from the Apple Store for iPhones and the other from the web for Android and Blackberry – it will help you to find the building you're looking for more easily. The Globe of Science and Innovation as "seen" in the augmented reality of the iPhone. You've got an appointment with someone at the other end of the CERN site and you're planning to use the CERN map to find your way there but you suddenly realise you've left it in your office… No need to panic! Simply take out your smartphone and let it guide you to the building you're looking for. This first official CERN application, which has been developed by the GS Department in collaboration with private industry, is available free of charge from the Apple Store in the case of iPhones an...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Program 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course program in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Office 2007 – Novelties\t(Français)\t28.04\t1 jour Outlook 2007 (Short Course I) – Email\t(Bilingue)\t29.04\t0.5 day Outlook 2007 (Short Course II) – Calendar, Tasks and Notes\t(Bilingue)\t29.04\t0.5 day Excel 2007 – Niveau 2 ECDL (Français)\t05-06.05\t2 jours Novelties of Excel\t(Français)\t09.05\t1 jour In Design: Introduction (Français)\t13-14.05\t2 jours Sharepoint Collaboration Worskpace\t(English)\t19-20.05\t2 days Windows Vista\t(Français)\t20.05\t0.5 jour Word 2007 – Level 2 : ECDL\t(English)\t02-03.06\t2 days Excel 2007 – Niveau 2 ECDL\t(English)\t05-06.06\t2 days Outlook 2007 (Short Course III) – Meetings and Delegation\t(Bilingue)\t09.06\t0.5 day Word 2007 (Short Course III) – HowTo….Work with long documents\t(Bilingue)\t09.06\t0.5 day...
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Live Webcast from CERN - Mission Impossible 3?
2000-01-01
It is a beautiful sunny autumn day, 21 November 2000. The place is CERN's Microcosm exhibition where around 50 pupils from the International School in Geneva and the Collège du Leman have gathered to dive into the mystery of antimatter production and take part in CERN's second Live Webcast of the series 'The Antimatter Factory'. The first was broadcast on 18 November. The webcast is played in the mood of Mission Impossible with music and teasers from this famous television and cinema series. The mission here is not to save the planet but to understand how and why antimatter is produced at CERN. In the Webcast studio, Paola Catapano, Rolf Landua and Mick Storr answer questions posed by students in Italy and Finland thanks to video-conferencing. Paola Catapano, Visit and Exhibitions group leader, dressed like a Bond girl Rolf Landua, spokesman of the ATHENA experiment and Mick Storr Head of Technical Training lead the show. The place starts buzzing and we peep into the antimatter factory (AD) and a...
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Brand-new signage for the CERN shuttles
Roberto Cantoni
2010-01-01
If, after reading the title of this article, you're striving to remember what the signs for the CERN shuttles look like, then you just hit the nail on the head: we bet that only a few people can actually do so. In order to make it easier for CERN users to move around the CERN sites, a graphic restyling of the shuttle signage has been implemented. You will start to see the new timetables in the coming days. Larisa Kuchina, a graphic designer in the Communication Group, restyled the shuttle signage to make it more visible and intelligible. “I was inspired by the very clear and user friendly interface of the Geneva Public Transport system (TPG)”, explains Larisa. “Each timetable will also include the corresponding shuttle route. We will soon introduce new road signs for shuttle stops to make sure they are visible from a distance”. There are currently four shuttle lines, serving 28,000 passengers since February 2010: two of them operate between Meyrin and Pr...
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Effect of Spironolactone on 30-Day Death and Heart Failure Rehospitalization (from the COACH Study)
Maisel, Alan; Xue, Yang; van Veldhuisen, Dirk J.; Voors, Adriaan A.; Jaarsma, Tiny; Pang, Peter S.; Butler, Javed; Pitt, Bertram; Clopton, Paul; de Boer, Rudolf A.
2014-01-01
The aim of our study is to investigate the effect of spironolactone on 30-day outcomes in patients with acute heart failure (AHF) and the association between treatment and outcomes stratified by biomarkers. We conducted a secondary analysis of the biomarker substudy of the multicenter COACH
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International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
1981-08-01
This report contains the preliminary abstracts of the current experiments at the CERN SPS synchrotron, the anti p colliding beams, the CERN ISR, the CERN PS synchrotron, and the CERN synchrocyclotron. See hints under the relevant topics. (HSI)
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2004-01-01
At the end of January, CERN's guides were rewarded for their devotion to the Laboratory. They have a passion for their work, know CERN inside-out and for 40 years have shown people of all ages and nationalities, from all walks of life, around the Laboratory. Who are they? Why, the CERN guides, of course. On 27 January, ten of CERN's 180 guides received special honours for their impressive number of guided tours in 2003. Presenting the awards in the Microcosm hall, CERN's Director-General Robert Aymar congratulated the winners on the key role they play with respect to the general public. "CERN would be nothing without you who show them its activities," he stressed. CERN's Director-General Robert Aymar congratulates Alberto Ribon for his tally of over 40 visits in the course of 2003.One of the prizes was the book «The Particle Odyssey». Here the book's co-author Christine Sutton dedicates it for Sijin Qian. Tzanko Spassoff (PH) and retired staff members Klaus Batzner and Antonio Francano wo...
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Laëtitia Pedroso
2010-01-01
Since September 2009 the PH and GS Departments have been working very closely together on the renovation project for Building 222. The building is now being transformed into an auditorium with a seating capacity of 200. Work began on 15 November 2009 and will be completed just in time for the first conferences. The conference room in B222 a few days ago. After 20 years as premises for the filtering and purification of CERN's drinking water and three years as a hall for the reception tests and testing of electronic equipment for the LHC experiments, Building 222 is about to get another new lease of life. Only the Main Auditorium and the Globe have seating capacities in excess of 200 at CERN. “The problem of the lack of conference rooms with such a seating capacity was raised at the end of 2008 by the PH Department, which proposed this idea. The project was entrusted to the GS Department in 2009,” explains Barthélemy Gossuin, an engineer in the GS Department who is...
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CERN and Google team up for Science Fair
Katarina Anthony
2011-01-01
CERN partners up with Google to present the world’s first online global science competition: the Google Science Fair. The Google Science Fair invites young people aged 13-18 to conduct innovative science projects and present their results for the chance to win once-in-a-lifetime experiences and opportunities. CERN will offer a three-day visit to the Laboratory to one of the winners, and Rolf Heuer, CERN Director-General, will be on the prestigious panel of judges. Nobel laureates, science entrepreneurs, and science communicators will have the difficult task of choosing the winners. “Google is a company that was born from scientific experimentation and in that spirit we are interested in promoting science, technology, engineering and maths (best known as STEM) education all over the world,” says Samantha Peter, Education Product Marketing Manager at Google. “By creating a large competition where students can get immersed in these subjects and have the op...
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2004-01-01
Art students inspired by CERN will be returning to show their work 9 to 16 October in Building 500, outside the Auditorium. Seventeen art students from around Europe visited CERN last January for a week of introductions to particle physics and astrophysics, and discussions with CERN scientists about their projects. A CERN scientist "adopted"each artist so they could ask questions during and after the visit. Now the seeds planted during their visit have come to fruition in a show using many media and exploring varied concepts, such as how people experience the online world, the sheer scale of CERN's equipment, and the abstractness of the entities scientists are looking for. "The work is so varied, people are going to love some pieces and detest others," says Andrew Charalambous, the project coordinator from University College London who is also curating the exhibition. "It's contemporary modern art, and that's sometimes difficult to take in." For more information on this thought-provoking show, see: htt...
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GS Department
2011-01-01
The Institute of Shipping and Transport of the University of the Aegean and the National Technical University of Athens are partners with CERN in a study of mobility patterns between and within the CERN sites and to that effect have realized a mobility survey dedicated to the CERN community. The study aims to understand: How you presently get around the CERN sites; What problems you encounter regarding mobility; What your needs are; What improvements you’d like to see; What measures you would like to see implemented most. The replies we receive will enable us to define a general policy promoting the diversity of mobility at CERN and to establish and quantify the strategic actions to be implemented for both the short and medium term. The objectives of the transport mobility plans are to: Facilitate mobility within and between the CERN sites by identifying adequate solutions in response to individual ...
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2001-01-01
From 19 to 22 June, for the 8th edition of France at CERN, 31 French companies presented their latest technology to the Laboratory. Demonstrating the latest in French technology during France at CERN. The France at CERN exhibition was inaugurated by Mr. Bernard Frois, Director of the Department Energy, Transport, Environment and Natural Resources at the Technology Directorate of the Ministry of Research. 'France is happy to be a Member of CERN, which is a successful example of the construction of scientific Europe,' he declared during the inauguration, 'this exhibition is an excellent opportunity to put fundamental research and advanced technology in contact.' Mr. Philippe Petit, French Ambassador to Switzerland, and Mr. Alexandre Defay, technical adviser of the Minister of Research, were also present to represent France and its industry. Representing CERN at the 19 June opening of the exhibition was Claude Detraz, who said, 'I hope that this exhibition will make it possible to weave stronger links between ...
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American Summer Students At CERN - A Presence From Across The Pond
2001-01-01
The reasons for American interest in the CERN summer student programme were many, but there was one which was particularly critical. With the invention of the World Wide Web, international boundaries were quickly disappearing and it was becoming clear to several American physicists that it was essential for students to have experience working in an international collaboration as early on and as frequently as possible. Photo 1: Students touring the Michigan Muon Chamber Production Labs for the CERN ATLAS Experiment during their orientation week in Ann Arbor in June, 2001. Photo 2 : American students enjoying a pleasant meal outside restraunt 1. Photo 3 : American summer students just days before coming to CERN for the experience of a lifetime.
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Maximilien Brice
2002-01-01
The library is launching a 'sharing resources@CERN' campaign, aiming to increase the library's utility by including the thousands of books bought by individual groups at CERN. This will improve sharing of information among CERN staff and users. Photo 01: L. to r. Eduardo Aldaz, from the PS division, Corrado Pettenati, Head Librarian, and Isabel Bejar, from the ST division, read their divisional copies of the same book.
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CERN Press Office. Geneva
1994-01-01
Thirty-two British hi-tech companies present their products at this new industrial exhibition at CERN which takes place from 22 to 25 November, 1994. The exhibition offers British companies the opportunity to display their products in fields that are of immediate importance to the scientists, engineers and technicians working at CERN, and also to scientists from non-Member States who take part in research projects at CERN.
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Parallelism at Cern: real-time and off-line applications in the GP-MIMD2 project
International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Calafiura, P.
1997-01-01
A wide range of general purpose high-energy physics applications, ranging from Monte Carlo simulation to data acquisition, from interactive data analysis to on-line filtering, have been ported, or developed, and run in parallel on IBM SP-2 and Meiko CS-2 CERN large multi-processor machines. The ESPRIT project GP-MIMD2 has been a catalyst for the interest in parallel computing at CERN. The project provided the 128 processor Meiko CS-2 system that is now succesfully integrated in the CERN computing environment. The CERN experiment NA48 was involved in the GP-MIMD2 project since the beginning. NA48 physicists run, as part of their day-to-day work, simulation and analysis programs parallelized using the message passing interface MPI. The CS-2 is also a vital component of the experiment data acquisition system and will be used to calibrate in real-time the 13000 channels liquid krypton calorimeter. (orig.)
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2001-01-01
It's going to be a hot summer at CERN. At least in the Main Building, where from 13 July to 20 August an exhibition is being hosted on nuclear fusion, the energy of the Stars. Nuclear fusion is the engine driving the stars but also a potential source of energy for mankind. The exhibition shows the different nuclear fusion techniques and research carried out on the subject in Europe. Inaugurated at CERN in 1993, following collaboration between Lausanne's CRPP-EPFL and CERN, with input from Alessandro Pascolini of Italy's INFN, this exhibition has travelled round Europe before being revamped and returning to CERN. 'Fusion, Energy of the Stars', from 13 July onwards, Main Building
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A big win for the CERN Golf Club at the ASCERI tournament
Katarina Anthony
2010-01-01
The CERN Golf Club returned victorious from the autumn ASCERI (Association of the Sports Communities of the European Research Institutes) tournament which was held from 17 to 20 September. The CERN Golf Team (left to right: Peter Jones, Alasdair Ross, Claes Frisk and Per Werner) celebrates its victories at ASCERI. Competitions took place on the Dreihof Golf Club at Essingen in southern Germany, starting with the singles Stableford competition on the first day and a 4 ball, better ball Stableford group competition the next day. CERN’s four-man team – Peter Jones, Per Werner, Claes Frisk and Alasdair Ross – came first in the group competition, with Peter Jones, CERN’s star golfer from the IT Department, winning the individual competition. The autumn ASCERI tournament included competitions in football, tennis and cart racing as well as golf. Over 230 representatives of research institutes across Europe took part. “The CERN Golf Club only began p...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Windows Vista\t(Français)\t24.02\t3 heures ½ EXCEL 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t26-27.02\t2 jours Indico – Meeting Organisation\t(Français)\t02.03\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organisation\t(English)\t02.03\t3 hours Excel 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t03-04.03\t2 jours CERN EDMS for Local Administrators\t(Français)\t04-05.03\t2 days Novelties Office 2007: Word 2007\t(Français)\t09.03\t1 jour Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 2\t(English)\t18-19.03\t2 days Access 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t30-31.03\t2 jours Office 2007 – Novelties (Français)\t20.04\t1 jour Novelties Office 2007: Powerpoint 2007\t(Français)\t21.04\t1 jour Introduction to Dreamweaver MX\t(Français)\t23-24.04\t2 jours Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(Engli...
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Open Days – The final countdown
2008-01-01
In only a few days CERN will open its doors to everyone! Thousands of volunteers are working very hard so that your visit will be both mind-boggling and fun. Where is the coldest place in the Universe? How can you move 30 tonne magnets with sub-millimetre precision? Why do you need huge detectors to look at the infinitely small? There’s only one way to find the answers: Come to CERN!
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(Français)\t06-07.11\t1 ½ jour Excel 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(English)\t10-11.11\t2 days Word 2007 (Short course III) – HowTo…Work with long documents: styles and tables of contents\t(Bilingual)\t13.11\t3 hours Excel 2007 (Short course III) – HowTo…Pivot tables (Bilingual)\t14.11\t½ day Word 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(English)\t24-25.11\t2 days Indico – Meeting Organization\t(Français)\t27.11\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t27.11\t3 heures Excel 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(English)\t01-02.12\t2 days Novelties of Excel 2007\t(Français)\t04.12\t1 jour Outlook 2007 (Short Course I) – E-mail (Bilingual) 05.12\t3 hours Outlook 2007 (Short Course II) – Cale...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Excel 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(English)\t10-11.11\t2 days Word 2007 (Short course III) – HowTo…Work with long documents: styles and tables of contents\t(Bilingual)\t13.11\t3 hours\tExcel 2007 (Short course III) – HowTo…Pivot tables (Bilingual)\t14.11\t½ day Word 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(English)\t24-25.11\t2 days Indico – Meeting Organization\t(Français)\t27.11\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t27.11\t3 heures Excel 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(English)\t01-02.12\t2 days Novelties of Excel 2007\t(Français)\t04.12\t1 jour Outlook 2007 (Short Course I) – E-mail (Bilingual) 05.12\t3 hours Outlook 2007 (Short Course II) – Calendar, Tasks and Notes (Bilingual) 05.12\t3 hours Powerpoint 2007 ...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2008 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Novelties Office 2007: Word 2007\tFrançais)\t09.03\t1 jour Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 2\t(English)\t18-19.03\t2 days Access 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t30-31.03\t2 jours Office 2007 – Novelties (Français)\t20.04\t1 jour Novelties Office 2007: Powerpoint 2007\t(Français)\t21.04\t1 jour Introduction to Dreamweaver MX\t(Français)\t23-24.04\t2 jours Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(English)\t27-28.04\t1 jour ½ Excel 2007 (Short Course I) –HowTo…Work with formulae (Bilingual)\t29.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course II) – HowTo…Format your worksheet for printing\t(Bilingual)\t29.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course III) – HowTo…Pivot Tables\t(Bilingual)\t30.04\t0.5 jour/day ...
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For one weekend, CERN takes a stand at Geneva’s Nuit de la science
2008-01-01
CERN took part in the seventh year of the Nuit de la science on 5-6 July dedicated to the theme of Time. Some 30 000 visitors filed through the 52 stands set up around the Perle du Lac park. The Geneva ‘Musée d’histoire des sciences’, the heart of the event (Copyright MHS - Photo: Philippe Wagneur). Michel Boffard, a CERN guide, makes a simple experiment to show super-conductivity (Photo: Claude Guérin).Two aspects of the LHC were presented in the display. The technical principles on which the machine is based were illustrated using a bell jar, liquid nitrogen and visually striking experiments. Meanwhile, under the heading ‘The Time Machine’, posters and mockups were used to explain the theoretical side of the LHC and its scientific aims. Benefitting from the adjacent photography exhibition, ‘CERN through the lens of Peter Ginter’, the stand attracted a steady stream of intere...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Novelties of Excel 2007\t(Français)\t04.12\t1 jour Outlook 2007 (Short Course I) – E-mail (Bilingual) 05.12\t3 hours Outlook 2007 (Short Course II) – Calendar, Tasks and Notes (Bilingual) 05.12\t3 hours Powerpoint 2007 – Level 1:ECDL\t(English)\t08-09.12\t2 days Windows Vista\t(Français)\t12.12\t½ jour Office 2007 – Novelties\t(Français)\t15.12\t1 jour Office 2007 – Novelties\t(English)\t08.01\t1 day Novelties of EXCEL 2007\t(English)\t09.01\t1 day WORD 2007 - level 2 : ECDL\t(Français)\t12-13.01\t2 jours EXCEL 2007 - Level 2: ECDL\t(English)\t15-16.01\t2 days Novelties Office 2007: WORD 2007\t(Français)\t19.01\t1 jour EXCEL 2007 - level 1 : ECDL\t(English)\t20-21.01\t2 days Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(Fran�...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2008 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Office 2007 – Novelties (Français)\t20.04\t1 jour Novelties Office 2007: Powerpoint 2007\t(Français)\t21.04\t1 jour Secure e-mail and Web browsing\t(English)\t22.04\t1.5 hour Introduction to Dreamweaver MX\t(Français)\t23-24.04\t2 jours Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(English)\t27-28.04\t1 jour ½ Excel 2007 (Short Course I) –HowTo…Work with formulae (Bilingual)\t29.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course II) – HowTo…Format your worksheet for printing\t(Bilingual)\t29.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course III) – HowTo…Pivot Tables\t(Bilingual)\t30.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course IV) – HowTo…Link cells, worksheets and workbook\t(Bilingual)\t30.04\t0.5 jour/day Word 2007 – Level 2 : ECDL\t(English)\t04-05.05\t2 days Exc...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE In Design: Introduction (Français)\t13-14.05\t2 jours Windows Vista\t(Français)\t20.05\t0.5 jour ACCESS 2007 – Level 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t27-28.05\t2 jours Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 1\t(English)\t29-30.05\t2 days Word 2007 – Level 2 : ECDL\t(English)\t02-03.06\t2 days Indico – Meting Organization\t(Français)\t03.06\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t03.06\t3 heures Excel 2007 – Niveau 2 ECDL\t(English)\t05-06.06\t2 days Outlook 2007 (Short Course III) – Meetings and Delegation\t(Bilingual)\t09.06\t0.5 day Word 2007 (Short Course III) – HowTo….Work with long documents\t(Bilingual)\t09.06\t0.5 day Excel 2007 – Level 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t10-11.06\t2 jours Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 2\t(Englis...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Introduction to Dreamweaver MX\t(Français)\t13-14.10\t2 jours Indico – Meeting Organization\t(Français)\t15.10\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t15.10\t3 heures Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 1\t(Français)\t16-17.10\t2 jours Word 2007 – Niveau 2 : ECDL\t(Français)\t20-21.10\t2 jours Novelties Office 2007 : PowerPoint 2007 (English)\t27.10\t1 day Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(Français)\t06-07.11\t1 ½ day Excel 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(English)\t10-11.11\t2 days Excel 2007 (Short course III) – HowTo…Pivot tables (Bilingual)\t14.11\t½ day Word 2007 (Short course II) – HowTo…Mail merge (Bilingual)\t14.11 ½ day Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Niveau 2\t(Français)\t17-18.11\t2 jours Word 2007 ...
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Problems afoot for the CERN kindergarten (EVEE)?
Staff Association
2016-01-01
You might have noticed that recently the Kindergarten changed names, it’s is now known under the name of EVEE which stands for ‘Espace de Vie Enfantine et École’ and currently welcomes 150 children between 4 months and 6 years of age. This establishment which is under the aegis of the Staff Association is governed by a committee composed of a mixture of the following: employers (from the Staff Association), employees, parents and the Headmistress who is an ex officio member (see Echo 238: http://staff-association.web.cern.ch/content/quoi-de-neuf-au-jardin-d%E2%80%99enfants). Great strides have been made in the past decade Over the previous decade in conjuction with the CERN Administration several new services have been proposed, including: the establishment of a canteen with a capacity of up to 60 children/day; the setting-up of a creche for infants ranging between 4 months and 3 years (approx 35 infants); the creation of a day-camp with the capacity to welcome up ...
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Katarina Anthony
2012-01-01
Another day, another celebrity-spotting at CERN! The latest: American singer Belinda Carlisle. As lead singer of one the world’s most popular female bands – The Go-Go’s – and with a successful solo career of her own – with hit tracks like “Heaven is a Place on Earth” – Belinda Carlisle is a household name. While her dedication to music has brought her fame, it hasn’t lessened her enthusiasm for other topics. “I’ve always had an interest in science,” she explained. “I did pretty well in it at school, and I’ve also been reading a lot of quantum physics books lately.” So when Patrick Geeraert, former Head of CERN’s Finance Department and current Head of Administration at ESO, invited her to visit the Laboratory, she said yes. Belinda arrived at CERN on 27 July, and visited SM18, the CCC and the ATLAS visitor centre. She was also given a t...
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2004-01-01
The Duke of York chats before inaugurating the UK@CERN exhibition. From left to right: Robert Aymar, CERN's Director General, the Duke of York, and leading UK scientists at CERN: Jim Virdee, CMS deputy spokeman; theorist John Ellis ; and Steve Myers, head of the AB Department. On 23 November, the Duke of York visited CERN and, in his capacity as the UK's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment, inaugurated the UK@CERN Exhibition. This biennial trade show was initially held in 1968, the first such exhibition by a CERN member state. This year 22 companies displayed goods and services that could be of interest to CERN scientists. In his inaugural speech, the Duke emphasized that business between companies and CERN "is a two-way information flow with mutual benefits." The companies make sales but also benefit from technologies that CERN transfers to them. CERN benefits from the exchange, the Duke said, addressing CERN's scientists, because it "frees your time for what you do best: science....
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Powerpoint 2007 – Level 1:ECDL\t(English)\t08-09.12\t2 days Windows Vista\t(Français)\t12.12\t½ jour Office 2007 – Novelties\t(Français)\t15.12\t1 jour Office 2007 – Novelties\t(English)\t08.01\t1 day Novelties of EXCEL 2007\t(English)\t09.01\t1 day WORD 2007 - level 2 : ECDL\t(Français)\t12-13.01\t2 jours EXCEL 2007 - Level 2: ECDL\t(English)\t15-16.01\t2 days Novelties Office 2007: WORD 2007\t(Français)\t19.01\t1 jour Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(Français)\t29-30.01\t1 jour ½ Windows Vista\t(Français)\t30.01\t3 heures ½ EXCEL 2007 level 1: ECDL\t(English)\t02-03.02\t2 days WORD 2007 - level 1 : ECDL\t(English)\t05-06.02\t2 days ACCESS 2007 - Level 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t09-10.02\t2 jours Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage)- Level 1\t(Français)\t12-13.02...
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RESULTS OF THE SPECIAL BLOOD DONOR DAY
SC Unit
2008-01-01
Responding to the HUG (Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève) hospitals’ urgent appeal for blood donations during this summer season, the CERN medical staff organised a day of blood donations for the Swiss bloodbank CTS on 30 July. They were supported by NOVAE (Restaurant No. 1), who provided donors with a free snack. This specially arranged campaign was a success, as the 135 volunteers included 66 first-time donors, and a total of 99 standard bags of blood was collected. (Swiss hospitals need 1300 bags every day!) The CTS and CERN’s medical staff want to thank the donors and all others who helped make the event a success. Upcoming blood donor days at CERN: 12 November 2008 and 10 March 2009.
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RESULTS OF THE SPECIAL BLOOD DONOR DAY
SC Unit
2008-01-01
Responding to the HUG (Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève) hospitals’ urgent appeal for blood donations during this summer season, the CERN medical staff organised a day of blood donations for the Swiss bloodbank CTS on 30 July. They were supported by NOVAE (Restaurant No. 1), who provided donors with a free snack. This specially arranged campaign was a success, as the 135 volunteers included 66 first-time donors, and a total of 99 standard bags of blood were collected. (Swiss hospitals need 1300 bags every day!) The CTS and CERN’s medical staff wish to thank the donors and all others who helped make the event a success. Upcoming blood donor days at CERN: 12 November 2008 and 10 March 2009.
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Availability of IT services during the 2009 CERN annual closure
IT Department
2009-01-01
Most of the services provided by the IT Department - including WLCG (EGEE) production services - will remain available during the CERN annual closure. No interruptions are scheduled but in the event of a failure, the restoration of services cannot be guaranteed. Problems will be dealt with on a best effort basis only. However, for the following services: Network, Databases, Mail, Web, Windows & Terminal Services, Authentication Services, Indico, CDS, Grid (SAM, FTS, VOMS, GridView): experts should be reachable to start investigations within about half a day except on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (24 and 25 December) and New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day (31 December and 1 January). Incidents will be documented at http://cern.ch/ssb. The backup service will remain operational, but backups cannot be guaranteed and file restores may not be possible. Castor: damaged tapes will not be processed. Please note that the Helpdesk will be closed but an operator service will ...
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CREATIVE COLLISIONS: ARTS @CERN
CERN. Geneva
2012-01-01
In 2000, CERN hosted Signatures of the Invisible – one of the landmark initiatives in arts and science. In 2012, CERN is now initiating its own science/arts programme Collide@CERN in different arts disciplines. The first of these is in digital arts, and the international competition to find the winning artist is called the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN. It was announced September 2011 at CERN’s first collaboration with an international arts festival – Ars Electronica in Linz. The competition attracted over 395 entries from 40 countries around the world. The winning artist, Julius Von Bismarck, will begin his two month residency here at CERN next month. Ariane Koek who leads on this initiative, discusses the residency programme, as well as the background about Art@CERN. History has shown that particle physics and the arts are great inspiration partners. The publication of the paper by Max Planck which gave birth to quantum mechanics as well as those by Einstein, heavily influenced some of the grea...
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Corinne Pralavorio
2016-01-01
New webpages answer common questions about CERN and the environment. One of the new public webpages dedicated to CERN and the environment. Do your neighbours ever ask you about CERN’s environmental impact? And about radiation in particular? If so, the answers to those questions can now be found online on a new set of public webpages dedicated to CERN and the environment. These pages, put together by the Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Protection (HSE) unit and the groups responsible for CERN's site maintenance, contain a wealth of information on topics linked to the environment, such as biodiversity at CERN, waste management, ionising radiation, and water and electricity consumption. “CERN forms part of the local landscape, with its numerous sites and scientific activities. It’s understandable that people living nearby have questions about the impact of these activities and it’s important that we respond with complete transp...
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2007-01-01
State secretary to Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Frieder Meyer-Krahmer, with CERN's Director-General Robert Aymar.On 21 February, Professor Frieder Meyer-Krahmer, State Secretary to Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research, came to CERN. He visited the ALICE and ATLAS experiments and the computing centre before meeting the CERN's Director-General, some German physicists and members of the top management. The Minister of Science, Research and the Arts of the Baden-Württemberg regional government, Peter Frankenberg, and CERN's Director-General, Robert Aymar, signing an agreement on education. In the background: Sigurd Lettow, CERN's Director of Finance and Human Resources, and Karl-Heinz Meisel, Rector of the Fachhochschule Karlsruhe. The Minister of Science, Research and the Arts of the Baden-Württemberg regional government, Prof. Peter Frankenberg, visited CERN on 23 February. He was accompanied by the Rector of the Fachhochschule Karlsruhe, Prof. Karl-Heinz Meisel, and b...
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Fifty years of CERN history in the spotlight
2004-01-01
The programme of events for CERN's Golden Jubilee year was officially unveiled at a press conference on 8 March. The first of these events took place the following day, when the Swiss commemorative postage stamp issued in the Laboratory's honour went on sale in post offices throughout Switzerland.
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Lindenauer, Peter K; Lagu, Tara; Rothberg, Michael B; Avrunin, Jill; Pekow, Penelope S; Wang, Yongfei; Krumholz, Harlan M
2013-02-14
To examine the association between income inequality and the risk of mortality and readmission within 30 days of hospitalization. Retrospective cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries in the United States. Hierarchical, logistic regression models were developed to estimate the association between income inequality (measured at the US state level) and a patient's risk of mortality and readmission, while sequentially controlling for patient, hospital, other state, and patient socioeconomic characteristics. We considered a 0.05 unit increase in the Gini coefficient as a measure of income inequality. US acute care hospitals. Patients aged 65 years and older, and hospitalized in 2006-08 with a principal diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, or pneumonia. Risk of death within 30 days of admission or rehospitalization for any cause within 30 days of discharge. The potential number of excess deaths and readmissions associated with higher levels of inequality in US states in the three highest quarters of income inequality were compared with corresponding data in US states in the lowest quarter. Mortality analyses included 555,962 admissions (4348 hospitals) for acute myocardial infarction, 1,092,285 (4484) for heart failure, and 1,146,414 (4520); readmission analyses included 553,037 (4262), 1,345,909 (4494), and 1,345,909 (4524) admissions, respectively. In 2006-08, income inequality in US states (as measured by the average Gini coefficient over three years) varied from 0.41 in Utah to 0.50 in New York. Multilevel models showed no significant association between income inequality and mortality within 30 days of admission for patients with acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, or pneumonia. By contrast, income inequality was associated with rehospitalization (acute myocardial infarction, risk ratio 1.09 (95% confidence interval 1.03 to 1.15), heart failure 1.07 (1.01 to 1.12), pneumonia 1.09 (1.03 to 1.15)). Further adjustment for individual income
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CERN Running Club
2010-01-01
The CERN relay race will take place around the Meyrin site on Thursday 20 May, starting at 12.15. If possible, please avoid driving on the site during this 20-minute period. If you do meet runners while driving your car, please STOP until they have all passed. Thank you for your cooperation. Details on the route, and how to register your team for the relay race, can be found at: https://espace.cern.ch/Running-Club/CERN-Relay
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The voice of Austrians at CERN
2009-01-01
On 7 May the Austrian Minister for Science announced that, after over 50 years of membership, Austria would withdraw from CERN. By 18 May the Austrian Chancellor had reversed the decision. The Bulletin spoke to some of the Austrian community at CERN about the rollercoaster of events in between. var flash_video_player=get_video_player_path(); insert_player_for_external('Video/Public/Movies/2009/CERN-MOVIE-2009-056/CERN-MOVIE-2009-056-0753-kbps-640x360-25-fps-audio-64-kbps-44-kHz-stereo', 'mms://mediastream.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Video/Public/Movies/2009/CERN-MOVIE-2009-056/CERN-MOVIE-2009-056-Multirate-200-to-753-kbps-640x360-25-fps.wmv', 'false', 533, 300, 'https://mediastream.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Video/Public/Movies/2009/CERN-MOVIE-2009-056/CERN-MOVIE-2009-056-posterframe-640x360-at-10-percent.jpg', '1180837', true, 'Video/Public/Movies/2009/CERN-MOVIE-2009-056/CERN-MOVIE-2009-056-0600-kbps-maxH-360-25-fps-audio-128-kbps-48-kHz-stereo.mp4'); To watch this video in German click here. There was jubil...
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News from the Library: CERN Scientific Book Fair 2011
CERN Library
2011-01-01
The CERN Bookshop and CERN Library invite you to attend the 2011 CERN Book Fair, a two-day scientific event offering you the opportunity to meet key publishers and to browse and purchase books at significant discounts. Key publishers will present a selection of titles in physics, technology, mathematics, engineering, computing and popular science. You are welcome to come along and meet the publishers’ representatives or simply have a look to the books on sale. The Fair will take place in the Main Building (bldg. 500) on the ground floor near the Restaurant 1 on Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th September. Participating or represented publishers include: Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, EPFL Press – PPUR, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, World Scientific-Imperial College Press. Fair opening times...
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2002-01-01
CERN events brought right to your desktop by the new video bulletin. CERN now has its very own news broadcast , or rather 'webcast', with a host of special reports and even a star presenter. From today onwards, just go to the Bulletin's web page, click on the 'video news' link and sit back and enjoy the latest news about CERN, presented in images by Wendy Korda. The ten-minute newscast in both French and English, the Organization's two official languages, presents interviews, pictures of experiments and computer-generated graphics, bringing you right up to date with some of the Laboratory's latest stories. The show concludes with a selection of the best snapshots taken by the CERN Photo Lab. So every one or two months CERN's Audio-Video Service (ETT/DH) will be putting together a video news report that you can watch on your own desktop computer. Daniel Boileau, Patrick Gilbert de Vautibault and Jacques Fichet, the Service's three technicians, came up with the idea of producing this regular feat...
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2009-01-01
The CERN relay race, now in its 39th year, is already a well-known tradition, but this year the organizers say the event will have even more of a festival feeling. Just off the starting line of the CERN relay race.For the past few years, spectators and runners at the CERN relay race have been able to enjoy a beer while listening to music from the CERN music and jazz clubs. But this year the organizers are aiming for "even more of a festival atmosphere". As David Nisbet, President of the CERN running club and organizer of the relay race, says: "Work is not just about getting your head down and doing the theory, it’s also about enjoying the company of your colleagues." This year, on top of music from the Santa Luis Band and the Canettes Blues Band, there will be demonstrations from the Aikido and softball clubs, a stretching session by the Fitness club, as well as various stalls and of course, the well-earned beer from AGLUP, the B...
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HSE Unit
2014-01-01
What is industrial radiography? It is a non-destructive method with a wide variety of applications, such as inspecting the quality of a weld. It uses high-energy radioactive sources or an X-ray generator. Is this inspection technique used at CERN? Yes, it is widely used at CERN by the EN-MME Group, which outsources the work to one or more companies, depending on the workload. Is it possible to carry out radiography anywhere at CERN? Yes, it is possible to carry out radiography in any building/accelerator/experiment area at CERN (including in areas which are not normally subject to radiological hazards). When is radiography carried out? It normally takes place outside of working hours (7 p.m. to 6 a.m.). How will I know if radiography is taking place in my building? If this activity is planned in a CERN building, notices will be affixed to all of its main entrance doors at least 24 hours in advance. What are the risks? There is a risk of exposure to very high levels of radiation, dep...
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Service Accueil et Controle d'Accès; ST Division
1999-01-01
In accordance with Operational Circular n¡ 2, paragraph 21, CERN car stickers are to be renewed. The new stickers are now available and will be valid for a year.Youare therefore requested:either to obtain them from the distribution points for new stickers (see below); or to send us the application form below, duly completed, via the internal mail; or to complete the application form directly via the Web at the address: http://cern.ch/registration-stickers. Each vehicle has to carry a sticker and needs a separate application form.Vehicles bearing CERN diplomatic plates (CD07, 431K and CD series) do not need a sticker for access to the CERN areas.Thank you.List of distribution points:Registration Service (bldg 55 1st floor), open from 07h30 to 16h30. Building 33 (entrance hall), open from 08h00 to 18h00. Building 120 (ground floor), outside working hours.Name Surname CERN identification number Vehicle registration plates Country issuing the plates Vehicle ma...
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From the CERN web: gravitational waves, magic numbers, innovation and more
2016-01-01
This section highlights articles, blog posts and press releases published in the CERN web environment over the past weeks. This way, you won’t miss a thing... Simulation of two massive black holes merging, based on data collected from the LIGO collaboration on 14 September 2015. (Image: LIGO Collaboration © 2016 SXS) The hills are alive, with the sound of gravitational waves 12 February – ATLAS Collaboration It’s 16:00 CET at CERN and I’m sitting in the CERN Main Auditorium. The room is buzzing with excitement, not unlike the day in 2012 when the Higgs discovery was announced in this very room. But today the announcement is not from CERN, but the LIGO experiment which is spread across two continents. Many expect the announcement to be about a discovery of gravitational waves, as predicted by Einstein in 1916, but which have remained elusive until today… Continue to read… The laser launch st...
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CERN Library | Book presentation: "60 years of CERN experiments and discoveries" | 15 December
CERN Library
2015-01-01
"60 years of CERN experiments and discoveries", edited by Herwig Schopper and Luigi Di Lella. Tuesday 15 December at 16:00 Room C (Building 61) The presentation will be followed by refreshments The book contains a description of the most important experimental results achieved at CERN during the past 60 years, from the mid-1950s to the latest discovery of the Higgs particle. It covers the results from early accelerators at CERN to the most recent results at the LHC and thus provides an excellent review of the achievements of this outstanding laboratory. It reflects not only the impressive scientific progress achieved during the past six decades but demonstrates also the special way of successful international collaboration developed at CERN. The e-book is available in Open Access here thanks to an agreement between CERN and the publisher. "60 years of CERN experiments and discoveries", ed. by Herwig Schopper and Luigi Di Lella, World Scientific, 2015, ISBN 9789...
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2015-01-01
Example of the cover page of the French version of the CERN Courier; Courrier CERN from January 1962. The journal was published both in English and French up to volume 45, no. 5, June 2005. Since then there is a single-language edition where articles are published either in French or English with an abstract in the other language.
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Film showing - Higgs: into the heart of imagination
CERN Bulletin
2010-01-01
On 29 April at 7pm Dutch filmmakers, Hannie van den Bergh and Jan van den Berg, will introduce their directorial debut, Higgs: into the heart of imagination in CERN’s Main Auditorium. This documentary is about the curiousity, passion and imaginative powers of science. Featuring physicists working at CERN, in particular in ATLAS, and filmed over four years, the film-makers have created a cinematic journey into the heart of imagination. They follow Stan Bentvelsen, head of the Dutch research group at CERN, and watch as he prepares his team for the start of the LHC, as well as the scientific competition to find the elusive Higgs particle. The film also features Peter Higgs as he discusses his work from 1964. The directors have created theatre productions and other multimedia projects under the title The Imagination of Invisible Dimensions, which allow for adventurous dialogues between art and science. All are welcome to attend this showing and afterwards there will be a short question...
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CERN'S TECHNICAL CONTROL ROOM (TCR) A CENTRALSERVICE FOR EVERYONE
Mario Batz / TCR Responsible
2001-01-01
The Technical Control Room (TCR) monitors and operates the entire technical infrastructure of CERN 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It registers and dispatches troubleshooting requests to the appropriate equipment services. In addition, the TCR executes first-line interventions on the entire CERN site. Troubleshooting requests are transmitted to the TCR either via a computerised control system or via the phone number '72201'. More than 10'000 such requests are dispatched and dealt with every year. The TCR's diverse field of activity concerns the following systems: electrical and fluid distribution networks, heating, cooling, ventilation, air-conditioning and gas equipment, safety and communication installations, electromechanical systems (e.g. lifts, cranes, machine tools, motorised doors), sanitary systems (leaks, sewage), control and monitoring infrastructure equipment, buildings. These systems can either be part of the administrative infrastructure, such as offices or restaurants, or part of the t...
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CERN internal communication is evolving
2016-01-01
CERN news will now be regularly updated on the CERN People page (see here). Dear readers, All over the world, communication is becoming increasingly instantaneous, with news published in real time on websites and social networks. In order to keep pace with these changes, CERN's internal communication is evolving too. From now on, you will be informed of what’s happening at CERN more often via the “CERN people” page, which will frequently be updated with news. The Bulletin is following this trend too: twice a month, we will compile the most important articles published on the CERN site, with a brand-new layout. You will receive an e-mail every two weeks as soon as this new form of the Bulletin is available. If you have interesting news or stories to share, tell us about them through the form at: https://communications.web.cern.ch/got-story-cern-website. You can also find out about news from CERN in real time...
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CERN & Society launches donation portal
Cian O'Luanaigh
2014-01-01
The CERN & Society programme brings together projects in the areas of education and outreach, innovation and knowledge exchange, and culture and arts, that spread the CERN spirit of scientific curiosity for the inspiration and benefit of society. Today, CERN & Society is launching its "giving" website – a portal to allow donors to contribute to various projects and forge new relationships with CERN. "The CERN & Society initiative in its embryonic form began almost three years ago, with the feeling that the laboratory could play a bigger role for the benefit of society," says Matteo Castoldi, Head of the CERN Development Office, who, with his team, is seeking supporters and ambassadors for the CERN & Society initiative. "The concept is not completely new – in some sense it is embedded in CERN’s DNA, as the laboratory helps society by creating knowledge and new technologies – but we would like to d...
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2002-01-01
CERN will be the centre of debate at a 'Café scientifique' on Monday 29 April. The aim of the Cafés scientifiques, which are organised by the association of Bancs Publics, is to kindle discussion between ordinary people and specialists in a scientific field. This Monday, Maurice Bourquin, President of the CERN Council, Hans Hoffmann, Director of Technology Transfer and Scientific Computing at CERN, Gilbert Guignard, a physicist at CERN, and Ruhal Floris, who teaches mathematical didactics at the University of Geneva, will explain the usefulness and contributions to science of the world's biggest laboratory for particle physics. What is CERN for? Monday 29 April at 18.30 Musée d'histoire des sciences, Geneva (in the park Perle du Lac) Entry free Wine and buffet after the discussion
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CERN Running club
2018-01-01
The CERN running club, in collaboration with the Staff Association, is happy to announce the 2018 relay race edition. It will take place on Thursday, May 24th and will consist as every year in a round trip of the CERN Meyrin site in teams of 6 members. It is a fun event, and you do not have to run fast to enjoy it. Registrations will be open from May 1st to May 22nd on the running club web site. All information concerning the race and the registration are available there too: http://runningclub.web.cern.ch/content/cern-relay-race. A video of the previous edition is also available here : http://cern.ch/go/Nk7C. As every year, there will be animations starting at noon on the lawn in front of restaurant 1, and information stands for many CERN associations and clubs will be available. The running club partners will also be participate in the event, namely Berthie Sport, Interfon and Uniqa.
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This has been a truly remarkable seven days for CERN. Things have moved so fast that it has sometimes been hard to separate fact from fiction – all the more so since facts have often seemed too good to be true. It’s been a week of many firsts. Monday was the first time we’ve had two captured beams in the LHC. It’s the first time the LHC has functioned as a particle accelerator, boosting particles to the highest beam energy so far achieved at CERN. And it’s been a week in which we’ve seen the highest energy proton-proton collisions ever produced at CERN: our last hadron collider, the SPS was a proton-antiproton collider, a technically simpler machine than the LHC. This week’s successes are all the more remarkable precisely because of the complexity of the LHC. Unlike the SPS collider, it is two accelerators not one, making the job of commissioning nearly twice as difficult. I’d like to express my heartfelt thanks and congra...
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Le comité du club de yoga du CERN
2017-01-01
Members of the CERN Yoga club are invited to the General Assembly of the club which will take place on: Wednesday 5 July at 14.00 in conference room 504-E-005 (Next to Yoga room) The agenda is available on the club's website: cern.ch/club-yoga/ If you are unable to participate, please elect a proxy voter to vote on your behalf (available from your teacher or in the Yoga room) – these can be addressed to: cernyoga@cern.ch
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CERN Press Office. Geneva
1998-01-01
It was thirty years ago that British industry held the first ever trade fair at CERN and industrial links between Britain and the Laboratory have never looked back. Speaking at the opening of the 1998 "Britain at CERN" exhibition on 20 October, H.E. Mr Christopher Hulse, British Ambassador to Switzerland, underlined the value of CERN contracts to British industry saying that "The prize is well worth going for, I understand that contracts worth  1.5bn will be awarded over the next six years".
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Maximilien Brice
2004-01-01
The book tells the history of CERN through the voices of those who lived it. Highlights such as scientific events, technical achievements and CERN's role as an international organization in Geneva, are recalled chronologically by people who witnessed them: administrators, engineers and physicists, including Georges Charpak, Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer, who received the Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries made at CERN.
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Irradiation Facilities at CERN
Gkotse, Blerina; Carbonez, Pierre; Danzeca, Salvatore; Fabich, Adrian; Garcia, Alia, Ruben; Glaser, Maurice; Gorine, Georgi; Jaekel, Martin, Richard; Mateu,Suau, Isidre; Pezzullo, Giuseppe; Pozzi, Fabio; Ravotti, Federico; Silari, Marco; Tali, Maris
2017-01-01
CERN provides unique irradiation facilities for applications in many scientific fields. This paper summarizes the facilities currently operating for proton, gamma, mixed-field and electron irradiations, including their main usage, characteristics and information about their operation. The new CERN irradiation facilities database is also presented. This includes not only CERN facilities but also irradiation facilities available worldwide.
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Patrice Loiez
2005-01-01
The CERN Relay Race takes place each year in May and sees participants from all areas of the CERN staff. The winners in 2005 were The Shabbys with Los Latinos Volantes in second and Charmilles Technologies a close third. To add a touch of colour and levity, the CERN Jazz Club provided music at the finishing line.
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2002-01-01
The map of countries affiliated to CERN may in future include Brazil. On a visit to CERN last week, the Brazilian Minister of State for Science and Technology, Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg, expressed his country's interest in closer links to the Laboratory. Luciano Maiani and the Brazilian Minister of State for Science and Technology Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg shake hands on CERN-Brazil co-operation. During his visit, the Minister and CERN Director General Luciano Maiani issued a joint statement for the continuation of a Co-operation Agreement first established in 1990. They also agreed to study the possibility of Brazil joining CERN-led Grid computing infrastructure projects. Brazilian physicists are already involved in the LHCb, ATLAS and CMS experiments. At the conclusion of the Minister's visit, he and Director-General Maiani agreed to establish a Working Group to examine ways of strengthening Brazil's links with CERN, and to prepare the way for a Brazilian request to CERN Council to become an Observer at th...
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RSS based CERN Alerter. Information broadcast to all CERN offices.
Otto, R
2007-01-01
Nearly every large organization uses a tool to broadcast messages and information across the internal campus (messages like alerts announcing interruption in services or just information about upcoming events). These tools typically allow administrators (operators) to send "targeted" messages which are sent only to specific groups of users or computers, e/g only those located in a specified building or connected to a particular computing service. CERN has a long history of such tools: CERNVMSÂÂs SPM_quotMESSAGE command, Zephyr and the most recent the NICE Alerter based on the NNTP protocol. The NICE Alerter used on all Windows-based computers had to be phased out as a consequence of phasing out NNTP at CERN. The new solution to broadcast information messages on the CERN campus continues to provide the service based on cross-platform technologies, hence minimizing custom developments and relying on commercial software as much as possible. The new system, called CERN Alerter, is based on RSS (Really Simpl...
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2006-01-01
In collaboration with CERN and the Conseil général de l'Ain, the French postal services of the Pays de Gex have released a new set of pre-paid envelopes paying tribute to CERN. The envelopes, which come in packets of ten, each featuring a different aspect of CERN, will be on sale from 6 June onwards. They will be available from five post offices in the Pays de Gex (Ferney-Voltaire, Prévessin-Moëns, Saint-Genis-Pouilly, Thoiry and CERN-Prévessin), as well as from the CERN Shop (Reception, Building 33). The envelopes were unveiled at an official ceremony on 23 May, which was attended by Jocelyne Boch, Vice-President of the Conseil général de l'Ain and Mayoress of Thoiry, as well as Marina Combe, Head of the Saint-Genis-Pouilly, Thoiry and CERN-Prévessin post offices, and Maximilian Metzger, CERN's Secretary-General. The last set of envelopes to feature CERN, which commemorated the Laboratory's 50th anniversary in 2004, were a huge success, with sales totalling 35 000 in less than a year. 'We received...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Office 2007 – Novelties\t(Français)\t15.12\t1 jour Office 2007 – Novelties\t(English)\t08.01\t1 day Novelties of EXCEL 2007\t(English)\t09.01\t1 day WORD 2007 - level 2 : ECDL\t(Français)\t12-13.01\t2 jours EXCEL 2007 - Level 2: ECDL\t(English)\t15-16.01\t2 days Novelties Office 2007: WORD 2007\t(Français)\t19.01\t1 jour Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(Français)\t29-30.01\t1 jour ½ Windows Vista\t(Français)\t30.01\t3 heures ½ EXCEL 2007 level 1: ECDL\t(English)\t02-03.02\t2 days WORD 2007 - level 1 : ECDL\t(English)\t05-06.02\t2 days ACCESS 2007 - Level 1 : ECDL\t(Français)\t09-10.02\t2 jours Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage)- Level 1\t(Français)\t12-13.02\t2 jours Indico - Meeting Organization\t(Français)\t02.03\t2 heures Indico - Conference Organization\t...
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News from the Library: CERN Scientific Book Fair 2012
CERN Library
2012-01-01
The CERN Bookshop and CERN Library invite you to attend the 2012 CERN Book Fair, a two-day scientific event offering you the opportunity to meet key publishers and to browse and purchase books at significant discounts. Key publishers will present a selection of titles in physics, technology, mathematics, engineering, computing and popular science. You are welcome to come along and meet the publishers’ representatives or simply have a look at the books on sale. The Fair will take place in the Main Building (Bldg. 500) on the ground floor near Restaurant 1 on Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 September. Participating or represented publishers include: Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, EPFL Press-PPUR, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, and World Scientific-Imperial College Press. Fair opening times: Monday 10 September 9:00 - 18:00 Tuesday 11 September 9:00&a...
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Full steam ahead for the CERN Accelerator School
2003-01-01
The CERN Accelerator School (CAS), now in its 20th year, has a new head, Daniel Brandt. Here he talks to the Bulletin about the most recent school, which was held in collaboration with the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), and about the school's future. The CERN Accelerator School has been running since 1983. It holds training courses for accelerator physicists and engineers twice a year, with a pattern of introductory, intermediate and specialised courses. The courses, which take place in different Member States, consist of a programme of lectures and tutorials spread over a period of one or two weeks. Participants come from Member States and other countries world-wide. This year, CAS has a new head, Daniel Brandt, who has taken over from Ted Wilson. Brandt, an accelerator physicist, has been at CERN since 1981, working on aspects of LEP from the early days of design, and throughout most of its operation. More recently his responsibilities have included the LHC Heavy Ions Programme (Heavy Ions in the LHC). Th...
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. Software and system technologies ITIL Foundations (version 3) EXAMINATION\t13-DEC-10\t13-DEC-10\tEnglish\t1 hour Electronic design Cours de base Automation du bâtiment\t15-DEC-10\t17-DEC-10\tFrench\t3 jours Office software Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t13-DEC-10\t14-DEC-10\tEnglish\t2 days If you are interested in attending any of the above course sessions, please talk to your supervisor and/or your DTO, and apply electronically via EDH from the course description pages that can be found here under ‘Technical Training’ with the detailed course program. Registration for all courses is always open – sessions for the less-requested courses are organized on a demand-basis only. CERN Technical Training courses are open only to members of the CERN per...
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Is this science fiction or is it CERN?
2001-01-01
For the second year running, a group of Belgian high school students spent three days at CERN discovering that physics is far from boring and can even be fun. The students were obliged to revise their stereotyped image of the average physicist - the strange person with thick glasses who seems to have landed from another planet - and replace it with a young and enthusiastic person not too different from themselves. The 45 Belgian students gave up a part of their holidays to learn all about accelerators, detectors, and the wonders of particle physics. They were not disappointed, as they took home great memories, lots of documentation, and - who knows - maybe even dreams of a life in physics. The students came from all over the Flemish part of Belgium, united by a common wish - to see CERN from the inside. They were guided through the Laboratory by Belgian physicists involved with the Laboratory. Their visit started with an introduction to particle physics and CERN by Walter Van Doninck from the Vrije Universi...
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GS Department
2009-01-01
The CERN Medical Service and the Pensioners Association are pleased to invite CERN pensioners to a series of lectures given by professors and specialists from the Teaching Hospitals and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva on the following topic: PROMOTION OF OPTIMUM BRAIN AGEING The lectures will take place in the Main CERN Auditorium (Building 60) from 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. on the following dates: Thursday 15 January 2009: Diagnosing and treating Alzheimer’s disease Pr Gabriel GOLD Wednesday 25 February 2009: What is the brain reserve? Speaker’s name to be announced at a later date. The lectures will be given in French, with transparencies in English, and will be followed by a wide-ranging debate with the participants. CERN Medical Service - Pensioners Association - CERN-ESO (GAC-EPA)
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. *************************************** Software and System Technologies JAVA - Level 2 05-JUL-10 08-JUL-10 English 4 days JCOP - Finite State Machines in the JCOP Framework 22-JUN-10 24-JUN-10 English 3 days Le Langage C (ANSI et C99) 24-JUN-10 02-JUL-10 English 4 days Oracle - Programming with PL/SQL 28-JUN-10 30-JUN-10 English 3 days Project Development using Python 29-JUN-10 ...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2008 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Access 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t30-31.03\t2 jours Office 2007 – Novelties (Français)\t20.04\t1 jour Novelties Office 2007: Powerpoint 2007\t(Français)\t21.04\t1 jour Secure e-mail and Web browsing\t(English)\t22.04\t1.5 hour Introduction to Dreamweaver MX\t(Français)\t23-24.04\t2 jours Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(English)\t27-28.04\t1 jour ½ Excel 2007 (Short Course I) –HowTo…Work with formulae (Bilingual)\t29.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course II) – HowTo…Format your worksheet for printing\t(Bilingual)\t29.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course III) – HowTo…Pivot Tables\t(Bilingual)\t30.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course IV) – HowTo…Link cells, worksheets and workbook\t(Bilingual)\t30.04\t0.5 jour/day...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2008 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Sharepoint Designer (Frontpage) – Level 2\t(English)\t18-19.03\t2 days Access 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t30-31.03\t2 jours Office 2007 – Novelties (Français)\t20.04\t1 jour Novelties Office 2007: Powerpoint 2007\t(Français)\t21.04\t1 jour Secure e-mail and Web browsing\t(English)\t22.04\t1.5 hour Introduction to Dreamweaver MX\t(Français)\t23-24.04\t2 jours Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(English)\t27-28.04\t1 jour ½ Excel 2007 (Short Course I) –HowTo…Work with formulae (Bilingual)\t29.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course II) – HowTo…Format your worksheet for printing\t(Bilingual)\t29.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course III) – HowTo…Pivot Tables\t(Bilingual)\t30.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course IV) – HowT...
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"10th Germany at CERN" Industrial Exhibition and the first "Innovation Forum at CERN"
FI Department
2008-01-01
On January 29-30, 2008 On 29 and 30 January 2008, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will join forces with CERN in organizing the "10th Germany at CERN" Industrial Exhibition and the first "Innovation Forum at CERN". The Industrial Exhibition provides the opportunity for some 30 German companies to present their products and services to the scientists and buyers of CERN, establish contacts and gather information on future purchasing opportunities. The main subjects will be the following: mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, civil engineering and buildings, data processing, radiation protection and vacuum and low temperature technology. The first ever "Innovation Forum at CERN" - open to all CERN Member States – will bring together under one roof researchers, innovators, and entrepreneurs to understand and discuss CERN’s applied technology. They will learn about the know-how accumulated through the LHC, the five detectors ...
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"10th Germany at CERN" Industrial Exhibition and the first "Innovation Forum at CERN"
FI Department
2008-01-01
29-30 January 2008 On 29 and 30 January 2008, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will join forces with CERN in organizing the "10th Germany at CERN" Industrial Exhibition and the first "Innovation Forum at CERN". The Industrial Exhibition will provide the opportunity for some 30 German companies to present their products and services to the scientists and buyers of CERN, establish contacts and gather information on future purchasing opportunities. The main subjects will be the following: mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, civil engineering and buildings, data processing, radiation protection and vacuum and low temperature technology. The first ever "Innovation Forum at CERN" - open to all CERN Member States - will bring together under one roof researchers, innovators, and entrepreneurs to understand and discuss CERN’s applied technology. They will learn about the know-how accumulated through the LHC, the five detectors ...
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CERN PhotoLab
1963-01-01
Seen in this picture is Noria Christophoridou, librarian of the Greek Atomic Energy Commission, who has been sent by her government to CERN for a year to widen her experience of library and documentation services. In the photograph she is providing information to Kurt Gottfried, a CERN visiting scientist from Harvard University, who is spending a year with CERN's Theory Division
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CERN. Geneva
2014-01-01
Discovering CERN's weaknesses is as important as ever. Become a CERN WhiteHat and help us poking around CERN computing services and web applications. All you need is to apply and get the appropriate training...
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New timetable for the CERN Shuttle service 2015
2014-01-01
Due to the reduction of operational budgets, please note that as from 5 January 2015: Circuit 1 (Meyrin) will not run during lunch; Circuit 2 (Prévessin) will run two more times each day; Circuit 6 will no longer run. For more information: http://cern.ch/ShuttleService. Departmental Administrative Office
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IT Services availability during CERN annual closure Dec 2004-Jan2005
2004-01-01
Mail, CERN Windows (NICE), Web services, LXPLUS, LXBATCH, AFS, Automated tape devices, Castor, Backups, software license servers, Sundev, CVS and Print Servers, CDS Search, Submit and Agenda, InDiCo, EDMS (in collaboration with TS Department), CMS disc servers, the AB NFS servers (SLNFS1, PSNFS1 and MTBNFS1, that PS group runs for AB Department), Campus Network, Remedy, and Security services will be available during the CERN annual closure. The physics database cluster, replication location service as well as accdb, cerndb and admsdb are the only databases available; CCDB will be closed for public access. Problems developing on scheduled services should be addressed within about half a day except around Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (24 and 25 December) and New Year's Eve and New Year's Day (31 December and 1st January). For Administrative Computing Services, ERT (Electronic Recruitment Tool) will be the only service operational; all other AIS applications such as EDH, CET, HRT etc. will be unavailable. Al...
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Francesco Poppi
2010-01-01
During their recent European tour celebrating forty years since their debut album, the members of the famous British rock-band Supertramp decided to take a break and pay a visit to CERN on 16 October, the day after their concert at Geneva Arena. It was a fast break for the authors of the popular “Breakfast in America”, as their next concert was in Lyon the same evening. Supertramp's John Helliwell with anti-matter trap. Not content with merely unveiling the mysteries of the Universe, CERN has also been able to improve the performance of one of the world's most famous singers and saxophonists, John Helliwell, the leader of the rock band Supertramp! In his words: “Tonight in Lyon I shall play the saxophone better than before I came here”. And Gabe Dixon, keyboard player and songwriter, added: “I would love to write a song about the Universe now. If only I could put all this into poetic words…that would be a real accomplishment&rdqu...
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Laëtitia Pedroso
2010-01-01
For the last few days, people working on the CERN site have been able to take advantage of the new terrace to relax on and make the most of the nice weather. What more could you ask for in your work place? New terrace between building 39 and 40 As part of the programme of renewal and improvement of CERN's green areas, the GS Department entrusted Genève Espaces Verts, the company responsible for their upkeep and management, with the creation of a new terrace between Buildings 39 and 40. The terrace, which is made of a wood selected for its ability to withstand variations in temperature, is shady in the mornings and in the full sun from midday onwards. It can seat about a hundred people. Users can now unwind or drink their coffee at leisure in a peaceful and harmonious setting surrounded by flowers. Even here, though, physics is never far away: the flower pots made from the protective end-caps of the LHC magnets serve as a reminder of what we are all here for. &...
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Understanding parking habits at CERN
Anaïs Schaeffer
2016-01-01
The SMB department is setting up a monitoring system in certain CERN car parks in order to evaluate their occupancy rates and subsequently make them easier to use. Vehicle registration plate readers (red triangles) are now installed at the entrances and exits of the Le Cèdres car park (in orange) and of the Building 4 and 5 one (in blue). The 2 other car parks (Building 40 in violet and “high-voltage” in green) will be equipped at a later stage. Vehicle registration plate readers are now installed at the entrances and exits of the Les Cèdres car park and of the Building 4 and 5 car park, both on the Meyrin site. The information collected by these readers will allow the occupancy levels of these car parks to be analysed throughout the day, establishing periods of peak usage and the pattern of vehicle movements. “We have been experiencing parking problems at CERN for several years n...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2009 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Outlook 2007 (Short Course 1) – E-mail\t(Bilingual)\t25.05\t3 hours Outlook 2007 (Short Course II) – Calendar, Tasks and Notes (Bilingual)\t25.05\t3 hours Word 2007 (Short Course III) - Working with long documents: Styles and tables of content\t(Bilingual)\t28.05\t3 hours Indico – Meeting Organization\t(English)\t05.06\t2 hours Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t05.06\t3 hours Excel 2007 (Short Course I) –HowTo…Work with formulae (Bilingual)\t11.06\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course II) – HowTo…Format your worksheet for printing\t(Bilingual)\t11.06\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course III) – HowTo…Pivot Tables\t(Bilingual)\t12.06\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course IV) – HowTo…Link cells, worksheets and workb...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2009-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2008 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Access 2007 – Level 2: ECDL\t(Français)\t30-31.03\t2 jours Office 2007 – Novelties (Français)\t20.04\t1 jour Novelties Office 2007: Powerpoint 2007\t(Français)\t21.04\t1 jour Secure e-mail and Web browsing\t(English)\t22.04\t1.5 hour Introduction to Dreamweaver MX\t(Français)\t23-24.04\t2 jours Sharepoint Collaboration Workspace\t(English)\t27-28.04\t1 jour ½ Excel 2007 (Short Course I) –HowTo…Work with formulae (Bilingual)\t29.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course II) – HowTo…Format your worksheet for printing\t(Bilingual)\t29.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course III) – HowTo…Pivot Tables\t(Bilingual)\t30.04\t0.5 jour/day Excel 2007 (Short Course IV) – HowTo…Link cells, worksheets and work...
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Bell, Tim
2012-01-01
The CERN Computer Centre is reviewing strategies for optimizing the use of the existing infrastructure in the future, and in the likely scenario that any extension will be remote from CERN, and in the light of the way other large facilities are today being operated. Over the past six months, CERN has been investigating modern and widely-used tools and procedures used for virtualisation, clouds and fabric management in order to reduce operational effort, increase agility and support unattended remote computer centres. This presentation will give the details on the project’s motivations, current status and areas for future investigation.
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International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Anon.
1995-01-01
In its continual tour of CERN Member States, the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) visited Lisbon, Portugal, on 21-22 April, where it met at the Instituto Superiore Tecnico, a technical university with 9,000 students. Portuguese particle physics is in a particularly healthy situation, having developed considerably following Portugal's admission to CERN in 1985. With support from Brussels, scientific infrastructure has developed rapidly, although the science base has yet to attain the levels seen in larger nations. The 45-strong population of experimentalists in Portugal, including 14 PhDs, represents a 2.5-fold increase since Portugal joined CERN ten years ago and is in line with the goal stated at the time. This successful development of experimental particle physics has benefited much from physicists returning from abroad (mainly France and the UK). The direct result of the efforts of a few individuals (notably J.M. Gago), this splendid achievement provides an excellent role model for new and potential CERN Member States. At present, particle physics represents some 3 0% of all Portuguese physics publications. This very special role (and the financial support it implies) provides a visible target, but one which can be defended as it provides a catalyst for other national scientific developments. The national hub is the Laboratory for experimental high energy physics and related R&D projects (LIP), with centres in Lisbon (Head, J.M. Gago) and Coimbra (Head, A. Policarpo). LIP, with close links to two universities in Lisbon and to the University of Coimbra, has developed into a centre of expertise and training in electronics, computing and software engineering. Present LIP funding is some 2 million Swiss francs/year (70% in Lisbon and 3 0% in Coimbra), covering most of the salaries of the nonuniversity people, the remainder being supported by grants from Portuguese and European programmes. Portugal's contribution to CERN's 1995 budget
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International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Anon.
1995-01-01
Israel (along with the US, Japan, Canada, the Russian Federation and India) is one of the CERN non- Member State nations targeted for substantial future participation in CERN's experimental programme, in particular for the LHC proton collider to be built in the 27-kilometre LEP tunnel and which was formally approved by CERN Council in December (January/February, page 1). In keeping with their illustrious scientific traditions, Israeli experimental physicists have collaborated in experiments at many of the world's major high energy Laboratories - Brookhaven, Fermilab and SLAC in the US, and in Europe, DESY, Hamburg, as well as CERN. However CERN, as the geographically closest major Laboratory (as well as the largest), plays a special role for Israeli scientists. At CERN, the advent of preparations in the early 1980s for the experimental programme at the LEP electron-positron collider was the signal for Israeli researchers to mount a concerted effort and contribute to one of the experiments - Opal - at a level comparable to that of major nations. This allowed Israeli teams to participate fully in the planning and construction phase of this branch of Big Science. Underlining this commitment, and to coordinate the various national agencies involved in this aspect of Big Science, in 1983 the Israel Commission for High Energy Physics (ICHEP) was formed. It is currently chaired by David Horn of Tel Aviv. The initial ICHEP/CERN contract established the official CERN/lsrael link under which, in the short-term, teams from three major research centres - the Weizmann Institute, Tel- Aviv University, and Haifa's Technion - contributed to Opal, as the flagship experiment, while providing a framework for longer-term collaboration. (At CERN, Israeli physicists also participate in the NA45 heavy ion experiment and the NA47 Spin Muon Collaboration - SMC.) Opal groups some 320 scientists from 32 research centres in eight countries, and includes a 21-strong Israeli
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SubClones (Alan Parsons) visit CERN – and the subatomic world
Jordan Juras
2011-01-01
While the LHC has been creating subatomic particles, Alan Parsons has re-entered the studio with his new project, SubClones. The three-piece electronic rock group has joined the legendary Alan Parsons Live Project on tour, and their common friend Patrick Geeraert gave them the chance to drop into CERN for a visit. Alan Parsons during his visit to CERN. The Alan Parsons Live Project is back on tour, with dates scheduled for the end of the summer across Europe and the Americas. A stop at CERN recently complemented a day off between two cities and allowed the band to move from the frontier of the music industry to the frontier of science. “We saw everything there was to see at CERN,” explains Alan Parsons. “It was all fascinating stuff but unfortunately we couldn’t see what was underground, though, so I think we will have to come back.” Parsons’ new project, SubClones, features three members whose identities remain a secret. Althoug...
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SC Unit
2008-01-01
The CERN Medical Service and the Pensioners Association are pleased to invite CERN pensioners to a series of lectures given by professors and specialists from the Teaching Hospitals and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva on the following topic: PROMOTION OF OPTIMUM BRAIN AGEING The lectures will take place in the Main CERN Auditorium (Building 60) from 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. on the following dates: Wednesday 12 November 2008: Assessing the extent of brain ageing Dr Dina ZEKRY Friday 12 December 2008: Can memory decline be prevented? Pr Jean-Pierre MICHEL Thursday 15 January 2009: Diagnosing and treating Alzheimer’s disease Pr Gabriel GOLD Wednesday 25 February 2009: What is the brain reserve? Speaker’s name to be announced at a later date The lectures will be given in French, with transparencies in English, and will be followed by a wide-ranging debate with the participants. CERN Medical Service - Pensioners Association - CERN-ESO (GAC-EPA)
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Romanian President Visits CERN
2001-01-01
Director General Luciano Maiani watches as Romanian President Ion Iliescu signs the CERN guest book. On Friday the 12th of October, Romanian President Ion Iliescu arrived at CERN and was warmly greeted by Director General Luciano Maiani at the steps of building 500. After initial greetings and a general presentation of the laboratory, President Iliescu and his entourage embarked on a whistle stop tour of the CERN facilities. They visited the CMS magnet assembly hall and civil engineering work where presentations were made by CMS spokesperson Michel Della Negra and the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter where the president was introduced to Romanian physicists working here at CERN. Michel Della Negra explains some of the general principles behind CMS to President Iliescu during his visit last week. The Romanian teams working on CERN projects make very visible contributions, for example to the construction of the ATLAS experiment and to the preparation of its eventual scientific exploitation. 'Those of us on the ATLAS ...
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2005-01-01
European Commissioner Viviane Reding in front of one of the computers showing how the Grid works and, from left to right, Robert Aymar, CERN's Director-General, Wolfgang von Rüden, Head of the Information Technology Department, and Bob Jones, the newly appointed director of the EGEE project since 1st November. Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, visited CERN on 28 October. Accompanied throughout by CERN's Director-General, Robert Aymar, and the Head of the Information Technology Department, Wolfgang von Rüden, the Commissioner visited the ATLAS cavern before going on to the Information Technology Department, where she was given a complete overview of CERN's activities in the strategic field of Grid computing. Viviane Reding's visit coincided with the end of the EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) conference, which took place in Pisa in Italy. Co-ordinated by CERN and funded by the European Commission, the EGEE project aims to set up a worldwide grid infrastructure for sc...
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2002-01-01
"Viene de la pagina anterior. Puntualizaciones del CERN. La valoracion que me merece la aprobacion en el Consejo de Ministros el 24 de mayo de un acuerdo de colaboracion entre el MCYT y el CERN para el proyecto de neutrinos al Gran Sasso es positiva" (1 page).
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Serge Bellegarde
2005-01-01
Housed in the CERN Computer Centre, these banks of computers process and store data produced on the CERN systems. When the LHC starts operation in 2008, it will produce enough data every year to fill a stack of CDs 20 km tall. To handle this huge amount of data, CERN has also developed the Grid, allowing the processing power to be shared between computer centres around the world.
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Brian Cox; John Barrowman; Eddie Izzard
2008-01-01
Is particle physics the new rock 'n' roll? The fundamental questions about the nature of the universe that particle physics hopes to answer have attracted the attention of some very high profile and unusual fans. Alan Alda, Ben Miller, Eddie Izzard, Dara O'Briain and John Barrowman all have interests in this branch of physics. Brian Cox - CERN physicist, and former member of 90's band D:Ream, tracks down some very well known celebrity enthusiasts and takes a light-hearted look at why this subject can appeal to all of us.
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2012-01-01
Social networking sites like LinkedIn, MySpace, Google+ and Facebook are on the rise. In particular, the life of youngsters revolves more and more around these sites as they facilitate communication, networking and the exchange of niceties. Who does not today already have an account registered with one of them? A Facebook profile can contain photos, listings of hobbies, job information, preferences… The on-going effort to externalise some of CERN's computing resources continues, and in order to promote a unified interface for personal information, CERN has decided to establish a partnership with Facebook starting on 1stApril. "CERN is a public and trustworthy international organisation, and as such, our staff and users have nothing to hide from the general public," said Alexi Spiner (IT), project leader responsible for this migration: * The computer profiles of all CERN users will be integrated into the Facebook portal; * In addition, we will also ...
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2009-01-01
Safety is an integral part of our working lives, and should be in our minds whatever job we do at CERN. Ultimately, safety is the responsibility of the Director General – your safety is my concern. That’s why I have this week appointed a new Safety Policy Committee (SAPOCO) that reflects the new Organizational structure of CERN. CERN’s Staff Rules and Regulations clearly lay out in chapter 3 the scope of safety at CERN as well as my responsibilities and yours in safety matters. At CERN, safety is considered in the broadest sense, encompassing occupational Health and Safety, environmental protection, and the safety of equipment and installations. It is my responsibility to put appropriate measures in place to ensure that these conditions are met. And it is the responsibility of us all to ensure that we are fully conversant with safety provisions applicable in our areas of work and that we comply with them. The appointment of a n...
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Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors, continues the series of occasional exchanges between CERN and other laboratories world-wide. As part of this exchange, CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer wrote a message in DESY inForm. Helmut Dosch took over from Albrecht Wagner in March 2009. You may think that the connections between CERN and DESY are obvious – particle physics labs with record-breaking accelerators and users from all around the world trying to solve mankind’s great mysteries. We even exchanged a few Directors. But did you know that there are similarities that are much closer to home – for example that both labs have names for their staff in the host language that are untranslatable into English? You are CERNoises and CERNois, we are DESYanerinnen and DESYaner. And in the end it’s the people it all comes down to. We at DESY admire the resourcefulness, enthusiasm, dedication and perseverance with which you at CERN have designed, built, started ...
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Anaïs Schaeffer
2013-01-01
With the introduction of CERN’s new graphic charter, our complete range of official communications stationery has been redesigned. Discover the newly harmonised and standardised range of CERN stationery. As the Director-General announced in Bulletin 41-42/2012, a new graphic charter is now in force at CERN. The graphics team has taken this opportunity to redesign all the official CERN stationery, such as business cards, correspondence cards, letterheads, envelopes and file holders, all of which will now boast the same, unified format. In keeping with CERN’s new graphic charter, even the business cards have had a makeover: of a better quality than their predecessors, they now elegantly display the CERN colours (namely the familiar Pantone 286 blue). These new cards, which all follow a standardised format, help to project a standardised corporate image of the Organization. Order them online now! As the Director-General highlighted, “it's increasingly imp...
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Italy's Prime Minister visits CERN
Stefania Pandolfi
2015-01-01
On Tuesday, 7 July 2015, the Prime Minister of the Italian Republic, Matteo Renzi, visited CERN. He was accompanied by a delegation that included Italy's Minister for Education, University and Research, Stefania Giannini. From left to right: Fernando Ferroni, President of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN); Sergio Bertolucci, CERN Director for Research and Scientific Computing; Stefania Giannini, Italy's Minister of Education, University and Research; Matteo Renzi, Prime Minister of the Italian Republic; Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General Designate; Rolf Heuer, CERN Director-General. The Prime Minister was welcomed by members of the CERN Management together with former CERN Director-General and Senator for Life of the Italian Republic, Carlo Rubbia. After a brief general introduction to CERN’s activities by Rolf Heuer, the Italian delegation visited LHC Point 1. After a tour of the ATLAS control room, they donned helmets to visit th...
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CERN openlab Summer Student Programme
2012-01-01
CERN openlab is currently taking applications for its summer student programme. The closing date for applications is 30 March 2012. The openlab Summer Student Programme is open for applications from bachelor, master and PhD students in computer science and physics. Successful applicants will spend 8 weeks at CERN, during the period June to September 2012, to work with some of the latest hardware and software technologies. The programme is more than just a summer at CERN: it can lead to follow-on projects at the home institute and may even inspire the students to become entrepreneurs in cutting-edge computing technologies. A series of lectures will be given by experts in various domains of CERN related high-throughput computing. Study tours to external companies and universities as well as to CERN facilities are also part of the programme. Please visit www.cern.ch/openlab-students for more information.
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CERN openlab summer student programme
2013-01-01
CERN openlab is currently taking applications for its summer student programme. The closing date for applications is 31 March 2013. The openlab summer student programme is open for applications from bachelor, master and PhD students in computer science and physics. Successful applicants will spend 9 weeks at CERN, during the period from June to September 2013, working with some of the latest hardware and software technologies. The programme is more than just a summer at CERN: it can lead to follow-on projects at the home institute and may even inspire students to become entrepreneurs in cutting-edge computing technologies. A series of lectures will be given by experts in various domains of CERN-related high-throughput computing. Study tours of external companies and universities as well as of CERN facilities are also part of the programme. Please visit the CERN openlab website for more information.
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CERN'S TECHNICAL CONTROL ROOM (TCR) A CENTRAL SERVICE FOR EVERYONE
Mario Batz / TCR Responsible
2000-01-01
The Technical Control Room (TCR) monitors and operates the entire technical infrastructure of CERN 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It registers and dispatches troubleshooting requests to the appropriate equipment services. In addition, the TCR executes first-line interventions on the entire CERN site. Troubleshooting requests are transmitted to the TCR either via a computerised control system or via the phone number 72201. More than 10'000 such requests are dispatched and dealt with every year. The TCR's diverse field of activity concerns the following systems: electrical and fluid distribution networks, heating, cooling, ventilation, air-conditioning and gas equipment, safety and communication installations, electromechanical systems (e.g. lifts, cranes, machine tools, motorised doors), sanitary systems (leaks, sewage), control and monitoring infrastructure equipment, buildings. These systems can either be part of the administrative infrastructure, such as offices or restaurants, or part of the tec...
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CERN'S TECHNICAL CONTROL ROOM (TCR) A CENTRAL SERVICE FOR EVERYONE
Mario Batz
2002-01-01
The Technical Control Room (TCR) monitors and operates the entire technical infrastructure of CERN 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It registers and dispatches troubleshooting requests to the appropriate equipment services. In addition, the TCR executes first-line interventions on the entire CERN site. Troubleshooting requests are transmitted to the TCR either via a computerised control system or via the phone number '72201'. More than 10'000 such requests are dispatched and dealt with every year. The TCR's diverse field of activity concerns the following systems: electrical and fluid distribution networks, heating, cooling, ventilation, air-conditioning and gas equipment, safety and communication installations, electromechanical systems (e.g. lifts, cranes, machine tools, motorised doors), sanitary systems (leaks, sewage), control and monitoring infrastructure equipment, buildings. These systems can either be part of the administrative infrastructure, such as offices or restaurants, or part of the t...
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CERN'S TECHNICAL CONTROL ROOM (TCR) A CENTRAL SERVICE FOR EVERYONE
Mario Batz (TCR Responsible)
2001-01-01
The Technical Control Room (TCR) monitors and operates the entire technical infrastructure of CERN 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It registers and dispatches troubleshooting requests to the appropriate equipment services. In addition, the TCR executes first-line interventions on the entire CERN site. Troubleshooting requests are transmitted to the TCR either via a computerised control system or via the phone number '72201'. More than 10'000 such requests are dispatched and dealt with every year. The TCR's diverse field of activity concerns the following systems: electrical and fluid distribution networks, heating, cooling, ventilation, air-conditioning and gas equipment, safety and communication installations, electromechanical systems (e.g. lifts, cranes, machine tools, motorised doors), sanitary systems (leaks, sewage), control and monitoring infrastructure equipment, buildings. These systems can either be part of the administrative infrastructure, such as offices or restaurants, or part of the t...
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CERN's Technical Control Room (TCR) A Central Service for Everyone
Mario Batz
2001-01-01
The Technical Control Room (TCR) monitors and operates the entire technical infrastructure of CERN 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It registers and dispatches troubleshooting requests to the appropriate equipment services. In addition, the TCR executes first-line interventions on the entire CERN site. Troubleshooting requests are transmitted to the TCR either via a computerised control system or via the phone number '72201'. More than 10'000 such requests are dispatched and dealt with every year. The TCR's diverse field of activity concerns the following systems: electrical and fluid distribution networks, heating, cooling, ventilation, air-conditioning and gas equipment, safety and communication installations, electromechanical systems (e.g. lifts, cranes, machine tools, motorised doors), sanitary systems (leaks, sewage), control and monitoring infrastructure equipment, buildings. These systems can either be part of the administrative infrastructure, such as offices or restaurants, or part of the t...
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CERN'S TECHNICAL CONTROL ROOM (TCR) A CENTRAL SERVICE FOR EVERYONE
Mario Batz (TCR Responsible)
2001-01-01
The Technical Control Room (TCR) monitors and operates the entire technical infrastructure of CERN 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It registers and dispatches troubleshooting requests to the appropriate equipment services. In addition, the TCR executes first-line interventions on the entire CERN site. Troubleshooting requests are transmitted to the TCR either via a computerised control system or via the phone number 72201. More than 10'000 such requests are dispatched and dealt with every year. The TCR's diverse field of activity concerns the following systems: electrical and fluid distribution networks, heating, cooling, ventilation, air-conditioning and gas equipment, safety and communication installations, electromechanical systems (e.g. lifts, cranes, machine tools, motorised doors), sanitary systems (leaks, sewage), control and monitoring infrastructure equipment, buildings. These systems can either be part of the administrative infrastructure, such as offices or restaurants, or part of the tec...
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CERN HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME (CHIS)
HR Department
2002-01-01
List of benefits for 2002 The CHIS list of benefits for 2002 is now available from the HR Division Website (under 'general information'). We wish to draw your attention to the fact that the copies of this list available at the CERN UNIQA Office are intended ONLY for CERN pensioners. CERN staff members are therefore kindly requested to print this list themselves from the Web. English version HERE We would like to take this opportunity to remind staff members that they should obtain medical expenses claim forms from their divisional secretariat and NOT from the CERN UNIQA Office, which has a limited supply intended for CERN pensioners ONLY. Human Resources Division Tel: 73635
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People and things. CERN Courier, January-February 1981, v. 21(1)
International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Anon.
1981-01-01
The article reports on achievements of various people, staff changes and position opportunities within the CERN organization and contains news updates on upcoming or past events; CERN elections and appointments; Collaboration agreement between Italian IN FN and the Sinic Academy of Sciences. In 1979, the CERN Committee of Council invited Armin Hermann of the University of Stuttgart to carry out a feasibility study, financed by the Volkswagen Foundation, on the writing of a history of CERN. On the basis of its findings, and a recdmmendation of the CERN History Advisory Committee, the Committee of Council has now authorized the history study which will be carried out by three European Science historians, led by Professor Hermann based at CERN. A few years ago the National Norwegian CERN Committee proposed that CERN might open its doors also to visitors from technical fields in the Member States. The idea is that visitors spending up to a year working in a CERN group, which is doing some front-line work in a technological field, will benefit personally and will carry further expertise back to the home country. A two-day workshop was held at Cornell in November to introduce the high energy physics community to the design of Q new 50 GeV electron- positron storage ring aimed at neutral intermediate boson physics. A very thorough polarization experiment for the direct determination of the amplitude in proton-proton elastic scattering has been carried out at the SIN cyclotron. A workshop is being held at DESY on 10-11 February to discuss the physics with the 2x5 GeV electronpositron DORIS storage ring and potential DORIS improvements; As an appropriate 'Goodwill to all men' message in this first issue of the New Year we reproduce the guidelines proposed by the International Committee for Future Accelerators for the 'interregional utilization of major regional experimental facilities for high energy particle physics research'
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International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
1993-01-01
At The European Center for High Energy Physics (Conseil Europeen de Recherche Nucleaire - CERN) basic research is carried out based on some of the world's largest particle accelerators, especially the Large Electron Positron collider (LEP). Danish membership of CERN gives Danish physicists access to these machines and the Accelerator Committee offers advice on their utilization and related financing. Danish research carried out at CERN is described, based on contributions from individual research groups. The functions, administration and budgets of the Accelerator Committee are explained in addition to other forms of administration connected with CERN, such as the Danish CERN Delegation, and an evaluation of Danish experimentation within physics is presented. Information is given on individual Danish members of the CERN groups of scientists and a list of the publications of international research groups which include Danish subjects, covering the years 1991-93, is presented. The publication is related to the delegation of grants for research projects carried out by Danish physicists. (AB)
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CERN openlab enters fifth phase
Andrew Purcell
2015-01-01
CERN openlab is a unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading ICT companies. At the start of this year, openlab officially entered its fifth phase, which will run until the end of 2017. For the first time in its history, it has extended beyond the CERN community to include other major European and international research laboratories. Founded in 2001 to develop the innovative ICT systems needed to cope with the unprecedented computing challenges of the LHC, CERN openlab unites science and industry at the cutting edge of research and innovation. In a white paper published last year, CERN openlab set out the main ICT challenges it will tackle during its fifth phase, namely data acquisition, computing platforms, data storage architectures, computer management and provisioning, networks and connectivity, and data analytics. As it enters its fifth phase, CERN openlab is expanding to include other research laboratories. "Today, research centres in other disciplines are also st...
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HR Department
2010-01-01
Since the beginning of 2009, due to the CERN restructuring, LabVIEW support moved from the IT to the EN department, joining the Industrial Controls and Electronics Group (ICE). LabVIEW support has been merged with the Measurement, Test and Analysis (MTA) section which, using LabVIEW, has developed most of the measurement systems to qualify the LHC magnets and components over the past 10 years. The post mortem analysis for the LHC hardware commissioning has also been fully implemented using LabVIEW, customised into a framework, called RADE, for CERN needs. The MTA section has started with a proactive approach sharing its tools and experience with the CERN LabVIEW community. Its framework (RADE) for CERN integrated application development has been made available to the users. Courses on RADE have been integrated into the standard National Instruments training program at CERN. RADE and LabVIEW support were merged together in 2010 on a single email address:labview.support@cern.ch For more information please...
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Healthy Body, Happy Heart: Improve Your Heart Health
... November 2017 Print this issue Healthy Body, Happy Heart Improve Your Heart Health En español Send us your comments Every moment of the day, your heart is pumping blood throughout your body. In silent ...
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Integrating Containers in the CERN Private Cloud
Noel, Bertrand; Michelino, Davide; Velten, Mathieu; Rocha, Ricardo; Trigazis, Spyridon
2017-10-01
Containers remain a hot topic in computing, with new use cases and tools appearing every day. Basic functionality such as spawning containers seems to have settled, but topics like volume support or networking are still evolving. Solutions like Docker Swarm, Kubernetes or Mesos provide similar functionality but target different use cases, exposing distinct interfaces and APIs. The CERN private cloud is made of thousands of nodes and users, with many different use cases. A single solution for container deployment would not cover every one of them, and supporting multiple solutions involves repeating the same process multiple times for integration with authentication services, storage services or networking. In this paper we describe OpenStack Magnum as the solution to offer container management in the CERN cloud. We will cover its main functionality and some advanced use cases using Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, highlighting some relevant differences between the two. We will describe the most common use cases in HEP and how we integrated popular services like CVMFS or AFS in the most transparent way possible, along with some limitations found. Finally we will look into ongoing work on advanced scheduling for both Swarm and Kubernetes, support for running batch like workloads and integration of container networking technologies with the CERN infrastructure.
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CERN's technical apprentices during their apprenticeships
Adrian Billet
2004-01-01
CERN starting training apprentices in 1966 at the request of the Geneva authorities. The programme was consolidated with the opening of the training centre in 1971. In recent years CERN has taken on seven new technical apprentices each year (four in electronics, three in physics laboratory work), plus one or two administrative apprentices, such that there always are around 30 apprentices in total at CERN. The programme is highly regarded in Geneva by the authorities, industry, schools and young people, and contributes very positively to CERN's local image. Since the beginning 160 young people have now successfully completed their apprenticeships at CERN. Unlike some other employers, as a general rule CERN does not take on its ex-apprentices as staff; on completing their years at CERN the apprentices usually go on to higher education or are sought after by other employers.
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Ellison, A. D.
2000-07-01
Two years ago John Kinchin and myself were lucky enough to attend the Goldsmith's particle physics course. As well as many interesting lectures and activities, this course included a visit to CERN. To most physics teachers CERN is Mecca, a hallowed place where gods manipulate and manufacture matter. The experience of being there was even better. Alison Wright was an enthusiastic and very knowledgeable host who ensured the visit went smoothly and we all learned a lot. While we were there, John and I discussed the possibility of bringing a party of A-level students to see real physics in action. In February of this year we managed it. 33 students from two schools, Boston Grammar School and Northampton School for Boys, and four staff left England and caught the 2 am ferry to France. Many hours and a few `short cuts' later we arrived at our hotel in St Genis, not far from CERN. The first day was spent sight-seeing in Lausanne and Geneva. The Olympic museum in Lausanne is well worth a visit. Unfortunately, the famous fountain in Geneva was turned off, but then you can't have everything. The following morning we turned up at CERN late due to the coach's brakes being iced up! We were met once again by Alison Wright who forgave us and introduced the visit by giving an excellent talk on CERN, its background and its reason for existing. At this point we met another member of our Goldsmith's course and his students so we joined forces once again. We then piled back into the coach to re-cross the border and visit ALEPH. ALEPH is a monster of a detector 150 m below ground. We divided into four groups, each with a very able and knowledgeable guide, and toured the site. The size and scale of the detector are awesome and the students were suitably impressed. We repeated the speed of sound experiment of two years ago at the bottom of a 150 m concrete shaft (320 m s-1), posed for a group photo in front of the detector (figure 1) and returned to the main site for lunch in
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Environmental radiation monitoring on the CERN sites and in the CERN environment during 1998
Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)
Vojtyla, P; Wittekind, D
1999-04-15
As a consequence of changes in the administrative structure of TIS Division in 1996 and 1997, the Environmental Section was integrated into the TIS Technical Services and Environment Group that also looks after the non-radiation parameters in the CERN releases and environment. However, it remains the duty of the Radiation Protection Group (RP) to define the environmental programme for radiation and radioactivity, and of the leader of RP to report its results both inside and outside CERN. Part I of this Annual Report describes the results of measurements which are relevant for assessing the radiological impact of CERN's activities on the environment and the population living in the vicinity of the CERN sites. Measurements of radioactivity released into the atmosphere and into water, as well as measurements of stray radiation at or near the CERN site boundaries, are reported.
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There’s more to particle physics at CERN than colliders
2016-01-01
CERN’s scientific programme must be compelling, unique, diverse, and integrated into the global landscape of particle physics. One of the Laboratory’s primary goals is to provide a diverse range of excellent physics opportunities and to put its unique facilities to optimum use, maximising the scientific return. In this spirit, we have recently established a Physics Beyond Colliders study group with a mandate to explore the unique opportunities offered by the CERN accelerator complex to address some of today’s outstanding questions in particle physics through projects complementary to high-energy colliders and other initiatives in the world. The study group will provide input to the next update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. The process kicked off with a two-day workshop at CERN on 6 and 7 September, organised by the study group conveners: Joerg Jaeckel (Heidelberg), Mike Lamont (CERN) and Claude Vallée (CPPM Marseille and DESY). Its purpo...
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The "Karma Level Sexy Bottom" awards are back at CERN
CERN Bulletin
2014-01-01
The highly coveted "Karma Level Sexy Bottom" awards are given to the winners of the “Bike to CERN” competition. There is only one way to secure your place in history: commute to work on your bike, no matter what the weather conditions are and how busy you may feel. The president of the CERN cycling club, Henrik Nissen (left), with Tim Smith, one of the three winners of the “Bike to CERN” Challenge. At CERN, bikers have a dedicated club and can take part in two popular events designed to challenge them: Bike2Work, which has been going for 10 years and which, every June, mobilises some 50,000 employees from more than 1100 companies and organisations across Switzerland, and the “unofficial Bike to CERN” challenge, which runs throughout the year. In 2013, 125 people took part in this local competition, but many CERN personnel ride to work every day without registering their kilometres. The three winners, all correspond...
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CERN Library | Mario Campanelli presents "Inside CERN's Large Hadron Collider" | 16 March
CERN Library
2016-01-01
"Inside CERN's Large Hadron Collider" by Mario Campanelli. Presentation on Wednesday, 16 March at 4 p.m. in the Library (bldg 52-1-052) The book aims to explain the historical development of particle physics, with special emphasis on CERN and collider physics. It describes in detail the LHC accelerator and its detectors, describing the science involved as well as the sociology of big collaborations, culminating with the discovery of the Higgs boson. Inside CERN's Large Hadron Collider Mario Campanelli World Scientific Publishing, 2015 ISBN 9789814656641
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CERN Technical training: Available places in forthcoming courses
HR Department
2010-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the 2010 CERN Technical Training Programme and places are still available. You can find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web catalogue. *************************************** Software and System Technologies Oracle - Programming with PL/SQL 28-JUN-10 30-JUN-10 English 3 days Project Development using Python 29-JUN-10 02-JUL-10 English 4 days JAVA - Level 2 05-JUL-10 08-JUL-10 English 4 days Electronic Design CAO = Allegro Design Entry HDL Front-to-Back Flow v16.3 28-JUN-10 30-JUN-10 French 3 jours LabVIEW Data ...
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CARDIAC EMERGENCY: LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS
2000-01-01
50 000 deaths every year in France following heart problems. You or someone close to you, a friend, a relative, a colleague at work. You all probably know someone who has had a heart attack. Noting that 80% of all deaths occur outside hospital, the Fédération Française de Cardiologie, working in collaboration with first aid groups (rescue associations, etc.), are launching a nationwide campaign to train as many people as possible in what to do for cardiac first aid. According to specialists, more than half of all heart attack victims could have survived if someone nearby had been quick at doing what was needed. The CERN Fire Brigade is helping in this campaign by offering two free training sessions, each lasting three hours and mainly based on recognizing a heart attack, the proper way of calling for help, and practice in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and heart massage. The courses will be held on 20 November and 6 December from4 to 7 p.m. at Building 65. So dont wait, stop b...
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Quantification of CERN's economic spin-off
International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Bianchi-Streit, M.; Blackburne, N.; Budde, R.; Reitz, H.; Sagnell, B.; Schorr, B.; Schmied, H.
1986-01-01
A condensed version is given of CERN report ''Economic utility resulting from CERN contracts'' by the same authors, which attempts to quantify the economic benefit to high technology manufacturing industries involved in CERN contracts, in relation to their sales to CERN. It covers the period 1973 to 1987 and complements an earlier study made in 1973-1975. Interviews were carried out in 166 European firms of which the majority supplied estimates of increased sales and cost savings due to CERN contracts. This ''economic utility'' totals 3107 million Swiss francs (up to the year 1987) compared to sales to CERN in 1973 to 1982 amounting to 748 million Swiss francs in 1982 prices. It is estimated that, by 1987, CERN's high technology purchases made in 1973 to 1982 will have generated economic utility amounting to about 60% of the overall cost of the organization during the same period. (author)
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A new look for the CERN car sharing service
GS-IS
2015-01-01
From Tuesday, 2 June 2015 onwards, the CERN car sharing service will have a new service provider. Two information days will be organised with the new provider – Mobility – in the Main Building (501) on 28 and 29 May. This will be an opportunity for us to present to you this new service and to distribute cards to current users. Please make sure you bring along the “Mobility number” that you received by e-mail. After this date, you can still pick up your card at the Car Pool (Building 130). For technical reasons, car sharing will be out of service on 1 June and we apologise for any inconvenience this might cause. New users should contact the Car Pool from 2 June onwards. Please be reminded that this service is available to CERN and contractor personnel in the pursuit of their professional activities, exclusively at CERN. The conditions of use can be consulted at the Car Sharing website. *A 35-strong fleet of ready-to-use CER...
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Zhu, Yujie; Hanafy, Mohamed A; Killingsworth, Cheryl R; Walcott, Gregory P; Young, Martin E; Pogwizd, Steven M
2014-01-01
Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) exhibit a morning surge in ventricular arrhythmias, but the underlying cause remains unknown. The aim of this study was to determine if heart rate dynamics, autonomic input (assessed by heart rate variability (HRV)) and nonlinear dynamics as well as their abnormal time-of-day-dependent oscillations in a newly developed arrhythmogenic canine heart failure model are associated with a morning surge in ventricular arrhythmias. CHF was induced in dogs by aortic insufficiency & aortic constriction, and assessed by echocardiography. Holter monitoring was performed to study time-of-day-dependent variation in ventricular arrhythmias (PVCs, VT), traditional HRV measures, and nonlinear dynamics (including detrended fluctuations analysis α1 and α2 (DFAα1 & DFAα2), correlation dimension (CD), and Shannon entropy (SE)) at baseline, as well as 240 days (240 d) and 720 days (720 d) following CHF induction. LV fractional shortening was decreased at both 240 d and 720 d. Both PVCs and VT increased with CHF duration and showed a morning rise (2.5-fold & 1.8-fold increase at 6 AM-noon vs midnight-6 AM) during CHF. The morning rise in HR at baseline was significantly attenuated by 52% with development of CHF (at both 240 d & 720 d). Morning rise in the ratio of low frequency to high frequency (LF/HF) HRV at baseline was markedly attenuated with CHF. DFAα1, DFAα2, CD and SE all decreased with CHF by 31, 17, 34 and 7%, respectively. Time-of-day-dependent variations in LF/HF, CD, DFA α1 and SE, observed at baseline, were lost during CHF. Thus in this new arrhythmogenic canine CHF model, attenuated morning HR rise, blunted autonomic oscillation, decreased cardiac chaos and complexity of heart rate, as well as aberrant time-of-day-dependent variations in many of these parameters were associated with a morning surge of ventricular arrhythmias.
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Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)
Yujie Zhu
Full Text Available Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF exhibit a morning surge in ventricular arrhythmias, but the underlying cause remains unknown. The aim of this study was to determine if heart rate dynamics, autonomic input (assessed by heart rate variability (HRV and nonlinear dynamics as well as their abnormal time-of-day-dependent oscillations in a newly developed arrhythmogenic canine heart failure model are associated with a morning surge in ventricular arrhythmias. CHF was induced in dogs by aortic insufficiency & aortic constriction, and assessed by echocardiography. Holter monitoring was performed to study time-of-day-dependent variation in ventricular arrhythmias (PVCs, VT, traditional HRV measures, and nonlinear dynamics (including detrended fluctuations analysis α1 and α2 (DFAα1 & DFAα2, correlation dimension (CD, and Shannon entropy (SE at baseline, as well as 240 days (240 d and 720 days (720 d following CHF induction. LV fractional shortening was decreased at both 240 d and 720 d. Both PVCs and VT increased with CHF duration and showed a morning rise (2.5-fold & 1.8-fold increase at 6 AM-noon vs midnight-6 AM during CHF. The morning rise in HR at baseline was significantly attenuated by 52% with development of CHF (at both 240 d & 720 d. Morning rise in the ratio of low frequency to high frequency (LF/HF HRV at baseline was markedly attenuated with CHF. DFAα1, DFAα2, CD and SE all decreased with CHF by 31, 17, 34 and 7%, respectively. Time-of-day-dependent variations in LF/HF, CD, DFA α1 and SE, observed at baseline, were lost during CHF. Thus in this new arrhythmogenic canine CHF model, attenuated morning HR rise, blunted autonomic oscillation, decreased cardiac chaos and complexity of heart rate, as well as aberrant time-of-day-dependent variations in many of these parameters were associated with a morning surge of ventricular arrhythmias.
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2008-01-01
Today is a red-letter day for the LHC and CERN as a beam of protons has travelled around the LHC ring for the very first time! The start of LHC operation marks the end of a long period in which you have given your all, and this first particle beam circulating in the accelerator now paves the way for discoveries that will open up a whole new field of knowledge. The history of the LHC began in 1984 with a debate on the possible objectives of a future accelerator, based on the state of our knowledge at that time. The CERN Council then approved the single-stage construction of the LHC in 1996, giving the go-ahead for the work that has now reached completion. For the past twelve years, physicists, engineers and technicians from CERN and its associated institutes have been engaged in constructing the three pillars of the LHC: the accelerator (including the upgrade of the existing accelerator chain), the four experiments, and the computing ...
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2003-01-01
The latest CERN video news is on line. In this issue : an interview with the Director General and reports on the new home for the DELPHI barrel and the CERN firemen's spectacular training programme. There's also a vintage video news clip from 1954. See: www.cern.ch/video or Bulletin web page
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CERN Women's club
2010-01-01
The Welcome Center The Welcome Center website for CERN newcomers – and everyone else at CERN – has celebrated its first anniversary in operation. It began as a project to organize all the various information available at CERN into an easy to use site, with advice to help you make the most of your time here. It continues to be updated as new information becomes available. Lori Hakulinen and her helpers offer to meet with anyone who has questions. They can advise you on weekend activities, local restaurants and where to buy hard to find items or some of your favorite things from home, in addition to all of the practicalities you need to know, such as how to find housing or have a telephone installed, where to take language classes and much, much more. It’s all listed at: http://cern.ch/club-cwc-newcomers In general, meetings take place the first and third Thursdays in the month at Restaurant No. 1 in the Children’s Dining Room. (Please consult the Homepage for schedu...
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2009-01-01
On 16 March HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand visited CERN for the third time. After meeting the Director-General, she toured the CMS experimental area and LHC tunnel with Coordinator for external relations Felicitas Pauss and CMS Spokesperson Jim Virdee. During her visit she took a particular interest in CERN’s education programme. From left to right, Emmanuel Tsesmelis, from the CERN Directorate’s office, Jim Virdee, CMS Spokesperson, the Princess of Thailand and Felicitas Pauss, CERN Coordinator for external relations.
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CERN Press Office. Geneva
1995-01-01
On 17 October the third industrial exhibition, "Holland at CERN" was officially opened by Dr R.J. van Duinen, President of the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). In his opening speech he encouraged scientific organisations such as CERN to take full advantage of industry's ability to design and invent new processes and equipment stressing that the purpose of the "Holland at CERN" exhibition was not simply to sell equipment, but to establish an efficient cross-fertilisation between fundamental science and industry.
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2006-01-01
he Software and System Technologies Curriculum of the CERN Technical Training Programme offers comprehensive training in C++, Java, Perl, Python, XML, OO programming, JCOP/PVSS, database design and Oracle. In the PERL, C++, OO and Java course series there are some places available on the following course sessions, scheduled until the end of this year: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design using UML: 17-19 October 2006 (3 days) JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition - Part 1: Web Applications: 19-20 October 2006 (2 days) JAVA - Level 1: 30 Oct. -1 Nov. 2006 (3 days) PERL 5 - Advanced Aspects: 2 November 2006 (1 day) C++ Programming Part 1 - Introduction to Object-Oriented Design and Programming: 14-16 November 2006 (3 days) JAVA - Level 2: 4-7 December 2006 (4 days) C++ Programming Part 2 - Advanced C++ and its Traps and Pitfalls: 12-15 December 2006 (4 days) JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition - Part 2: Enterprise JavaBeans : 18.20 December 2006 (3 days) All the above sessions will be given in English, at the CERN Training Centre....
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Cern Cricket Club
2014-01-01
Cern Cricket Club The CERN Cricket Club 2014 season has started earlier than usual, with a game scheduled for the first time ever on Easter Sunday. Due to repair work for the damage done to the ground because of the “Bosons&More” party at the end of September, all games until June have had to be scheduled away. Net practice, which normally takes place on the ground from mid-April, will not start until mid-June. The club is always looking for new players and newcomers will be made very welcome. Anyone who is interested in joining the club should sign up on our web site: http://cern.ch/Club-Cricket/
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CHOEUR DU CERN
2010-01-01
Les répétitions du chœur du CERN reprendront le mercredi 15 septembre à 20.00 heures à l’amphithéâtre principal – bâtiment 500. Au programme la préparation de notre concert de Noël avec la Missa Brevis, KV115, de Léopold Mozart et de la musique de Noël d’Europe. Les personnes qui aiment chanter, notamment des sopranes et des ténors, sont les bienvenues. Pour tout contact s’adresser à : Baudouin Bleus - (tél.CERN 767 82 44) -(baudouin.bleus@cern.ch) ou Martin Gatehouse ( martin.gatehouse@wanadoo.fr) ou Jean-Paul Diss (jean-pauldiss@wanadoo.fr).
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CERN Croquet Club
2018-01-01
The CERN Croquet Club warmly invites you to an “Open Day” at the CERN Croquet Club on Sunday afternoon, 1st July as of 14:00 We will show you how to play the different games and you can try them out yourselves. Croquet of course, but also the Japanese version, called Gateball, as well as Lawn Bowls, what one might call the British version of “Boules”. The Swiss Croquet Association will offer afternoon Tea and Cake For catering purposes, it would be nice if you can let us know in advance if you will be joining us. Friends and family ae welcome but they will require a CERN Access card. Hope to see you there.
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Simon van der Meer and his legacy to CERN and particle accelerators
International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Chohan, Vinod
2012-01-01
Simon van der Meer was a brilliant scientist and a true giant in the field of accelerators. His seminal contributions to accelerator science are essential to this day in our quest to satisfy the demands of modern particle physics. Whether we are talking of long-baseline neutrino physics or antiproton-proton physics at CERN and Fermilab, or proton-proton physics at the LHC, his techniques and inventions have been a vital and necessary part of modern-day successes. Simon van der Meer and Carlo Rubbia were the first CERN scientists to become Nobel laureates in Physics in 1984. His less well-known contributions spanned a whole range of subjects in accelerator science from magnet design to power supply design, beam measurements, slow beam extraction, sophisticated programs, and controls. (author)
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“Hangout” with CERN this Thursday
2012-01-01
Starting Thursday 1 November at 5 pm CET, CERN is launching a new weekly “Hangout with CERN” that will be broadcast live on Google+ and YouTube. The first hangout will welcome virtual visitors to CERN. Over the coming weeks the CERN hangouts will be taking you around CERN, on visits experimental sites and to speak with physicists, engineers and more. But most importantly, they will be opportunities to answer your questions. You can post your questions in advance, either in the comment section on facebook or on Twitter to @CERN with the hashtag #askCERN. The best questions will be answered during the hangout, and participants may be invited to participate live! Find out more here.
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CERN Knowledge Transfer Group
2015-01-01
CERN is actively making its knowledge and technology available for the benefit of society and does so through a variety of different mechanisms. Open hardware has in recent years established itself as a very effective way for CERN to make electronics designs and in particular printed circuit board layouts, accessible to anyone, while also facilitating collaboration and design re-use. It is creating an impact on many levels, from companies producing and selling products based on hardware designed at CERN, to new projects being released under the CERN Open Hardware Licence. Today the open hardware community includes large research institutes, universities, individual enthusiasts and companies. Many of the companies are actively involved in the entire process from design to production, delivering services and consultancy and even making their own products available under open licences.
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A vintage celebration for CERN
2004-01-01
Maurice Dupraz, a winegrower from the Etat de Genève vineyards, explains the characteristics of the Vigne des Nations to Robert Aymar, CERN's Director-General, and Robert Cramer, Conseiller d'Etat. As part of the fiftieth anniversary celebrations, CERN was the guest of honour at the Vigne des Nations ceremony organised by the Etat de Genève on 7 May. My Organization is greatly honoured to have the Vigne des Nations dedicated to it, said Robert Aymar, CERN's Director-General, at the ceremony held on the slopes of the Lully vineyards at Bernex on 7 May. Invited by Robert Cramer, President of Geneva's Conseil d'Etat, he spoke of the special links that have been forged over the last fifty years between CERN and the Canton of Geneva, where the Organization has its headquarters. Both of them paid tribute to Maurice Bourquin, former rector of the University of Geneva and Swiss delegate to the CERN Council since 1994, who became the first Swiss President of the CERN Council in 2000. The Vigne des Nations ceremony,...
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2007-01-01
Nine companies whose inventions make use of technologies developed at CERN were honoured at the 35th Salon des Inventions, held in Geneva from 18-22 April. CERN was the Salon's guest of honour. The CERN 'table' at the 35th Salon des Inventions. This year's Salon included 1000 exhibitions brought by 775 exhibitors from 45 countries. Those with misgivings about the value of particle physics should take a look at the list of prize winners from the 35th Salon des Inventions, held in Geneva from 18-22 April. Nine of the winning inventions were spin-offs from technologies developed at CERN. CERN's research and development strategy includes a programme where technologies developed at and for the Laboratory are jointly developed with industries, so that they may be adapted into a commercial product for other uses. These include many different domains of applications such as medical imaging and IT. The following companies won awards at the Salon for inventions from CERN-developed technologies: PANalytical won a g...
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CERN safety reaches out to medicine
2001-01-01
What do CERN and other scientific organizations like ESA and ESO have in common with neurosurgery and airlines? At first sight, not much. But all require sound safety management. CERN's expertise in this field was recently highlighted when two CERN engineers were invited to talk at an international conference on Quality Management and Risk Control in Neurosurgery.CERN has long been recognised as a centre of excellence in physics, and its spin-offs in fields such as medicine have been widely hailed. But increasingly, the Laboratory's expertise in the management of large international collaborations is also being recognised. Contacts between CERN and organizations like ESA and ESO, as well as with industry, bear witness to this fact. One recent example comes from Airbus Industrie, which organized a meeting in 1998 with CERN to compare notes on project management, safety, and quality assurance. Safety management is a recognised speciality in the field of project management and at CERN, TIS and the safety offici...
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Iranian and Kazakh representatives visit CERN
2004-01-01
On 1st and 4th March respectively, CERN received visits from Asset Issekeshev, Kazakhstan's Vice-Minister of Industry and Trade, and Reza Mansouri, Deputy Minister for Science, Research and Technology of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Asset Issekeshev and his delegation came to CERN with the aim of learning "the European way of building strong and effective ties between science and the industrial sector". Welcomed by Maximilian Metzger, CERN's Secretary-General, he visited the ATLAS assembly hall and the CLIC installations before signing the visitors' book. After a short visit to Point 5 (CMS), Reza Mansouri met CERN's Director-General, Robert Aymar, before talking to Iranian PhD students working on their theses at CERN. Asset Issekeshev, Kazakhstan's Vice-Minister of Industry and Trade, signs the visitors' book, watched by Maximilian Metzger, CERN's Secretary-General.From left to right: Mojtaba Mohammadi and Majid Hashemi (Iranian PhD students at CERN); Dr Daniel Denegri (CMS), Professor Re...
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CERN's Community "Log Book" turns 50
Katarina Anthony
2015-01-01
For five decades, the CERN Bulletin has been a staple of the Organization. As CERN has grown as a laboratory and a community, the Bulletin has been there to cover each development as it happens. In honour of the publication's 50th anniversary, we're taking a trip through CERN’s history via the headings and hidden corners of its internal newsletter. It's 1965 and CERN - now 11 years old - has matured from a simple lab to a fledgling community. While news could once spread in a single afternoon, CERN's growth necessitated a new approach to the sharing of internal information. Meanwhile, the CERN Courier - the only publication in town - was approaching a more global physics audience – an audience for whom CERN road closures were not breaking news. And so, in March 1965, the Weekly Bulletin was born. What was meant as a simple newsletter of events and internal announcements quickly developed into a wider source of news about CERN....
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Word 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t24-25.11\t2 days Indico – Meeting Organization\t(Français)\t27.11\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t27.11\t3 heures Excel 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(English)\t01-02.12\t2 days Novelties of Excel 2007\t(Français)\t04.12\t1 jour Outlook 2007 (Short Course I) – E-mail (Bilingual) 05.12\t3 hours Outlook 2007 (Short Course II) – Calendar, Tasks and Notes (Bilingual) 05.12\t3 hours Powerpoint 2007 – Level 1:ECDL\t(English)\t08-09.12\t2 days Windows Vista\t(Français)\t12.12\t½ jour Windows Vista Advanced\t(Français)\t12.12\t½ jour Office 2007 – Novelties\t(Français)\t15.12\t1 jour SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES Business Objects Basics\t(Français)\t17-1...
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CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses
HR Department
2008-01-01
The following course sessions are scheduled in the framework of the CERN Technical Training Programme 2008 and places are still available. You may find the full updated Technical Training course programme in our web-catalogue (http://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9). OFFICE SOFTWARE Word 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(Français)\t24-25.11\t2 days Indico – Meeting Organization\t(Français)\t27.11\t2 heures Indico – Conference Organization\t(Français)\t27.11\t3 heures Excel 2007 – Level 1: ECDL\t(English)\t01-02.12\t2 days Novelties of Excel 2007\t(Français)\t04.12\t1 jour Outlook 2007 (Short Course I) – E-mail (Bilingual) 05.12\t3 hours Outlook 2007 (Short Course II) – Calendar, Tasks and Notes (Bilingual) 05.12\t3 hours Powerpoint 2007 – Level 1:ECDL\t(English)\t08-09.12\t2 days Windows Vista\t(Français)\t12.12\t½ jour Windows Vista Advanced\t(Français)\t12.12\t½ jour Office 2007 – Novelties\t(Français)\t15.12\t1 jour SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES Business Objects Basics\t(Français)\t17-18...
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- NEW - CERN Housing Service – WWW BOOKING
GS Department
2010-01-01
You can now easily reserve your room at the CERN Hotel and plan your stay at CERN directly online with help of the online CERN Hotel reservation NOW available at the following address: https://edh.cern.ch/Hostel/ Please contact the CERN Housing Service team if you have any queries (reception in Building 39, 74481). GS-SEM Group Infrastructure and General Services Department
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CERN Library
2016-01-01
"60 Years of CERN Experiments and Discoveries" edited by Herwig Schopper and Luigi Di Lella. Presentation on Thursday, 10 March at 4 p.m. in Room C The book is a compilation of the most important experimental results achieved during the past 60 years at CERN - from the mid-1950s to the recent discovery of the Higgs particle. It covers the results from the early accelerators at CERN to those at the LHC and provides an excellent review of CERN's achievements. Not only presented is the impressive scientific progress achieved during the past six decades presented, but also is demonstrated the special way in which successful international collaboration exists at CERN. The book has been reviewed in the January-February issue of the CERN Courier: see here. Thanks to an agreement between CERN and the publisher, the e-book is available online Open Access. 60 Years of CERN Experiments and Discoveries Edited by Herwig Schopper and Luigi Di Lella W...
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NICOLETTI, Corinne; MÜLLER, Christian; TOBITA, Itoko; NAKASEKO, Masaru; LÄUBLI, Thomas
2014-01-01
The aim of the present study was to analyze the activity of the trapezius muscle, the heart rate and the time pressure of Swiss and Japanese nurses during day and night shifts. The parameters were measured during a day and a night shift of 17 Swiss and 22 Japanese nurses. The observed rest time of the trapezius muscle was longer for Swiss than for Japanese nurses during both shifts. The 10th and the 50th percentile of the trapezius muscle activity showed a different effect for Swiss than for Japanese nurses. It was higher during the day shift of Swiss nurses and higher during the night shift of Japanese nurses. Heart rate was higher for both Swiss and Japanese nurses during the day. The time pressure was significantly higher for Japanese than for Swiss nurses. Over the duration of the shifts, time pressure increased for Japanese nurses and slightly decreased for those from Switzerland. Considering trapezius muscle activity and time pressure, the nursing profession was more burdening for the examined Japanese nurses than for Swiss nurses. In particular, the night shift for Japanese nurses was characterized by a high trapezius muscle activity and only few rest times for the trapezius muscle. PMID:24633074
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International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Sutton, Christine.
1987-01-01
The paper examines the future of CERN, with respect to its proposed research programme and its need to save money. Proposals concerning what accelerators CERN should build for the future are outlined; machines such as the Large Hadron Collider and the CERN Linear Collider have been proposed. Experimental expectations for the first Large Electron Positron (LEP) collider (now close to completion) are briefly described, along with the experimental investigations for the second phase of operation of LEP where modifications will increase the machine's energy. Criticisms of CERN's management by its governing body are also discussed. (UK)
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Laëtitia Pedroso
2010-01-01
After several weeks of preparations and hard work on the part of many people, the events to mark International Women's Day at CERN on 8 March were a genuine success. They were followed with great interest by the outside world, judging by the flurry of activity on twitter, various blogs and the media coverage they generated. Women on shift in the CERN control rooms. Women were overwhelmingly in the majority at the controls of the experiments and accelerators throughout the day, as well as acting as the guides for all official visits. There was no shortage of enthusiasm! "I'm very happy that CERN has supported the project, and I'm especially encouraged by the enthusiastic response from everyone who's taken part", says Pauline Gagnon, a physicist from the Indiana University group and a member of the ATLAS collaboration, who was behind the idea. "I hope that this kind of initiative will help to show that women have a place in science and that young women thinkin...
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Crease, Robert P
2004-01-01
In 1983, CERN physicists discovered the W boson earning them the first Nobel prize. This discovery served as the turning point for CERN from the point of view of the self-confidence of its physicists, the confidence of its fund-raisers, and its reputation in the US. However, this feat did not come as easy for CERN. Rivalry with the US revealed complexities. Nevertheless in the end, CERN physicists became the more successful. Recognizing this, US physicists agreed to collaborate with CERN physicists. Today, there is no more political competition over accelerators between the two groups. (Edited abstract).
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CERN – better than science fiction!
2007-01-01
From left to right: Allan Cameron (Production Designer), Sam Breckham (Location Manager), James Gillies (Head of Communication at CERN), Jacques Fichet (from the CERN Audiovisual Service), Rolf Landua (former spokesman of the ATHENA antihydrogen experiment at CERN and Head of CERN’s Education Group), Ron Howard, and Renilde Vanden Broeck (CERN press officer). The two-time Academy Award-winning American film director, Ron Howard, recently visited CERN for background research in preparation for his new film Angels and Demons, based on the book by Dan Brown. He also filmed the adaption of Brown’s bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code last year.
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2012-01-01
CERN, the Republic and Canton of Geneva and the City of Geneva are delighted to invite you to a public lecture by Gilles Jobin, first winner of the Collide@CERN Geneva Dance and Performance Artist-in-residence Prize, and his CERN inspiration partner, Joao Pequenao. They will present their work in dance and science at the Globe of Science and Innovation on Wednesday, 23 May 2012 at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6.30 p.m.). Programme 19:00 Opening address by - Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, CERN Director-General, - Ariane Koek...
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2007-01-01
"Geat ready for the mother of all particle accelerator: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), nearing completion at CERN, the International particle physics lab headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland." (1 paragraph)
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CERN Housing Service – New website
GS Department
2009-01-01
You can now consult the new CERN Housing Service website which includes information relating to the CERN hostels booking rules, special negotiated rates for hotels in the local area, rental offers from the local private sector, etc.: https://espace.cern.ch/hostel-service/default.aspx Please contact the CERN Housing Service team if you have any queries (reception in Building 39, 74481). GS-SEM Group Infrastructure and General Services Department
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CERN Housing Service – New website
GS Department
2009-01-01
You can now consult the new CERN Housing Service website which includes information relating to the CERN hostel booking rules, special negotiated rates for hotels in the local area, rental offers from the local private sector, etc.: https://espace.cern.ch/hostel-service/default.aspx Please contact the CERN Housing Service team if you have any queries (reception in Building 39, 74481). GS-SEM Group Infrastructure and General Services Department
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2005-01-01
The CERN Relay Race will take place around the Meyrin site on Wednesday 18 May between 12.15 and 12.35. This year, weather permitting, there will be some new attractions in the start/finish area on the field behind the Main Building. You will be able to: listen to music played by the CERN Jazz Club; buy drinks at the bar organised by the CERN Running Club; buy lunch served directly on the terrace by the restaurant Novae. ATTENTION: concerning traffic, the recommendations are the same as always: If possible, please avoid driving on the site during this 20 minute period. If you do meet runners in your car, please STOP until they all have passed. Thank you for your understanding.
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Note from the CERN Medical Service - FLU VACCINATIONs
SC Unit
2008-01-01
People working on the CERN site who wish to be vaccinated may go to the Infirmary (ground-floor, Bldg. 57) with their vaccine without a prior appointment. Claims for reimbursement should be sent directly to UNIQA, accompanied by the receipt for the vaccine and the prescription you will receive from the Medical Service on the day of your injection at the Infirmary. Ideally, the vaccination should take place before the end of November 2008 (preferably between 14:00 and 16:00). Influenza vaccinations are recommended for all CERN staff aged 50 or over. Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems or diabetics and for those recovering from serious medical problems or major surgery. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines to family members or retired staff members, who must contact their normal family doctor.
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Note from the CERN Medical Service - Flu vaccinations
SC Unit
2008-01-01
People working on the CERN site who wish to be vaccinated may go to the Infirmary (ground-floor, Bldg. 57) with their vaccine without a prior appointment. Claims for reimbursement should be sent directly to UNIQA, accompanied by the receipt for the vaccine and the prescription you will receive from the Medical Service on the day of your injection at the Infirmary. Ideally, the vaccination should take place before the end of November 2008 (preferably between 14:00 and 16:00). Influenza vaccinations are recommended for all CERN staff aged 50 or over. Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems or diabetics and for those recovering from serious medical problems or major surgery. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines to family members or retired staff members, who must contact their normal family doctor.
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Doors are opening at children’s day-care centre at Champs-Fréchets
HR Department
2008-01-01
Opened in August 2008, this new centre offers day-care for children between the ages of 4 months and 4 years. Following an agreement with CERN, up to 20 places are reserved for members of the CERN personnel. The commune of Meyrin invites interested parents to come and visit the centre on Saturday 11 October 2008 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Address : 69, rue des Lattes -1217 Meyrin Further information on the agreement with CERN: https://cern.ch/hr-services/Ben/Social/EVE.asp
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Cramer, J G
1992-01-01
CERN, a high-energy physics laboratory in Europe, is planning to build a more powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadronic Collider. The US spreads its accelerators around the country while most of Europe's research is conducted at and around CERN.
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Developers@CERN Forum | Python at CERN | 30 – 31 May
2016-01-01
The Developers@CERN Forum is an event by developers for developers aimed at promoting knowledge- and experience-sharing (see here). The second forum will take place in the IT auditorium in the afternoons of 30 and 31 May. With the topic “Python at CERN”, it will consist of a series of talks regarding the Python language, frameworks and tools used at CERN. Are you a Python guru or would you like to learn? Come and share your Python experiences with other developers! Submissions for presentations and workshops are open until 9 May at http://cern.ch/dev-forum. If you would like to stay informed about this or future events, please subscribe to the announcement e-group (just a few e-mails per year) here.
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Fixed telephony evolution at CERN
CERN. Geneva
2015-01-01
The heart of CERN’s telephony infrastructure consists of the Alcatel IP-PBX that links CERN’s fixed line phones, Lync softphones and CERN’s GSM subscribers to low-cost local and international telephony services. The PABX infrastructure also supports the emergency “red telephones” in the LHC tunnel and provides vital services for the Fire and Rescue Service and the CERN Control Centre. Although still reliable, the Alcatel hardware is increasingly costly to maintain and looking increasingly outmoded in a market where open source solutions are increasingly dominant. After presenting an overview of the Alcatel PABX and the services it provides, including innovative solutions such as the Closed User Group for our mobile telephony services, we present a possible architecture for a software based system designed to meet tomorrow’s communication needs and describe how the introduction of open-source call routers based on the SIP protocol and Session Border Controllers (SBC) could foster the introduction...
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Collide@CERN ProHelvetia Public Lecture
CERN. Geneva; Heuer, Rolf; Mr. de Diesbach, Simon; Mr. Dubois, Marc; Ms. Perrenoud, Laura; Mr. Vust, Michel; Mrs. Bello, Monica
2015-01-01
You are very warmly invited to the opening presentation of Fragment.In’s residency at CERN. Fragment.In are the winners of Collide@CERN ProHelvetia, a collective formed by Laura Perrenoud, Simon de Diesbach, and Marc Dubois. They will present their artistic work along with their CERN scientific inspiration partner, who will present his/her work on Science. In their proposal, Fragment.In has a unique, original and creative approach to data visualization. We look forward to having them at CERN. Collide@CERN is the three month residency programme providing artists with time and space to reflect, research and renew their artistic practice.
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Automobile club
2009-01-01
You are cordially invited to the next General Assembly of the CERN Car Club Tuesday 12 January 2010 at 5:45pm Bldg. 593 / room 11 As the end of 2009 is approaching, it is time to think about renewing your subscription. Therefore next time you are on the CERN-Meyrin site or at the Post Office counter don’t forget to fill in the payment slip to continue to be a part of our large family. The fee remains unchanged: 50 CHF. For those of you who are regular users of our equipment and who know of all the advantages that the club is in a position to offer, it seems pointless to give details, we are sure that many of you have made use of them and are satisfied. We remind you everyone working on CERN site is entitled to become a member of our club, this includes industrial support personnel and staff of companies which have a contract with CERN. If you are not yet a member, come and visit us! We will be happy to welcome you and show you the facilities, or you can visit our web site. The use of the club&...
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CERN Shop - Christmas Sale in Bldg. 33
PH Department
2010-01-01
Looking for Christmas present ideas? The CERN Shop will give CERN card holders a special reduction of 10 % on all CERN Shop articles from Monday 13.12.2010 to Saturday 18.12.2010. Come and visit the CERN Shop in the Reception Building 33.
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IT Department
2010-01-01
Please note there are a limited number of the 2011 CERN wall calendars now available from the Printshop, located in Building 510-R-007. These have been printed on card in A3 and A4. If you need more than a few copies, there are two solutions: download the file and print your own on paper; send us an e-mail to place an order. Please visit the new Printshop website for more information: http://cern.ch/printshop. Printshop reception opening hours: 10h00-12h00 and 13h00-15h00. Many thanks. CERN Printshop Tel: 72426 E-mail: Printshop@cern.ch
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Cosmic vibes: CERN raves at summer festivals
Connie Potter
2016-01-01
This summer, CERN appeared at various festivals in the UK. The inaugural Physics Pavilion at the 2016 WOMAD festival received over 3600 visitors. (Image: CERN) This summer, CERN’s outreach efforts took a step in a completely new direction as the group participated at various festivals. Following an invitation from the European Science Open Forum 2016 held in Manchester, UK, to be part of the Bluedot Festival, we produced an hour-long musical presentation with a physics theme. This featured the “Cosmic Piano”, created by Arturo Fernandez Tellez and Guillermo Tejeda Muñoz of ALICE, and a piece created from the sonification of LHC data by Domenico Vicinanza and Genevieve Williams, of Anglia Ruskin University. On a much bigger scale, we (the outreach team) collaborated with the WOMAD Festival, to host its first World of Physics in the middle of the English countryside. The result was a three-day programme of talks including “What’s the Ma...
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CERN Bulletin
2014-01-01
CERN is modernising its safety policy and organisational structure in matters of Safety with the introduction of new reference documents that have come into force on 29 September. These texts adapt the Organization’s safety policy to take account of how the Laboratory has evolved and to include best practice in Safety matters. Safety is a priority at CERN, so it’s no coincidence that the Organization’s anniversary has been chosen as the time to launch a modernised approach to its Safety policy and how Safety matters are organised. On the day of CERN’s 60th anniversary, the SAPOCO 42 document, which covered both policy and organisational aspects, was replaced by a more concise general policy statement. The organisational structure and responsibilities in matters of Safety are now set out in a Safety Regulation, that is supplemented by subsidiary documents. Together these documents will replace the corresponding parts of the former SAPOCO 42 as well as Saf...
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Training course for eighteen teachers at CERN
Laurianne Noemie Trimoulla
2015-01-01
From 8 to 10 December, 18 teachers from all over France attended a three-day training course on matter, organised by the LAMAP Foundation (Fondation La main à la pâte, see here) and hosted by CERN and S'Cool Lab. The LAMAP Foundation, set up by Georges Charpak in 1995, aims to help primary school teachers use the investigative process to instil the scientific spirit in their pupils. Fired by curiosity and eager to learn, the teachers were introduced to the many and varied activities on offer at CERN, including the cloud chamber experiment, the Masterclass programme and the "Be a physicist" learning scheme. They particularly enjoyed their tours of Microcosm, the Synchrocyclotron and the ATLAS visitor centre, which stimulated many questions. They are eagerly looking forward to passing on their newly found knowledge to their pupils and perhaps even inspiring some to take up a career in physics! Last but not least, they were treat...