As a Staff Member of the Newborn CERN

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Jarlskog, Cecilia

2014-01-01

In the previous chapter, Källén in his 1954 application for the professorship in Zürich told us that he had participated in European collaboration in the area of nuclear physics (CERN) in Copenhagen. He was a fellow of CERN before the organization was officially created and at the same time a lecturer in Lund. CERN was officially created on the 29 September 1954, after an intense period of preparations, involving many steps in several countries. The glorious history of its creation is well worth reading [1] as it shows the dedication and commitment of a large number of distinguished international scientists, not only in Europe but also in America. Moreover, there was ample support by prominent politicians for the idea of creating a European center for, not applied but basic science. The site was chosen to be on the green fields of Meyrin, a satellite village to the city of Geneva in Switzerland, a decision which was approved by the citizens of Geneva through a referendum. The CERN “Group of Theoretical...

A crèche for CERN staff The Staff Association project

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Association du personnel

2006-01-01

For many years, the Staff Association has supported the demand for the creation of a crèche for the children of CERN staff. Several studies have been carried out without leading to a concrete plan. The fact that the CERN population is getting younger and the shortage of local facilities have led to a more urgent demand for this type of social service over the past few years. Furthermore, the Equal Opportunities Panel had already recommended that crèche places be made available.

Member State Event: Telling CERN's story !

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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), 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.

The Staff Association: because you’re worth it

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CERN Bulletin

2013-01-01

A new logo, a new website and now we’re on Facebook: the members of the rejuvenated Staff Association of CERN want to take this opportunity to remind you that the SA is open to everyone. All you have to do is join.   Every ordinary or associated member of the personnel of the Organization and — through GAC-EPA, the CERN-ESO Pensioners’ Association — every retiree, is entitled to join the CERN Staff Association. The goal of the SA is to defend the collective and individual rights of CERN staff members and members of their families, in matters relating to both their material interests and their well-being. With its independant ideas and its constructive work, the SA also plays an important role as a source of new proposals. The more CERN staff members join the Staff Association, the more respect it commands as a social partner. Currently, 1,355 people are members — that’s over half of the total staff. So, why not join? To find out mor...

CERN HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME (CHIS)

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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

800 Fellows at CERN: Make your voice heard!

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2018-01-01

The financial and social conditions of the CERN personnel are determined in agreement between the CERN Management and the Staff Association (SA), the statutory body representing the personnel. The Staff Association is mandated to serve and defend the economic, social, professional and moral interests of its members and the entire CERN personnel. Fellows are members of the personnel employed by CERN (MPE), and should be listened to and heard during discussions that concern their financial and social conditions and, more widely, their working and employment conditions. The Staff Association wants to hear from you! At the end of 2017, 50 delegates were elected to the Staff Council, including four fellows. These delegates are your spokespersons within the Staff Association and, as such, they represent you in relations with the Management and the Member States. How can you make a difference? In 2015, during the latest five-yearly review, the aim of which was to review the financial and social conditions of the mem...

Staff Association Cocktail

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2017-01-01

The Staff Association has been organising for many years a cocktail with delegates of the Member States participating in Finance Committees of March and September. This cocktail is held at the end of the day, after the Finance Committee meeting. This direct and regular communication helps establish an ongoing contact between the Staff Association and CERN Member States and, more recently, the Associate Member States. Ambassadors of the CERN Staff Association, who are Members of the Personnel, have the opportunity to meet their national delegation in an informal and friendly atmosphere. These exchanges, facilitated by the use of the national language, allow the personnel via the Staff Association to express its ideas and positions on current affairs and fundamental issues, and also to hear about those of the delegations in return.

Contract policy for CERN staff members

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2009-01-01

Public information meeting on Monday 28 September 2009 at 10.00 a.m. With effect from 1 August 2009, new provisions regarding staff employment contract policy have entered into force. These provisions are set out in: The Staff Rules and Regulations and Administrative Circular No. 2 (Rev. 4). Further details are available in: Frequently Asked Questions. The new provisions are outlined below: Limited-duration contracts From 1 August 2009, limited-duration contracts will be awarded for a maximum period of five years (instead of four years previously) and no extensions beyond five years will be granted. Contracts for periods shorter than five years can be exceptionally awarded, e.g. for a project whose mission or financial resources are time-limited. Indefinite contracts : award procedure A number of changes have been introduced regarding the procedure for the award of indefinite contracts. From now on, posts leading to the award of an indefinite contract will be opened at le...

The Czech and Slovak Federal Republic - a member state of CERN

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Niederle, J.

1992-01-01

Czechoslovakia became a CERN member state on January 1, 1992 at a meeting of the CERN Board, the highest CERN body; the admission was based on the required unanimous approval by all the 16 CERN member country representatives. The establishment of CERN, its development, aims and fields of research activities are briefly outlined. (Z.S.). 8 figs

Open letter to all Member State Delegates to CERN Finance Committee and CERN Council

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Staff Association

2014-01-01

Geneva, 17 September 2014 Dear Delegate, We are surprised to read that the “Terms of reference of a Council Working Group on the CERN Pension Fund” is on the agenda of the Council Session of 18 September 2014. Once more the transformation of the current defined benefit scheme into a defined contribution scheme, as well as the question of how to “re-define” the pension conditions for members and beneficiaries will be investigated. Already in the framework of the Working Group 2 (WG2) studies, two legal experts demonstrated that the political and administrative bodies of an international organization which are responsible as employer for managing the staff, must respect the general principles inherent in the law of the international civil service in all their actions, especially when proposing changes in employment conditions. In particular Council must respect the principle of acquired rights of active or retired members of personnel. To reach full funding on a 30-...

Members of the Forum Engelberg visit CERN

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Patrice Loïez

2002-01-01

The Forum Engelberg is an annual interdisciplinary conference held in Engelberg, Switzerland intended to act as an international platform for debate and exchange of views on key issues affecting scientific research, technology, economics and philosophy. Its President is Hubert Curien - former French Minister of Research and Space Research, and President of the CERN Council from 1994 to 1996. He is pictured here (right) alongside CERN Director-General Prof. Luciano Maiani during the visit of Forum members to CERN.

Members of the Forum Engelberg visit CERN

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Patrive Loïez

2002-01-01

The Forum Engelberg is an annual interdisciplinary conference held in Engelberg, Switzerland intended to act as an international platform for debate and exchange of views on key issues affecting scientific research, technology, economics and philosophy. Its President is Hubert Curien - former French Minister of Research and Space Research, and President of the CERN Council from 1994 to 1996. Photo 01: CERN Director-General Prof. Luciano Maiani (left) speaks to Forum members and public figures from the Geneva area during the visit. In the background is Jean-Claude Landry from the Department of the Interior, Agriculture and Environment, State of Geneva. Photo 02: CERN Director-General Prof. Luciano Maiani (left) speaks to Forum members and public figures from the Geneva area during the visit. In the background is Bernard Ecoffey, Founder of the Forum Engelberg.

Staff Members with more than 25 years service at CERN in 2001 and 2002

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2002-01-01

Staff Members with 25 years service in 2002 were invited by the Director-General to a reception in their honnor on the 20th November 2002 : Baulet Yves / ST Bornand Michel / SL Burdet Georges / ST Carena Francesco / EP Chanut Robert / LHC Chauchaix Bruno / SL Chevrier François / SL Chohan Vinod / LHC Dahlerup-Petersen Knud / LHC De Gennaro Michele Silvano / IT De Rujula Alvaro / TH Dury Jean-Marie / SL Ferrara Sergio / TH Fraser Gordon / ETT Kolly Michel / ST Korda Gwendoline / DSU Lager Michel / ST Michelon Jean-Claude / SL Montuelle Jean / IT Naudi Andre John / FI Seis Irene / IT Vascotto Alessandro / EP Vernamonte Donatino / ST Von Rüden Wolfgang / IT Vullierme Bruno / LHC Staff members with 25 years service in 2001 were also invited: Datta-Cockerill Sudeshna / HR Frost-Ainley Lio / IT Laurent Moniek / HR Saban Roberto / AC

Staff Members with more than 25 years service at CERN in 2001 and 2002

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Maximilien Brice

2002-01-01

Staff Members with 25 years service in 2002 were invited by the Director-General to a reception in their honnor on the 20th November 2002 : Baulet Yves / ST, Bornand Michel / SL, Burdet Georges / ST, Carena Francesco / EP, Chanut Robert / LHC, Chauchaix Bruno / SL, Chevrier François / SL, Chohan Vinod / LHC, Dahlerup-Petersen Knud / LHC, De Gennaro Michele Silvano / IT, De Rujula Alvaro / TH, Dury Jean-Marie / SL, Ferrara Sergio / TH, Fraser Gordon / ETT, Kolly Michel / ST, Korda Gwendoline / DSU, Lager Michel / ST, Michelon Jean-Claude / SL, Montuelle Jean / IT, Naudi Andre John / FI, Seis Irene / IT, Vascotto Alessandro / EP, Vernamonte Donatino / ST, Von Rüden Wolfgang / IT, Vullierme Bruno / LHC. Staff members with 25 years service in 2001 were also invited: Datta-Cockerill Sudeshna / HR, Frost-Ainley Lio / IT, Laurent Moniek / HR, Saban Roberto / AC.

Note from the CERN Medical Service

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2005-01-01

FLU VACCINATION People working on the CERN site who wish to be vaccinated may go to the Medical Service (ground-floor, bldg. 57), without a prior appointment, but THEY MUST BRING THEIR VACCINE WITH THEM. Ideally, vaccination should take place between 1st October and 30th November 2006. CERN staff aged 50 or over are recommended to have the flu vaccination.  Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems, for diabetics and those convalescing from serious illness or after major surgery . The Medical Service will not administer vaccines for family members or retired staff members, who must contact their usual family doctor. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines for family members or retired staff members, who must contact their normal family doctor.

Administrative circular No. 2 (Rev. 5) – Recruitment, appointment and possible developments regarding the contractual position of staff members

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2011-01-01

Administrative Circular No. 2 (Rev. 5) entitled "Recruitment, appointment and possible developments regarding the contractual position of staff members", approved by the Director-General following discussion in the Standing Concertation Committee meeting on 1 September 2011, is available on the intranet site of the Human Resources Department: https://cern.ch/hr-docs/admincirc/admincirc.asp It cancels and replaces Administrative Circular No. 2 (Rev. 4) entitled "Recruitment, appointment and possible developments regarding the contractual position of staff members" of September 2009. Department Head Office

CERN's new arrivals, September 2003

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Maximilien Brice

2003-01-01

On Monday 22 September, members of CERN Management welcomed recently-recruited staff members and fellows at the trimester session of the Induction Programme (photographed here with Werner Zapf, Human Resources Division Leader)

Lithuania to become Associate Member of CERN

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Dačkus, Robertas

2017-01-01

On 27 June 2017, in Vilnius, Lithuania, CERN Director General, Fabiola Gianotti, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, Linas Linkevičius, in the presence of the President of the Republic of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė, signed the Agreement admitting Lithuania as an Associate Member of CERN. The last step for the Agreement to enter into force requires final approval by the Government of Lithuania.

Communication in the spirit of the CERN staff

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Association du personnel

2009-01-01

The announcement of a return to normal internal communication is good news. From 9th November 2009, the Staff Association and the CERN communications group will work in close collaboration to publish in a single bulletin the news of the different players in the Organization.

Elections for staff representatives – Join, commit and vote!

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Staff Association

2015-01-01

The Staff Council is a statutory body representing collectively in the area of employment conditions all CERN staff members (MPE and MPA), as well as the pensioners, former Cernois. The Staff Council is the supreme representative body of the CERN staff and pensioners, which defines the main lines of the policy of the Staff Association. The Staff Council is composed of staff representatives (45 seats to represent staff members, and 5 for representing fellows and associate members), as well as delegates for pensioners (seven positions), designated by GAC-EPA. Every two years, the Council is renewed through elections. Concerning the 45 delegates representing staff members, all departments have a least two seats allocated, one in career paths AA to D and one in career paths E to H. This guarantees a fair distribution of seats among the various organizational units and career paths. The table below, shows the exact number of delegates per department and career paths. Staff members or fellows who want to participa...

Staff members with 25 years' service at CERN in 2003

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2003-01-01

The following staff members with 25 years' service in 2003 were invited by the Director-General to a reception in their honour on 20 November 2003: ALLIOD Patrick/ATGESCHONKE Gunther/AB AYMON Marcel/HRGLASER Maurice/EP BAUDET Serge/TISHUGOT Bernard/AB BENOIT-JEANNIN Brigitte/SPLJOUVE Christian/AT BERRY Peter/HRJULLIARD André/ST BIERI Catherine/STLAFAGE Patrice/ST BLANC Didier/STLAJUST Danièle/DSU BLANC Michel/ITLEGRAND Dominique/AT BOCH Guy/ITLONG Serge/EST BONZANO Roberto/STLYONNET André/EP BURCKHART Doris/EPMALOD-DOGNIN Jean-Pierre/ST BURNS Alan/ABMAURY Stephan/AC BURTIN Gérard/ABMILES John/AT CARENA Wisla/EPMONET René/EST CASTEL André/ESTMULLER André/TIS CLIFF Frank/HRPERREAL Pierre/AT CUCCURU Giovanni/ATPETERSEN Jørgen/EP DAMIANI Michel/ABPETIT Patrick/EP DELUCINGE Evelyne/ATPIERRE Patrice/AB DHOTE Patrick/SPLROUX Jacques/EP FLUCKIGER François/ITSAMYN Dirk/EP FORESTE Antonio/ESTSAVIOZ Jean Jacques/AB FRAIS...

CERN Staff Association supports the personnel of WIPO

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2017-01-01

For over two years already, the Director General of WIPO has been attacking the WIPO Staff Council: firing the Staff Association President, intimidating staff delegates as well as the personnel, organising an election for his own council to replace the legitimately elected Staff Council, etc. 25.01.2017 - CERN Staff Association The behaviour of the Director General of WIPO is absolutely intolerable and contrary to the rules, principles and agreements applicable in international organisations. It is also in clear contradiction with the fundamental rights and especially the freedom of speech and expression, even more so within an Association whose legitimacy cannot be unilaterally challenged. fi On Wednesday 25 January 2017, in response to a call for participation by FICSA (Federation of International Civil Servants’ Associations – www.FICSA.org) and CCISUA (Coordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations – www.ccisua.org), several delegations of Geneva-ba...

NOTE FROM THE CERN MEDICAL SERVICE - FLU VACCINATION

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2002-01-01

People working on the CERN site who wish to be vaccinated may go to the Medical Service (ground-floor, bldg. 57), without a prior appointment, but THEY MUST BRING THEIR VACCINE WITH THEM. CERN staff aged 50 or over are recommended to have influenza vaccinations. Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems, for diabetics and those convalescing from serious medical problems or after serious surgical operations. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines for family members or retired staff members, who must contact their normal family doctor.

Note from the CERN Medical Service FLU VACCINATION

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2000-01-01

CERN Members of personnel who wish to be vaccinated may go to the Medical Service (ground-floor, bldg. 57), without a prior appointment, but THEY MUST BRING THEIR VACCINE WITH THEM. Ideally, vaccination should take place between 16th October and 30th November 2000. CERN staff aged 50 or over are recommended to have influenza vaccinations. Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems, for diabetics and those convalescing from serious medical problems or after serious surgical operations. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines for family members or retired staff members, who must contact their normal family doctor.

Note from the CERN Medical Service. FLU VACCINATION

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2001-01-01

CERN Members of personnel who wish to be vaccinated may go to the Medical Service (ground-floor, bldg. 57), without a prior appointment, but THEY MUST BRING THEIR VACCINE WITH THEM. Ideally, vaccination should take place between 16th October and 30th November 2000. CERN staff aged 50 or over are recommended to have influenza vaccinations. Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems, for diabetics and those convalescing from serious medical problems or after serious surgical operations. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines for family members or retired staff members, who must contact their normal family doctor.

Note from the CERN Medical Service FLU VACCINATION

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2001-01-01

CERN Members of personnel who wish to be vaccinated may go to the Medical Service (ground-floor, bldg. 57), without a prior appointment, but THEY MUST BRING THEIR VACCINE WITH THEM. Ideally, vaccination should take place between 16th October and 30th November 2000. CERN staff aged 50 or over are recommended to have influenza vaccinations. Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems, for diabetics and those convalescing from serious medical problems or after serious surgical operations. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines for family members or retired staff members, who must contact their normal family doctor.

Note from the CERN Medical Service: FLU VACCINATION

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2001-01-01

CERN Members of personnel who wish to be vaccinated may go to the Medical Service (ground-floor, bldg. 57), without a prior appointment, but THEY MUST BRING THEIR VACCINE WITH THEM. Ideally, vaccination should take place between 16th October and 30th November 2001. CERN staff aged 50 or over are recommended to have influenza vaccinations. Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems, for diabetics and those convalescing from serious medical problems or after serious surgical operations. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines for family members or retired staff members, who must contact their normal family doctor.

The different roles of the Staff association

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Staff Association

2012-01-01

The statutory role of the CERN Staff Association is defined in Chapter VII of the Staff Rules and Regulations. The means of the Association to realize its aims are described in Article I.1.3 of the Statutes of the CERN Staff Association. Generally speaking, its aims are “To serve and defend the economic, social, professional and moral interests of its members and all CERN staff“. Usually we deal with professional and social issues (employment conditions, defence of collective or individual rights, promotion of basic research...). But the Association also plays a role of integration (clubs promoting cultural, humanitarian, and sport or offering entertainment, organizing exhibitions and conferences) and it can promote actions to provide its members with material or social advantages (Interfon, commercial offers). Advantageous commercial offers In recent years the Association was able to negotiate with business or cultural partners benefits for its members. A full list can be found on our...

Note from the CERN Medical Service

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2005-01-01

FLU VACCINATION People working on the CERN site who wish to be vaccinated may go to the Medical Service (ground-floor, bldg. 57), without a prior appointment (preferably between 14:00 and 16:00), but THEY MUST BRING THEIR VACCINE WITH THEM. Ideally, vaccination should take place between 1st October and 30th November 2005. CERN staff aged 50 or over are recommended to have the flu vaccination. Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems, for diabetics and those convalescing from serious illness or after major surgery. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines for family members or retired staff members, who must contact their usual family doctor.

Note from the CERN Medical Service

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Medical Service

2004-01-01

FLU VACCINATION People working on the CERN site who wish to be vaccinated may go to the Medical Service (ground-floor, bldg. 57), without a prior appointment, but THEY MUST BRING THEIR VACCINE WITH THEM. Ideally, vaccination should take place between 1st October and 30th November 2004. CERN staff aged 50 or over are recommended to have influenza vaccinations. Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems, for diabetics and those convalescing from serious medical problems or after serious surgical operations. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines for family members or retired staff members, who must contact their normal family doctor.

Death of Nelson Mandela: CERN and its Staff Association in history

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2013-01-01

Shortly after the conviction of Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia trial in 1964, the Anti-Apartheid Movement of Geneva was created at a meeting at CERN. Arriving at CERN as Visiting Scientist in June 1966, I joined the Anti-Apartheid Movement immediately. We multiplied the initiatives at CERN and outside of CERN until the release of Mandela with citizens of Geneva, but also with "citizens of the world", who ignored the ban on political activity, particularly for international civil servants. The Anti-Apartheid Movement of Geneva soon became the Anti-Apartheid Movement of Switzerland. It was also the first Anti-Apartheid Movement outside of South Africa. CERN today is honoured to have brought it to the baptismal font thanks to the initiative of several colleagues, including Mike Pentz, president of the CERN staff Association for two years (1961  1963) and also a refugee from South Africa in Europe. Conclusion: well-targeted disobedience can advance humanity. Jean-Pierre Lagnaux, former vis...

People and things. CERN Courier, Mar 1979, v. 19(1)

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Anon.

1979-03-15

The article reports on various achievements of CERN staff members and gives news updates on upcoming or past events, for example the First Workshop on Ultra-Relativistic Nuclear Collisions, or the CERN 25th Anniversary Celebrations.

People and things. CERN Courier, Mar 1979, v. 19(1)

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Anon.

1979-01-01

The article reports on various achievements of CERN staff members and gives news updates on upcoming or past events, for example the First Workshop on Ultra-Relativistic Nuclear Collisions, or the CERN 25th Anniversary Celebrations

Staff members' perceptions of an animal-assisted activity.

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Bibbo, Jessica

2013-07-01

To examine the perceptions of staff members toward the implementation of an animal-assisted activity (AAA) in an outpatient regional cancer center. Quasi-experimental, post-test design. An adult outpatient regional cancer center in northern California. 34 facility staff members. Self-report questionnaire following four weeks of AAA visitation. Visits took place three times a week for a total of 12 visits. Perceptions of the AAA. Previous perceptions toward AAA influenced the perceptions of the visitation's efficacy. Direct and indirect interaction with the visiting AAA teams was positively associated with perceptions of the AAA. A disagreement occurred that the AAA had caused extra stress or work for staff. Enjoyment of interacting with the dog handler was not significantly different from interacting with the dog; however, it was more positively correlated to acceptance of the AAA. The study provided evidence that the AAA was generally accepted by staff members. Individual staff members' perceptions of dogs and AAAs can influence their receptivity to AAA interventions. Interaction with AAA teams should be voluntary and available for patients and staff members. AAA may be introduced into facilities without creating the perception of extra stress or work for staff members. Providing staff the opportunity to interact with visiting AAA teams may be beneficial for the success of such programs. The human handler in AAA teams may play a vital role in the staff acceptance of such programs.

CERN's new arrivals, March 2004.

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Patrice Loïez

2004-01-01

On Tuesday 9 March 2004, representatives of the CERN Management welcomed recently-recruited staff members and fellows at the trimester session of the Induction Programme (photographed here with Werner Zapf, Head of the Human Resources Department).

Note from the CERN Medical Service FLU VACCINATION

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Sylvain Weisz

2002-01-01

People working on the CERN site who wish to be vaccinated may go to the Medical Service (ground-floor, bldg. 57), without a prior appointment, but THEY MUST BRING THEIR VACCINE WITH THEM. Ideally, vaccination should take place between 1st October and 30th November 2002. CERN staff aged 50 or over are recommended to have influenza vaccinations. Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems, for diabetics and those convalescing from serious medical problems or after serious surgical operations. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines for family members or retired staff members, who must contact their normal family doctor.

Note from the CERN Medical Service FLU VACCINATION

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2003-01-01

People working on the CERN site who wish to be vaccinated may go to the Medical Service (ground-floor, bldg. 57), without a prior appointment, but THEY MUST BRING THEIR VACCINE WITH THEM. Ideally, vaccination should take place between 1st October and 30th November 2003. CERN staff aged 50 or over are recommended to have influenza vaccinations. Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems, for diabetics and those convalescing from serious medical problems or after serious surgical operations. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines for family members or retired staff members, who must contact their normal family doctor.

Note from the CERN Medical Service: FLU VACCINATION

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2003-01-01

People working on the CERN site who wish to be vaccinated may go to the Medical Service (ground-floor, bldg. 57), without a prior appointment, but THEY MUST BRING THEIR VACCINE WITH THEM. Ideally, vaccination should take place between 1st October and 30th November 2003. CERN staff aged 50 or over are recommended to have influenza vaccinations. Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems, for diabetics and those convalescing from serious medical problems or after serious surgical operations. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines for family members or retired staff members, who must contact their normal family doctor.

People and things. CERN Courier, Mar 1991, v. 31(2)

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Anon.

1991-03-15

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: ; The 1991 CERN School of Computing, to be held from 23 August to 2 September, is organized in collaboration with the Swedish Physical Society's Section of Particle Physics. ; The 1991 DESY Theory Workshop will take place from 30 September - 2 October, the title being The Standard Model at High Temperature and Density'.; Noell GmbH of Wurzburg, a member of the Preussag industrial group, is extending its interests in magnet technology, and the relevant product range of ABB Mannheim was taken over at the end of last year. ; Albert Burger, one of CERN's earliest staff members, died on 20 January.

Golden Jubilee photos: Digging for CERN

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2004-01-01

Geneva was selected as the site for the CERN Laboratory at the third session of the provisional Council in 1952. This selection successfully passed a referendum in the canton of Geneva in June 1953 by 16539 votes to 7332. On 17 May 1954, the first shovel of earth was dug on the Meyrin site under the eyes of Geneva officials and members of CERN staff (below).

The Staff Council, ready for the challenges of 2015

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Staff Association

2015-01-01

In order to fulfil its mission of representing CERN staff with the Management and the Member States in an optimal way, the Staff Council relies on the work of a number of commissions, amongst them employment conditions, pensions, legal matters, social security, health and safety and InFormAction (training, information and action). All of these commissions have as a goal to try and improve the employment conditions of CERN members of personnel. This is the case in particular in the context of the five-yearly review process, ending in December 2015 (5YR 2015). Let us recall that the objective of a five-yearly review is to ensure that the financial and social conditions offered by the Organisation favour recruitment from all Member States, and to retain and motivate staff necessary for the fulfilment of its mission. The convenor of each Commission reports regularly to the Staff Council and Executive Committee on the work performed in their group. The commissions are open to all members of the Staff Associati...

People and things. CERN Courier, Mar 1991, v. 31(2)

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Anon.

1991-01-01

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: ; The 1991 CERN School of Computing, to be held from 23 August to 2 September, is organized in collaboration with the Swedish Physical Society's Section of Particle Physics. ; The 1991 DESY Theory Workshop will take place from 30 September - 2 October, the title being The Standard Model at High Temperature and Density'.; Noell GmbH of Wurzburg, a member of the Preussag industrial group, is extending its interests in magnet technology, and the relevant product range of ABB Mannheim was taken over at the end of last year. ; Albert Burger, one of CERN's earliest staff members, died on 20 January

The 1956 CERN Symposium

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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...

EIROStaff serving the staff of the European scientific organizations

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2009-01-01

By analogy with the EIROforum meetings, where the administrations of seven European scientific organizations (CERN, EFDA, EMBL, ESA, ESO, ESRF, ILL) have been meeting since 2002, the staff associations of these same organizations grouped under the name “EIROStaff” met on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 May 2009 at CERN. Staff representatives of GSI, which is not a member of EIROforum at present, also attended.

CERN CAR CLUB

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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&...

Amendments to the Staff Rules and Regulations

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2003-01-01

The Staff Rules and Regulations in force since 1 January 1996 are modified as follows: as from 1 April 2003 • Article R II 1.19 - Types and duration of contracts of staff members (page 15) as from 1 July 2003 Implementation of the category of local staff members Copies of this update are available in the divisional secretariats. In addition, Staff Rules and Regulations are available for consultation on the Web at http://cern.ch/hr-div/internal/admin_services/rules/default.asp Human Resources Division Tel. 74128

Get involved, become a delegate of the CERN personnel

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Staff Association

2017-01-01

In Echo No. 275, we announced the upcoming elections to the CERN Staff Council. In this edition of Echo, we will inform you about the election process, which begins with a call for applications. All Staff, Fellows and Associates, who are members of the Staff Association, can get involved and submit their application from 11 September at 8.00 am, until 13 October at 5.00 pm. Do not hesitate any longer, fill in the application form, and stand in the elections to the Staff Council, so that you can represent and defend your colleagues, the CERN personnel. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A DELEGATE? If you were to ask several delegates this question, the answers would undoubtedly vary greatly depending on their interests, their experiences, and their motivations. The standard response and official line is that (http://staff-association.web.cern.ch/bodies/elections) being a delegate is to: Use your skills for the benefit of all; Bring a new vision to the Staff Council; Propose new methods and innovative solutions. Yet,...

The CERN Pension Fund: an eternal challenge

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Staff Association

2014-01-01

  Introduction By virtue of its status as an international organization, CERN and its employees do not operate under the labour laws and social security systems of the Host or Member States. Thus, the Organization has to establish its own social security scheme, including pension insurance, for the adequate protection of its employed personnel. This scheme must also be designed to allow the recruitment and retention of highly qualified personnel from all Member States. It are the Organization’s pension obligations that certain Member States want to reconsider. This is the first in a series of articles where we explain that reneging on their commitments regarding the pension Fund the Member States would create a great social injustice, very detrimental to the Organization, its staff and not compliant with international law. Principles and responsibilities The CERN Pension Fund (hereafter called the “Fund”) was set up by the CERN Council in December 1955. Its lega...

CERN honours its guides

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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...

Finally a crèche at CERN, thanks to the Staff Association

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2013-01-01

Setting up at CERN a collective structure to mind children younger than two years, a so-called “crèche”, has been discussed at least since the early 1990s. Then, in February 2001, the Equal Opportunities Advisory Panel produced a memo to the Director of Administration in which it “invites the CERN Management to re-consider the possibility of creating a crèche at CERN”. As a result an ad hoc task force (“Bethléem”) was set up, which based its work on an informal questionnaire sent to CERN families with small children. Its study came up with some relevant parameters for “should CERN Management intend to undertake a minimal effort toward solving the crèche problem for its staff members”. Nothing was undertaken at that time. In the framework of the 2005 five yearly review “Working Group 6: Crèche” made another study of public and private  cr&a...

People and things. CERN Courier, January-February 1982, v. 22(1)

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Anon.

1982-01-01

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. The project to build a large electron- positron storage ring, LEP, at CERN already had the backing of the twelve CERN Member States, but three votes remained subject to conditions. At a CERN Council meeting in December this 'ad referendum' was lifted by the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The LEP project thus has the unconditional support of all Member States.New members of the IUPAP International Commission on Particles and Fields have been elected. The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) held its sixth meeting at Protvino, USSR, on the occasion of the ICFA Workshop on very high field (10 Tesla) superconducting magnets

Portrait: Yves Sillanoli, Staff Association delegate since 2004

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Staff Association

2017-01-01

Yves Sillanoli - Staff Association delegate. I worked at CERN as Contractor’s personnel for 18 years, and in 2003, I became a staff member. By nature, I am someone who enjoys getting involved in associations. For 35 years, I was a member of a sports association in my community. Therefore, for me it was natural to want to reach out and help my colleagues, especially those with professional experiences similar to mine. Moreover, even though both my father and my brother had worked at CERN before me, I really wanted to understand the inner functioning of the Organization. To this end, I decided to run for staff delegate and was elected to the Staff Association in 2004. Joining the Staff Association has been, above all, a chance to meet people: Gianni Deroma, former President of the Staff Association, and Philippe Defert, who passed away in 2013, were great listeners and had a real sense of mutual help. Philippe Defert influenced greatly my decision take part in the Association and, over time, a rema...

CERN back to its roots

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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...

CERN 50th Anniversary : CERN's 50th anniversary celebrations drew to a close with a ceremony at Geneva University's Institut de Physique.

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Maximilien Brice

2004-01-01

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. A commemorative plaque was inaugurated by Robert Aymar, CERN's Director-General, Charles Beer, State Councillor for the Canton of Geneva responsible for the Department of Public Education, and André Hurst, Rector of the University (Picture 01)

Apprenticeship at CERN

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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 ...

Note from the CERN Medical Service - FLU VACCINATIONs

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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.

Note from the CERN Medical Service - Flu vaccinations

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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.

A new logo for the Staff Association

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2013-01-01

On 3rd December 2012 the Staff Association launched a competition open to all to design a new logo, which should not contain the official CERN logo, reserved by CERN’s new graphic charter to the official use by the Organization. We are pleased that this competition sparked a strong interest. A total of 57 proposals were received within the time limits, some submitted from far away: Poland, Czech Republic, Turkey and even Cameroon! The selection of the winning logo was made in two steps: first the pre-selection of six finalists, followed by the final choice of the winning logo by members of the Staff Association.  Winning logo The pre-selection was made in two stages. Three of the six finalists were nominated by a jury consisting of seven members of the Staff Association, including communication professionals. In parallel, from 4 to 15 February CERN employed members of the personnel were able to visit the exhibition of all the logo proposals on the 1st floor of the Main Building and ...

VIP visit to CERN P5 CMS of Pakistan Science Members

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Hoch, Michael

2012-01-01

VIP visit to CERN P5 CMS of PAEC & JCPC Science Members List of PAEC Visitors: Dr. Badar Suleman - Member Science PAEC & Member of JCPC Dr. Waqar M. Butt - Member Engineering (Head of HMC3) Dr. Maqsood Ahmad - Chief Scientist (Head of Accelerator Project) List of CMS participants: Prof. Joseph Incandela, CMS Spokesperson Dr. Austin Ball, CMS Technical Coordinator Mr Andrzej Charkiewicz, CMS Resources Manager Dr. Michael Hoch, CMS Outreach activities, CMS photographer and guide Dr. Achille Petrilli, CMS Team Leader

CERN Relay Race 2018

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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.

Revised regulation on the Hiring of Domestic Staff in Switzerland

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2006-01-01

The Permanent Mission of Switzerland has informed CERN of the publication of the official translation of the 'Directive on the hiring of private servants by staff members of diplomatic missions, permanent missions, consular posts and international organisations in Switzerland', which came into effect on 1st May 2006. The members of the personnel concerned are reminded that they must comply with the provisions of the revised Directive, which replaces that of 1st May 1998, and present a copy to their domestic staff. The full text of the revised Directive is available on the Swiss Mission's website: http://www.dfae.admin.ch/geneva_miss/f/home/guide/dir.html (original French version); http://www.dfae.admin.ch/geneva_miss/e/home/guide/dir.html (English translation). This notification cancels the information published in document CERN/DSU-DO/RH/9304 on 19 October 1999. Relations with the Host States Service Tel.: 72848 relations.secretariat@cern.ch www.cern.ch/relations

CERN technology in the service of medicine

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2001-01-01

The prototype of the first module of the LInac BOster (LIBO) has been constructed and tested at CERN. This new medical accelerator offers new perspectives in deep-seated tumour treatment.   Accelerator technology developed at CERN is set to bring about important advances in cancer therapy. The linac booster - LIBO - project aims to build a 3GHz proton linear accelerator to boost to 200 MeV the energy of the beam from 50-70 MeV cyclotrons, existing in several hospitals and laboratories. This will allow deep-seated tumours to be treated (see box). The prototype of the first LIBO module has just passed high power RF tests at CERN. Two members of the LIBO collaboration, Riccardo Zennaro and Paolo Berra, with the first LIBO module installed in the LIL tunnel. The LIBO idea goes back to 1993 when it was conceived by CERN's Ugo Amaldi, founder of Italy's TERA foundation. From the beginning, Mario Weiss, a former CERN staff member has led the project. A decisive step was taken in 1998 when a collaboration...

Members of the Forum Engelberg visit CERN

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Patrice Loïez

2002-01-01

The Forum Engelberg is an annual interdisciplinary conference held in Engelberg, Switzerland intended to act as an international platform for debate and exchange of views on key issues affecting scientific research, technology, economics and philosophy. Its President is Hubert Curien - former French Minister of Research and Space Research, and President of the CERN Council from 1994 to 1996. Horst Wenninger (left) in animated discussion with Alexander Höchli, member of the Institutional Committee of Forum Engelberg and former Landammann of the canton of Obwalden.

CERN Technical Training 2006: ANSYS Course Sessions (August-September 2006)

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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 ...

Note from the CERN Medical Service - FLU VACCINATION

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2007-01-01

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. The reimbursement of the vaccine can be done directly with Uniqa providing you attach the receipt and the prescription that you will receive from the medical service the day of your injection at the infirmary. Ideally, the vaccination should take place between 1st October and 30th November 2007 (preferably between 14:00 and 16:00). CERN staff aged 50 or over are recommended to have influenza vaccinations. Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems, for diabetics and those convalescing from serious medical problems or after serious surgical operations. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines for family members or retired staff members, who must contact their normal family doctor.

Note from the CERN Medical Service - FLU VACCINATIONs

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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 2.00 p.m. and 4.00 p.m.). 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 diabetes 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.

Note from the CERN Medical Service FLU VACCINATION

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2007-01-01

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. The reimbursement of the vaccine can be done directly with Uniqa providing you attach the receipt and the prescription that you will receive from the medical service the day of your injection at the infirmary. Ideally, the vaccination should take place between 1st October and 30th November 2007 (preferably between 14:00 and 16:00). CERN staff aged 50 or over are recommended to have influenza vaccinations. Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems, for diabetics and those convalescing from serious medical problems or after serious surgical operations. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines for family members or retired staff members, who must contact their normal family doctor.

Note from the CERN Medical Service FLU VACCINATION

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2007-01-01

People working on the CERN site who wish to be vaccinated may go to the infirmary (ground-floor, bldg. 57), with their vaccination without a prior appointment. The reimbursement of the vaccination can be done directly with Uniqa providing you attach the receipt and the prescription that you will receive from the medical service the day of your injection at the infirmary. Ideally, the vaccination should take place between 1st October and 30th November 2007 (preferably between 14:00 and 16:00). CERN staff aged 50 or over are recommended to have influenza vaccinations. Vaccination is particularly important for those suffering from chronic lung, cardio-vascular or kidney problems, for diabetics and those convalescing from serious medical problems or after serious surgical operations. The Medical Service will not administer vaccines for family members or retired staff members, who must contact their normal family doctor.

Members of the Forum Engelberg visit CERN

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Patrice Loïez

2002-01-01

The Forum Engelberg is an annual interdisciplinary conference held in Engelberg, Switzerland intended to act as an international platform for debate and exchange of views on key issues affecting scientific research, technology, economics and philosophy. Its President is Hubert Curien - former French Minister of Research and Space Research, and President of the CERN Council from 1994 to 1996. Photo 01: Thérèse Wolf, Secretary of Forum Engelberg; Alain Hervé; Horst Wenninger; and Alexander Höchli, Forum member and former Landammann of the canton of Obwalden, at the CMS detector's assembly site.

Elections to Staff Council

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Staff Association

2011-01-01

Elections to fill all seats in the Staff Council are being organized this month. The voting takes place from the 31st of October to the 14th of November, at noon. As you may have noted when reading Echo, many issues concerning our employment conditions are on the agenda of the coming months and will keep the next Staff Council very busy. So, make your voice heard and take part in the elections for a new Staff Council. By doing so, you will be encouraging the men and women who will be representing you over the next two years and they will doubtless appreciate your gratitude. Every member of the Staff Association will have received an email containing a link to the webpage which will allow voting. If you are a member of the Staff Association and you did not receive such an email, please contact the Staff Association secretariat (staff.association@cern.ch). Do not forget to vote * * * * * * * Vote Make your voice heard and be many to elect the new Staff Council. More details on the election...

CERN's 60th anniversary celebrations: "Cook"ed to perfection

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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...

New staff contract policy

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HR Department

2006-01-01

Following discussion at TREF and on the recommendation of the Finance Committee, Council approved a new staff contract policy, which became effective on 1 January 2006. Its application is covered by a new Administrative Circular No. 2 (Rev. 3) 'Recruitment, appointment and possible developments regarding the contractual position of staff members'. The revised circular replaces the previous Circulars No. 9 (Rev. 3) 'Staff contracts' and No. 2 (Rev. 2) 'Guidelines and procedures concerning recruitment and probation period for staff members'. The main features of the new contract policy are as follows: The new policy provides chances for long-term employment for all staff recruits staying for four years without distinguishing between those assigned to long-term or short-term activities when joining CERN. In addition, it presents a number of simplifications for the award of ICs. There are henceforth only 2 types of contract: Limited Duration (LD) contracts for all recruitment and Indefinite Contracts (IC) for...

Elections to Staff Council

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Staff Association

2013-01-01

Elections to fill all seats in the Staff Council are being organized this month. The voting takes place from the 28 of October to the 11th of November, at noon. As you may have noted when reading Echo, many issues concerning our employment conditions are on the agenda of the coming months, and in particular the Five-yearly-Review 2015, subject of the questionnaire that you probably recently filled out. All this will keep the next Staff Council very busy indeed. So, make your voice heard and take part in the elections for a new Staff Council. By doing so, you will be encouraging the men and women who will be representing you over the next two years and they will doubtless appreciate your gratitude. Every member of the Staff Association will have received an email containing a link to the webpage which will allow voting. If you are a member of the Staff Association and you did not receive such an email, please contact the Staff Association secretariat (staff.association@cern.ch). Do not forget to v...

CERN moves to http://home.cern

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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...

People and things. CERN Courier, Nov 1987, v. 27(9)

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

Anon.

1987-11-15

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. The 1988 CERN School of Physics will be organized jointly by the Nuclear Research Centre 'Demokritos', Athens and CERN. Its basic aim is to teach various aspects of high energy physics, but especially theoretical physics, to young experimental physicists, mainly from the Member States of CERN. It will be held in Lefkada, Greece, from 18 September to 1 October 1988. The first and highly successful Asia-Pacific Workshop on High Energy Physics, devoted to Superstrings, Anomalies and Field Theory, was held in Singapore this summer.

Proposal for the conclusion of a partnership agreement, without competitive tendering, for the management of medical emergencies on the CERN site and the training of CERN's medical staff and firefighters in emergency situations

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2014-01-01

Proposal for the conclusion of a partnership agreement, without competitive tendering, for the management of medical emergencies on the CERN site and the training of CERN's medical staff and firefighters in emergency situations

Staff rules and regulations

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2007-01-01

The 11th edition of the Staff Rules and Regulations, dated 1 January 2007, adopted by the Council and the Finance Committee in December 2006, is currently being distributed to departmental secretariats. The Staff Rules and Regulations, together with a summary of the main modifications made, will be available, as from next week, on the Human Resources Department's intranet site: http://cern.ch/hr-web/internal/admin_services/rules/default.asp The main changes made to the Staff Rules and Regulations stem from the five-yearly review of employment conditions of members of the personnel. The changes notably relate to: the categories of members of the personnel (e.g. removal of the local staff category); the careers structure and the merit recognition system; the non-residence, installation and re-installation allowances; the definition of family, family allowances and family-related leave; recognition of partnerships; education fees. The administrative circulars, some of which are being revised following the m...

Staff rules and regulations

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HR Department

2007-01-01

The 11th edition of the Staff Rules and Regulations, dated 1 January 2007, adopted by the Council and the Finance Committee in December 2006, is currently being distributed to departmental secretariats. The Staff Rules and Regulations, together with a summary of the main modifications made, will be available, as from next week, on the Human Resources Department's intranet site: http://cern.ch/hr-web/internal/admin_services/rules/default.asp The main changes made to the Staff Rules and Regulations stem from the five-yearly review of employment conditions of members of the personnel. The changes notably relate to: the categories of members of the personnel (e.g. removal of the local staff category); the careers structure and the merit recognition system; the non-residence, installation and re-installation allowances; the definition of family, family allowances and family-related leave; recognition of partnerships; education fees. The administrative circulars, some of which are being revised following the ...

La Bulgarie devient le vingtième pays membre du CERN

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CERN Press Office. Geneva

1999-01-01

Bulgarian Accession to CERN At a ceremony during the Council meeting the Bulgarian flag was hoisted for the first time to join the other 19 flags of CERN's Member States. Mr Vesselin Metodiev, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Science of Bulgaria said: "One of the priorities of our Government is to develop and maintain competitive science in Bulgaria. Our membership in CERN is an important step in this direction as it will enable many Bulgarian scientists, engineers and technical staff to work at the leading edge of science and contemporary technologies."

CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses

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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...

Motivational climate, staff and members' behaviors, and members' psychological well-being at a national fitness franchise.

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Brown, Theresa C; Fry, Mary D

2014-06-01

The purpose of this study was to examine the association between members' perceptions of staffs behaviors, motivational climate, their own behaviors, commitment to future exercise, and life satisfaction in a group-fitness setting. The theory-driven hypothesized mediating role of perceptions of the climate was also tested. Members (N = 5,541) of a national group-fitness studio franchise completed a survey regarding their class experiences. The survey included questions that measured participants' perceptions of the motivational climate (caring, task-involving, ego-involving), perceptions of staff's behaviors, their own behaviors, commitment to exercise, and life satisfaction. Structural equation modeling was used to assess both the association between variables and the theoretically driven predictive relationships. The participants perceived the environment as highly caring and task-involving and low ego-involving. They reported high exercise commitment and moderately high life satisfaction and perceived that the staffs and their own behaviors reflected caring, task-involving characteristics. Structural equation modeling demonstrated that those who perceived a higher caring, task-involving climate and lower ego-involving climate were more likely to report more task-involving, caring behaviors among the staff and themselves as well as greater commitment to exercise. In addition, a theory-driven mediational model suggested that staff behaviors may be an antecedent to members' exercise experiences by impacting their perceptions of the climate. The results of this study give direction to specific behaviors in which staff of group-fitness programs might engage to positively influence members' exercise experiences.

People and things. CERN Courier, Mar 1990, v. 30(2)

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Anon.

1990-03-15

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. An Institute for Nuclear Theory has been established at the University of Washington, with major funding from the US Department of Energy, which will host 3-6 month programmes on topics of current interest in nuclear physics. This year's CERN School of Physics, will be held in Mallorca from 16-29 September and aim to teach aspects of high energy physics at the most up-to-date level to young experimentalists, mainly from CERN Member States.

CERN is still recruiting - Pass it on!

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2001-01-01

This year there are still 70 limited duration staff vacancies to fill. Although the Web is proving a very effective way of attracting candidates, CERN people can play their part in the recruitment drive. To find out how you can help, read on. Despite the electronic era, word-of-mouth communication is still doing a good job! Over the last year about 23% of staff applicants found out about our vacancies through personal contacts. The article published last year in the Bulletin (10.4.and 24.4.2000) about recruitment at CERN had a very good initial response from people ready to spread the word about recruitment programmes in schools, universities and at conferences. As the article pointed out, it is still really important for CERN personnel to feel involved in this process. EST Division is now preparing its own initiative to send their engineers and technicians back to their schools in different Member States to attract candidates. We invite you once again to join in with this effort. The recruitment office is re...

People and things. CERN Courier, Nov 1987, v. 27(9)

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1987-01-01

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. The 1988 CERN School of Physics will be organized jointly by the Nuclear Research Centre 'Demokritos', Athens and CERN. Its basic aim is to teach various aspects of high energy physics, but especially theoretical physics, to young experimental physicists, mainly from the Member States of CERN. It will be held in Lefkada, Greece, from 18 September to 1 October 1988. The first and highly successful Asia-Pacific Workshop on High Energy Physics, devoted to Superstrings, Anomalies and Field Theory, was held in Singapore this summer

Towards mobile staff members management

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Encheva, Sylvia

2017-07-01

Todays project management requires a number of abilities which involve finding quick solutions to shortage of staff members with possession of specific qualities. When persons with team responsibilities are under pressure or due to various circumstances are unable to perform exhaustive search in databases, an interactive visualization tool can come in quite handy in finding good solutions unforeseen occurrences. In particular we propose application of selected graphs for facilitating mobile human resource management.

1978-79 Directory of Physics & Astronomy Staff Members.

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American Inst. of Physics, New York, NY.

This directory gives names, addresses, and telephone numbers of staff members of astronomy and physics departments. The listings are made under the following headings: (1) American Institute of Physics and its member societies; (2) geographic listing of academic institutions and faculty - U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Central America; (3) U.S.…

People and things. CERN Courier, Oct 1989, v. 29(8)

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1989-10-15

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. The Finnish Government has decided to begin negotiations for Finland to become a CERN Member State in a few years. A cryogenic electron beam ion source (CRYEBIS) came into operation earlier this year at the J.R. Macdonald Laboratory of the University of Kansas and went on to supply fully stripped argon ions for physics experiments.

People and things. CERN Courier, Oct 1989, v. 29(8)

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Anon.

1989-01-01

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. The Finnish Government has decided to begin negotiations for Finland to become a CERN Member State in a few years. A cryogenic electron beam ion source (CRYEBIS) came into operation earlier this year at the J.R. Macdonald Laboratory of the University of Kansas and went on to supply fully stripped argon ions for physics experiments

CERN welcomes Korea as an official collaborator

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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...

Competencies - a roadmap for CERN Staff

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2011-01-01

Back in November, the new CERN Competency Model (CCM), a framework defining the competencies that “ drive performance and lead to excellence”, was introduced by Anne-Sylvie Catherin, Head of the Human Resources (HR) Department, in a special edition of the "Spotlight on CERN" interviews.   What are competencies? Competencies are the characteristics that allow you to do the job you have been assigned. In more precise terms, competencies may be described as the knowledge, skills and types of behaviour that individuals demonstrate in carrying out a given task. Listing all the competencies that make CERN work is an impossible task but one can identify the two main types: technical and behavioural. Both are needed to work effectively in this Organization. While technical competencies are simply the domains of expertise that CERN needs – examples include physics, mechanical engineering and information technology – behavioural competencies are th...

TPG: Unireso travel cards soon to be available for purchase at CERN

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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...

Elections of members to the Governing Board of the Pension Fund

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2005-01-01

This year, one member and two alternates are to be elected. The candidate who obtains the most votes will be elected member and the other candidates will be their alternates. These elections will take place following the timetable given below: Monday 21 November 2005 Voting closes at 12:00. Counting of votes from 14:30. Tuesday 22 November 2005 Forwarding of results to the Communications Section for publication in the Bulletin of 28 November. CERN - EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH PENSION FUND ELECTIONS - Pension Fund This candidature has been duly registered and is hereby presented in accordance with paragraph 6.h of the Regulations for Elections to the Governing Board of the Pension Fund. Candidate: Name: MARTEL First Name: Pedro I arrived at CERN as a Staff member in 1995, and have been working with Engineering Databases since then. I am also personally interested in (macro and micro) economic issues. As a member of the Staff Association's Executive Commission in charge ...

Elections of members to the Governing Board of the Pensions Fund

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2004-01-01

This year, two members and two alternates are to be elected. The candidates who obtain most votes will be elected members and the other candidates will be their alternates. Timetable (extract) : Monday 22 November 2004 Voting closes at 12 hrs. Counting of votes from 14.30 hrs. Tuesday 23 November 2004 Forwarding of results to the Communications Section for publication in the Bulletin of 29 November. ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE CERN EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH CAISSE DE PENSIONS / PENSION FUND ELECTIONS - Pension Fund This candidature has been duly registered and is hereby presented in accordance with paragraph 6.h of the Regulations for Elections to the Governing Board of the Pension Fund. Candidate: Name : CHIAVERI First Name : Enrico I have been a CERN staff member since 1973 and have always been interested in our working conditions. As a member of the Executive Committee of the Staff Association I participated from 1980 to 1984 in the Working G...

The flags of CERN's member states in the parking lot next to the main entrance.

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CERN PhotoLab

1960-01-01

CERN has always had a global mission. Its twelve founding Member States may well have been European, but the setting-up of the Laboratory owed much to the United States, for example, which wished to see the re-emergence of a strong European scientific community after the Second World War. There were thus exchanges with the American scientific community from the very start, particularly for the design of the PS. Similarly, CERN rapidly engaged in exchanges with Soviet institutes, even at the height of the Cold War. The twelve founding Member States, Belgium, Denmark, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Yugoslavia (which left CERN in 1961), were joined by Austria (1959), Spain (1961, and again in 1983 having left in 1969), Portugal (1985), Finland and Poland (1991), Hungary (1992), the Czech and Slovak Republics (1993) and Bulgaria (1999)

Problems afoot for the CERN kindergarten (EVEE)?

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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 ...

People and things. CERN Courier, Jul-Aug 1979, v. 19(5)

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Anon.

1979-01-01

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, for example the Polarized Target Material Workshop. This Workshop will be concerned with the chemical and physical processes involved in the preparation and use of polarized target materials with particular reference to the possibility of developing new materials with both a higher hydrogen content and a greater resistance to radiation damage than those currently available. On 23 June CERN's 25th Anniversary Ceremony took place on the CERN site in the presence of Ministers and other important personalities from the Member States, representatives of local authorities and distinguished friends of CERN

People and things. CERN Courier, Jul-Aug 1979, v. 19(5)

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Anon.

1979-07-15

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, for example the Polarized Target Material Workshop. This Workshop will be concerned with the chemical and physical processes involved in the preparation and use of polarized target materials with particular reference to the possibility of developing new materials with both a higher hydrogen content and a greater resistance to radiation damage than those currently available. On 23 June CERN's 25th Anniversary Ceremony took place on the CERN site in the presence of Ministers and other important personalities from the Member States, representatives of local authorities and distinguished friends of CERN.

People and things. CERN Courier, Mar 1990, v. 30(2)

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Anon.

1990-01-01

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. An Institute for Nuclear Theory has been established at the University of Washington, with major funding from the US Department of Energy, which will host 3-6 month programmes on topics of current interest in nuclear physics. This year's CERN School of Physics, will be held in Mallorca from 16-29 September and aim to teach aspects of high energy physics at the most up-to-date level to young experimentalists, mainly from CERN Member States

To all members of the personnel

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2005-01-01

Temporary work for children of members of the personnel During the period mid-June to mid-September 2005, a limited number of vacancies for temporary work at CERN (normally unskilled work of a routine nature) will be available to children of members of the personnel (i.e. anyone holding an employment or association contract with CERN). It should be noted that candidates must be aged between 18 and 24 inclusive on the first day of the contract, and that they must have insurance cover for both illness and accident. In view of the limited number of vacancies available, no children having previously worked at CERN under this scheme can be considered. The duration of all appointments will be 4 weeks and the allowance for the period will be CHF 1621.- net. Candidates should apply via the HR Department's electronic recruitment system (E-rt) : http://humanresources.web.cern.ch/humanresources/internal/personnel/pmd/cr/Staff-kids-05.pdf Completed application forms must be returned to this Service by 8 April 2005 ...

British Minister over the moon after visit to CERN

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2008-01-01

The UK Minister for Science and Innovation, Ian Pearson MP, recently visited CERN. Ian Pearson, UK Minister for Science and Innovation (back row, third left), in the LHC tunnel with Peter Jenni, ATLAS Spokesperson (back row, centre), John Ellis (back row, third right), Simon Featherstone, UK Ambassador to Switzerland (back row, far left), Keith Mason, Chief Executive of STFC (the UK funding agency) (back row, second from right), and British scientists working at ATLAS.On the 15 April UK Minister for Science and Innovation, Ian Pearson, made his first trip to CERN. The UK is one of the founding Member States of CERN, and the British contingent is one of the largest of any country with around 650 British scientists and a further 250 staff members working here. After an introduction to the facilities by Director-General Robert Aymar, who expressed CERN’s gratitude for UK government support through its Science and Technology Facilitie...

Two members of the CERN personnel receive the 2002 Accelerator Prize

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2002-01-01

Kurt H bner and Frank Zimmermann have been awarded the 2002 Accelerator Prize by the Interdivisional Group on Accelerators of the European Physical Society (EPS-IGA).   Kurt H bner Frank Zimmermann Kurt H bner is well known to CERN, as he was Director of Accelerators from 1994 to 2001, after having been PS Division Leader. A member of the CERN personnel since 1966, Kurt H bner, who is of Austrian nationality, has taken part in the design and operation of many accelerators including the PS, the ISR and LEP. He has received the award for his major contributions to accelerator physics and for his excellent leadership in this field. In its citation, the Prize Selection Committee stated that «he has provided guidance for generations of accelerator physicists and engineers, thereby contributing immensely to the prosperity of accelerators at CERN and many other laboratories around the world.» Frank Zimmermann has been awarded the prize for an individual in the early part of his or her career who has made a rece...

People and things. CERN Courier, Jun 1990, v. 30(5)

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1990-06-15

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: ; At a specially-arranged session of CERN Council on 27 April, the delegates of CERN's 14 Member States voted unanimously in favour of admitting Finland as the Organization's 15th Member State. ; In an April 19 test, the initial 5 MeV superconducting section for the injector of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility being built at Newport News, Virginia accelerated an electron beam to design energy. ; With construction of the RHIC Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider expected to get underway at Brookhaven in October 1991, preparations for the experimental programme move into top gear. ; On the initiative of Meinhard Regler from the High Energy Physics Institute in Vienna, a series of thirteen posters on accelerators and particle physics have been printed for use in schools.

Elections of members to the Governing Board of the Pensions Fund

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2005-01-01

This year, two members and two alternates are to be elected. The candidates who obtain most votes will be elected members and the other candidates will be their alternates. New timetable (extract) : Monday 10 January 2005 Second publication of the candidates' publicity and the statement from all the candidates in the Bulletin. Monday 31 January 2005 Voting closes at 12 hrs. Counting of votes from 14.30 hrs. Tuesday 1st February 2005 Forwarding of results to the Communications Section for publication in the Bulletin of 7 February. Statement from the Candidates for Election to the Governing Board of the Pension Fund The composition of the Governing Board of the CERN Pension Fund is as follows. two members appointed by the CERN council and two alternates two members appointed by the DG of CERN and two alternates one member appointed by the Staff Association and one alternate one member appointed by the DG of ESO and one alternate four members elected by the members of the fund and four ...

UK Minister enthusiastic after visit to CERN

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2008-01-01

ON Tuesday 5 August the UK Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, John Denham, came to CERN. The UK continues its strong links with CERN.The Minister was welcomed on arrival at CERN by Robert Aymar, the Director-General, and senior British scientists. Following a short presentation, he began a comprehensive tour of the Laboratory with a visit to both the LHC at point 5 and the CMS experiment. After lunch the Minister’s busy schedule continued, completing his overview of the main areas of UK participation at CERN. As soon as he had signed the guest book, he was whisked off to visit the LHCb experiment, the LHC computing grid project (LCG) and the ATLAS control room. However, the last item on his itinerary was perhaps the most illuminating. Meeting a diverse group of British scientists, from technical and summer students to staff members with more than 30 years of experience, the Minister had the opportunity...

Summer Camp of the CERN Staff Association

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2017-01-01

A Journey to Discover the Four Elements Over the past few years, the Children’s Day-Care Centre and School (EVEE) of the CERN Staff Association has transformed into a summer camp for the four weeks of July. Every year, this summer camp welcomes up to 40 children from 4 to 6 years old. The camp offers a rich and varied program. This year, the theme was the four elements of life, and the children set out on a journey to discover a different element every week: WATER was the theme of the first week. What is water? What purpose does it serve? Where can we find it? With these questions and many others in mind, the children set out on a cruise, sailing across Lake Geneva to visit the Lake Geneva Museum in Nyon. All through the week, the children were able to discover the different properties of water by carrying out various scientific experiments. For instance, getting soaked can certainly help observe a simple property of water: it’s wet! Giggles guaranteed. The children made fancy hats and e...

What pensions at CERN tomorrow?

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Staff Association

2011-01-01

By approving last December a first package of measures aiming to restore the balance of our Pension Fund, CERN Council has clearly taken its responsibilities seriously in the face of a now enormous deficit: 1.7 thousand million Swiss francs at the end of 2010. Even if not everything can be resolved with a wave of a magic wand – this package will need to be applied for 30 years to restore the balance of our Fund – we must recognize that a major step has at last been taken after many years of beating about the bush by our decision-makers. Another achievement, and an important one at that, is that a consensus has been reached, after a long search, between the different parties in this package: Member States, Management, current retired and active staff members. They have also agreed that a second package should be presented in June 2011 concerning the new conditions for future staff members1 and the transitory measures - concerning the annual adjustment of pension only – for future...

A glowing tribute to CERN craftsmanship

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2001-01-01

Didier Lombard, metalworker in EST Division, has been crowned 'France's Top Craftsman'. It's the second time this prestigious title has been bestowed upon a CERN staff member. The reputation of CERN's craftsmanship outside the Laboratory just keeps on growing! For the second time in a row, a member of EST Division's Manufacturing Facilities Group has been named France's Top Craftsman. After Michel Caccioppoli in 1997, Didier Lombard has now taken his place on the roll of honour. This triennial competition seeks to honour workers and skilled craftspeople in two hundred different trades, from pastry-makers and painters to lacemakers and goldsmiths. To win the medal, competitors must produce an object on the basis of a compulsory specification. 3412 competitors entered this 21st edition of the contest, which covered the period 1997 to 2000. Only 846 of the original entrants eventually presented their work and in the end only 321 were honoured - just two in Didier Lombard's category, metalworking. To be fair, the...

Members of the Forum Engelberg visit CERN

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Patrice Loïez

2002-01-01

The Forum Engelberg is an annual interdisciplinary conference held in Engelberg, Switzerland intended to act as an international platform for debate and exchange of views on key issues affecting scientific research, technology, economics and philosophy. Its President is Hubert Curien - former French Minister of Research and Space Research, and President of the CERN Council from 1994 to 1996.Seated here at a presentation by Peter Jenni, spokesperson for the ATLAS collaboration, during the visit of Forum members and Geneva public figures are Bernard Ecoffey, Founder of the Forum Engelberg (left), and Jean-Claude Landry, Department of the Interior, Agriculture and Environment, state of Geneva. Photo 01: (left to right) Bernard Ecoffey, Jean-Claude Landry and Peter Jenni. Photos 02, 03: (left to right) Jean-Claude Landry, Bernard Ecoffey and Peter Jenni.

CERN Courier celebrates 50th anniversary

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2009-01-01

"(…) An information paper intended to help every staff member to feel at home in the Organization and to maintain the ideal of European co-operation and the team spirit which are essential to the achievement of our final aim: scientific research on an international scale." This quote is taken from the preface of the first issue of the CERN Courier, published in August 1959. "In 50 years, the CERN Courier has changed a lot. It has broadened its scope to become an international magazine on high-energy physics and its readership has grown from a few thousand internal readers to more than 25 000 readers across the world", says Christine Sutton, the present editor of the magazine. The CERN Courier is commemorating its anniversary with a special July/August issue celebrating the past 50 years. "We’ve reproduced the original edition in its entirety", explains Sutton. "It’s amazing to me how much the first editor, Roger Anthoine, achieved in jus...

Welcoming spouses and partners to CERN

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Staff Association

2016-01-01

The questions related to Diversity were examined in the framework of the Five-yearly Review, which was approved in December 2015. The first themes implemented this year concern helping spouses or partners integrate into the working world, and improving the balance between professional and private life.   To this end, the Social Affairs Service and the CERN Diversity Office organised together on Tuesday, 15 November, a “Welcome Drink” for the spouses and partners of employed members of the personnel of CERN who have recently arrived in the region. This event was an occasion for the spouses and partners to meet and greet with various internal services at CERN, including the Staff Association, as well as local networks that can provide assistance in integrating into the region, in terms of job search for instance. Therefore, several service providers were present, including: the Geneva Welcome Center (CAGI), a welcoming network for newly arrived employees of international organi...

Modernising the CERN Admin e-guide

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DG-RPC-PA (section des processus administratifs)

2014-01-01

In just a few years, the CERN Admin e-guide has become the essential guide for CERN's administrative procedures, intended not just for administrative services but for all members of the personnel of CERN. The guide is edited by the Administrative Process Section (DG-RPC-PA) and allows users to look up administrative procedures and forms relating to the application of the Staff Rules and Regulations easily in both French and English. Site visit statistics show that 5000 people on average consult the Admin e-guide each month. The most consulted procedures are those relating to green licence plates, taxes, Swiss and French cards and leave. The site has just been moved over to Drupal, which will make it easier to update the information provided and will improve content management. This system change meant migrating 220 procedures and more than 500 frequently asked questions. The structure has been revised for clarity, but the principles that made the guide so successful have not changed, namely the e...

Changes in the e-mail policy for people without CERN affiliation

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2012-01-01

When affiliated with CERN, every computing account owner is entitled to have a CERN mail address (e.g. “John.Doe@cern.ch”). However, up to now, this mail address was still valid even after the end of a person's affiliation if the owner declared an external email address (e.g. “John.Doe@gmail.com”) to which all personal CERN emails (i.e. those sent to “John.Doe@cern.ch”) could be forwarded.*   As a result, to use our John Doe analogy, John could continue to write and receive emails ostensibly on behalf of CERN despite the fact that he is no longer a member of the personnel or subject to the CERN Staff Rules and Regulations and the Computing Rules. It is doubtful whether this makes sense. Therefore, in agreement with departments and LHC experiments at the last ITSRM meeting, all CERN email addresses of people whose affiliation has been terminated more than six months ago will be deactivated on 15 October 2012. For all others, incl...

Coincidence of role expectations between staff and volunteer members of drug free community coalitions.

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Goldstein, Marc B; Sapere, Heather; Daviau, John

2017-08-01

Community coalitions have proliferated as a means of addressing a range of complex community problems. Such coalitions often consist of a small paid staff and volunteer members. The present study examines one likely contributor to coalition effectiveness: the degree of agreement on role expectations between paid staff and volunteer members. Role confusion occurs when paid staff and volunteers differ in their expectations of who is responsible for accomplishing specific tasks. Staff and volunteer members from 69 randomly selected Drug Free Coalitions in the United States as well as 21 Drug Free Coalitions in Connecticut were asked to respond to an online survey asking about 37 specific coalition tasks critical for effective coalition functioning and the degree to which paid staff and/or voluntary members should be responsible for accomplishing each. Our final sample consisted of 476 individuals from 35 coalitions. Using coalitions as the unit of analysis, we found significant differences between paid staff and volunteer coalition members on nine tasks reflecting four domains: meeting leadership and participation, (2) planning and implementation leadership, (3) publicity/media relations, and (4) logistical functions. Implications of these differences and ways that evaluators could help coalitions deal with differing role expectations were discussed. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

2008 Staff Survey: no. 1 priority – Consolidate our Pension Scheme

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Association du personnel

2009-01-01

The Organization has a fundamental obligation to ensure its active and retired staff and the members of their families a solid and durable social security system, in conformity with Article 21 of the Statutory Agreement signed by CERN and the Host State (Switzerland) in 1955.

Substance abusers' personality disorders and staff members' emotional reactions

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Hesse Morten

2008-04-01

Full Text Available Abstract Background Previous research has indicated that aggressive behaviour and DSM-IV cluster B personality disorders (PD may be associated with professionals' emotional reactions to clients, and that cluster C PD may be associated with positive emotional reactions. Methods Staff members recruited from workshops completed a self-report inventory of emotional reactions to patients, the Feeling Word Checklist-58, and substance abusers completed a self-report of DSM-IV personality disorder, the DSM-IV and ICD-10 Personality Disorder Questionnaire. Correlational analysis and multiple regression analysis was used to assess the associations between personality disorders and emotional reations. Results Cluster B disorder features were associated with feeling distance to patients, and cluster C disorder features were associated with feeling helpful towards patients. Cluster A disorders had no significant impact on emotional reactions. Conclusion The findings confirm clinical experiences that personality disorder features in patients with substance abuse have an impact on staff members reactions to them. These reactions should be considered in supervision of staff, and in treatment models for patients with co-morbid personality disorders and substance abuse.

INVITATION Replay of the Rudra-Béjart Ballet for the CERN Staff

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Luciano Maiani

2000-01-01

Most of you couldn't attend the ballet performance given by the Rudra-Béjart School at the LEP Ministerial Ceremony on 9 October due to the limited space on the seating - and I felt that was a great pity. But I am very happy to announce now, prompted by the quality of the show and the unanimous enthusiasm of those present, that I have asked the Rudra-Béjart School to repeat the show for you - not on CERN Site this time - but nonetheless in excellent conditions. Not only has Maurice Béjart accepted, but this second performance also gives great joy to the young dancers of his School, who felt so proud to perform at CERN. A private performance will be given for you at the Geneva ARENA on Tuesday 5 December at 8.00 pm sharp, and will last longer than the original performance at CERN: 1 hour 20 instead of 35 minutes. I encourage you all to attend this performance-bring in great numbers yourselves, members of your family, and your friends. 2,020 places are available, for which tick...

CERN collect for Earthquakein Italy August 24, 2016

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Brice, Maximilien

2016-01-01

Ghislain Roy, President of CERN's Staff Association, Maurizio Serra, Ambassador, permanent Mission of Italy to teh United NAtions Office in Geneva, FAbiola Gianotti, CERN director General and Umberto Dosselli, scientific ataché Italian Permanent Mission in Geneva, show the letter co-signed by CERN's director general and CERN' s Staff Association President indicating the amounbt collected in favour of the vicitims of the August 24 2016 earthquake in central Italy.

Celebrating diversity at CERN

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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...

Sharing resources@CERN

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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.

Members of the Forum Engelberg visit CERN

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Patrice Loïez

2002-01-01

The Forum Engelberg is an annual interdisciplinary conference held in Engelberg, Switzerland intended to act as an international platform for debate and exchange of views on key issues affecting scientific research, technology, economics and philosophy. Its President is Hubert Curien - former French Minister of Research and Space Research, and President of the CERN Council from 1994 to 1996. Photo 01: Raymond Battistella - Director-General of SIG, Geneva's utilities provider (left) - and Bernard Ecoffey, Founder of the Forum Engelberg. In the background is the CMS magnet system under construction. The red concentric rings are part of the barrel yoke, which returns the magnetic flux generated by the superconducting coil. Supported from the innermost barrel ring is the outer cylinder of the vacuum tank that will house the superconducting coil. Photo 02: Alexander Höchli, member of the Institutional Committee of Forum Engelberg and former Landammann of the canton of Obwalden (left), with Raymond Battistella, Di...

Elections of members to the Governing Board of the Pension Fund

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Pension Fund

2005-01-01

This year, one member and two alternates are to be elected. The candidate who obtains the most votes will be elected member and the other candidates will be their alternates. These elections will take place following the timetable given below: Monday 31 October 2005 Second publication of the candidates' publicity in the Bulletin and distribution of the ballot papers at CERN. Monday 21 November 2005 Voting closes at 12:00. Counting of votes from 14:30. Tuesday 22 November 2005 Forwarding of results to the Communications Section for publication in the Bulletin of 28 November. CERN - EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH PENSION FUND ELECTIONS - Pension Fund This candidature has been duly registered and is hereby presented in accordance with paragraph 6.h of the Regulations for Elections to the Governing Board of the Pension Fund. Candidate: Name: MARTEL First Name: Pedro I arrived at CERN as a Staff member in 1995, and have been working with Engineering Databases since then. I ...

Elections of members to the Governing Board of the Pensions Fund

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Pension Fund

2004-01-01

This year, two members and two alternates are to be elected. The candidates who obtain most votes will be elected members and the other candidates will be their alternates. Timetable (extract) : Monday 1 November 2004 Second publication of the candidates' publicity in the Bulletin (see thereafter) and distribution of the ballot papers at CERN. Monday 22 November 2004 Voting closes at 12 hrs. Counting of votes from 14.30 hrs. Tuesday 23 November 2004 Forwarding of results to the Communications Section for publication in the Bulletin of 29 November. ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE CERN EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH CAISSE DE PENSIONS / PENSION FUND ELECTIONS - Pension Fund This candidature has been duly registered and is hereby presented in accordance with paragraph 6.h of the Regulations for Elections to the Governing Board of the Pension Fund. Candidate: Name : CHIAVERI First Name : Enrico I have been a CERN staff member since 1973 and have a...

2005 CERN Relay Race

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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.

Integrity at CERN

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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”.

Philippe Bloch: Reducing distance between experiments and CERN

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2009-01-01

With its unique combination of several hundred staff members and thousands of users from around the world sharing offices and physics data and profiting from mutually beneficial exchanges of know-how and expertise, the PH Department is a good example of a successful worldwide collaboration, set up as it was to construct and run the Laboratory’s physics experiments. The PH Depart-ment has always played host to thousands of users that contribute to CERN experiments and work on them, and whose numbers are set to grow in the years to come. With his long-standing experience as a user and then as the head of the CERN group within the CMS collaboration, Philippe Bloch, the new PH Department Head, is in favour of closer links between the Department and the experiments. "I think that the PH management should have a direct link to the experiments, and to do so we are holding regular management team meetings comprising members of the Department’s management and the e...

From CERN to Entrepreneurship: we don't know what we don't know

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CERN. Geneva

2017-01-01

Piero Zucchelli is founder and CEO of Andrew Alliance, a company specialising in novel liquid handling robots designed to enhance the reproducibility and efficiency of the pipetting process. Before founding Andrew Alliance, Piero was CTO of SpinX Technologies for 8 years and prior to that a staff member at CERN.    

Cern Golf Club

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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...

CERN Health Insurance Scheme - changes on 1 January 2011

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2011-01-01

Changes decided by the Council on 16 December 2010 Following the five-yearly review of financial and social conditions, which included the CERN Health Insurance Scheme (CHIS), the CERN Council has taken certain decisions which affect both active and retired staff. In order to restore the financial equilibrium of the CHIS, the level of contributions will increase progressively over the next five years. In 2011, the contributions of both active and retired members increase from 4.02% to 4.27%. The amounts of the fixed premiums for voluntary insured members (e.g. users and associates) as well as the supplementary contributions for spouses with an income from a professional activity increase accordingly. The amounts of the daily allowance for Long-Term Care have been increased by 20% as of 1 January 2011. The CHIS Rules have been amended according to the above decisions. They entered into force on 1 January 2011 and are available on the CHIS site. Tel. 74125 Members of the personnel shall be deemed to ...

Romania's flag raised at CERN

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Corinne Pralavorio

2016-01-01

A ceremony was held for the raising of the Romanian flag alongside the flags of CERN’s 21 other Member States.   The Romanian flag is raised alongside the flags of CERN’s other Member States, in the presence of the Romanian President, CERN’s Director-General, the President of the CERN Council and a large Romanian delegation. (Image: Maximilien Brice/ Sophia Bennett/CERN) On Monday, 5 September, the Romanian flag was raised in front of CERN for the first time, marking the country’s accession to Membership of the Organization. The blue, yellow and red flag joined those of the other 21 Member States of CERN in a ceremony attended by the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, the Romanian Minister for Education and Scientific Research, Mircea Dumitru, and several other members of the President’s office, the government and academia in Romania. The country officially became a CERN Member State on 17 July 2016, after 25 years of collaboration between the...

The Crèche and School structure of the CERN Staff Association is looking for a new name

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2018-01-01

The CERN Staff Association is launching a competition to find a new name to replace the current acronym EVEE (Espace de Vie Enfantine et École). The competition is open to everyone from Thursday, 1 February 2018 to Thursday, 15 March. All participants can send their name suggestions via the form available on the websites of the Staff Association and the Crèche and School. Good luck to all – may the best one win! P.S. The Rules of the Competition are available on both websites

Industrial Activity at CERN

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Kowalik, G

2000-01-01

The decrease in the number of CERN staff creates the need for optimization of the non-core, infrastructure-related activities. An industrial, service-orientated approach has long been considered as an appropriate way to cope with the problem of diminishing resources. This paper presents industrial and service activity issues at CERN based on the experience of the exploitation of the power network. The most important problems linked to the application of the industrial approach to the exploitation of equipment in the CERN research environment are covered. These include the interface between accelerators and electrical exploitation services, external and internal regulations, sharing of responsibility between CERN staff and external contractors, continuous modification of clients' requirements, the balance between the cost of accelerator downtime versus the cost of infrastructure upgrade. A benchmarking through a comparison with a big industrial manufacturer is followed by recommendations for possible improveme...

Staff members' perceived training needs regarding sexuality in residential aged care facilities.

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Villar, Feliciano; Celdrán, Montserrat; Fabà, Josep; Serrat, Rodrigo

2017-01-01

The purpose of the article is to ascertain if staff members of residential aged care facilities (RACF) perceive the need for training regarding residents' sexuality, and what, if any, benefits from the training were perceived, and to compare perceived benefits of training between care assistants and professional/managerial staff. Interviews were conducted with 53 staff members of five different RACF in Spain. Their responses to two semistructured questions were transcribed verbatim and submitted to content analysis. Results show that most interviewees said they lacked training about sexuality and aging. Two potential highlighted benefits of the training are knowledge/attitudinal (countering negative attitudes regarding sexuality) and procedural (developing common protocols and tools to manage situations related to sexuality). Care assistants and professional staff agreed on the need for training, though the former emphasized the procedural impact and the latter the knowledge/attitudinal benefits. The results suggest that RACF staff should have an opportunity to receive training on residents' sexuality, as sexual interest and behavior is a key dimension of residents' lives.

CERN Library - Scientific journal cancellations

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2004-01-01

Due to the constant increase of the subscription costs of scientific journals and the current budget restrictions, the Scientific Information Policy Board has mandated the Working Group for Acquisitions (WGA) together with the Library to propose a list of titles to be cancelled at the end of 2004. As a first step, the WGA has identified the scientific journals listed at the web site below as candidates for cancellation. The choice has been guided by the personal experience of the WGA members, consultation of other expert CERN staff for highly specialized titles, and by criteria such as subscription price, impact factor, and - where available - access statistics for electronic journals. The list also accounts for the fact that many titles are subscribed to in 'packages' such that a cancellation of individual titles would not lead to any cost savings. We invite users to carefully check the list on the Library homepage (http://library.cern.ch/). If you find any title that you consider critically important for y...

CERN Photo Club (CPC) / Canon Contest - My View of CERN

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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.

CERN Rocks

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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.

People and things. CERN Courier, Nov 1979, v. 19(8)

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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

People and things. CERN Courier, Nov 1979, v. 19(8)

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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.

25 years of service at CERN

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2014-01-01

The 28 staff members having achieved 25 years of service at CERN in 2014 were invited by the Director-General to a reception in their honour on 25 November 2014.       Alberto AIMAR IT   Patrick BERLINGHI  GS   Horst  BREUKER  PH   Paolo  CHIGGIATO  TE   Jorgen  CHRISTIANSEN PH   Ivan  DELOOSE  IT   Martine   DESNYDER-IVESDAL  PH   Laurent  DUCIMETIERE   TE   Bruno  DUPUY  BE   Alan James  FINDLAY  BE   Jean-Jacques   GRAS BE   Michael  HAUSCHILD PH   Erk  JENSEN  BE   Michael  LAMONT&...

Members of the Forum Engelberg visit CERN

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Patrice Loïez

2002-01-01

The Forum Engelberg is an annual interdisciplinary conference held in Engelberg, Switzerland intended to act as an international platform for debate and exchange of views on key issues affecting scientific research, technology, economics and philosophy. Its President is Hubert Curien - former French Minister of Research and Space Research, and President of the CERN Council from 1994 to 1996. This series of photos was taken during a speech he made as part of a visit to CERN.

2017 Elections to Staff Council

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2017-01-01

Make your voice heard, support your candidates! After verification by the Electoral Commission, all candidates for the elections to the Staff Council have been registered. It is now up to you, members of the Staff Association, to vote for the candidate(s) of your choice. We hope that you will be many to vote and to elect the new Staff Council! By doing so, you can support and encourage the women and men, who will represent you over the next two years. We are using an electronic voting system; all you need to do is click the link below and follow the instructions on the screen. https://ap-vote.web.cern.ch/elections-2017 The deadline for voting is Monday, 13 November at midday (12 pm). Elections Timetable Monday 13 November, at noon Closing date for voting Tuesday 21 November and Tuesday 5 December Publication of the results in Echo Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 November Staff Association Assizes Tuesday 5 December (afternoon) First meeting of the new Staff Council and election of the new Executive Committee The ...

People and things. CERN Courier, Jan-Feb 1987, v. 27(1)

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Anon.

1987-01-15

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. The search goes on for gravitational radiation, the existence of such waves was implied by the first formulations of general relativity some sixty years ago, but their detection has taxed the ingenuity of experimenters. Any signals would be easily screened by seismic noise, etc. In an effort to eliminate this background, a network of three highly sensitive cryogenic detectors was set up – one at CERN, used by a Rome group, another at Stanford and a third at Louisiana State. The 1987 JINR-CERN School of Physics is the tenth in a series organized by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna, USSR) and CERN. The aim is to teach various aspects of high energy physics, especially theoretical, to young experimentalists with at least one year's research experience, coming mainly from Member States of JINR and CERN. The fourth workshop to discuss physics at CERN's LEAR Low Energy Antiproton Ring will be held at Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, from 6-13 September.

People and things. CERN Courier, Jan-Feb 1987, v. 27(1)

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Anon.

1987-01-01

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. The search goes on for gravitational radiation, the existence of such waves was implied by the first formulations of general relativity some sixty years ago, but their detection has taxed the ingenuity of experimenters. Any signals would be easily screened by seismic noise, etc. In an effort to eliminate this background, a network of three highly sensitive cryogenic detectors was set up – one at CERN, used by a Rome group, another at Stanford and a third at Louisiana State. The 1987 JINR-CERN School of Physics is the tenth in a series organized by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna, USSR) and CERN. The aim is to teach various aspects of high energy physics, especially theoretical, to young experimentalists with at least one year's research experience, coming mainly from Member States of JINR and CERN. The fourth workshop to discuss physics at CERN's LEAR Low Energy Antiproton Ring will be held at Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, from 6-13 September

CERN les personnels en ébullition

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Lanief, V

2002-01-01

Financial difficulties caused by the overspend for the LHC project are forcing radical economies at CERN. Around 400 employees demonstrated at CERN yesterday in protest at proposed cuts in staff contracts (1 page).

CERN, an Invaluable Asset for Humanity – Interview with the Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti

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Staff Association

2016-01-01

Fabiola Gianotti is an Italian physicist and the first woman appointed by the CERN Council as the Director-General of the Laboratory. She took office on January 1st, 2016. The two Vice-Presidents of the Staff Association (SA) met with her to discuss the current affairs of the Organization. Appointment as D-G and ambitions for CERN As a former member of the personnel in the Physics department of CERN, Fabiola Gianotti has a long history with the Organization, and her vast in-house experience was likely a key factor in her appointment as the Director-General. Indeed, her in-depth knowledge of CERN and its functioning, as well as the current and future challenges of the Organization, are indispensable assets in guiding her ambitions for the Laboratory. Among her greatest aspirations for CERN, she names the increase of scientific excellence in the field of experimental research, development of cutting-edge technologies, education of younger generations, and collaborations with scientists from all over the wor...

Making CERN a modern and attractive employer

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2016-01-01

On 1 September 2016, the new career structure that emerged from the latest five-yearly review of employment terms and conditions came into effect.   All CERN staff received a letter in August explaining what the new structure means for them personally, while an HR road show has presented the new structure around the departments. The five-yearly review focused on CERN staff, but it also concerns Fellows and Associates. Its aims are to contribute to the long-term sustainability of CERN by ensuring that we are competitive in the job market, and that we are attentive to the needs of our personnel. Surveys conducted by both the HR Department and the Staff Association told us that people care about things like diversity, flexibility, social conditions and transparency. As a result, new procedures simplify the annual performance appraisal, clarify the promotion process and introduce more flexible conditions for parental leave and teleworking. These things are all designed to make CERN a modern and attra...

Elections of members to the Governing Board of the Pension Fund

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2006-01-01

This year, one member and one alternate are to be elected. The candidate who obtains the most votes will be elected member and the other candidate will be her/his alternate. Timetable (extract): Monday 6 November 2006 Second publication of the candidates' publicity in the Bulletin and distribution of the ballot papers at CERN. Monday 20 November 2006 Voting closes at 12 midday. Counting of votes from 2.30 p.m. Tuesday 21 November 2006 Forwarding of results to the Communications Section for publication in the Bulletin of 27 November 2006. CERN - EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH PENSION FUND ELECTIONS - Pension Fund This candidature has been duly registered and is hereby presented in accordance with paragraph 6.h of the Regulations for Elections to the Governing Board of the Pension Fund. Candidate: First name: Michel Name: Goossens The CERN/ESO Pension Fund represents, for most staff, the sole source of income when they retire. The health of our Pension Fund is thus of the utmost importance...

CERN Photo club

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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

32 CFR 705.15 - Employment of Navy personnel as correspondents or staff members of civilian news media.

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2010-07-01

... or staff members of civilian news media. 705.15 Section 705.15 National Defense Department of Defense... REGULATIONS § 705.15 Employment of Navy personnel as correspondents or staff members of civilian news media. (a) A member of the naval service on active duty or Navy civilian may act as correspondent for a news...

Opening of a summer camp at CERN

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Nursery School

2015-01-01

The Staff Association has the pleasure to announce the opening of a summer camp in l’EVE et Ecole de l’AP du CERN. With a capacity of 40 children, aged 4 to 6 years, it will be open from July 6 to 30. Registration Summer camp 2015 Registration for the CERN SA Summer camp for children aged 4 to 6 is open 16 to 30 April 2015 More information on the website: http://nurseryschool.web.cern.ch/ The Summer camp is open to all children of CERN Staff. An inscription per week is proposed, cost 480.-CHF/week, lunch included. The camp will be open weeks 28, 29, 30 and 31, from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm.

Transmission of Staphylococcus aureus from maternity unit staff members to newborns disclosed through spa typing.

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Matussek, Andreas; Taipalensuu, Jan; Einemo, Ing-Marie; Tiefenthal, Malena; Löfgren, Sture

2007-03-01

We observed previously that newborn infants are colonized with Staphylococcus aureus, even if their mothers do not carry S aureus. This observation indicated a cross colonization, and, thus, a risk for nosocomial infection, although the infants are roomed in with their mothers. The S aureus colonization of infants, their parents, and staff members was measured at 3 maternity units. Possible transmission routes were determined using spa typing of S aureus isolates. Infants had the highest S aureus carriage (45%) compared with fathers (39%), mothers (27%), and staff members (27%). In 13 out of 44 colonized infants, transmission from staff members was indicated. This transmission was more frequent than was transmission from their own parents (11 cases), and occurred even in cases when parents were colonized with S aureus of other spa types. We confirm a high level of transmission of S aureus from staff members to infants, indicating a risk for patient safety, which necessitates continuing work with implementing scientific evidence for infection control. The spa typing is a rapid and valuable epidemiological tool, and it can be used in improving hospital hygiene control programs.

CERN Table Tennis Club

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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;...

History of CERN. Volume 3

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Krige, J.

1996-01-01

The present volume continues the story of the history of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, concentrating on the years between the mid 1960s and the late 1970s. Whereas the first two volumes were the product of a team of historians, this book is rather a collection of studies by authors with very different professional backgrounds and institutional locations. It also differs from the predecessor volumes in the fact that it consists of distinct case studies dealing with a number of issues deemed important. The first part of this volume, containing contributions by historians of science, perceives the laboratory as being at the node of a complex of interconnected relationships between scientists and science managers on the staff, the users in the member states, and the governments which were called upon to finance the laboratory. In part 2 the physical results, obtained at CERN, are surveyed, while in part 3 two chapters are presented, one on engineering and technology, and the other on the research and development of electronic position detectors

Britain at CERN

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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.

Child care at CERN: Recommendations for Improvements of the Child Care Situation at CERN

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Alviggi, M G; Avramidou, R; Barillari, T; Bates, R; Benelli, G; Beolè, S; Berger, N; Boeriu, O; Bölla, G; Bornheim, A; Brigido, F; Calheiros, F; Garrido, M C; Llatas, M C; Chesneanu, D; Conde-Muíño, P; D'Auria, S; De Santo, A; David Tinoco Mendes, A; De La Cruz Burelo, E; Della Volpe, M; Delmastro, M; Demers, S M; Dimovasili, E; Dindar, K; Elder, S; Eno, S; Eschrich, K G; Fonseca Martin, T M; Gagnon, P; Gateau, M; Gemme, C; Gentile, S; Geurts, F; Goldfarb, S; Grabowska-Bold, I; Grothe, M; Hadjidakis, C; Hoffmann, D; Issever, C; Josa-Mutuberria, I; Kandasamy, S; Koblitz, S; Koval'S'Kyi, D; Krivda, M; Lançon, E; Leahu, A E; Leahu, L; Lester, C G; Lipniacka-Wesolowska, A L; List, J; López-Noriega, M; Manca, G; Mariotti, C; Maselli, S; Merkel, P; Nachtman, J; Natale, S; Oldeman, R; Organtini, G; Patterson, R; Pesci, A; Primavera, M; Quadt, A; Rosati, M; Sbarra, C; Teuscher, R; Tique Aires Viegas, F; Trigger, I M; Tuominen, E; Van Lingen, F; Vandoni, G; Vanini, S; Veverkovai, K; Vickey, T; Wang, D; Wells, P; Wengler, T; Wittmer, B; Yumiceva Del Pozo, F X; CERN. Geneva. HR Department

2008-01-01

This is a document summarizing a survey of child care needs of CERN staff and users which was performed in February 2008 by the CERN Child Care Initiative. The document presents the analysis of this data. Conclusions on the minimal facilities size are derived and possible funding source at the European Union are discussed.

Iran approaches CERN

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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.

News regarding Mobility at CERN

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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...

Amendments to the Staff Rules and Regulations

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HR Department

2006-01-01

The Staff Rules and Regulations in force since 1st January 1996 are modified as follows as of 1st July 2006: Financial and social conditions for Paid Associates, Fellows and Students (introduction of a new payment scheme for the Paid Scientific Associates Programme-reorganisation of the Fellowship Programme-modification of Student subsistence rates) Protection of members of the personnel against the financial consequences of illness, accident and disability (clarification of the scope of the relevant provisions-new definition of disability and associated benefits-revised role of the Joint Advisory Rehabilitation and Disability Board-bringing together of the relevant provisions). Copies of this update (modification No.16) are available from Departmental secretariats. In addition, the Staff Rules and Regulations can be consulted on the Web at the following address: http://cern.ch/hr-div/internal/admin_services/rules/default.asp Administrative Circular No. 14 (Rev. 2)-July 2006 Protection of members o...

Britain at CERN

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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.

Basics of Accelerator Science and Technology at CERN

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2013-01-01

This course will provide an introductory level training in General Accelerator Physics for CERN staff (mainly engineers and technical engineers) who have not yet attended one of the regular CERN Accelerator School Introductory courses. This one-week course will review the core topics of accelerator physics with special emphasis on CERN machines and CERN applications, respectively. Application is by invitation only.

Residence in Switzerland of partners of members of the personnel

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2012-01-01

1. Definitions a) CERN Staff Rules and Regulations Article S IV 1.02 of the Staff Rules defines a "partner", irrespective of gender, as "any person linked to an employed member of the personnel by a partnership officially registered in a Member State". Partners are regarded as family members for the purposes of protection against the financial consequences of illness and accidents. b) Swiss Federal Law Under Swiss federal law, to which the text below essentially refers, the following definitions apply: "partners": a couple of the same sex (linked by a registered partnership), "common-law spouses": a couple of the opposite sex (unmarried). Provided that they are aged 18 or more and are not blood relatives, two people of the same sex ("partners") may officially register their partnership with the competent registry office in order to give it a legal framework (a civil partnership commonly known as the Federal PACS...

Communiqué to members of the personnel of Swiss nationality domiciled in France

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Human Resources Department

2004-01-01

Impôt fédéral direct (IFD) 2001 - 2004 The Permanent Mission of Switzerland has informed CERN that the federal authorities have upheld the decision of the Geneva Canton's fiscal administration (Administration fiscale cantonale genevoise - AFC) obliging all members of the personnel of Swiss nationality (including those holding dual nationality) domiciled in France to pay the IFD on their CERN salaries since 2001. Consequently, the aforementioned members of the personnel will shortly be receiving a request from the AFC to normalise their situation with respect to the IFD for the years 2001-2004. To this end, they must complete the relevant income tax declaration forms and return them to the AFC together with the relevant salary certificates, which they shall have obtained in advance from the Finance Department (Tel. 73904). In accordance with Article R IV 1.25 of the Staff Regulations, the Organization will refund the taxes levied in respect of remuneration paid by CERN. Any...

Amendment to the agreement between CERN and Ukraine concerning the granting of the status of Associate Member at CERN Extension of the deadline for the notification of the completion of the internal approval procedures of the agreement by Ukraine

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2015-01-01

Amendment to the agreement between CERN and Ukraine concerning the granting of the status of Associate Member at CERN Extension of the deadline for the notification of the completion of the internal approval procedures of the agreement by Ukraine

CERN Relay Race

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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.  

Sharing resources@CERN

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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...

CERN Pensioners Association

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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...

The CERN's year

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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.)

Public Staff Meetings – thank you for a large attendance

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Staff Association

2013-01-01

The public meetings of the Staff Association which took place recently were attended by about 500 staff, a large fraction of them young and on a limited duration (LD) contract. The audience mainly shared the worries of the Staff Association concerning the low number of IC post openings in this and the coming years. Moreover, after the meeting several LD contract holders contacted the Staff Association to express their point of view and to put forward their ideas to tackle this problem. As explained in those meetings, the Staff Association emphasizes that personnel policy should not be guided by self-imposed quota, even under pressure by the Member States. As we have repeated several times, CERN needs a total staff complement well beyond the baseline ceiling of 2250, the number agreed by Council, if it has to guarantee an efficient and excellence level of service to the ever-growing user community, which has almost doubled over the last decade. Moreover, the indefinite contract (IC) component should stan...

The CERN's year; L'annee du CERN

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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.)

Difficult relationships--interactions between family members and staff in long-term care.

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Norris, S

2000-01-01

Staff of long-term care facilities and family members have a common responsibility to ensure the best course of treatment and everyday care for residents who often cannot speak for themselves. Understanding the difference between instrumental and preservative care, and who the proper agent is to provide care in each category will not only improve staff/family interactions, but residential care in general. The Resident Enrichment and Activity Program improves the family/staff relationship obliquely by involving family in social activities; the Family Involvement in Care program, and the Patterns in Caregiving program directly target the relationship and involve the facility's administration to effect policy change.

Kick off of the 2017-2018 school year at the EVE and School of the CERN Staff Association

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2017-01-01

The Children’s Day-Care Centre (“Espace de Vie Enfantine” - EVE) and School of the CERN Staff Association opened its doors once again to welcome the children, along with the teaching and administrative staff of the structure. The start of the school year was carried out gradually and in small groups to allow quality interaction between children, professionals and parents. At the EVE (Nursery and Kindergarten) and School, the children have the opportunity to thrive in a privileged environment, rich in cultural diversity, since the families (parents and children) come from many different nationalities. The teaching staff do their utmost to ensure that the children can become more autonomous and develop their social skills, all the while taking care of their well-being. This year, several new features are being introduced, for instance, first steps towards English language awareness. Indeed, the children will get to discover the English language in creative classes together with tr...

People and things. CERN Courier, Dec 1995, v. 35(9)

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Anon.

1995-12-15

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: José Mariano Gago, president of LIP, the national Laboratory for experimental high energy physics and related research and development projects, in Lisbon becomes Portuguese Minister of Science and Technology. As well as being a prominent Portuguese particle physicist, Professor Gago is well known at CERN and played a vital role in his country's becoming a CERN Member State from 1986. (For a report on CERN-Portugal affairs, see September, page 22.) CERN Research Director from 1989- 93, Walter Hoogland left CERN in October to return to the Dutch NIKHEF Laboratory. Director General Chris Llewellyn Smith recalled Walter Hoogland's valuable contributions in strengthening ties between CERN and non-Member States anxious to participate in CERA/'S experimental programme, and in the establishment of the Detector Research and Development Committee which blazed a trail for work towards LHC detectors. Brian Foster of Bristol has been invited to serve for the period from 1 September to 31 December 1995 as a member and for the period 1 January to 31 August 1998 as Chairman of the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council's Particle Physics Committee, succeeding David Saxon.; Aldo Michelini retires: Following a successful and wide ranging career at the forefront of particle physics, Aldo Michelini formally retired from CERN at the end of October. He joined CERN in 1960, following a series of experiments with tracking chambers, including some time with Jack Steinberger's group in Columbia. At CERN, he first worked on the CERN Wilson chamber, which now performs valuable service as an aquarium! Four years later, he led a CERN/ETH Zurich/IC London collaboration studying strong interactions using a then novel approach - spark chambers in a large magnet. From 1969 - 73, he led the Omega spectrometer

People and things. CERN Courier, Dec 1995, v. 35(9)

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Anon.

1995-01-01

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: José Mariano Gago, president of LIP, the national Laboratory for experimental high energy physics and related research and development projects, in Lisbon becomes Portuguese Minister of Science and Technology. As well as being a prominent Portuguese particle physicist, Professor Gago is well known at CERN and played a vital role in his country's becoming a CERN Member State from 1986. (For a report on CERN-Portugal affairs, see September, page 22.) CERN Research Director from 1989- 93, Walter Hoogland left CERN in October to return to the Dutch NIKHEF Laboratory. Director General Chris Llewellyn Smith recalled Walter Hoogland's valuable contributions in strengthening ties between CERN and non-Member States anxious to participate in CERA/'S experimental programme, and in the establishment of the Detector Research and Development Committee which blazed a trail for work towards LHC detectors. Brian Foster of Bristol has been invited to serve for the period from 1 September to 31 December 1995 as a member and for the period 1 January to 31 August 1998 as Chairman of the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council's Particle Physics Committee, succeeding David Saxon.; Aldo Michelini retires: Following a successful and wide ranging career at the forefront of particle physics, Aldo Michelini formally retired from CERN at the end of October. He joined CERN in 1960, following a series of experiments with tracking chambers, including some time with Jack Steinberger's group in Columbia. At CERN, he first worked on the CERN Wilson chamber, which now performs valuable service as an aquarium! Four years later, he led a CERN/ETH Zurich/IC London collaboration studying strong interactions using a then novel approach - spark chambers in a large magnet. From 1969 - 73, he

Staff Rules and Regulations - Modification No. 11 to the 11th edition

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HR Department

2016-01-01

The following modifications to the Staff Rules and Regulations have been implemented:   In the framework of the Five-Yearly Review 2015, in accordance with the decisions taken by the Council in December 2015 (CERN/3213), relating to the new CERN career structure;   In accordance with the decisions taken by the Council in June 2016 (CERN/3247), relating to the status of apprentices and the remaining technical adjustments.   The modifications relating to the status of apprentices have entered into force on 1st August 2016 and those relating to the new CERN career structure and the technical adjustments will enter into force on 1st September 2016. Preliminary Note, Contents - amendment of page iv.   Chapter I, General Provisions Section 2 (Categories of members of the personnel) - amendment of pages 2 and 3.   Chapter II, Conditions of Employment and Association Section 1 (Employment and association) - amendment of pages 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15. Section 2 (Cla...

The CERN Global Network opens its doors to companies

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Francesco Poppi

2010-01-01

Six months after its launch, the CERN Global Network already has almost one thousand members. Today, it is opening its doors to companies from CERN's Member States. This will open up a variety of new professional and career opportunities to all the members and will enhance the networking capabilities of all parties involved.   Screenshot of the CERN Global Network website. A new item has recently appeared on the top menu of the Network's website: “Organisations”. This is the entry point for companies and, later, research institutes, wishing to join. “The CERN Global Network brings together hundreds of people who have worked at or with CERN and who have a wealth of skills and expertise. Thanks to the Network, the job opportunities made available by the companies will become visible to the wider community,” says Linda Orr-Easo, a member of the Knowledge and Technology Transfer Group and the CERN Global Network Manager. In addition to creating new career opp...

CERN Yoga club

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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

Care and caring in the intensive care unit: Family members' distress and perceptions about staff skills, communication, and emotional support.

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Carlson, Eve B; Spain, David A; Muhtadie, Luma; McDade-Montez, Liz; Macia, Kathryn S

2015-06-01

Family members of intensive care unit (ICU) patients are sometimes highly distressed and report lower satisfaction with communication and emotional support from staff. Within a study of emotional responses to traumatic stress, associations between family distress and satisfaction with aspects of ICU care were investigated. In 29 family members of trauma patients who stayed in an ICU, we assessed symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during ICU care. Later, family members rated staff communication, support, and skills and their overall satisfaction with ICU care. Ratings of staff competence and skills were significantly higher than ratings of frequency of communication, information needs being met, and support. Frequency of communication and information needs being met were strongly related to ratings of support (rs = .75-.77) and staff skills (rs = .77-.85), and aspects of satisfaction and communication showed negative relationships with symptoms of depression (rs = -.31 to -.55) and PTSD (rs = -.17 to -.43). Although satisfaction was fairly high, family member distress was negatively associated with several satisfaction variables. Increased understanding of the effects of traumatic stress on family members may help staff improve communication and increase satisfaction of highly distressed family members. Published by Elsevier Inc.

CERN's technical apprentices during their apprenticeships

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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.

CERN Relay Race

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2008-01-01

The CERN relay race will take place around the Meyrin site on Thursday 5 June starting at 12:15 p.m. 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 how to register your team for the relay race are given on the Staff Association Bulletin web site. You can access the online registration form at: http://cern.ch/club-running-relay/form.html

CERN Relay Race

CERN Document Server

2007-01-01

The CERN relay race will take place around the Meyrin site on Wednesday 23 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 how to register your team for the relay race are given on the Staff Association Bulletin web site. You can access the online registration form at: http://cern.ch/club-running-relay/form.html

Analysis of journal usage by Wageningen UR staff members via article references

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Veller, van M.G.P.

2013-01-01

The research activities of Wageningen University and Research (or Wageningen UR) are concentrated around food and food production, living environment and health, lifestyle and livelihood. To facilitate the scientific information access of Wageningen UR staff members, the library strives to provide a

Get all the official CERN holidays automatically added to your CERN mailbox calendar

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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.

People and things. CERN Courier, Jan-Feb 1985, v. 25(1)

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Anon.

1985-01-15

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. The General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) met in Trieste in October. At this meeting the People 's Republic of China became a full member of IUPAP. Last year, voting took place for the new Executive Committee of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society. A NATO Advanced Study Institute 'New Vistas in Electro-Nuclear Physics' will be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, from 22 August to 4 September. The 1985 International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies is being held in Kyoto from 19-24 August. A conference on Computing in High Energy Physics will be held at Amsterdam, the Netherlands University of Amsterdam and will be devoted mainly to three subjects: networking, embedded systems and vector and parallel processing. The 1985 CERN/Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna, USSR) School of Physics, the ninth in the series, will be held from 1-14 September at Urbino, Italy. The basic aim of these schools is to teach various aspects of high energy physics, especially theoretical, to young experimentalists drawn mainly from CERN and JINR Member States.

People and things. CERN Courier, Jan-Feb 1985, v. 25(1)

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Anon.

1985-01-01

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. The General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) met in Trieste in October. At this meeting the People 's Republic of China became a full member of IUPAP. Last year, voting took place for the new Executive Committee of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society. A NATO Advanced Study Institute 'New Vistas in Electro-Nuclear Physics' will be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, from 22 August to 4 September. The 1985 International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies is being held in Kyoto from 19-24 August. A conference on Computing in High Energy Physics will be held at Amsterdam, the Netherlands University of Amsterdam and will be devoted mainly to three subjects: networking, embedded systems and vector and parallel processing. The 1985 CERN/Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna, USSR) School of Physics, the ninth in the series, will be held from 1-14 September at Urbino, Italy. The basic aim of these schools is to teach various aspects of high energy physics, especially theoretical, to young experimentalists drawn mainly from CERN and JINR Member States

Mental health inpatients' and staff members' suggestions for reducing physical restraint: A qualitative study.

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Wilson, C; Rouse, L; Rae, S; Kar Ray, M

2018-04-01

WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Restraint has negative psychological, physical and relational consequences for mental health patients and staff. Restraint reduction interventions have been developed (e.g., "Safewards"). Limited qualitative research has explored suggestions on how to reduce physical restraint (and feasibility issues with implementing interventions) from those directly involved. WHAT DOES THIS PAPER ADD TO EXISTING KNOWLEDGE?: This paper explores mental health patients' and staff members' suggestions for reducing physical restraint, whilst addressing barriers to implementing these. Findings centred on four themes: improving communication and relationships; staffing factors; environment and space; and activities and distraction. Not all suggestions are addressed by currently available interventions. Barriers to implementation were identified, centring on a lack of time and/or resources; with the provision of more time for staff to spend with patients and implement interventions seen as essential to reducing physical restraint. WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE?: Improving communication and relationships between staff/patients, making staffing-related changes, improving ward environments and providing patient activities are central to restraint reduction in mental healthcare. Fundamental issues related to understaffing, high staff turnover, and lack of time and resources need addressing in order for suggestions to be successfully implemented. Introduction Physical restraint has negative consequences for all involved, and international calls for its reduction have emerged. Some restraint reduction interventions have been developed, but limited qualitative research explores suggestions on how to reduce physical restraint (and feasibility issues with implementation) from those directly involved. Aims To explore mental health patients' and staff members' suggestions for reducing physical restraint. Methods Interviews were conducted with 13 inpatients

Doing business with CERN

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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...

CERN car sharing scheme now open to everyone

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GS Department

2011-01-01

The CERN car sharing service is a self-service scheme providing a pool of 30 CERN cars available for pick-up free of charge from 13 points around the Meyrin and Prévessin sites. From Thursday, 1st December 2011, the service will be open to all members of the CERN personnel and contractors' personnel, in the framework of their professional activities at CERN only. The conditions of use can be consulted at: http://gs-dep.web.cern.ch/en/content/Mobility/Car_sharing To be able to use the service, members of the CERN personnel and contractors' personnel must: have a contractual link to CERN, possess an e-mail address registered in the CERN databases; hold an RFID access card, which can be obtained from the CERN Car Pool on presentation of a valid CERN access card. Car Pool, Building 130-R-012, open Monday-Friday, 8.00 a.m.-12.00 noon/1.00 p.m.-5.00 p.m. https://gs-dep.web.cern.ch/en/content/car-pool GS-IS

CERN meets Facebook

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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 ...

Safety at CERN

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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...

DESY greets CERN

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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 ...

CERN Quick Facts 2017 (French version)

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Mobs, Esma

2017-01-01

Facts about CERN, the contributions of its Member States, its machines and experiments, the number of its employees and users, management structure, etc. Previously called "CERN General Information Sheet"

CERN Quick Facts 2016 (French version)

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AUTHOR|(CDS)2070305

2016-01-01

Facts about CERN, the contributions of its Member States, its machines and experiments, the number of its employees and users, management structure, etc. Previously called "CERN General Information Sheet"

CERN Quick Facts 2016 (English version)

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AUTHOR|(CDS)2070305

2016-01-01

Facts about CERN, the contributions of its Member States, its machines and experiments, the number of its employees and users, management structure, etc. Previously called "CERN General Information Sheet"

CERN Quick Facts 2017 (English version)

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Mobs, Esma

2017-01-01

Facts about CERN, the contributions of its Member States, its machines and experiments, the number of its employees and users, management structure, etc. Previously called "CERN General Information Sheet"

Perspectives on multidrug-resistant organisms at the end of life : A focus group study of staff members and institutional stakeholders.

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Herbst, Franziska A; Heckel, Maria; Tiedtke, Johanna M; Adelhardt, Thomas; Sturm, Alexander; Stiel, Stephanie; Ostgathe, Christoph

2018-03-16

There is a lack of research into how hospital staff and institutional stakeholders (i. e. institutional representatives from public health authorities, hospital hygiene, and the departments of microbiology, palliative care, and geriatrics) engage with patients who are carriers of multidrug-resistant organisms and receiving end-of-life care. Knowledge of their experiences, workload, and needs should be considered in dealing with hospitalized carriers of multidrug-resistant organisms as well as staff education. This study explored and compared staff members' and stakeholders' perspectives on multidrug-resistant organisms and on provision of end-of-life care to carrier patients. In this study four focus groups consisting of hospital staff members and institutional stakeholders were formed within a mixed-methods parent study in a palliative care unit at a university clinic and a geriatric ward of a Catholic and academic teaching hospital. Participants discussed results from staff and stakeholder interviews from a former study phase. Data were analyzed according to Grounded Theory and perspectives of staff members and institutional stakeholders were compared and contrasted. Key issues debated by staff members (N = 19) and institutional stakeholders (N = 10) were 1) the additional workload, 2) reasons for uncertainty about handling carrier patients, 3) the format of continuing education, and 4) the preferred management approach for dealing with multidrug-resistant organism carrier patients. Although similar barriers (e. g. colleagues' ambiguous opinions) were identified, both groups drew different conclusions concerning the management of these barriers. While institutional stakeholders recommended making decisions on hygiene measures under consideration of the specific patient situation, staff members preferred the use of standardized hygiene measures which should be applied uniformly to all patients. Staff members and institutional stakeholders

Motivational Climate, Staff and Members' Behaviors, and Members' Psychological Well-Being at a National Fitness Franchise

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Brown, Theresa C.; Fry, Mary D.

2014-01-01

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the association between members' perceptions of staff's behaviors, motivational climate, their own behaviors, commitment to future exercise, and life satisfaction in a group-fitness setting. The theory-driven hypothesized mediating role of perceptions of the climate was also tested.…

Council celebrates CERN Control Centre

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2006-01-01

With the unveiling of its new sign, the CERN Control Centre was officially inaugurated on Thursday 16 March. To celebrate its startup, CERN Council members visited the sleek centre, a futuristic-looking room filled with a multitude of monitoring screens.

CHANGE@CERN:Task Force 4: Matching personnel to activities

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2002-01-01

Our series on the work of the Task Forces moves on to Human Ressources at CERN. Staff mobility and topics related to contract policy were the main personnel issues to be considered by Task Force 4, led by John Ferguson, head of AS Division. The aim, as with the other Task Forces, was to find ways to focus resources on the LHC, and once again the recommendations recognise the opportunity to make constructive changes, in this case in Human Resources policy at CERN. Movement of staff between divisions at CERN has generally not been easy, with 'staff complements' (total numbers) set for each sector (research, accelerator, technical and administration). However, the restructuring of the accelerator sector (proposed by Task Force 5 and already agreed in principle) should allow some staff to move to LHC activities. More generally, Task Force 4 recommends that the Laboratory carries out a review of all activities, at a relatively detailed level, so as to identify the resources required to achieve specific goals (t...

CERN Health Insurance Scheme (CHIS): Monthly Contributions for 2016

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HR Department

2015-01-01

For 2016, the contribution rate for active and retired CHIS members will be 4.86%. The amounts of the fixed contributions for voluntarily insured members (e.g. users and other associates), as well as the supplementary contributions for spouses with income from a professional activity or with a retirement pension (including a CERN pension), are thus as follows:   1. Voluntary contributions The full contribution based on Reference Salary II is 1218 CHF per month. This fixed contribution is applied to voluntarily affiliated users and other associates with normal coverage. Half of this amount, 609 CHF, is applied to voluntarily affiliated users and other associates with reduced coverage. Finally, an amount of 487 CHF is applied to children maintaining their insurance cover on a voluntary and temporary basis. 2. Supplementary contributions The supplementary contribution for the spouse or registered partner of a staff member, fellow or pensioner is now as follows, according to the spouse’s month...

Open Day at EVE and School of CERN Staff Association: an opportunity for many parents to discover the structure.

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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.

Father Christmas came to CERN on Saturday, 2 December!

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2017-01-01

Every year, ever since its creation, the Staff Association has organised the CERN Children’s Christmas Party, bringing together 5- to 7-year-old children of employed members of the personnel. The success of the party continues to motivate the organizers of the Staff Association. This year, the party took place on Saturday, 2 December, and no less than 240 children were welcomed in two sessions, at 13.30 and at 15.30. The children attended a show with music, tales and a speaking puppet: “Zéphirine et les légendes de Noël”. After the show, they enjoyed a snack in Restaurant 1. We would like to thank Novae for their valuable help and generous contribution. Then, Father Christmas himself came to give the children their presents. The Staff Association would also like to warmly thank him for taking the time to bring happiness and joy to little ones and big ones alike during the busy season! We would also like to thank all the parents for their valuable c...

Staff Association

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Staff Association

2014-01-01

Remove of the staff association office   The Staff Association offices are going to be renovated during the coming four months, February to May 2014. The physical move from our current premises 64/R-002 to our temporary office in  510/R-010 will take place on Friday January 31st, so the Secretariat will be closed on that day. Hence, from Monday February 3rd until the end of May 2014 the Staff Association Secretariat will be located in 510/R-010 (entrance just across the CERN Printshop).    

Improved safety at CERN

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2006-01-01

As announced in Weekly Bulletin No. 43/2006, a new approach to the implementation of Safety at CERN has been decided, which required taking some managerial decisions. The guidelines of the new approach are described in the document 'New approach to Safety implementation at CERN', which also summarizes the main managerial decisions I have taken to strengthen compliance with the CERN Safety policy and Rules. To this end I have also reviewed the mandates of the Safety Commission and the Safety Policy Committee (SAPOCO). Some details of the document 'Safety Policy at CERN' (also known as SAPOCO42) have been modified accordingly; its essential principles, unchanged, remain the basis for the safety policy of the Organisation. I would also like to inform you that I have appointed Dr M. Bona as the new Head of the Safety Commission until 31.12.2008, and that I will proceed soon to the appointment of the members of the new Safety Policy Committee. All members of the personnel are deemed to have taken note of the d...

JUST ARRIVED... and already an expert on CERN

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2001-01-01

The induction programme has just changed. Although the programme has been providing practical information to newcomers in their first months at CERN since 1996, it has just been renewed to help new arrivals right from day one. The first group of new arrivals to experience the new induction programme, along with members of the induction team, outside building 33. Until 1996, most newcomers at CERN were easy to identify: they always carried a map with them, often got lost, and were confused with the names of Divisions and groups. This was because an induction programme for new staff had not yet been created. Since then, induction sessions have taken place every trimester and have been much appreciated. However some newcomers find themselves waiting several weeks before being invited to a briefing session. This is about to change! At the beginning of June, HR Division ran a new-style pilot induction session designed to change the global structure of the programme. From now on, as soon as newcomers take their f...

3rd August 2010 - CEO Siemens Healthcare Sector, Chief Technology Officer, Head of Corporate Technology, Member of Siemens AG Managing Board, Germany, H. Requardt, signing the guest book with CERN Director-General R. Heuer

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Maximilien Brice

2010-01-01

CERN-HI-1008148 11: H. von Dewitz in the ATLAS Visitor centre with Collaboration member M. Hauschild (left) and Former IT Department Head W. von Rüden (right) CERN-HI-1008148 18 : Head of Innovation and Systems Projects, Siemens Healthcare Sector O. Heid (left) in the ATLAS Visitor centre with Collaboration member M. Hauschild. CERN-HI-1008148: in the ATLAS visitor centre, from left to right: Former IT Department Head W. von Rüden; ATLAS Collaboration P. Mättig; CEO Siemens Healthcare Sector, Chief Technology Officer, Head of Corporate Technology, Member of Siemens AG Managing Board, Germany, H. Requardt; Head of Innovation and Systems Projects, Siemens Healthcare Sector O. Heid; H. von Dewitz; ATLAS Collaboration member M. Hauschild.

Examining Work Engagement and Job Satisfaction of Staff Members in Higher Education

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Hermsen, Jill; Rosser, Vicki

2008-01-01

Staff members are a large and growing set of employees within higher education. While their numbers are growing, they also are seeing a change in their salaries and working conditions. Given this situation, institutions are considering work engagement and job satisfaction research. The purpose of this article is to examine those work life…

18 CFR 376.206 - Delegation of functions of certain Commission staff members.

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2010-04-01

... 18 Conservation of Power and Water Resources 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Delegation of functions... Conditions § 376.206 Delegation of functions of certain Commission staff members. When, by reason of... subordinate employee in the Office or Division of the highest grade and longest period of service in that...

Bulgarian folk dances at CERN

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Roberto Cantoni

2010-01-01

On Sunday 29 August, the Bulgarian folklore dance group Rhythm visited CERN. After their visit to the ATLAS visitor centre and the SM18 hall, they performed a show in the Pump Room, introducing CERN people to the musical traditions of their country.   The visit of the Bulgarian dance group was organized by Zornitsa Zaharieva, a member of the Beams Department, and Svejina Dimitrova, Director of the Varna Astronomical Observatory. “The students were enthusiastic about the opportunity to visit CERN”, says Zornitsa. “The idea of the performance came from the dance group itself, who wanted to express their gratitude for being given this chance”. The group, comprising around 25 children aged between 11 and 16 from the city of Varna, was hosted by the CERN Dancing Club. For their show, the young dancers, choreographed by Tashka Pavlova, performed traditional dances and songs from different Bulgarian regions. “As a member of the CERN Dancing Club com...

Changing the Culture at CERN

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2002-01-01

'Change at CERN' is a major theme of the Management's draft Mid-Term plan that Director General, Luciano Maiani, presented to the staff on 4 April. One important change is to encourage more openness and better communication between the different sectors at CERN. For its part, the Bulletin is beginning a series of articles about the proposals presented in the draft plan. This week we begin with one aspect of Industrial Services. Future articles will cover the work of all the Task Forces, including such topics as the restructuring of the Accelerator Sector, Locally Recruited Staff, and Earned Value reporting. If you have any proposals for topics that you would like to see on these pages please send your suggestions via the form on the Users' Web Page, 'Suggestions for Change'.

Open Day at Crèche and School of the CERN Staff Association

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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.

People and things. CERN Courier, Jan-Feb 1980, v. 19(10)

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Anon.

1980-01-01

The article reports on various accomplishments of CERN staff members and gives recent news updates on events: The first treatment of cancer patients began at TRIUMF in November using the negative pion beam from the biomedical channel. The Sixth International Conference on Experimental Meson Spectroscopy will be held at Brookhaven on 24-25 April and will cover experimental results in light and heavy quark spectroscopy, relevant theory and spectrometer systems. On 8 November at Garching, near Munich, the traditional fir-tree marking the completion of major construction work was put up on the new office building for the European Southern Observatory (ESO)

People and things. CERN Courier, Jan-Feb 1980, v. 19(10)

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Anon.

1980-01-15

The article reports on various accomplishments of CERN staff members and gives recent news updates on events: The first treatment of cancer patients began at TRIUMF in November using the negative pion beam from the biomedical channel. The Sixth International Conference on Experimental Meson Spectroscopy will be held at Brookhaven on 24-25 April and will cover experimental results in light and heavy quark spectroscopy, relevant theory and spectrometer systems. On 8 November at Garching, near Munich, the traditional fir-tree marking the completion of major construction work was put up on the new office building for the European Southern Observatory (ESO)

CERN Webfest: A weekend for science on the web

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CERN Bulletin

2013-01-01

Are you passionate about science? Do you like communicating that passion to the general public? Then come along to the CERN Summer Student Webfest on the weekend of 3-4 August! It is a grassroots initiative by the summer students, open to all staff and users, and aims to spark new ideas that could innovate the future of web-based education about CERN, the LHC and particle physics.   The CERN Summer Student Webfest is a weekend of online web-based creativity modelled on the gatherings (sometimes called hackfests or hackathons) that energize many open-source communities. You can work with like-minded students and CERN staff to design and build demos of the web apps you would like to see online. Prizes will be awarded to the best projects, with a Grand Prize winner receiving a trip to the Mozilla Festival in London! Participants in the CERN Summer Student Webfest will work in teams and design neat applications that encourage the public to learn more about science and, in particular, CE...

Cern Women's Club

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Cern Women's Club

2014-01-01

  CERN WOMEN’S CLUB   Coffee Morning Tuesday 10th  June 2014, 12:30   Annual Club Lunch at the restaurant “Le Coq Rouge” in St-Genis-Pouilly Those interested in helping should come along. New arrivals and all members are cordially invited. You can enrol for membership, renew membership, find out about and sign up for our activities. Visit our website: http://web.cern.ch/Club-WomensClub/

Cern women's club

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Club des cernoises

2014-01-01

CERN WOMEN’S CLUB Coffee Morning Tuesday 13th  May 2014, 9:30 Bldg 504,  (Restaurant No 2 – DSR) 1st Floor, Club Room 3   Annual General Meeting Those interested in helping should come along. New arrivals and all members are cordially invited. You can enrol for membership, renew membership, find out about and sign up for our activities. Visit our website: http://cern.ch/Club-WomensClub/

France at CERN

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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 ...

CERN at 40

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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.

Tunnel Linking the CERN Sites: Discontinuation of the (small) 'Attestation CERN'

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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...

A brief history of CERN

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Jacob, M.

2004-01-01

This article draws a brief history of CERN that has just celebrated its jubilee. Today 20 member states contribute to its annual budget that reached 650 million euros in 2004. In 1954 CERN was created by 12 founder states for mainly 3 reasons: 1) to achieve a research facility dedicated to particle physics able to compete with its American counterparts and that no European country could afford alone, 2) to generate with scientific research an example and a promoter for future international collaborations, and 3) to make scientists from different countries that were at war a few years before, to work together. The creation of CERN has not led to a decline of national laboratories as it was feared in the fifties. On the contrary scientific and technical tasks have been dispatched: CERN provides member states with accelerator facilities while national laboratories and universities contribute to the design and fabrication of detectors and to the analysis of experimental data. The history of CERN is marked by 2 main scientific milestones, first the discovery of weak interaction through neutral currents in 1973 and secondly the discovery of W and Z bosons in 1983. (A.C.)

CERN's Early History Revisited

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Schopper, Herwig Franz; Krige, Gerhard John

2005-01-01

As a member of the group of historians charged to write the history of the founding of CERN, John Krige particularly underlines the important role I.I. Rabi played. The first author, former Director General of CERN add a few comments. S.A. Khan gives precisions about the role played by E. Amaldi and P. Auger; then J. Krige replies

Forging ties between young People from CERN and ESA

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CERN Bulletin

2010-01-01

The CERN Student Club (CSC) is the official club for the community of young people at CERN. In addition to organizing regular activities for its members, the club serves as a platform for young people to come together and meet people from other backgrounds. On 11 and 12 April, the network for young people from the European Space Agency (YoungESA) organized an excursion to CERN, in which more than 30 young researchers participated. The CERN Student Club was happy to host several activities for the members of the two communities.   Some of the participants in the first meeting of the ESA-CERN student clubs. “One of the most amazing things about being a young researcher is the boundless opportunities for meeting people from all around the world, whether for the exchange of research ideas or for social purposes”, says Yi Ling Hwong, a member of the CMS experiment and Vice-president of the CERN Student Club. “In a place like CERN such occasions are abundant but t...

CERN Accelerator School - Beam injection, extraction and transfer

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2016-01-01

Registration is now open for the CERN Accelerator School’s specialised course to be held in Erice, Italy, from 10 to 19 March, 2017.   The course will be of interest to staff and students in accelerator laboratories, university departments and companies manufacturing accelerator who wish to learn about accelerator science and technology. Further information can be found at: http://indico.cern.ch/event/451905/ http://cas.web.cern.ch/cas/IET2017/IET-advert.html

Amendments to the Staff Rules and Regulations

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HR Department

2006-01-01

The Staff Rules and Regulations in force since 1 January 1996 are modified as follows as from 1 July 2006: The modifications are listed below: Financial and social conditions for Paid Associates, Fellows and Students (introduction of a new payment scheme for the Paid Scientific Associates Programme - reorganization of the Fellowship Programme - modification of the Student subsistence rates) Protection of members of the personnel against the financial consequences of illness, accident and disability (clarification of the scope of the relevant provisions - new definition of disability and associated benefits - revised role of the Joint Advisory Rehabilitation and Disability Board - bringing together the relevant provisions). Copies of this update (modification# 16) are available in departmental secretariats. In addition, Staff Rules and Regulations are available for consultation on the Web at the following address: http://cern.ch/hr-div/internal/admin_services/rules/default.asp Administrative Circular ...

NO to sacrificing future staff!

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Staff Association

2011-01-01

During our public meetings last week, we reviewed several subjects. However, the most urgent one today is the 2nd package of measures for our Pension Fund. In our previous issue, we devoted a long article to the Management’s plan for staff recruited from January 2012. A disaster! As we announced at our meetings, the Staff Association will organize a referendum at the beginning of April. For the message to be heard it is vital that as many staff as possible take part. By voting you will express your support to your staff representatives to stand in the way of these unacceptable measures. It is a matter of urgency that the staff makes their voice heard. Time is short, the decisions will be made in June. The future of our Organization is as stake. This is our future colleagues we are talking about. We must prevent this sacrifice. They must be welcomed in such a manner that there is no uneasiness between us. They must be made to feel welcome in their new family, CERN, our CERN. That they should pay an ...

The Duke of York visits CERN

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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....

CERN panel calls for cuts and shake-ups

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Weiss, G

2002-01-01

An external review committee has proposed that CERN slash other research projects in order to finish the LHC. The report of the ERC praised the design of the LHC and the technical competence of CERN staff. However it criticized the lab for "serious weaknesses" in cost control, contract management and financial reporting (1 page).

Evaluation of the Finnish CERN activities panel report

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Paul, Peter; Juuti, Pauli; Kullander, Sven; Ikonen, Eeva; Maalampi, Jukka

2001-01-01

The Academy of Finland decided in November 2000 that Finnish CERN-activities should be evaluated. The first ten years of the Finnish membership in CERN have been successful. Also in the future, Finland has great opportunities and benefits of the collaboration with CERN. The Finnish presentations clearly show the rapid development in experimental physics since the joining of CERN. Still, Finland can be considered as a relatively young Member State in CERN, but one of the most dynamic new partners for CERN.

German visits to CERN

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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...

How membership of the CERN Pension Fund is taken into account by certain French Pension Funds

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HR Department

2010-01-01

Information for current and former CERN staff members from the Rhône-Alpes branch of the Caisse Régionale d’Assurance Maladie (CRAM) The Rhône-Alpes branch of the Caisse Régionale d’Assurance Maladie (CRAM) has recently informed CERN that, since 1 January 2010, periods of membership of the CERN Pension Fund can, under certain conditions, be used in the calculation of the pension paid by certain French pension funds. For more information on this subject, please consult Circular DSS/DACI/2010/85 of 4 March 2010 pertaining to the manner in which periods of membership of compulsory pension funds of European or international organisations, to which France is a party, are taken into account in determining the period used by French pension funds to establish the pension entitlement. The Circular can be accessed at the following sites: http://www.securite-sociale.fr/textes/retraite/international/affiliation_instut_international_eu.htm and http://www.c...

Finally, a crèche at CERN!

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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...

Nursing home staff members' subjective frames of reference on residents' achievement of ego integrity: A Q-methodology study.

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Lim, Sun-Young; Chang, Sung-Ok

2018-01-01

To discover the structure of the frames of reference for nursing home staff members' subjective judgment of residents' achievement of ego integrity. Q-methodology was applied. Twenty-eight staff members who were working in a nursing home sorted 34 Q-statements into the shape of a normal distribution. A centroid factor analysis and varimax rotation, using the PQ-method program, revealed four factors: identifying clues to residents' positive acceptance of their whole life span, identifying residents' ways of enjoying their current life, referencing residents' attitudes and competencies toward harmonious relationships, and identifying residents' integrated efforts to establish self-esteem. These subjective frames of reference need to be investigated in order to improve the relationships with nursing home residents and their quality of life. Consequently, the fundamental monitoring tools to help staff members make subjective judgments can be formed. © 2017 Japan Academy of Nursing Science.

PhysicsTeachers@CERN2005

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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.

Organizational Communication: Perceptions of Staff Members' Level of Communication Satisfaction and Job Satisfaction

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Sharma, Priti; Lampley, James; Good, Donald

2015-01-01

The purpose of this research study was to explore the topic of organizational communication in higher education and examine staff members' perceptions about their level of communication and job satisfaction in their workplaces. This study was also designed to test the relationship between communication satisfaction and job satisfaction by…

Elections to Staff Council

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2013-01-01

2013 Elections to Staff Council   Vote! Make your voice heard and be many to elect the new Staff Council. More details on the elections can be found on the Staff Association web site (https://ap-vote.web.cern.ch/elections-2013).   Timetable elections Monday 28 October to Monday 11 November, 12:00 am voting Monday 18 and Monday 25 November, publication of the results in Echo Tuesday 19 November, Staff Association Assizes Tuesday 3 December, first meeting of the new Staff Council and election of the new Executive Committee The voting procedure is monitored by the Election Committee.

2014 CERN Accelerator Schools: Plasma Wake Acceleration

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2014-01-01

A specialised school on Plasma Wake Acceleration will be held at CERN, Switzerland from 23-29 November, 2014.   This course will be of interest to staff and students in accelerator laboratories, university departments and companies working in or having an interest in the field of new acceleration techniques. Following introductory lectures on plasma and laser physics, the course will cover the different components of a plasma wake accelerator and plasma beam systems. An overview of the experimental studies, diagnostic tools and state of the art wake acceleration facilities, both present and planned, will complement the theoretical part. Topical seminars and a visit of CERN will complete the programme. Further information can be found at: http://cas.web.cern.ch/cas/PlasmaWake2014/CERN-advert.html http://indico.cern.ch/event/285444/

Implementing a video-based intervention to empower staff members in an autism care organization: a qualitative study.

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Hall, Alex; Finch, Tracy; Kolehmainen, Niina; James, Deborah

2016-10-21

Implementing good-quality health and social care requires empowerment of staff members within organizations delivering care. Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) is an intervention using positive video feedback to empower staff through reflection on practice. This qualitative study explored the implementation of VIG within an autism care organization in England, from the perspective of staff members undergoing training to deliver VIG. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 7 participants working within the organization (5 staff undergoing training to deliver VIG; 2 senior managers influencing co-ordination of training). Participants were asked about their views of VIG and its implementation. The topic guide was informed by Normalization Process Theory (NPT). Data were analysed inductively and emerging issues were related to NPT. Five broad themes were identified: (1) participants reported that they and other staff did not understand VIG until they became involved, initially believing it would highlight negative rather than positive practice; (2) enthusiastic feedback from staff who had been involved seemed to encourage other staff to become involved; (3) key implementation challenges included demands of daily work and securing managers' support; (4) ideas for future practice arising from empowerment through VIG seemed difficult to realise within an organizational culture reportedly unreceptive to creative ideas from staff; (5) individuals' emotional responses to implementation seemed beyond the reach of NPT, which focused more upon collective processes. Implementation of VIG may require recognition that it is not a 'quick fix'. Peer advocacy may be a fruitful implementation strategy. Senior managers may need to experience VIG to develop their understanding so that they can provide appropriate implementation support. NPT may lack specificity to explain how individual agency weaves with collective processes and social systems to embed

TEDxCERN presents TEDYouth 2015

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2015-01-01

On Saturday, 14 November at IdeaSquare, TEDxCERN is going to live webcast the first session of TEDYouth 2015.   TEDYouth 2015 is taking place in New York and the theme of the event is "Made in the Future". This event will provide the young audience with new perspectives on their own future job possibilities - thinking beyond traditional careers, some of which may not yet exist.  TEDxCERN is organising a webcast viewing party for the first session of TEDYouth, live from TED in New York. The talks are aimed at middle school and high school students, and children of CERN members and friends. Saturday, 14 November  4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.  IdeaSquare (Building 3179) The event is free of charge but registration at this link is required for every participant. The number of seats is limited.  The talks are in English. If you are a CERN member of the personnel, please come directly to Idea...

"10th Germany at CERN" Industrial Exhibition and the first "Innovation Forum at CERN"

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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 ...

"10th Germany at CERN" Industrial Exhibition and the first "Innovation Forum at CERN"

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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 ...

CERN at 40

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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

Members of the Forum Engelberg visit CERN

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Patrice Loïez

2002-01-01

The Forum Engelberg is an annual interdisciplinary conference held in Engelberg, Switzerland intended to act as an international platform for debate and exchange of views on key issues affecting scientific research, technology, economics and philosophy. Its President is Hubert Curien - former French Minister of Research and Space Research, and President of the CERN Council from 1994 to 1996. He is seen here (right) in discussion with Bernard Ecoffey, Founder of the Forum Engelberg.

People and things. CERN Courier, January-February 1981, v. 21(1)

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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'

Italy's Prime Minister visits CERN

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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...

What works in Indigenous tobacco control? The perceptions of remote Indigenous community members and health staff.

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Johnston, Vanessa; Thomas, David P

2010-04-01

To explore the perceptions of remote Indigenous community members and health staff regarding the acceptability and effectiveness of different tobacco control health promotion interventions. Qualitative methods were used for this exploratory study, including interviews with remote Indigenous community members and health staff, as well as observations of the delivery of different tobacco control activities in three remote communities in the Northern Territory (NT). Several tobacco control interventions for which there is strong evidence in other settings were generally perceived as acceptable and efficacious in the remote Indigenous setting. Primary care interventions, such as brief advice and pharmaceutical quitting aids, when available and accessible, were perceived as important and effective strategies to help people quit, as were the promotion of smokefree areas. By contrast unmodified Quit programs were perceived to have questionable application in this context and there were conflicting findings regarding taxation increases on tobacco and social marketing campaigns. Several evidence-based 'mainstream' activities are perceived to be acceptable to this population, but we may also need to address the concerns raised by health staff and community members about the acceptability of some unmodified activities. Additionally, organisational barriers within the health system may be contributing to the reduced effectiveness of tobacco control in this setting.

MEASURING STAFF MEMBERS E READINESS TOWARDS E LEARNING AT EGYPTIAN FACULTIES OF TOURISM AND HOTELS

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Elsayed Hussein Elsayed Ali

2010-06-01

Full Text Available Information and Communication Technology (ICT has made life much different than it was before especially in Education. E learning is becoming increasingly prominent in higher education, with universities increasing provision and more students signing up. E learning in the university context is influenced by a number of factors. However, the researcher particular interest in this paper in the e readiness of the staff memberfor e learning at the Egyptian faculties of tourism and hotels in Fayoum, Menia, Helwan and Alex. This is to the increasing and flexible market that is difficult to research by only traditional education.This research measures the staff members’ e readiness for e learning at the faculties of tourism and hotels in Egypt which influenced by a number of factors and dimensions. These are technical and pedagogical competences, experience scale and attitude Scale but the research will concentrate on the first dimension. This may help Tourism faculties to promote the use of IT in teaching and learning and also apply e learning effectively in these faculties to make qualified students for market work. Data was collected through a questionnaire of 92 staff member (professor, assistant professor and lecturers of tourism studies, hotel management and Tourism Guidance departments. Also this research is based on a basic hypothesis that there is a shortage and insufficient of staff members e readiness for e learning. The paper contains also typical e learning quality framework , SPSS program was used to analyses the data and reach to the finding of this study as frequencies, standard deviation, means, t test per pair between the two dimension pedagogical and technical competencies, also average mean to measure this dimension, also cronbach alpha was made to ensure the reliability, beside the validity was been achieved. The findings have been indicated that the staff member at faculties of tourism and hotels have a good level in pedagogical

"There's a Problem, and We've Got to Face It": How Staff Members Wrestled with Race in an Urban High School

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Buehler, Jennifer

2013-01-01

Educators who initiate school reform work often find that attempts to raise student achievement and change school culture are derailed when staff members refuse to address issues of race. At the same time, staff members who collectively resist engaging in discussions of racism and racial inequality may be actively involved in their own individual…

CERN and ESA: fundamentally contrasting organisations?

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Bowell, Valerie

1988-01-01

The paper concerns the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the European Space Agency (ESA), and questions whether the United Kingdom (U.K.) will continue as a full member of these two organisations. A description is given of the establishment of these institutions, their collaboration and their activities. The effect of the U.K.'s financial difficulties on both CERN and ESA programmes is discussed. Figures are given on the actual cost to the U.K. of CERN and ESA, and also the CERN and ESA subscriptions as a percentage of total spending on particle physics and astronomy, for the period 1980-8. The U.K. committment to the ESA and CERN programmes are both described. (U.K.)

Easy encryption for CERN laptops

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Computer Security Team

2014-01-01

The number of laptops stolen from or lost by CERN staff and users is not negligible. On average, four to five devices are reported lost or stolen to the CERN Fire Brigade every month.   The real number might be even higher as not everyone is aware that such thefts/losses should be reported in this way. Along with each laptop, private e-mails and personal documents, as well as MARS forms, contracts, NDAs, etc. are also lost. Fortunately, CERN has not lost any sensitive data so far (unlike other companies). In parallel with the approval by the Enlarged Directorate at its latest session of the development of a CERN-wide Data Protection Policy, the IT Department has prepared measures allowing you to protect the data on your laptop using full hard-disk encryption. While the word “encryption” might sounds complicated, the IT Department has fully automated the encryption process. For centrally managed Windows PCs, you just have to install the corresponding CMF package (“M...

People and things. CERN Courier, Dec 1979, v. 19(9)

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Anon.

1979-12-15

The article reports on various accomplishments of CERN staff members and gives recent news updates: a Users Support Center has been established by the Accelerator Research Facilities Division of Argonne National Laboratory. Its purpose is to continue to make available expertise and facilities which have been developed at Argonne during the lifetime of the Zero Gradient Synchrotron (ZGS) to high energy physics users (particularly University user groups) who do not normally have access to them. The Universities Research Association, which operates Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is preparing a proposal in collaboration with astronomers to locate a Space Telescope Science Institute at Fermilab. The article also includes advertisements on molecule reactors, mass spectrometers, generators, motors, amplifiers etc.

People and things. CERN Courier, Dec 1979, v. 19(9)

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Anon.

1979-01-01

The article reports on various accomplishments of CERN staff members and gives recent news updates: a Users Support Center has been established by the Accelerator Research Facilities Division of Argonne National Laboratory. Its purpose is to continue to make available expertise and facilities which have been developed at Argonne during the lifetime of the Zero Gradient Synchrotron (ZGS) to high energy physics users (particularly University user groups) who do not normally have access to them. The Universities Research Association, which operates Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is preparing a proposal in collaboration with astronomers to locate a Space Telescope Science Institute at Fermilab. The article also includes advertisements on molecule reactors, mass spectrometers, generators, motors, amplifiers etc

Visits to CERN by Norwegian and Portuguese officials

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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...

How do staff members at science and technology centres consider the impact of sponsors on the scientific content of exhibitions?

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Davidsson, Eva; Sørensen, Helene

2009-01-01

or historical museums. But in what ways may sponsors impact exhibition content and design at science and technology centres? This study seeks to explore how staff members consider the impact of sponsors and donors on exhibit content and design. The data collection involves a survey, interviews and a focus group...... interview with staff members, who work with planning and constructing new exhibitions at their science and technology centre. The results suggest that sponsors may interfere in exhibition construction both directly and indirectly. This means that sponsors could put explicit demands when it comes...... to the choice of scientific content and design and thereby interfere directly. Indirect impact, on the other hand, refers to implicit demands of sponsors where staff members take into account for what they believe are views of the sponsors through self-censorship....

The CERN Relay Race: A Runaway Success!

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2018-01-01

24th May saw the traditional Relay Race take place at CERN, organised jointly by the Running Club and the CERN Staff Association. In 2018, the Relay Race lived up to expectations with a record number of participants, with no fewer than 848 entries across different categories! In total 135 teams of 6 runners and 38 walkers completed the course on the Meyrin site in beautiful sunshine. Congratulations to all those who took part! Ghislain Roy, President of the Staff Association, fired the starting pistol for the first batch of runners, which included a team from the Directorate, with the Director General also taking part. Demonstrating interest in this event at the highest level of the Organization. Thank you for this much-appreciated commitment! Also a number of very high-level runners brought added excitement to the 2018 edition. The 1000-meter men’s race was won by Marcin Patecki from the CERN Running Club in 2’40, just in front of Baptiste Fieux from the Berthie Sport team who came in at...

Romania becomes a candidate for accession to CERN

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2010-01-01

Romanian Minister Daniel Petru Funeriu, and CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer. On Thursday 11 February Romanian Minister of Education, Research, Youth and Sport, Daniel Petru Funeriu, and CERN Director-General, Rolf Heuer, signed an agreement that formally recognises Romania as a Candidate for Accession to membership of CERN. Romania’s pre-membership will cover a five-year period during which the country’s contributions will ramp up to normal Member State levels, in parallel with Romania's participation in CERN projects. At the end of this five-year period the Council will decide on Romania's application for full membership, as the Organization's 21st Member State. Romania entered into direct collaboration with CERN in the early 1990s. In recent years Romania has been constantly increasing its expenditure on R&D and this has been intensified since the country's accession to the EU in January 2007. Romania is involved in three LHC experiments, namely ATLAS, ALICE and LHCb . It al...

Follow-up research at CERN

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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)

CSAIO: exchanging experience to better defend the interests of the staff

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2014-01-01

Two representatives of the CERN Staff Association took part in the 15th Annual Conference of Staff Associations of International Organizations (CSAIO), which took place on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th of October in one of the centres of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Frascati (Italy). The CSAIO brings together staff representatives from international organizations based in Europe, as well as institutions of the European Union, in order to promote and defend the interests of their personnel. This allows the CERN Staff Association to follow the evolution of working and social conditions in other organizations. This year, 51 delegates from about 30 organizations travelled to Frascati to attend the conference. Themes addressed at the conference were: Salary adjustment method presentations: European Commission, CERN, European Council, and FICSA (Federation of International Civil Servants’ Association). Performance evaluation presentations: OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

Exceptional closure of UNIQA office at CERN

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2009-01-01

The UNIQA office at CERN will be closed from Wednesday 18 February to Friday 20 February due to painting work. During this closure, the Headquarters of UNIQA in Geneva will remain at the disposal of the members. See details https://cern.ch/chis/UNIQA_Offices.asp The CERN office will re-open on Monday 23 February according to the normal schedule. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this closure.

Members of the Forum Engelberg visit CERN

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Patrice Loïez

2002-01-01

The Forum Engelberg is an annual interdisciplinary conference held in Engelberg, Switzerland intended to act as an international platform for debate and exchange of views on key issues affecting scientific research, technology, economics and philosophy. Its President is Hubert Curien - former French Minister of Research and Space Research, and President of the CERN Council from 1994 to 1996. Photo 01: Jean-Claude Landry, Department of the Interior, Agriculture and Environment, state of Geneva (right) in discussion with Peter Jenni, spokesperson for the ATLAS collaboration.

REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES IN SWITZERLAND: MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OF A MEMBER OF THE PERSONNEL

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Service des Relations avec les Pays Hôtes

1999-01-01

The Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the International Organisations in Geneva has informed CERN that members of the family of a member of the personnel who hold a carte delégitimation or a Ci permit may not register a vehicle in Switzerland. Only those members of the family who are of Swiss nationality or hold an ordinary permit (e.g. a 'B' or 'C' permit) may register vehicles in their own names.Relations with the Host States Servicehttp://www.cern.ch/relations/Tel. 72848

CERN and Portugal

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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

News from the CERN Council

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The CERN Council today thanked the Organization’s outgoing management, and welcomed in the new. Outgoing Director General Robert Aymar, looked back on his five years at the helm, while new Director General, Rolf Heuer, presented his vision for the future. In other Council business, Romania was welcomed as a Candidate for Accession as Member State of CERN; and the groundwork was laid for a study of geographical and scientific extension of the role of CERN. Council also established the practical procedures for following projects relevant to the European Strategy for Particle Physics. Consult the complete Press Release.

People and things. CERN Courier, May 1985, v. 25(4)

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Anon.

1985-05-15

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. A workshop is being arranged to discuss the potential of the CERN SPS proton-antiproton Collider for the early 90s in view of the then simultaneous operation of the Tevatron at Fermilab, LEP at CERN and HERA at DESY, and to evaluate the need for a new Collider detector.

People and things. CERN Courier, Dec 1991, v. 31(10)

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Anon.

1991-12-15

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: ; The pulsed muon facility at the UK Rutherford Appleton Laboratory's ISIS neutron source is to be substantially upgraded under the European Commission's Large Installations Plan. ; On 1 November at CERN, a cooperation agreement was signed which provides a framework for Australia and CERN to develop reciprocal scientific and technical cooperation.

18 March 2004. Nine of CERN's 20 Member States today signed a new Protocol on privileges and immunities. This brings the Organization into line with other European intergovernmental organizations, such as the European Space Agency and the European Southern Observatory, which already enjoy international status in all of their Member States.

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2004-01-01

As well as having an immediate practical benefit for the Organization, the Protocol also has an important symbolic value for the future. The Protocol is not only open to CERN Member States for signature, but also to other States collaborating with CERN. "Although this seems symbolic today", explained CERN Director General Robert Aymar in an address to CERN's governing Council today, "I believe that in the future, with the increasing globalisation of particle physics, this will become a valuable tool in helping CERN remain a powerful force in science."

People and things. CERN Courier, June 1980, v. 20(4)

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Anon.

1980-01-01

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: On 25th April at a specially convened session of the CERN Council delegates of the twelve CERN Member States unanimously appointed Professor Herwig Schopper as Director General of CERN for the five years 1981-85; On 1 April, His Royal Highness Prince Charles went on a short tour of the TRIUMF site during a visit to Vancouver; An International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics was held at Fermilab from 28-31 May. It concentrated on the origins of particle physics back in the 1930s and 40s before the advent of the big particle accelerators; The Regents of the University of California have approved the formation of a new Institute for Particle Physics on its Santa Cruz Campus. Acronymed SCIPP (the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics I it builds on the strength of existing groups of theoretical and experimental particle physicists; On 18 April, Fermilab brought into operation the world's largest helium liquefier plant; During a few shifts devoted to machine developments on 20 April, the stored beam of PETRA reached the design energy of 19 GeV. ; Earlier this year, a high energy physics meeting, organized by the Academia Sinica, was held in the pleasant winter climate of Guangzhou, Canton.; At a Physics Congress in Ulm the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Helmut Schmidt, voiced his unambiguous support for fundamental research

CERN helps with the mapping of natural disasters

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Daisy Yuhas

2010-01-01

The headquarters of UNOSAT, the Operational Satellite Applications Programme of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, are in an unassuming office, not far from Restaurant 2. There, UN experts are on hand twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, waiting for an emergency message from anywhere on the globe and ready to respond. It was there that experts were called upon to respond to the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, using CERN computing resources to develop some of the first response maps.   In the case of January’s earthquake in Haiti, an SMS message was received at 23:20, Geneva time, on January 12, only minutes after the quake. Immediately, UNOSAT began organizing and downloading satellite images for analysis, to create the very first maps used by relief workers in Haiti. In the weeks following, UNOSAT members were on shift continually, day and night, working nonstop to develop reports of the damage. UNOSAT also sent two staff members on the ground to ver...

Open-science projects get kickstarted at CERN

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Achintya Rao

2015-01-01

CERN is one of the host sites for the Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint to be held on 4 and 5 June, which will see participants around the world work on projects to further open science and educational tools.   IdeaSquare will be hosting the event at CERN. The Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint was first held in 2014 to bring together open-science practitioners and enthusiasts to collaborate on projects designed to advance science on the open web. The sprint is a loosely federated event, and CERN is participating in the 2015 edition, hosting sprinters in the hacker-friendly IdeaSquare. Five projects have been formally proposed and CERN users and staff are invited to participate in a variety of ways. A special training session will also be held to introduce the CERN community to existing open-science and collaborative tools, including ones that have been deployed at CERN. 1. GitHub Science Badges: Sprinters will work on developing a badge-style visual representation of how open a software pro...

CERN Relay Race

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2006-01-01

The CERN relay race will take place around the Meyrin site on Wednesday 17 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. Details on how to register your team for the relay race are given on the Staff Association Bulletin web site.

Some aspects of the Fund's activities in 2005

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2006-01-01

The Governing Board (at 31 December 2005) Members J. Bezemer (Alternate: J.-P. Ruder) E. Chiaveri (Alternate: T. Lagrange) R. Fischer (Alternate: K. Banse) J. Lahaye (Alternate: vacant) P. Levaux (Alternate: F. Bello) J.-P. Matheys (Alternate: F. Ranjard) S. Myers (Alternate: F. Sonnemann) A.J. Naudi (Alternate: P. Geeraert) I. Seis (Alternate: G. de la Fuente) M. Vitasse (Alternate: G. Deroma) Observer for beneficiaries J.-F. Barthélemy (Alternate: F. Wittgenstein) Appointed by CERN Council Director-General of CERN Director-General of ESO elected by the members of the Fund CERN Council elected by the members of the Fund elected by the members of the Fund Director-General of CERN elected by the members of the Fund CERN Staff Association Governing Board in agreement with the Staff Association Chairman's Group Members J. Bezemer, Chairman J.-P. Matheys, Vice-chairman A.J. Naudi, Vice-chairman Appointed by CERN Council ''' ''' Administrator: C. Cuénoud appointed by the CERN Council on...

Some aspects of the Fund's activities in 2005

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2006-01-01

The Governing Board (at 31 December 2005) Members J. Bezemer (Alternate: J.-P. Ruder) E. Chiaveri (Alternate: T. Lagrange) R. Fischer (Alternate: K. Banse) J. Lahaye (Alternate: vacant) P. Levaux (Alternate: F. Bello) J.-P. Matheys (Alternate: F. Ranjard) S. Myers (Alternate: F. Sonnemann) A.J. Naudi (Alternate: P. Geeraert) I. Seis (Alternate: G. de la Fuente) M. Vitasse (Alternate: G. Deroma) Observer for beneficiaries J.-F. Barthélemy (Alternate: F. Wittgenstein) Appointed by CERN Council Director-General of CERN Director-General of ESO elected by the members of the Fund CERN Council elected by the members of the Fund elected by the members of the Fund Director-General of CERN elected by the members of the Fund CERN Staff Association Governing Board in agreement with the Staff Association Chairman's Group Members J. Bezemer, Chairman J.-P. Matheys, Vice-chairman A.J. Naudi, Vice-chairman Appointed by CERN Council ''' ''' Administrator: C. Cuénoud appointed by the CERN Council on th...

New psychologist at CERN

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Laëtitia Pedroso

2010-01-01

A new psychologist, Sigrid Malandain, started work at CERN on 1 November. The psychologist’s office, formerly part of the Social Affairs Service in Human Resources, has now moved to the Medical Service (office 57-1-024). It is open every Tuesday and Thursday.   The new psychologist, Sigrid Malandain. Working in an organisation like CERN has numerous advantages. However, as in any professional setting, the work can sometimes bring stress, anxiety, overwork and so on. For this reason, a few years ago CERN brought in a psychologist for the staff. “As a psychologist, my role isn’t just to deal with known problems, but also to make assessments and, if possible, prevent difficult situations arising. Sometimes people realise that something is wrong, but they can’t say why. In such cases, I may be able to use a discussion to assess the nature of the problem and determine if further sessions are needed. If that is the case, I can either conduct the session...

People and things. CERN Courier, Dec 1991, v. 31(10)

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Anon.

1991-01-01

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: ; The pulsed muon facility at the UK Rutherford Appleton Laboratory's ISIS neutron source is to be substantially upgraded under the European Commission's Large Installations Plan. ; On 1 November at CERN, a cooperation agreement was signed which provides a framework for Australia and CERN to develop reciprocal scientific and technical cooperation

Towards the CERN of tomorrow

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2009-01-01

The Council working group on the geographical and scientific enlargement of CERN met for the first time during the week of 9 March. It was a good meeting, setting the pace for what promises to be a very important process. A timetable for meetings and consultations has been put in place, and all being well we can look forward to recommendations being made at the December meeting of Council this year. Since my talk to the CERN staff in January, much has been made of my statement that nothing is off the table, so I’d like to make it clear what that means. The CERN Convention is required reading for my job. It’s a remarkably concise and prescient document, as relevant today as it was when it was written over half a century ago. If you haven’t already done so, I strongly recommend that you read it. The Convention states that the Organization shall "provide for collaboration among European States", and goes on to say that CERN should ...

When care situations evoke difficult emotions in nursing staff members: an ethnographic study in two Norwegian nursing homes.

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Sandvoll, Anne Marie; Grov, Ellen Karine; Kristoffersen, Kjell; Hauge, Solveig

2015-01-01

Caring practice in nursing homes is a complex topic, especially the challenges of meeting the basic needs of residents when their behaviour evokes difficult emotions. Cognitive and physical changes related to aging and disability can contribute to behaviours considered to be unacceptable. For example, resident behaviours such as spitting, making a mess with food or grinding teeth are behaviours that most people do not want to see, hear or experience. The aim of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of how nursing home staff members deal with such behaviours in care situations. This article draws on ethnographic data to describe how nursing home staff members manage unpleasant resident behaviours. The study was based on two long-term units in two Norwegian public nursing homes. The Region's Medical Ethics Committee and the Norwegian Social Science Data Services granted approval. In total, 45 participants (37 nursing aides and eight nurses) agreed to participate in this study. Ten of the participants were interviewed at the end of the field study. This study indicates that nursing home staff members experience difficult emotions related to some residents' behaviours. However, they found these feelings difficult to express and rarely verbalized them openly. In addition, they were characterized by a strong obligation to help all residents, despite their own feelings. Therefore, it appears that an inner struggle occurs as a part of everyday practice. Despite these difficult emotions, nursing staff members believed that they needed to manage their responses and continued to offer good care to all residents. These findings extend our understanding of this unarticulated part of nursing home practice.

Torsten Åkesson takes over as President of the CERN Council

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2007-01-01

Torsten Åkesson (left) receives the President's gavel from Enzo Iarocci. At the end of the Council's December session, Enzo Iarocci handed over the reins of the Presidency to Torsten Åkesson. Professor Åkesson of the University of Lund in Sweden is a former CERN staff physicist and has been a member of the ATLAS collaboration since its infancy. He participated in the initial research for the ATLAS TRT detector and took over as leader of the project in 1995. He was also a member of the Collaboration's management team for many years and acted as its deputy spokesman from 1996 to 2004. Prior to the LHC, Professor Åkesson contributed to several particle physics experiments, first at the ISR at the beginning of the 1980s, then in the framework of the SPS heavy ion programme. In addition to his activities for ATLAS, he has acquired sound experience of particle physics management at the international level. Having been a member of the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA), he took over as its chairma...

SOME ASPECTS OF THE FUND’S ACTIVITIES IN 2006

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2007-01-01

The Governing Board (at 31 December 2006) Members Appointed by E. Chiaveri (Alternate: T. Lagrange) Director-General of CERN D. Duret (Alternate: G. Deroma) CERN Staff Association F. Ferrini (Alternate: D.-O. Riska) CERN Council R. Fischer (Alternate: K. Banse) Director-General of ESO C. Hauviller (Alternate: G. de la Fuente) elected by the members of the Fund J. Lahaye (Alternate: P. Martel) elected by the members of the Fund P. Levaux (Alternate: F. Bello) CERN Council J.-P. Matheys (Alternate: F. Ranjard) elected by the members of the Fund S. Myers (Alternate: F. Sonnemann) elected by the members of the Fund A.J. Naudi (Alternate: P. Geeraert) Director-General of CERN Observer for beneficiaries J.-F. Barthélemy (Alternate: F. Wittgenstein) Governing Board in agreement with the Staff Association ...

CERN openlab enters new phase

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Katarina Anthony

2012-01-01

The newest phase of CERN’s openlab framework was inaugurated this week during a meeting of the openlab partners. This phase will last three years and will bring together existing openlab partners and a new contributor: Huawei.   Group picture taken at the first CERN openlab IV annual Board of Sponsors meeting, in the presence of the CERN Director-General, the partners and the openlab team members. © Fons Rademakers (CERN Photo Club). Eleven years ago, the creation of the CERN openlab created a long-term link between industrial partners and the Organization. Its framework has allowed industry to carry out large-scale IT research and development in an open atmosphere – an “Open Lab”, if you will. For CERN, openlab has contributed to giving the computing centre and, more broadly, the LHC community, the opportunity to ensure that the next generation of services and products is suitable to their needs. Now entering its fourth phase, openlab will ...

Administrative Circular No. 2 (Rev. 7) - Recruitment, appointment and possible developments regarding the contractual position of staff members

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2015-01-01

Administrative Circular No. 2 (Rev. 7), entitled "Recruitment, appointment and possible developments regarding the contractual position of staff members", approved by the Director-General following discussion at the Standing Concertation Committee meeting held on 17 February 2015 is available via the following link: AC No. 2 (Rev.7).   This revised circular cancels and replaces Administrative Circular No. 2 (Rev. 6), entitled "Recruitment, appointment and possible developments regarding the contractual position of staff members" and dated January 2015. The circular was revised in order to implement the amendment to Article R II 1.17 of the Staff Regulations, which introduces the possibility of extending limited-duration (LD) contracts up to a maximum total duration of eight years from the previous duration of five years. The award of indefinite contracts will continue to be subject to the outcome of a competitive process. Department Head Of...

3 October 2013 - Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Ukraine K. I. Gryschenko welcomed by CERN Director-General R. Heuer who introduces Head of International Relations R. Voss; Head of Technology Department F. Bordry; Deputy Head of International Relations E. Tsesmelis; Deputy Legal Counsel M. Wilbers; Adviser for Ukraine T. Kurtyka; Signing of the Agreement between Ukraine and CERN concerning the granting of the status of Associate Member at CERN; in the LHC tunnel at Point 5 and visiting CMS experimental area with CERN Team Leader A. Petrilli.

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Anna Pantelia

2013-01-01

3 October 2013 - Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Ukraine K. I. Gryschenko welcomed by CERN Director-General R. Heuer who introduces Head of International Relations R. Voss; Head of Technology Department F. Bordry; Deputy Head of International Relations E. Tsesmelis; Deputy Legal Counsel M. Wilbers; Adviser for Ukraine T. Kurtyka; Signing of the Agreement between Ukraine and CERN concerning the granting of the status of Associate Member at CERN; in the LHC tunnel at Point 5 and visiting CMS experimental area with CERN Team Leader A. Petrilli.

Indian President visits CERN

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Katarina Anthony

2011-01-01

On 1 October, her Excellency Mrs Pratibha Devisingh Patil, President of India, picked CERN as the first stop on her official state visit to Switzerland. Accompanied by a host of Indian journalists, a security team, and a group of presidential delegates, the president left quite an impression when she visited CERN’s Point 2!   Upon arrival, Pratibha Patil was greeted by CERN Director General Rolf Heuer, as well as senior Indian scientists working at CERN, and various department directors. After a quick overview of the Organization, Rolf Heuer and the President addressed India’s future collaboration with CERN. India is currently an Observer State of the Organization, and is considering becoming an Associate Member State. A short stop in LHC operations gave Steve Myers and the Accelerator team the opportunity to take the President on a tour through the LHC tunnel. From there, ALICE’s Tapan Nayak and Spokesperson Paolo Giubellino took Pratibha Patil to the experiment&am...

CERN software developers gathering in September

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Antonella Del Rosso

2015-01-01

Hundreds of developers work on many different projects at CERN – from data analysis to beam operations and administrative applications. As of this September, they will have an opportunity to meet each other at the newly established Developers@CERN Forum.   “We go to conferences elsewhere but we hardly ever meet here at CERN, where we all work on our own separate software projects,” says José Carlos Luna, a member of the IT department and one of the organisers of the first Developers@CERN Forum. Indeed, although several CERN departments have software developers working in their teams, there is no proper “community” built around them. The first Developers@CERN Forum will be held on 28 and 29 September. The event is being organised by a few developers from the IT department, together with colleagues from the GS and EN departments. Its main scope is to reach out to all the departments in an effort to bring all CERN’s software dev...

Some aspects of the Fund's activities in 2005

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2006-01-01

The Governing Board (at 31 December 2005) Members Appointed by J. Bezemer (Alternate: J.-P. Ruder) CERN Council E. Chiaveri (Alternate: T. Lagrange) Director-General of CERN R. Fischer (Alternate: K. Banse) Director-General of ESO J. Lahaye (Alternate: vacant) elected by the members of the Fund P. Levaux (Alternate: F. Bello) CERN Council J.-P. Matheys (Alternate: F. Ranjard) elected by the members of the Fund S. Myers (Alternate: F. Sonnemann) elected by the members of the Fund A.J. Naudi (Alternate: P. Geeraert) Director-General of CERN I. Seis (Alternate: G. de la Fuente) elected by the members of the Fund M. Vitasse (Alternate: G. Deroma) CERN Staff Association Observer for beneficiaries J.-F. Barthélemy (Alternate: F. Wittgenstein) Governing Board in agreement with the Staff Association Chairman's Group J. Bezemer, Chairman appointed by the CERN Council J.-P. Matheys, Vice-chairman appointed by the CERN Council A.J. Naudi, Vice-chairman appointed by the...

Five-Yearly Review: the Staff Association keeps you informed!

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Staff Association

2016-01-01

The Staff Association (SA) has already published several articles on this topic, especially at the beginning of the year and at the end of June (Echo No. 248). In these articles, we discussed the implementation of the decisions taken by the CERN Council in December 2015, covering the deadlines and progress, but also the SA’s concerns. First milestone reached On 18 August, all staff members received an individual notification letter indicating: their placement within the new salary scale, i.e. their grade and salary position expressed as a percentage of the midpoint of the grade; the provisional benchmark job they are assigned to. An information sheet was also enclosed in the email from HR Office. Soon after, the SA was contacted by a significant number of colleagues seeking further information on the content of the documents or wishing to share their disappointment and fears regarding the impact that these changes will have on their career. It seems therefore that the information provide...

CERN Fellows, don’t splash that cash!

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Anaïs Schaeffer

2013-01-01

When their CERN contracts expire and they leave the Organization, Fellows recoup the amounts paid into the Pension Fund by and for them every month. If they invest this money well, right from the outset, it can grow into a nice little nest-egg by the time they reach retirement age.   As employed members of the CERN personnel, Fellows are members of the Organization’s Pension Fund. Accordingly, a specific amount is withheld from their salary every month (see first box) and, as the months go by, this gradually accumulates into their transfer value (i.e. their capital). When their contracts expire, Fellows may opt to transfer that money directly into another pension fund (subject to the national laws of the destination country and, unfortunately, not possible everywhere), or take it in cash. This is because only employed members of the personnel who have at least five years of service with the Organization are entitled to remain beneficiaries of the CERN Pension Fund for life*. But the capi...

A rugby tournament for CERN's 50th anniversary

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2004-01-01

On 4 April the rugby pitch at the Meyrin sports centre will be the venue for the Swiss Rugby Schools' tournament, organised by the CERN-Meyrin-St Genis Rugby Club. The organisers will be unmistakable, kitted out in CERN Staff Association t-shirts specially dedicated to the CERN clubs for the Organization's 50th anniversary. Come along and cheer on the 250 players from Switzerland and neighbouring France, aged from 6 to 18, who will do battle on the rugby field over the course of 50 matches from 11.00 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. At the end of the tournament, the winners will be presented with 50th anniversary memorabilia by the Mayor and a CERN representative who will say a few words about the Laboratory.

President of the Slovak Republic visits CERN

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Caroline Duc

2012-01-01

On 11 September 2012, the President of the Slovak Republic, Ivan Gašparovič, visited CERN accompanied by the First Lady and a delegation of 67, including the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Economy and the Ambassadors of the Slovak Republic to Switzerland, France and the Office of the United Nations. The visit by representatives of the Slovak Republic follows the Slovak Republic’s hosting of the CERN Accelerator School in the region of Bratislava. After being welcomed to CERN in the morning by CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer, the members of the Slovak government were given the opportunity to get a glimpse of the LHC and to visit the ALICE experiment at Point 2. The President and other members of the Slovak delegation then met representatives of Slovak universities and industries at an exhibition of their work in the hall of Building 500. The President then briefly spoke to Slovak journalists and signed the VIP visitors book. The visit last...

Play Golf with the CERN Golf Club

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2014-01-01

The snow has gone, the grass is getting greener and the golf courses open up to hibernating golfers; The CERN golf club committee has been busy organising the program for the coming golf season, with many attractive outings to nearby courses. Are you new to CERN? And you play golf? or would like to learn ? then join us, playing golf and having fun. You can find all you need to know on our web-page; don’t hesitate to contact any of the committee members who will answer your questions.  Take a look at the provisional schedule below, sign-up and take part!  Besides these regular outings, as a CERN Golf Club member, you have also the opportunity to play in our “Corpo” team, in the competitions organised by the Golf Entreprise Rhone-Alpes. You can also play in our match play-tournament, and for new to the game, we organise some group–lessons with a local Pro. See:  http://club-golf.web.cern.ch/club-golf/index.php

CERN celebrates science over and over again!

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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 ...

CERN clubs join the fiftieth anniversary party!

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2004-01-01

CERN's clubs are planning to celebrate the Organization's 50th anniversary by organising a variety of special events. It's raining projects! CERN's clubs have chosen to celebrate the Organization's Golden Jubilee, each in its own style, by organising a whole host of anniversary events. While the Cine-Club continues to screen films made in the Member States on Thursday evenings, other clubs are organising special races and tournaments to honour CERN's 50th year. The CERN Rugby Club led the way in early April when it hosted a children's tournament which brought the Laboratory firmly into the view of its many young participants. On 24 April, the Cycling Club moves to centre stage as it takes its members on a unique 50-km discovery trip around the countryside above the tunnel of the future LHC. The Croquet Club, the Running Club, the Horse Riding Club and the Golf Club will all be joining the party in May and June. After that, football, softball, cycling, pétanque and sailing are just some of the items on a sp...

2015 Elections to Staff Council

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2015-01-01

Elections Timetable Monday 26 October, at noon Start date for voting Monday 9 November, at noon Closing date for voting Monday 16 and Monday 23 November, publication of the results in Echo Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 November Staff Association Assizes Tuesday 1st December, at 10.00 a.m. first meeting of the new Staff Council and election of the new Executive Committee The voting procedure will be monitored by the Election Committee, which is also in charge of announcing the results in Echo on 16 and 24 November. During its meeting of March 17 2015, the Staff Council approved the election rules, which define the allocation of seats in each department, as follows:   Number of seats in the electoral colleges Departments BE EN TE DG/DGS FP GS HR/PF IT PH Career paths AA - D 2 3 3 1 1 2 1 1 2 Career paths E - G 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 3   Global CERN Career paths AA - G 14     Number of seats for fellows representatives Global CERN 5 For more informat...

Saudi Arabia and CERN sign protocol

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2008-01-01

On 9 May 2008, Mohammed I. Al Suwaiyel, President of the King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology, representing the Government of Saudi Arabia, and CERN Director-General, Robert Aymar, signed a protocol to the 2006 cooperation agreement between CERN and Saudi Arabia. Members of the Saudi Arabian Government visit ATLAS.The purpose of the protocol is to define the operational framework needed to carry out various specific tasks provided for in the cooperation agreement in order to promote the development of a high energy particle physics community in Saudi Arabia and its ultimate visible participation as a member of the global CERN community. Signing the protocol, Mohammed I. Al-Suwaiyel said: "The Saudi Arabian Government has taken a number of initiatives to promote R&D in the interests of our country’s development and the advancement of science. Thanks to this protocol, Saudi scientists will be able to work towards this go...

Open Access Policy for CERN Physics Publications

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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.

Prince Albert II of Monaco visits CERN

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2009-01-01

With a strong curiosity for the work of CERN, HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco visited CMS and the CERN Control Centre on 2 September. "The Prince is interested in and sensitive to what CERN is doing. Monaco is closely linked to France, which is an important member of CERN. He wishes to express his help to the scientific community in every trip. He wants to meet scientists and to be really personally involved," explained Francois Chantrait, Head of the Press Service of the Prince’s Palace. CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer welcomed the Prince of Monaco to Point 5 with a presentation about CERN before they descended 100 metres underground to see the CMS experiment. Although the detector was closed up for test runs, he was able to see its grand scale as well as look at some of the intricate sample parts exhibited by CMS Spokesperson, Jim Virdee. The Prince wrote in the CERN Visitors’ Book that he perceives a realisation of promisin...

Your chance to shape internal communication at CERN

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Effective internal communication is essential to any organization, particularly one like CERN that is host to a large, varied and geographically widespread community. The CERN Bulletin has for many years been the mainstay of internal communication at the lab, bringing you news about all aspects of life at CERN. From the 1970s to just a few years ago, the Bulletin was a print-only publication, but it has since evolved with the times to embrace the web. Moving forward, we aim to broaden the Bulletin's reach and turn it into a genuine forum for discussion within the CERN community. One of the first steps in this process is for the CERN communication group to work with the Staff Association to develop a more inclusive form of internal communication, bringing together news from the Management with news from the Association, while also playing an important social role by providing a channel for the Association’s many clubs to reach out to everyone working at CERN. This integrated approach to communic...

People and thing. CERN Courier, Nov 1986, v. 26(9)

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Anon.

1986-11-15

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. The design current of 1 ampere was achieved this summer at the 750 MeV vacuum ultra-violet storage ring of the US National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven. The next International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies will be held in Hamburg, West Germany, from 27-31 July 1987. The second Lake Louise Winter Institute will be held from 16-22 February at Chateau Lake Louise, Canada.; The 32nd Scottish Universities' Summer School in Physics will be held from 9-29 August 1987 at the University of St. Andrews. Earlier this year an exhibition of photographs of great beauty was presented at CERN on the invitation of the Staff Association. Following the success of the Symposium on Cosmology, Astronomy and Particle Physics organized jointly by CERN and the European Southern Observatory (ESO), now a regular feature of the physics international physics calendar, ESO and CERN are organizing an International School on Astro-Particle Physics at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, from 5-25 January.

32 CFR 270.5 - Staff.

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2010-07-01

... 32 National Defense 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Staff. 270.5 Section 270.5 National Defense... Staff. (a) The Commission will have a support staff, which will include staff members sufficient to expeditiously and efficiently process the applications for payments under this part. All members of the staff...

The Particle Physicists’ Song : the CERN Choir in full voice in the CERN Control Centre, with writer Danuta Orlowska

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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.

Some aspects of the Fund's activities in 2004

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2005-01-01

The Governing Board (at 31 December 2004) Members Appointed by J. Bezemer (Alternate: J.-P. Ruder) E. Chiaveri (Alternate: F. Sonnemann) R. Fischer (Alternate: K. Banse) M. Goossens (Alternate: M. Vitasse) P. Levaux (Alternate: F. Bello) J.-P. Matheys (Alternate: F. Ranjard) S. Myers (Alternate: C. Hauviller) A.J. Naudi (Alternate: P. Geeraert) I. Seis (Alternate: G. de la Fuente) W. Zapf/C. Bryois (Alternate: T. Lagrange) CERN Council elected by the members of the Fund Director-General of ESO CERN Staff Association CERN Council elected by the members of the Fund elected by the members of the Fund Director-General of CERN elected by the members of the Fund Director-General of CERN Observateur des bénéficiaires J.-F. Barthélemy (Alternate: F. Wittgenstein) Governing Board in agreement with the Staff Association Chairman's Group Nommés par J. Bezemer, J.-P. Matheys, Vice-chairman A.J. Naudi, Vice-chairman appointed by the CERN Council appointed by the CERN Council appointed by the CERN Cou...

Le Japon devient observateur au CERN

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1995-01-01

A Japanese delegation, lead by Mr. Kaoru Yosano, Japan's Minister of Monbusho, (Ministry of Education, Science and Culture), was warmly applauded by the delegates of CERN's Member States when it entered the Council Chamber for the first time as an official Observer. Mr. Yosano, thanked the CERN Council for unanimously agreeing to grant Japan Official Observer Status and also accepting Japan's offer to contribute to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project.

Is CERN Council assuming its responsibilities?

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Association du personnel

2008-01-01

Before the June official meetings, the Staff Association handed over a letter (see following page) to the President of CERN Council in support of the recommendation of the Governing Board of the Pension Fund to increase contributions by 0.76%, as a step towards a better balance of our Fund.

Effect of the Strong4Life School Nutrition Program on Cafeterias and on Manager and Staff Member Knowledge and Practice, Georgia, 2015.

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Rajbhandari-Thapa, Janani; Bennett, Ashley; Keong, Farrah; Palmer, Wendy; Hardy, Trisha; Welsh, Jean

The goal of the Strong4Life School Nutrition Program is to promote healthy eating in school cafeterias in Georgia by training school nutrition managers and staff members to implement changes in the cafeteria to nudge children to make healthier choices. The objective of our study was to evaluate program effect on (1) school nutrition manager and staff member knowledge of evidence-based strategies and their self-efficacy to make positive changes, (2) the school cafeteria environment, and (3) National School Lunch Program participation. We assessed changes in participant knowledge, beliefs, and self-efficacy by administering a survey before and after training (February-July 2015); a follow-up survey (3 school months posttraining) assessed changes in the cafeteria. A total of 842 school nutrition managers and staff members were trained and completed pre- and posttraining surveys; 325 managers completed the follow-up survey. We used cafeteria records from a subsample of the first schools trained (40 intervention and 40 control) to assess National School Lunch Program participation. From pretraining to posttraining, we found a significant increase in manager and staff member (n = 842) knowledge of strategies for enhancing taste perception through the use of creative menu item names (from 78% to 95%, P managers (n = 325) reported increased use of evidence-based serving strategies: visibility (from 84% to 96% for placing healthy options in >2 locations, P managers and staff members in Smarter Lunchrooms Movement techniques may be an effective way to make changes in the school cafeteria environment to encourage healthier choices among students. Additional studies allowing time for more complex changes to be implemented are needed to assess the full effect of the program.

People and things. CERN Courier, Jul-Aug 1985, v. 25(6)

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Anon.

1985-06-15

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. Under the chairmanship of Carlo Rubbia, a 'Working Group on the Scientific and Technological Longterm Future of CERN' has been set up 'to explore various options for the long-term future of CERN. ATLAS, short for Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System and the world's first superconducting heavy ion accelerator, was dedicated at the US Argonne National Laboratory on 3 June.

People and things. CERN Courier, Jul-Aug 1991, v. 31(6)

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Anon.

1991-07-15

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: ; The Third European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC92) will take place in the reunified city of Berlin, at the Technical University of Berlin, from 24-28 March 1992. ; A special symposium, held at CERN on 2-3 May in memory of distinguished CERN theorist John Bell who died on 1 October last year, attracted prominent physicists from all over the world.

People and things. CERN Courier, Jul-Aug 1991, v. 31(6)

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Anon.

1991-01-01

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: ; The Third European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC92) will take place in the reunified city of Berlin, at the Technical University of Berlin, from 24-28 March 1992. ; A special symposium, held at CERN on 2-3 May in memory of distinguished CERN theorist John Bell who died on 1 October last year, attracted prominent physicists from all over the world

People and things. CERN Courier, Jul-Aug 1990, v. 30(6)

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Anon.

1990-07-15

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: ; An Oxford Instruments superconducting solenoid magnet which has exceeded 20 Tesla is now available commercially. ; This year's Joint US-CERN School on Particle Accelerators, organized jointly by the CERN Accelerator School and the US Particle Accelerator School, is from 7-14 November and will be hosted by CEBAF. ; The 4th Symposium on Cosmology, Astronomy and Fundamental Physics, organized jointly by CERN and the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and the 15th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics are being combined in a joint Texas/ESO-CERN Symposium to be held in Brighton, UK, from 16-21 December.

People and things. CERN Courier, Jul-Aug 1990, v. 30(6)

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Anon.

1990-01-01

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: ; An Oxford Instruments superconducting solenoid magnet which has exceeded 20 Tesla is now available commercially. ; This year's Joint US-CERN School on Particle Accelerators, organized jointly by the CERN Accelerator School and the US Particle Accelerator School, is from 7-14 November and will be hosted by CEBAF. ; The 4th Symposium on Cosmology, Astronomy and Fundamental Physics, organized jointly by CERN and the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and the 15th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics are being combined in a joint Texas/ESO-CERN Symposium to be held in Brighton, UK, from 16-21 December

CERN Courier has a new look

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Christine Sutton

2011-01-01

During more than 50 years of existence, CERN’s well-known magazine has changed several times in appearance. Now, for the first time since the 1990s, it has a new look for the new decade.   The new cover of the CERN Courier. Originally conceived as an internal newsletter, the CERN Courier first appeared in August 1959 in an edition of 8 pages with a print run of 1000. From the start it generated interest outside CERN, with its articles not only on CERN but also about particle physics around the world. The number of copies doubled in the first 6 months in response to the external demand. As CERN prepares to welcome new Member States in the coming years, it’s even more fitting that the magazine should continue to address a global readership, now totalling some 25,000 and extending throughout the many countries that have an interest in particle physics. It’s therefore important that the CERN Courier should remain appealing to this extensive audience, both visually and i...

People and things. CERN Courier, Apr-May 1995, v. 35(3)

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Anon.

1995-04-15

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: Spokesmen at the CDF experiment at Fermilab's tevatron protonantiproton collider serve two-year terms. Most recently Mel Shochet (Chicago) and Bill Carithers ( LBL ) were co-spokesmen. Before the recent round of elections, Mel declared that he did not want to run again, having served for six and a half years (following the departure of Roy Schwitters to the SSC). Bill Carithers (who replaced Alvin Tollestrup two years ago) did decide to run again. Through a complicated process, a long list of nominees was narrowed to six candidates and an election held via the World Wide Web. Results were announced on January 19: Bill Carithers was reelected for another term, and Giorgio Bellettini (Pisa) becomes his new cospokesman. (see Top discovery' - page 1). Career milestone - Lucien Montanet: Officially 'retiring' from CERN is Lucien Montanet, whose impressive career spans a wide range of physics interests and is characterized by his ebullient enthusiasm. Joining CERN in 1957 for cosmic ray experiments, he went on to participate in pioneer CERN investigations using bubble chambers and using antiprotons, going on in the 1960s to play a prominent role in the discovery and investigation of hadron resonances, and becoming a key figure in the international Particle Data Group. His objective review talks on the complex hadron resonance scene became a feature at international meetings. In the 1970s he pushed the development of the European Hybrid Spectrometer project and went on to join the L3 and Crystal Barrel collaborations at LEP and LEAR respectively. As well as experimental physics, he has also contributed to theoretical work (with Francis Low) and phenomenology (with Leon van Hove). In 1985 he became the CERN-Russia coordinator, a demanding responsibility now inherited by Jim Allaby as coordinator

People and things. CERN Courier, Apr-May 1995, v. 35(3)

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Anon.

1995-01-01

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: Spokesmen at the CDF experiment at Fermilab's tevatron protonantiproton collider serve two-year terms. Most recently Mel Shochet (Chicago) and Bill Carithers ( LBL ) were co-spokesmen. Before the recent round of elections, Mel declared that he did not want to run again, having served for six and a half years (following the departure of Roy Schwitters to the SSC). Bill Carithers (who replaced Alvin Tollestrup two years ago) did decide to run again. Through a complicated process, a long list of nominees was narrowed to six candidates and an election held via the World Wide Web. Results were announced on January 19: Bill Carithers was reelected for another term, and Giorgio Bellettini (Pisa) becomes his new cospokesman. (see Top discovery' - page 1). Career milestone - Lucien Montanet: Officially 'retiring' from CERN is Lucien Montanet, whose impressive career spans a wide range of physics interests and is characterized by his ebullient enthusiasm. Joining CERN in 1957 for cosmic ray experiments, he went on to participate in pioneer CERN investigations using bubble chambers and using antiprotons, going on in the 1960s to play a prominent role in the discovery and investigation of hadron resonances, and becoming a key figure in the international Particle Data Group. His objective review talks on the complex hadron resonance scene became a feature at international meetings. In the 1970s he pushed the development of the European Hybrid Spectrometer project and went on to join the L3 and Crystal Barrel collaborations at LEP and LEAR respectively. As well as experimental physics, he has also contributed to theoretical work (with Francis Low) and phenomenology (with Leon van Hove). In 1985 he became the CERN-Russia coordinator, a demanding responsibility now inherited by Jim

Dissemination of CERN's Technology Transfer: Added Value from Regional Transfer Agents

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Hofer, Franz

2005-01-01

Technologies developed at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, are disseminated via a network of external technology transfer officers. Each of CERN's 20 member states has appointed at least one technology transfer officer to help establish links with CERN. This network has been in place since 2001 and early experiences indicate…

The LHC Physics Centre at CERN

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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...

Two national teams train at CERN

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Alix Marcastel

2011-01-01

The Swedish and Czech national orienteering teams trained at CERN on Wednesday, at the invitation of the president of the orienteering club, Lennart Jirdén.   Tove Alexandersson, a junior member if the Swedish team.  Three weeks before she won gold, silver and bronze medals at the Junior World Championship.  The two national teams were training at Aix-les-Bains and were invited to come to CERN by the Laboratory's orienteering club. These top athletes had to find their bearings at CERN in the chilly July rain. CERN has a dynamic orienteering club which earned itself an international reputation by getting actively involved in the orienteering world championships last October, which took place in Geneva and Saint-Cergue and for which it prepared the routes. Having proved its worth on that occasion, the club will be helping to organise the next championships in 2012. CERN Map given to the runners. The triangle marks the starting line, and th...

CERN Record Club

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2015-01-01

Over 2000 DVDs Now Available If you were a member last year, please come along and renew your membership for just 20.- and check out the latest additions, the list is at http://crc.web.cern.ch/crc/public/disc.php?action=search&month=2015/01. If you are not a member, why not come along and have a look, we now have over 2000 DVDs on display covering Action films, Suspense, Drama, Comedy, Sci fi and Childrens. The full catalogue can be consulted at http://cern.ch/crc and for 20.- membership you have access to all of them. There is also a CD selection, Classical music, Jazz and popular; it is not on display but the catalogue is online and you can select what you want and come to the club to collect it. We are open from 12:30 to 13:00 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and the Club Room is in Restaurant 2, Building 504, near the UBS ATM. We look forward to seeing you.

AGREEMENT BETWEEN CERN AND UBS SA

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2002-01-01

We wish to inform you that the agreement between CERN and UBS SA has been renewed for a period of five years with effect from 1st July 2002. This represents the culmination of work carried out since 1999 by a group consisting of representatives of the Finance Division, the SPL Division, the Staff Association and the Users Office. After analysis of the results of a market survey, it emerged that OVERALL the UBS offered the best conditions and guarantees for the CERN personnel. Owing to developments in the banking market, new conditions have had to be negotiated, which will be presented to you by the UBS (see article).

CUSTOMS PRIVILEGES CONCERNING THE VEHICLES OF STAFF MEMBERS RESIDING IN SWITZERLAND

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2001-01-01

The Permanent Mission of Switzerland has informed CERN that the rules relating to customs privileges for vehicles have been modified. The new arrangements, which are more favourable than those described in Weekly Bulletin N° 32/2000, are summarised below. The rates of tax and duty referred to in this summary are currently as follows: customs duty (solely for vehicles originating from countries outside the European Union and the European Free Trade Association; calculated on the basis of the vehicle's weight, 12 to 15 Swiss centimes per kilogram); car tax (4% of the value of the vehicle); value-added tax (7.6% of the value of the vehicle). 1. Holders of a B or C-type 'Carte de légitimation' Members of the personnel holding a B or C-type Carte de légitimation issued by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (hereinafter referred to as «DFAE») may import or purchase a first vehicle tax and duty-free. This vehicle, subject to a three-year limited res...

New website dealing with CERN-EU relations

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2005-01-01

A new website dealing with CERN-EU relations (cern.ch/EU) is being brought into production. Thanks are due to several people for their contributions, and especially to the primary authors - Piotr Kurpiel, a Technical Student, and Miguel Marquina / IT. This site is designed to help people looking for information concerning interactions between Europe and particle physics in general, and the CERN programme in particular. FACILITIES AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC For members of the public, links are provided to several websites of general interest and there is also a search facility to help navigation among the main sources of information on EU programmes. FACILITIES ONLY AVAILABLE TO CERN USERS Entry to the CERN area of the site requires authentication via your NICE login name and password. In this area: You can look at information about present or past EU co-funded projects at CERN. For projects with their own websites you can click through to the site to obtain more detailed information. You can subscribe to ...

People and things. CERN Courier, Apr 1991, v. 31(3)

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Anon.

1991-04-15

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: ; In 1992 the XVth International Conference on High Energy Accelerators will be held from 20-24 July at the Congress Centrum, Hamburg, Germany. ; The 100 or so places for the CERN Accelerator School's 'Radiofrequency Engineering for Particle Accelerators' course in Oxford from 3-10 April were sold out well in advance. ; A Symposium on Quantum Physics, in memory of John Stewart Bell who died on 1 October 1990 will be held at CERN on 2-3 May.

People and things. CERN Courier, Dec 1985, v. 25(10)

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Anon.

1985-01-01

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. The CERN Accelerator School is organizing a course 'Applied Geodesy for Particle Accelerators' from 14-18 April, at CERN. An international workshop on the quark-gluon plasma and re/ativistic nuclear collisipns will be held in Kiev (USSR) from 19-24 May, organized by the Ukrainian Academy of Science. Neutrino 86, the 12th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, will be held in Sen dai, Japan, from 3-8 June

People and things. CERN Courier, Dec 1987, v. 27(10)

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Anon.

1987-01-01

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:; The third symposium 'Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics' organized by CERN and ESO (European Southern Observatory) will be held in Bologna, Italy, from 16-18 May on the special occasion of the ninth centenary of the University of Bologna. At CERN, a prototype superconducting accelerating cavity of the type envisaged for LEP beams has been installed for tests in the SPS ring, where it helped take an electron beam to 18 GeV

People and things. CERN Courier, Dec 1985, v. 25(10)

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Anon.

1985-12-15

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. The CERN Accelerator School is organizing a course 'Applied Geodesy for Particle Accelerators' from 14-18 April, at CERN. An international workshop on the quark-gluon plasma and re/ativistic nuclear collisipns will be held in Kiev (USSR) from 19-24 May, organized by the Ukrainian Academy of Science. Neutrino 86, the 12th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, will be held in Sen dai, Japan, from 3-8 June.

People and things. CERN Courier, Dec 1987, v. 27(10)

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Anon.

1987-12-15

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:; The third symposium 'Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics' organized by CERN and ESO (European Southern Observatory) will be held in Bologna, Italy, from 16-18 May on the special occasion of the ninth centenary of the University of Bologna. At CERN, a prototype superconducting accelerating cavity of the type envisaged for LEP beams has been installed for tests in the SPS ring, where it helped take an electron beam to 18 GeV.

The 2015 Five-yearly review: diversity in the spotlight

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2014-01-01

Introduction As mentioned in Echo 201, with the Council Decision of last June the CERN 2015 five-yearly review has formally begun. Following the procedure defined in Annex A1 of the Staff Rules and Regulations CERN will thus review its financial and social conditions that should enable it to recruit from all its Member States, and retain, staff of the highest competence and integrity necessary to perform its mission. In addition, these conditions should increase the attractiveness of CERN in all Member States and motivate staff of all ages and all occupations throughout their careers. Annex A1 stipulates that a five-yearly review must include basic salaries (stipends for Fellows and subsistence allowances for associated members of the personnel) and, optionally, may include any other financial or social conditions. For this optional part of the 2015 exercise, the CERN career structure and measures to improve diversity were chosen. Towards a better diversity policy The analysis of the 2013 Staff Associat...

TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE PERSONNEL

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2003-01-01

Temporary work for children of members of the personnel During the period mid-June to mid-September 2003, there will be a limited number of vacancies for temporary work at CERN (normally unskilled work of routine nature) which will be made available to children of members of the personnel (i.e. anyone holding an employment or association contract with CERN). It should be noted that candidates must be aged between 18 and 24 inclusive on the first day of the contract, and that they must have insurance cover for both illness and accident. In view of the limited number of vacancies available, no children previously appointed at CERN under this scheme can be considered. The duration of all appointments will be 4 weeks, the allowance being CHF 1582.- for this period. Application form can be obtained from Martine PLAZA, HR Division (by using the slip in the bulletin or by electronic mail to Martine.Plaza@cern.ch) or at http://cern.ch/hr-web/internal/general/HN-personnel/ Completed application forms must be returne...

TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE PERSONNEL

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2003-01-01

Temporary work for children of members of the personnel During the period mid-June to mid-September 2003, there will be a limited number of vacancies for temporary work at CERN (normally unskilled work of routine nature) which will be made available to children of members of the personnel (i.e. anyone holding an employment or association contract with CERN). It should be noted that candidates must be aged between 18 and 24 inclusive on the first day of the contract, and that they must have insurance cover for both illness and accident. In view of the limited number of vacancies available, no children previously appointed at CERN under this scheme can be considered. The duration of all appointments will be 4 weeks, the allowance being CHF 1582.- for this period. Application form can be obtained from Martine PLAZA, HR Division (by electronic mail to Martine.Plaza@cern.ch) or at http://cern.ch/hr-web/internal/general/HN-personnel/ Completed application forms must be returned to this service by 2 May 2003 at th...

TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE PERSONNEL

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2003-01-01

Temporary work for children of members of the personnel During the period mid-June to mid-September 2003, there will be a limited number of vacancies for temporary work at CERN (normally unskilled work of routine nature) which will be made available to children of members of the personnel (i.e. anyone holding an employment or association contract with CERN). It should be noted that candidates must be aged between 18 and 24 inclusive on the first day of the contract, and that they must have insurance cover for both illness and accident. In view of the limited number of vacancies available, no children previously appointed at CERN under this scheme can be considered. The duration of all appointments will be 4 weeks, the allowance being CHF 1582.- for this period. Application form can be obtained from Martine PLAZA, HR Division (by electronic mail to Martine.Plaza@cern.ch) or at http://cern.ch/hr-web/internal/general/HN-personnel/ Completed application forms must be returned to this service by 2 May 2003 at t...

People and things. CERN Courier, Jul-Aug 1985, v. 25(6)

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Anon.

1985-01-01

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. Under the chairmanship of Carlo Rubbia, a 'Working Group on the Scientific and Technological Longterm Future of CERN' has been set up 'to explore various options for the long-term future of CERN. ATLAS, short for Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System and the world's first superconducting heavy ion accelerator, was dedicated at the US Argonne National Laboratory on 3 June

Cern Women's Club

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Club des cernoises

2013-01-01

Christmas SaleTuesday 26th November 2013, from 9:00 to 11:00 Main Building 60 Ground Floor Those interested in helping should come along. New arrivals and all members are cordially invited. You can enrol for membership, renew membership, find out about and sign up for our activities. Visit our website: http://club-womensclub.web.cern.ch.

The Spirit counts - People at and around CERN

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CERN. Geneva

2014-01-01

After a few biographical remarks I shall concentrate on human aspects which are not covered by official documents, but which are as important to the success of CERN as scientific and technical competence. The approval of LEP, general problems of the project management and the approval of the LEP experiments under conditions never encountered before at CERN will be covered. The special spirit created at CERN based on the competence and solidarity of the CERN staff and its users made it possible to find new ways of successful international collaboration combining competition with cooperation. Career Summary Physics diploma and doctorate from Hamburg University, now Prof. emer.; research assistant at Stockholm Technical University (with Lise Meitner); Cavendish Laboratory UK (with O.R.Frisch); Cornell University (with R.R. Wilson); research in optics, nuclear and elementary particle physics. various professorships in Germany and director of university institutes; Director of DESY, Hamburg, 1973-1980...

STAFF MEETING

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2004-01-01

I would like to invite all members of the CERN Personnel to a meeting on Tuesday 13 January 2004 at 4:00 p.m. - Main Auditorium (bldg. 500) to convey my best wishes for the new year and to present a perspective of CERN's future activities. Closed-circuit transmission of the meeting will be available in the Council Chamber and in the AB Auditorium (Meyrin), the AB Auditorium (Prévessin), the IT Auditorium (bldg. 31) and the AT Auditorium (bldg. 30). A simultaneous translation into English will be available in the main Auditorium. Robert AYMAR

China and CERN renew their Co-operation Agreement

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2004-01-01

Dr. Liu Yanhua, Chinese Vice Minister of Science and Technology, and Dr. Robert Aymar, Director-General of CERN, sign a new Co-operation Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and CERN. During his visit to CERN on 17 February, Liu Yanhua, Vice Minister of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, signed a new Co-operation Agreement with the Laboratory. The Agreement, which is valid for a period of five years and renewable, lays down the framework for the development of scientific and technological co-operation between CERN and China. This includes China's participation, as a non-Member State, in CERN's research projects as well as its main programmes. Robert Aymar and Liu Yanhua underlined that this Agreement will provide an excellent framework for close co-operation on the LHC Programme and Grid and accelerator technologies. Scientific co-operation between China and CERN is nothing new, as Chinese physicists already took part in the LEP experiments. Today, CERN's C...

People and thing. CERN Courier, Nov 1986, v. 26(9)

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Anon.

1986-01-01

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. The design current of 1 ampere was achieved this summer at the 750 MeV vacuum ultra-violet storage ring of the US National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven. The next International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies will be held in Hamburg, West Germany, from 27-31 July 1987. The second Lake Louise Winter Institute will be held from 16-22 February at Chateau Lake Louise, Canada.; The 32nd Scottish Universities' Summer School in Physics will be held from 9-29 August 1987 at the University of St. Andrews. Earlier this year an exhibition of photographs of great beauty was presented at CERN on the invitation of the Staff Association. Following the success of the Symposium on Cosmology, Astronomy and Particle Physics organized jointly by CERN and the European Southern Observatory (ESO), now a regular feature of the physics international physics calendar, ESO and CERN are organizing an International School on Astro-Particle Physics at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, from 5-25 January

Celebrating 50 years of the CERN Computing Operations group

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Katarina Anthony

2013-01-01

Last week, former and current computing operations staff, managers and system engineers were reunited at CERN. They came together to celebrate a milestone not only for the IT Department but also for CERN: the 50th anniversary of the CERN Operations group and the 40th birthday of the Computer Centre.   The reunion was organised by former chief operator, Pierre Bénassi, and took place from 26 to 27 April. Among the 44 attendees were Neil Spoonley and Charles Symons, who together created the Operations group back in 1963. “At that time, working in the Operations group was a very physical job,” recalls former Operations Group Leader, David Underhill. “For that reason, many of the first operators were former firemen.” A few of the participants enjoyed a tour of CERN landmarks during their visit (see photo). The group toured the CERN Computing Centre (accompanied by IT Department Head, Frédéric Hemmer), as well as the ATLAS cav...

Members of the Forum Engelberg visit CERN

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Patrice Loïez

2002-01-01

The Forum Engelberg is an annual interdisciplinary conference held in Engelberg, Switzerland intended to act as an international platform for debate and exchange of views on key issues affecting scientific research, technology, economics and philosophy. Its President is Hubert Curien - former French Minister of Research and Space Research, and President of the CERN Council from 1994 to 1996. He is pictured here (centre) with (left to right) Raymond Battistella, Director-General of SIG, Geneva's utilities provider; Michel Della Negra; Marie-Anne Heimo; Jean-Claude Landry; and Bernard Ecoffey, Founder of the Forum Engelberg, in front of the CMS detector under construction. Visible are three of the five concentric rings forming the barrel yoke which returns the magnetic flux generated by the superconducting coil.

Members of the Forum Engelberg visit CERN

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Patrice Loïez

2002-01-01

The Forum Engelberg is an annual interdisciplinary conference held in Engelberg, Switzerland intended to act as an international platform for debate and exchange of views on key issues affecting scientific research, technology, economics and philosophy. Its President is Hubert Curien - former French Minister of Research and Space Research, and President of the CERN Council from 1994 to 1996. Photo 01: (left to right) Konrade Von Bremen, Claude-Olivier Rochat, T. Virdee and Guillaume Pictet in front of one of the two end-caps of the CMS detector at the assembly site. The brass structure in the top right-hand corner is part of the hadronic calorimeter that will measure the energy of strongly interacting particles produced in collisions at the LHC.

People and things. CERN Courier, Dec 1990, v. 30(9)

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Anon.

1990-01-01

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: ; Prospects for approval of the proposed KAON Factory at the Canadian TRIUMF Laboratory in Vancouver took a further step forward in September when Premier Vander Zalm of British Columbia announced that his government would double their financial commitment to 236 million Canadian dollars. ; The CERN Accelerator School (CAS) and the UK Rutherford Appleton Laboratory are organizing a course on R.F. Engineering for Particle Accelerators, to be held from 3-10 April 1991 at Exeter College, Oxford, aimed at staff in accelerator laboratories, universities and manufacturing companies specializing in r.f. and microwave equipment

People and things. CERN Courier, Dec 1990, v. 30(9)

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Anon.

1990-12-15

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: ; Prospects for approval of the proposed KAON Factory at the Canadian TRIUMF Laboratory in Vancouver took a further step forward in September when Premier Vander Zalm of British Columbia announced that his government would double their financial commitment to 236 million Canadian dollars. ; The CERN Accelerator School (CAS) and the UK Rutherford Appleton Laboratory are organizing a course on R.F. Engineering for Particle Accelerators, to be held from 3-10 April 1991 at Exeter College, Oxford, aimed at staff in accelerator laboratories, universities and manufacturing companies specializing in r.f. and microwave equipment.

Communicative Interaction among Local Editorial Staff Members: Current Situation and the Ways of its Improving

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Mariya V. Korotitskaya

2017-06-01

Full Text Available Communication between management and employees is very important in organizations. However, communication problems might be more felt in any media organization as a whole and in the local media staff in particular. It’s obvious that news workers have everyday communicative interaction with different newsmakers. The article deals with the study and analysis of the communicative interaction between the local editorial creative staff members. Internal and external organizational understanding data are considered. It is determined that the level of organizational communication development influences the local editorial success and employees’ performance. Mutual understanding as the basic criterion of effective communication has several forms. The subject of our study is organizational understanding, that is, a special type of editorial staff relationship which is limited by the boundaries of the organization and is essential for its successful functioning and development. The analysis of empirical data allowed to identify the main problematic aspects and to work out the recommendations for vertical and horizontal communication development.

People and things. CERN Courier, March 1983, v.23(2)

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Anon.

1983-01-01

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. At the end of January, British TV audiences had a chance to see the film 'The Geneva Event', made by the BBC/Open University team in collaboration with CERN. The CLEO group working at Cornell's CESR electronpositron ring have succeeded in reconstructing B mesons. This is the first direct observation of particles openly carrying the new beauty (bottom) quantum number. The Europhysics Conference on Computing in Accelerator Design and Operation', originally scheduled to be held in Warsaw in September 1982, is now to take place in West Berlin from 20-23 September 1983. The Scottish Universities' Summer School in Physics will be held in Edinburgh from 31 July to 20 August. The topic this year is 'Statistical and Particle Physics - Common Problems and Techniques'. The first Asia Pacific Physics Conference will be held in Singapore from 12-18 June, and the subjects to be covered include high energy physics and nuclear physics. A Workshop on Time Projection Chambers and experiments using them will be held at the TRIUMF Laboratory, Vancouver, Canada, from 23-25 June. The first European Southern Observatory (ESO)-CERN Symposium will be held at CERN from 21-25 November. Its subject will be Large Scale Structure of the Universe, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics. During the closing session of the third World Congress on Nuclear Medicine in Paris, the French national association of public hospital engineers awarded the prizes for the competition it had organized on the development of new techniques in nuclear medicine. CERN is in the process of setting up an Accelarator School which will have a continuing mission in close collaboration with institutions in the Member States to promote the transfer of knowledge in the field of particle accelerators

Members of the LHC Resources Review Boards

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Maximilien Brice

2002-01-01

Photo 01: Members of the LHCRRB visiting Point 2, hosting the ALICE experiment From l. to r. : W. Korda, Head of the VIP Office; P. Rimmer, CERN public relations, J. Seed, Member of the LHCRRB, J.-P. Revol, ALICE CERN Team Leader; J. Bartke, Member of the LHCRRB; F. Suransky, Member of the LHCRRB; J. Schukraft, Spokesperson, ALICE experiment and S. Molinari, VIP Office. Photo 02: Members of the LHC Resources Review Boards visiting the ALICE magnet at Point 2. L. to. r.: O. Dines-Hansen, H. Boggild, S. Irgens-Jensens, H.A. Gustafsson Photo 03: Members of the LHCRRB visiting Point 2, hosting the ALICE experiment From l. t to r.: J.Richter, Member of the LHCRRB; H. Gutbrod, Deputy Spokesperson, ALICE experiment; G. Paic, ALICE experiment; D. Muller, Member of the LHCRRB; P. Brau-Munzinger, ALICE experiment; R. Santo, Member of the LHCRRB, A. Van Rijn, Member of the LHCRRB; J. Engelen, Member of the LHCRRB.

Stamp in honour of CERN

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1966-01-01

21 February 1966. The Swiss post office issued a stamp in CERN's honour. This stamp showed the flags of the thirteen Member States at the time arranged in the geometrical outline of Switzerland against a background of a track photograph.

Books authored/co-authored and edited/co-edited by members of staff of the Department of Medieval/Medieval and Renaissance Archaeology, Aarhus University, 1971-2014

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Roesdahl, Else

2015-01-01

Chronologically organized list of books authored/co-authored and edited/co-edited by members of staff of the Department of Medieval and Renaissance Archaeology, Aarhus University, 1971-2014......Chronologically organized list of books authored/co-authored and edited/co-edited by members of staff of the Department of Medieval and Renaissance Archaeology, Aarhus University, 1971-2014...

Safety in an international work environment: CERN

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Potter, K.

1990-01-01

The European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) has recently completed a new accelerator. The installation of this accelerator and its experimental areas represents an example of harmonization of safety rules in supranational areas, as CERN is an international organization and the machine is housed in a tunnel of 26.7 km circumference, of which 20 km is on French territory and 6.7 km on Swiss territory. The work was carried out by a large number of firms from all over Europe, CERN staff and physicists and technicians from all over the world, and represented almost 4 million working hours. The safety organization chosen and applied with the agreement of the two host-State safety authorities is described and the resulting application, including the results in terms of accident statistics, from the installation of the machine, experimental areas and detectors are presented.

Medical conference for the attention of CERN personnel

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GS Department

2009-01-01

Following the success of the conferences "to optimize your cerebral ageing" organized for CERN pensioners, we are pleased to invite all members of personnel to the conference Promotion of optimum brain ageing Which will be given by professors and specialists from Geneva University hospital and the faculty of medicine of the University of Geneva: Wednesday 22 April 2009 16:00 to 18:00 Main Auditorium, Building 500 - Burden of Dementia - Management of Alzheimer disease - The brain reserve concept - Research projects : methodological and practical aspects CERN Medical Service CERN and ESO Pensioners Association (GAC-EPA)

Ombuds’ corner: Let's not confuse students and fellows with missing staff

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Vincent Vuillemin

2013-01-01

One of the main missions of CERN is education. Several programmes are dedicated to training students. Others, like the Fellowship programme, offer graduates to start a career and become professionals in their fields. All these young and fresh people provide very valuable contributions to our Organization.   At the same time, it is important to remember that they (especially the students) are here to learn from our professional staff for their future career. This is the correct exchange: they bring their dedicated work to our projects and they gain experience by working with our staff. There’s no better way to learn than on-the-job. However they should not be considered as missing staff, with the exact same requirements expected from the CERN staff. Potential missing staff in some areas is a separate issue, and educational programmes are not designed to make up for it. On-the-job learning and training are not separated but dynamically linked together, benefiting to both par...

CERN Women's Club

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CERN Women's Club

2012-01-01

offee Morning Tuesday 12th  June 2012, 12:30 Annual Club Lunch at "The Physalis" in Prévessin Those interested in helping should come along. New arrivals and all members are cordially invited. You can enrol for membership, renew membership, find out about and sign up for our activities. Visit our website: http://club-womensclub.web.cern.ch/Club-WomensClub/

Members of the Forum Engelberg visit CERN

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Patrice Loïez

2002-01-01

The Forum Engelberg is an annual interdisciplinary conference held in Engelberg, Switzerland intended to act as an international platform for debate and exchange of views on key issues affecting scientific research, technology, economics and philosophy. Its President, Hubert Curien - former French Minister of Research and Space Research, and President of the CERN Council from 1994 to 1996 - is pictured here. Photo 01: Hubert Curien in front of the first half of the CMS detector's barrel hadronic calorimeter (HCAL). The barrel HCAL is a cylindrical structure which will surround the collision region and measure the energy of quarks and jets emerging at large angles relative to the beam direction. Photo 02: Hubert Curien (left) with Bernard Ecoffey, Founder of the Forum Engelberg, in front of the first half of the CMS detector's barrel hadronic calorimeter.

Members of the Forum Engelberg visit CERN

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Patrice Loïez

2002-01-01

The Forum Engelberg is an annual interdisciplinary conference held in Engelberg, Switzerland intended to act as an international platform for debate and exchange of views on key issues affecting scientific research, technology, economics and philosophy. Its President is Hubert Curien - former French Minister of Research and Space Research, and President of the CERN Council from 1994 to 1996. He is seen here visiting building SM18, which houses String 2: the test facility for LHC systems. Photo 01: (left to right) Mme Jaconi, Prof. Roger Berthouzoz, M. Guillaume Pictet, M. Claude Bagnoud, R. Saban and Hubert Curien. Photo 02: (left to right) R. Saban, M. Jean-Claude Rochat, Hubert Curien and M. Guillaume Pictet. Photo 03: (left to right) R. Saban, M. Jean-Claude Rochat and Hubert Curien.

Members of the Forum Engelberg visit CERN

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Patrice Loïez

2002-01-01

The Forum Engelberg is an annual interdisciplinary conference held in Engelberg, Switzerland intended to act as an international platform for debate and exchange of views on key issues affecting scientific research, technology, economics and philosophy. Its President is Hubert Curien - former French Minister of Research and Space Research, and President of the CERN Council from 1994 to 1996. Photo 01: (left to right) Mrs Mireille Quirina; D. Denegri, Physics Coordinator, CMS experiment; and Mrs Marisa Jaconi at the CMS detector's assembly site. In the background is the CMS magnet system under construction. The red concentric rings are part of the barrel yoke, which returns the magnetic flux generated by the superconducting coil. Supported from the innermost barrel ring is the outer cylinder of the vacuum tank that will house the superconducting coil.

CERN HUMAN RESSOURCES 1999 FRENCH VERSION NOW AVAIABLE

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Division du Personnel

1999-01-01

A report on CERN Human Resources is published once every two years. The version of the 1999 report is now available in French and in English: in your divisional secretariat for paper copieson the Web: http://www.cern.ch/HRreportIn its foreword, the Director-General addresses some key issues:'Many (…) key personnel are now steadily approaching retirement. (…) More efficient working methods and new technology can absorb not all the natural depletion. New blood is vital, and about a hundred new people are taken on each year'About the RSL programme, he says:'… More than 30 additional posts have been opened by this voluntary scheme. This programme displays the excellent mutual understanding that has been carefully built up between CERN management and staff. This harmonious atmosphere bodes well for continued success.'The Human Resources 1999 report gives information on a lot of subjects:general information on CERN's aim and the organisation of its operations,major changes in recent years...

People and things. CERN Courier, Apr 1991, v. 31(3)

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Anon.

1991-01-01

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: ; In 1992 the XVth International Conference on High Energy Accelerators will be held from 20-24 July at the Congress Centrum, Hamburg, Germany. ; The 100 or so places for the CERN Accelerator School's 'Radiofrequency Engineering for Particle Accelerators' course in Oxford from 3-10 April were sold out well in advance. ; A Symposium on Quantum Physics, in memory of John Stewart Bell who died on 1 October 1990 will be held at CERN on 2-3 May

Information on Equal Opportunities at CERN

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2003-01-01

In response to questions raised at the meeting of the Finance Committee in December 2002, the Management agreed to present a short information document . At its meeting in May 2003, TREF discussed the content of this information document and took note of supplementary information provided in a presentation by CERN's Equal Opportunities Officer, accompanied by the Chairman of the Equal Opportunities Advisory Panel. The Forum concluded that this supplementary information should be included in a revised version of the document, as indicated in section 3 and Annex 1 below. Finally, the Forum took note of a main issue raised by the Panel, namely the need for crèche facilities available to CERN staff. This led to a study commissioned by the Management, recommending the setting up of crèche facilities on the CERN site (Annex 2). However, given the current financial constraints, funding could only be found by setting priorities in the next 5-Yearly Review.

Tragic loss at CERN

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CERN Ski Club

2015-01-01

Tragic loss at CERN The CERN community is mourning the tragic loss of two members of the CERN Ski Club. On Sunday, April 12, an avalanche buried four out of five skiers, taking part in a ski touring in the region of the Becs de Bosson in Valais (CH). The fifth skier, who had not been buried in the snow,  courageously managed to save two of the skiers, but Hervé Milcent, 49 years, federal ski instructor, and Mattieu Cattin, 33 years, were buried under two to three meters of snow, far down the avalanche slope, and did not survive, despite the fast arrival of the mountain rescue. In its 40 years of existence, the CERN Ski Club, one of the biggest in the Geneva area, has never been confronted with such a tragedy. The passing of Hervé and Matthieu has deeply shocked and saddened all volunteers of the Club as well as the entire alpine community. The ski touring section of the club would like to honour its friend Hervé, who joined the club in 1998. In 2003 he became res...

People and things. CERN Courier Nov 1985, v. 25(9)

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Anon.

1985-11-15

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. The European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) meets in plenary session twice a year. At the meeting at CERN earlier this year, ECFA Chariman Jean Sacton described the trend towards even greater internationalization of partide physics research and how arrangement have been completed to allow the exchange of observers between meetings of Plenary ECFA and the US High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP). After the success of the ESO (European Southern Observatory) CERN Symposium on Cosmology, Astronomy and Fundamental Physics, held at CERN in November 1983, the second Symposium is to be held at ESO, Garching bei Munchen, West Germany, from 17 to 21 March next year.

People and things. CERN Courier Nov 1985, v. 25(9)

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Anon.

1985-01-01

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. The European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) meets in plenary session twice a year. At the meeting at CERN earlier this year, ECFA Chariman Jean Sacton described the trend towards even greater internationalization of partide physics research and how arrangement have been completed to allow the exchange of observers between meetings of Plenary ECFA and the US High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP). After the success of the ESO (European Southern Observatory) CERN Symposium on Cosmology, Astronomy and Fundamental Physics, held at CERN in November 1983, the second Symposium is to be held at ESO, Garching bei Munchen, West Germany, from 17 to 21 March next year

Homage

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2013-01-01

 Michel BORGHINI  1934 - 2012   It was with deep sadness that we learnt, just before Christmas, of the sudden death of our dear friend and former colleague Michel Borghini. Michel was a staff member of CERN from October 1965 to January 1999. Senior physicist, distinguished expert in several areas, he was in regular contact with Carlo Rubbia, Nobel laureate in physics and former Director-General of CERN, and with Pierre Dariullat, former Director of Research.  Michel could have taken up a senior management position within the Organization. A founding member of the Senior Staff Advisory Committee, an advisory group of the Director-General, he understood the importance of dialogue to build a consensus that the various constituents of the CERN community, staff, users, Management and Member States, can support. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Staff Association for thirteen years, Vice-President for three years, then President for six years, u...

The LHC Physics Centre at CERN

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CERN Bulletin

2010-01-01

As the LHC goes on line for its first exploration of the new high-energy frontier, CERN is also getting ready to enhance the support it provides for the analysis and interpretation of the emerging data.    The LHC Physics Centre at CERN (LPCC) has started up over the past couple of months, beginning with a series of initiatives ranging from Workshops to lectures for students. More details about the LPCC will be featured in a forthcoming Bulletin article. In the meantime, you can consult the LPCC web page, now available at http://cern.ch/lpcc. This offers the high energy physics community a portal to the LPCC's activities, as well as to useful resources, tools and information about the LHC physics programme, the progress of accelerator operations, relevant workshops and events around the world, and much more. The LPCC will shortly begin issuing a weekly bulletin of its own, distributed by e-mail. Members of the CERN physics community and subscribers to the CERN Bulletin will receive the ...

Prestigious US awards for CERN computing

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2001-01-01

On 4 June in the distinguished surroundings of Washington's National Building Museum, IT Deputy Division Leader Les Robertson accepted a 21st Century Achievement Award from the Computerworld Honors Program on behalf of CERN. This prestigious award was made to CERN for its innovative application of information technology to the benefit of society. Members of the team that initiated the SHIFT project with the Computerworld trophy. The team was a collaboration between the Information Technology Division, the OPAL experiment and Indiana University. From left to right, Ben Segal, Matthias Schroeder, Gail Hanson, Bernd Panzer, Jean-Philippe Baud, Les Robertson and Frédéric Hemmer. CERN's award followed the Laboratory's nomination by Lawrence Ellison, Chairman and CEO of the Oracle Corporation. Ellison nominated CERN in recognition of 'pioneering work in developing a large scale data warehouse' - an innovative computing architecture that responds precisely to the global particle physics commun...

Internal Mobility at CERN - Perceptions and Reality

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Guinot, Genevieve; CERN. Geneva. HR Department

2017-01-01

The objective of this study on internal mobility at CERN was to get perceptions and reality into perspective, through a historical review of past and current practices in the matter and to identify leads of action through an analysis of barriers and leverages, based, among others, on the 2011-2012 Staff Survey. The survey had indeed shown that internal mobility is perceived as a non-fluid process and rather lukewarm opinions on the process efficiency while staff members’ expectations regarding their possibilities to change functions or units are high.

New CERN Health Insurance Scheme (CHIS) forms

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HR Department

2015-01-01

New versions of the following forms for claims and requests to the CERN Health Insurance Scheme (CHIS) have been released:   form for claiming reimbursement of medical expenses,   form for requesting advance reimbursement, and   dental estimate form (for treatments foreseen to exceed 800 CHF).   The new forms are available in French and English. They can either be completed electronically before being printed and signed, or completed in paper form. New detailed instructions can be found at the back of the claim form; CHIS members are invited to read them carefully. The electronic versions (PDF) of all the forms are available on the CHIS website and on the UNIQA Member Portal. CHIS Members are requested to use these new forms forthwith and to discard any previous version. Questions regarding the above should be addressed directly to UNIQA (72730 or 022.718 63 00 or uniqa.assurances@cern.ch).

Staff meeting

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2006-01-01

I would like to invite all members of the CERN Personnel to a meeting on Thursday 18 January 2007 at 3:00 p.m. Main Auditorium (bldg.. 500) to convey my best wishes for the new year, to review CERN's activities during 2006 and to present the perspectives for this special year of the LHC start-up. Closed-circuit transmission of the meeting will be available in the Council Chamber and in the AB Auditorium (Meyrin), the AB Auditorium (Prévessin), the IT Auditorium (bldg.. 31) and the AT Auditorium (bldg.. 30). Simultaneous translation into English will be available in the main Auditorium. Robert AYMAR

STAFF MEETING

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Robert Aymar

2005-01-01

I would like to invite all members of the CERN Personnel to a meeting on Thursday 12 January 2006 at 4:00 p.m. - Main Auditorium (bldg. 500) to convey my best wishes for the new year, to review CERN's activities during 2005 and to present the perspectives for this coming year. Closed-circuit transmission of the meeting will be available in the Council Chamber and in the AB Auditorium (Meyrin), the AB Auditorium (Prévessin), the IT Auditorium (bldg. 31) and the AT Auditorium (bldg. 30). A simultaneous translation into English will be available in the main Auditorium. Best wishes for the festive season Robert AYMAR

E-njoy the first CERN Global Network e-vent!

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CERN Bulletin

2010-01-01

Empowered by the considerable interest it received after it was launched, the CERN Global Network takes off and organizes the first e-vent, which will be a special talk on science communication that will be held on 29 June at 4.30 p.m. in the Council Chamber. You can experience it live on the Global Network site and, if you are a Member, provide feedback. Stay linked!   On the CERN Global Network webpage, you will be able to choose the topic of the next e-vents. Seven weeks after its launch, about 600 people have already joined the CERN Global Network and six thematic groups have been created. The whole idea of joining the Network is to stay connected or reconnect with life at CERN where seminars, talks and discussions are undoubtedly a very important and much appreciated part of it. This is where the e-vents come into play. “The e-vents enable members of the Global Network to participate in selected events taking place at CERN, such as lectures or panel discussions. They will...

CERN openlab and its partners - a unique collaboration

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CERN Bulletin

2011-01-01

Collaborating with industry is a long-standing tradition at CERN. CERN openlab is a unique example of a structure for CERN and industry to jointly carry out large-scale research and development in the field of information technologies. An initiative perceived by some as rather new, as already old by others,  the openlab this year celebrates its 10th anniversary.   CERN openlab 10th birthday celebration on 3 May 2011, on the occasion of its annual Board of Sponsors meeting, in the presence of the CERN Director-General, the partners, as well as past and present team members. © Fons Rademakers (CERN Photo Club). The idea of openlab started with Manuel Delfino, who was the head of the IT Department at the start of the millennium. “Links with industry were already in place in the computing field but lacked a general framework” explains François Fluckiger, the manager of openlab since its inception. For example, benchmarking of cutting-edge IT products ...

CERN School of Physics travels to Romania

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Katarina Anthony

2011-01-01

From 7-20 September, students at the European School of High-Energy Physics brought their enthusiasm for physics to Cheile Gradistei, Romania. This was the school’s first time in Romania, which is set to become a CERN Member State in 2015.   Students from the 2011 CERN School of High-Energy Physics. Every year, the School of High-Energy Physics hosts students from around the world to learn from the best in the HEP field. The Schools began in the 1960s as a CERN initiative and, since 1971, schools have been jointly organised by CERN and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Russia. “This year, we hosted almost 100 participants from 31 countries,” says Nick Ellis, director of the CERN Schools of Physics. “The Schools have always been a fantastic opportunity for the next generation of particle physicists to learn and to network with their future colleagues.” Students attended a comprehensive programme of lectures and discussion ses...

Haute-Savoie at CERN

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2003-01-01

From 10 to 14 November, twenty-two companies presented their latest technology at the Haute-Savoie exhibition at CERN. With hedges of green plants, wooden lawn chairs, and even a small fountain like the ones near mountain chalets, the exhibitors transformed the hall of the main building into a little natural corner. They not only brought local flair but also a multitude of interesting information about their know-how of innovative technologies. In addition to the exhibition, presentations on topics ranging from multiplexing over materials to nano-technologies were given at the end of each afternoon in the Council Chamber. One of the exibitors at the "Haute-Savoie at CERN" shows (from left to right) Roland Pascal, Service Director General of the Haute-Savoie Département, Claude Birraux, Vice-President of the general council of Haute-Savoie and Member of the French Parliament, Robert Aymar, designated CERN Director General, and Ernest Nycollin, President of the general council of Haute-Savoie one of the stand...

Serbian President visits CERN

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Katarina Anthony

2012-01-01

On Tuesday 10 January, Serbian President Boris Tadić visited the Laboratory to sign the Agreement of granting the status of Associate Membership as the pre-stage to full Membership of CERN.    Before the signing ceremony, the President, welcomed by Director-General Rolf Heuer at CERN’s Point 5, took the opportunity to visit CERN. After a general introduction, the President took advantage of the shutdown to visit the LHC’s underground caverns. Leading the President through their respective experiments were spokespersons Fabiola Gianotti (ATLAS) and Joe Incandela (CMS).  After a morning of tours, President Tadić and Rolf Heuer signed the Agreement. Serbia’s status as an Associate Member as pre-stage to full Membership is expected to come into force following ratification by the Serbian Parliament. After a maximum period of five years, the CERN Council will decide on the admission of Serbia to full Membership. This new agreement continues Serbia&a...

CERN's first female firefighter

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Alizée Dauvergne

2010-01-01

Until recently, the women's changing room in the Fire Station, built in 2005, has always been empty. With the arrival of Séverine Peverelly, CERN's first female firefighter, it now has a purpose. Séverine Peverelly took up her post as a firefighter in April. Séverine, who comes from Gap in France, took up her post as a firefighter in the CERN fire brigade at the beginning of April. "We were looking for a new member," explains David Peyron, Head of the Fire and Rescue Service. It didn't matter if it was a man or a woman; we needed a firefighter with the right skills, and Séverine just happened to have them." With ten years experience working in French fire services, Séverine was looking for a new challenge. "What attracted me to CERN was the international dimension, because that creates additional challenges," she explains. And these can be considerable! For one thing, every country has its own way of worki...

Amendments to the rules of the CERN Health Insurance Scheme (CHIS) - Edition 1 January 2012

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2014-01-01

Following recommendations made by the Internal Audit Service concerning, inter alia, the need to clarify the governance of the CHIS, amendments were approved by the Director-General following examination at the Standing Concertation Committee meeting on 10 April 2014.   The new rules entered into force on 1 June 2014 and are available on the intranet site of the CHIS:  http://cern.ch/chis/doc/Rules2014F.pdf The new rules provide for the involvement of three entities in the governance of the CHIS: an Administrator, a Strategic Advisor and a joint body (the CHIS Board), all appointed by the Director-General. The CHIS Board will be composed of four members appointed by the Director-General, including the Administrator, and four members appointed by the Staff Association.  The Strategic Advisor will preside over the CHIS Board. Department Head Office HR Department

CERN Industrials Exhibitions - Over 30 Years of Tradition

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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 ...

Massivement en grève le CERN frole le big bang le débrayage des fonctionnaires et sous-traitants cristallise la crise

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Stampfli, B

2002-01-01

Around 1000 staff in total, demonstrated at CERN today, to protest against radical measures proposed by CERN management. CERN needs to find around 850 million CHF to supplement the budget of the LHC project.

CERN comes under fresh financial pressure

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Dickson, D

1996-01-01

Germany's decision to effect a 10% cut in its annual subscription to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 1997 has added to the financial problems of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland. Reduced European contributions will have a crucial impact on the planned construction and completion of LHC. Proposals for non-European membership to reduce the financial burden on CERN members is doubtful in the current political context. The German move hints at a reappraisal of the funding projections for LHC.

CERN physicist receives Einstein Medal

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2006-01-01

On 29 June the CERN theorist Gabriele Veneziano was awarded the prestigious Albert Einstein Medal for significant contributions to the understanding of string theory. This award is given by the Albert Einstein Society in Bern to individuals whose scientific contributions relate to the work of Einstein. Former recipients include exceptional physicists such as Murray Gell-Mann last year, but also Stephen Hawking and Victor Weisskopf. Gabriele Veneziano, a member of the integrated CERN Theory Team since 1977, led the Theory Division from 1994 to 1997 and has already received many prestigious prizes for his outstanding work, including the Enrico Fermi Prize (see CERN Courier, November 2005), the Dannie Heineman Prize for mathematical physics of the American Physical Society in 2004 (see Bulletin No. 47/2003), and the I. Ya. Pomeranchuk Prize of the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow) in 1999.

CERN exhibition attracts over 100,000 visitors in Belgrade

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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...

Staff Performance Analysis: A Method for Identifying Brigade Staff Tasks

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Ford, Laura

1997-01-01

... members of conventional mounted brigade staff. Initial analysis of performance requirements in existing documentation revealed that the performance specifications were not sufficiently detailed for brigade battle staffs...

Cern Women's Club

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2013-01-01

Coffee MorningTuesday 14th May 2013, 9:30 Bldg 504 (Restaurant No 2 – DSR) 1st Floor, Club Room 3 Annual General Meeting Those interested in helping should come along. New arrivals and all members are cordially invited. You can enrol for membership, renew membership, find out about and sign up for our activities. Visit our website: http://club-womensclub.web.cern.ch

CERN Women's Club

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2013-01-01

Coffee Morning Tuesday 11th  June 2013, 12:30 Annual Club Lunch at the restaurant “Bois Joly” in Crozet Those interested in helping should come along. New arrivals and all members are cordially invited.You can enrol for membership, renew membership, find out about and sign up for our activities. Visit our website: http://club-womensclub.web.cern.ch/Club-WomensClub/

Cern Women's Club

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2013-01-01

Coffee MorningTuesday 9th April 2013, 9:00 – 14:00 Bldg 504 (Restaurant No 2 – DSR) Ground Floor Spring Jumble Sale Those interested in helping should come along. New arrivals and all members are cordially invited. You can enrol for membership, renew membership, find out about and sign up for our activities. Visit our website: http://club-womensclub.web.cern.ch/Club-WomensClub/

CERN Women's Club

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CERN Women's Club

2013-01-01

Coffee Morning Tuesday 10th September 2013, 9:00 Bldg 504, (Restaurant No 2 – DSR) 1st Floor, Club Room 3 Registration Those interested in helping should come along. New arrivals and all members are cordially invited. You can enrol for membership, renew membership, find out about and sign up for our activities. Visit our website: http://club-womensclub.web.cern.ch/Club-WomensClub/

Portrait

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2016-01-01

Ulla Tihinen, EP-AGS-SE At CERN since 1992 I arrived at CERN in 1992 as Staff Member and started as secretary at the DELPHI experiment’s secretariat. LEP being operational since a certain time, the experiment was running smoothly and I discovered the scientific world, which was completely new for me. I have always worked for the same department (though its name has changed three times since 24 years); at the EP regional secretariat, at the ALICE experiment and now for the SFT and SME groups (Small and Medium Experiments Team). Member of the Staff Association since I started to work at CERN, I have always followed its actions taken in various fields in the general interest of the whole CERN staff and I have participated to some actions when it was necessary and justified, for example to defend our pensions. Thus this is the reason which motivated me to present my candidature as delegate: work on behalf of all staff members and together, therefore I’d like to thank all my colleagues who g...

CERN-EU relationship provides various opportunities

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Katarina Anthony-Kittelsen

2010-01-01

The relationship between the EU and CERN continues to grow stronger, as the Director-General and the President of Council recently visited Brussels to discuss the progress made since the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in July 2009. With financial cuts and budget reductions plaguing research programmes across the world, the MoU is a solid basis for enhancing existing or developing new synergies between the two parties.    Rolf Heuer, Michel Spiro and other members of the CERN delegation photographed with Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, during the 2010 Annual CERN-EC meeting. Credits: © European Union, 2010 In recent times, due to the global economic downturn and reductions in national research budgets, the competition for funding from the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7, 2007-2013) has become extremely tough. However, given the large number of CERN proposals accepted by the EC since the start of FP7...

CERN takes over the EIROforum Chairmanship

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CERN Bulletin

2011-01-01

On 1 July 2011, CERN took over the chairmanship of EIROforum for a period of one year. The EIROforum calendar of activities for the period of the CERN chairmanship includes the organisation of many events and the launch of new initiatives.   The CERN Director-General speaks about Science and Society at the EC Conference on the Common Strategic Framework for EU Research and Innovation Funding, 11 June 2011. Founded in 2002 to “serve European science”, the EIROforum partnership today includes eight European intergovernmental research organisations - CERN, EFDA-JET, EMBL, ESA, ESO, ESRF, European XFEL and ILL - that cover a wide range of scientific disciplines and have several organisational models and different member states. This diversity has allowed informed debates about almost all areas of importance for the European Research Area and has also meant that the partners, speaking as a group, have been able to legitimately express their views on a whole range of science policy ...

The IEEE Milestone event at CERN

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2005-01-01

On the initiative of its French and Swiss Sections, the IEEE has honoured CERN with an 'IEEE Milestone in the history of electricity and electronics' for the invention of the multi-wire proportional chamber in 1968. The IEEE established the Electrical Engineering Milestones programe in 1983 to honour significant achievements in the history of electrical and electronics engineering. To be designated, an achievement must be at least 25 years old, must have involved a unique solution to an engineering problem, and must have had at least regional impact. Currently there are more than  50 IEEE Milestones around the world. http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/cern.html The installation and unveiling of this IEEE Milestone will provide the opportunity to emphasize the close relationship between science, technology, industry and well-being in society.  A ceremony, organised with the support of a group of IEEE members working at CERN, will be held at the CERN Globe of Science and Inn...

Prime Minister of Pakistan visits CERN

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Anaïs Schaeffer

2016-01-01

On Saturday, 23 January 2016, CERN welcomed Mr Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan.   From left to right: Minister of Finance Mr Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and CMS national contact physicist Hafeez Hoorani. Mr Muhammad Nawaz Sharif arrived at Point 5 in Cessy, where he was welcomed onto French soil by the sous-préfet of Cessy, Stéphane Donnot, and, representing CERN, Director-General Fabiola Gianotti, Directors Eckhard Elsen and Charlotte Warakaulle, and Rüdiger Voss, the adviser for relations with Pakistan. It was the first visit by a head of government of Pakistan since the country became CERN's latest Associate Member State in July 2015. The Prime Minister then had the opportunity to visit the CMS underground experimental area accompanied by the CMS Spokesperson, Tiziano Camporesi, and the CMS collaboration’...

Assessing the Impact of a Program Designed to Develop Sustainability Leadership amongst Staff Members in Higher Education Institutes: A Case Study from a Community of Practice Perspective

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Alkaher, Iris; Avissar, Ilana

2018-01-01

This study focuses on the impact of a sustainability leadership development program (SLDP) designed to develop staff members as leaders who encourage sustainability practices within institutions of higher education (IHE). Using the framework of community of practice (CoP), we explored the program's contribution by interviewing 16 staff members who…

Gabriele Veneziano, CERN theoretical physicist

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Maximilien Brice

2005-01-01

Gabriele Veneziano is pictured here during an interview with Paola Catapano for the RAI The Italian TV. Often heralded as the 'father of string theory', a theory that attempts to describe the fundamental building blocks of the Universe, Veneziano is a member of the CERN theory group.

FameLab International Final: a triumph for Switzerland and CERN

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CERN Bulletin

2015-01-01

Oskari Vinko, from ETH Zurich, who won the Swiss finals organised at CERN last May, is the winner of the 2015 FameLab competition. The CERN winner Lillian Smestad, member of the AEgIS collaboration from the Norwegian Research Council, shared second place with François-Xavier Joly from France, who also was among the trainees at the FameLab Master Classes organised by CERN in April.     CERN's Lillian Smestad (left) and Oskari Vinko from ETH Zurich, during the Swiss and CERN joint final, organised at CERN in May 2015. The 2015 FameLab International Final, which took place on 4 June in Cheltenham, UK, was a triumph for Switzerland and CERN! The competition was very hard this year, with 27 countries participating in the international semifinals and only nine making it through to the finals. This was also the first year that CERN took part as a “country”.  Congratulations to all the winners! To experience the international Famelab ...

Summer Students: getting professional at CERN

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2001-01-01

The summer season at CERN is known for the traditional visit of Summer Students coming from Member and non-Member States. This time, a total of 176 future scientists are spending part of their summer with us, learning and working in the laboratory. Summer Students enjoying a lecture on particle physics by Ronald Kleiss. Now that summer has finally arrived, you'll have noticed some changes at CERN: longer queues at the bar, faces you don't recognise in the corridors, and a breath of fresh air, but where is it coming from? The answer is easy: the Summer Students are here! Aged between 20 and 27, this group of 176 future scientists has been selected from 600 candidates to spend their summer at the Laboratory. This year, there are 24 more 'Summies' than last following a recommendation in the 2000 5-yearly review to increase the number of students. The Summies mainly come from Member States, but this year there are also 11 Americans, two Mexicans, an Armenian, a Turk, a Pakistani and two South Africans. Judith N...

To all members of the personnel

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2006-01-01

Temporary work for children of members of the personnelDuring the period 12 June to 15 September 2006 included, there will be a limited number of jobs for temporary work at CERN (normally unskilled work of routine nature) which will be made available to children of members of the personnel (i.e. anyone holding an employment or association contract with CERN). It should be noted that candidates must be aged between 18 and 24 inclusive on the first day of the contract, and that they must have insurance cover for both illness and accident. In view of the limited number of jobs available, no children who have previously worked at CERN under this scheme can be considered. The duration of all appointments will be 4 weeks, the allowance being CHF 1640.- for this period. Candidates should apply via HR department's electronic recruitment system (E-rt): https://ert.cern.ch/browse_www/wd_pds?p_web_page_id=4691 Completed application forms must be returned to this service by 17 April 2006 at the latest. The results of t...

To all members of the personnel

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Martine Briant

2006-01-01

Temporary work for children of members of the personnelDuring the period 12 June to 15 September 2006 included, there will be a limited number of jobs for temporary work at CERN (normally unskilled work of routine nature) which will be made available to children of members of the personnel (i.e. anyone holding an employment or association contract with CERN). It should be noted that candidates must be aged between 18 and 24 inclusive on the first day of the contract, and that they must have insurance cover for both illness and accident. In view of the limited number of jobs available, no children who have previously worked at CERN under this scheme can be considered. The duration of all appointments will be 4 weeks, the allowance being CHF 1640.- for this period. Candidates should apply via HR department's electronic recruitment system (E-rt) : https://ert.cern.ch/browse_www/wd_pds?p_web_page_id=4691 Completed application forms must be returned to this service by 17 April 2006 at the latest. The results of ...

The Staff Association and you

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Association du personnel

2013-01-01

The Staff Association, your representative with the Management and the Member States The article VII 1.01 of the Staff Rules and Regulations (SR&R) provides that “the relations between the Director-General and the personnel shall be established either on an individual basis or on a collective basis with the Staff Association as intermediary”. This essential role of the Staff representatives, of being the spokesperson of the entire staff of the Organization vis-à-vis the Director-General and the Members States, is achieved through regular participation in the various joint advisory committees defined in the SR&R. The most important are the Standing Concertation Committee and the TREF, tripartite forum where your representatives meet with the Member States delegates, in the presence of the Management, to explain the position of the staff on the various issues concerning employment conditions. The Finance Committee also gives the opportunity to the Staff Association to ...

Count-down to CERN's 50^th Anniversary

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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.

Leveraging Social Capital of Persons With Intellectual Disabilities Through Facebook Participation: The Perspectives of Family Members and Direct Support Staff.

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Shpigelman, Carmit-Noa

2017-12-01

This study aimed to understand and describe the views of family members and direct support staff regarding the use of Facebook by persons with intellectual disability (ID) within the context of social capital. In-depth, semistructured interviews conducted with 16 family members and direct support staff of persons with ID who use Facebook revealed that most participants favored Facebook use by persons with ID for bonding and bridging social capital and for normalization. Most participants noted the empowering effect of online activity on persons with ID, yet some reported risks and usage difficulties. Although Facebook use enhances the well-being of persons with ID, findings highlighted the participants' need for formal guidelines regarding social media best-practices for people with ID.

TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE PERSONNEL Temporary work for children of members of the personnel

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2001-01-01

During the period mid-June to mid-September 2001, there will be a limited number of vacancies for temporary work at CERN (normally unskilled work of a routine nature) which will be made available to children of members of the personnel (that is, anyone holding an employment or association contract with CERN). It should be noted that candidates must be aged between 18 and 24 inclusive on the first day of the contract, and that they must have insurance cover for both illness and accident. In view of the limited number of vacancies available, no children previously appointed at CERN under this scheme can be considered. The duration of all appointments will be 4 weeks, the allowance being CHF 1538.- net for this period. Application forms can be obtained via the Web at the following address: http://cern.web.cern.ch/CERN/Divisions/PE/ under the heading 'Other Useful Links' or from Paula Barriere, Personnel Management Group (by using the slip below or by electronic mail to Paula.Barriere@.cern.ch). Completed applic...

Modifications to the Rules of the CERN Health Insurance Scheme

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HR Department

2010-01-01

On the proposal of the CHIS Board, and following examination by the Standing Concertation Committee on 29 April 2010, the Director-General has approved the new Rules of the CERN Health Insurance Scheme, which will come into effect on 1 June 2010. The Rules will shortly be available on the CHIS web site. As the Rules had not been revised since 2003, it had become necessary to make certain changes in order to bring them into line with other texts (such as the Staff Rules and Regulations and Administrative Circulars) and to clarify some practices. The new Rules do not introduce any new benefits or remove any existing ones. The following changes will affect all insured members:   Description of change Articles in the new Rules Time limit for claiming reimbursement The time period is measured from the invoice date (instead of the date of treatment). ...

CERN Women's Club

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Club des cernoises

2011-01-01

Coffee Morning Tuesday 11th October, 9:00 – 11:00 Bldg 504 (Restaurant No 2) 1st Floor, Club Room 3 Presentation of the charity to benefit from the Christmas Sale TERRE DES HOMMES New arrivals and all members are cordially invited. You can enrol for membership, renew membership, find out about and sign up for our activities. Visit our website: http://club-womensclub.web.cern.ch/Club-WomensClub/

CERN Women's Club

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CERN Women's Club

2012-01-01

Coffee Morning Tuesday 15th  May 2012, 9:00 Building 504,  (Restaurant No 2 – DSR) 1st Floor, Club Room 3 Annual General Meeting Those interested in helping should come along. New arrivals and all members are cordially invited. You can enrol for membership, renew membership, find out about and sign up for our activities. Visit our website: http://club-womensclub.web.cern.ch/Club-WomensClub/

Cern Women's Club

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Club des cernoises

2013-01-01

Coffee MorningTuesday 12th November 2013, from 9:00 to 11:00 Bldg 504 (Restaurant No 2 – DSR) 1st Floor, Club Room 3 Organisation of Christmas Sale Those interested in helping should come along. New arrivals and all members are cordially invited. You can enrol for membership, renew membership, find out about and sign up for our activities. Visit our website: http://club-womensclub.web.cern.ch.

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CERN Document Server

Club des cernoises

2013-01-01

Coffee MorningTuesday 12th March 2013, 9:00 – 11:00 Bldg 504 (Restaurant No 2 – DSR) 1st Floor, Club Room 3 Eastern Tradition Those interested in helping should come along. New arrivals and all members are cordially invited. You can enrol for membership, renew membership, find out about and sign up for our activities. Visit our website: http://club-womensclub.web.cern.ch/Club-WomensClub/

People and things. CERN Courier, May 1989, v. 29(4)

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Anon.

1989-05-15

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's Accelerator School and Uppsala University, Sweden, are jointly organizing a course on Advanced Accelerator Physics, to be held in Uppsala from 18-29 September, Students should have a basic knowledge of accelerators, and the course is designed to highlight the problems of small rings.The new World Laboratory headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, were formally opened on 7 March.

People and things. CERN Courier, Oct 1991, v. 31(8)

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Anon.

1991-10-15

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: ; Hampton University Graduate Studies (HUGS) at CEBAF, a summer program in electromagnetic nuclear physics held at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia, has completed its sixth year. ; With research and development work pushing ahead for the experimental programme at the proposed LHC proton collider in CERN's LEP tunnel, attention is also turning to preparations for the experiments themselves.

People and things. CERN Courier, May 1989, v. 29(4)

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Anon.

1989-01-01

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's Accelerator School and Uppsala University, Sweden, are jointly organizing a course on Advanced Accelerator Physics, to be held in Uppsala from 18-29 September, Students should have a basic knowledge of accelerators, and the course is designed to highlight the problems of small rings.The new World Laboratory headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, were formally opened on 7 March

A resource for CERN community: the Bookshop in the Central Library

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2008-01-01

If you are looking for technical and scientific books on topics such as IT, Radiation Protection, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Project Management, or simply for a good read, why not check whether the CERN Bookshop has it in stock? You will be surprised by its coverage in IT (150 titles) and physics (300 titles). In total the Bookshop sells around 500 titles from around 15 publishing houses. However, the offer is not limited to these publishers – the Bookshop staff are ready to order any title that exists in print. In addition, we welcome suggestions from the user community for new titles to be added to the stock. The title list - which is integrated into the CERN library catalogue – is available from http://cdsweb.cern.ch/collection/CERN Bookshop This Bookshop is located in the Central Library, Building 52 1-052 and is open on weekdays from 8.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. It can be contacted by e-mail (bookshop@cern.ch). CERN us...

CERN Relay Race: a great success!

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Staff Association

2016-01-01

On Thursday May 19, the traditional relay race was held at CERN, organised jointly by the Running Club and the CERN Staff Association. In spite of the less than optimal weather, the 127 registered teams were not discouraged. Warmed by their efforts on the roads of CERN, the participants were able to withstand the chilly May weather. The start signal for the race was given by our Director General, demonstrating the interest in this event at the highest level of the Organization. Thank you for this much appreciated commitment! Can we hope for next year to see a team from the Directorate in the race? The many spectators who had come to cheer on the runners could also visit the stalls staffed by a few clubs and some of Interfon’s commercial partners. Refreshment and food stands contributed to the friendly atmosphere. The organisation of such an event requires however a substantial investment in order to cover all aspects of logistics, from preparation before the race, to the actual establishment ...

Members of the Forum Engelberg visit CERN

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Maximilien Brice

2002-01-01

The Forum Engelberg is an annual interdisciplinary conference held in Engelberg, Switzerland intended to act as an international platform for debate and exchange of views on key issues affecting scientific research, technology, economics and philosophy. Its President, Hubert Curien - former French Minister of Research and Space Research, and President of the CERN Council from 1994 to 1996 - is seen here visiting the ATLAS experiment. Photo 01: Hubert Curien (left) with Peter Jenni, spokesman for the ATLAS collaboration, in front of the barrel toroid coil casing for the ATLAS detector. Photo 02: Hubert Curien (left) with Peter Jenni in front of the liquid-argon barrel cryostat in the ATLAS assembly hall. Photo 03: Hubert Curien (left) and Peter Jenni in front of the liquid-argon barrel electromagnetic calorimeter in the ATLAS assembly hall. Photo 04: Hubert Curien (centre), Peter Jenni and Wendy Korda in front of a barrel toroid coil casing in the ATLAS assembly hall. Photo 06: Hubert Curien (left) and Peter J...

EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation visits CERN

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Svetlomir Stavrev

2015-01-01

The EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas, visited CERN on 30 January 2015. He was invited by the Director-General to obtain a first-hand impression of some of the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments, just before the eagerly awaited restart of the LHC at record energies.   EU Commissioner Carlos Moedas (first row, fourth from right), accompanied by members of CERN management and researchers involved in the CESSAMag project. The Commissioner was informed about the missions and various activities of CERN, including knowledge transfer and technologies for medical applications. He visited CMS, some of the magnets developed by CERN for SESAME in the framework of the EU co-funded CESSAMag project, and the IT Computing Centre.  The Commissioner encouraged CERN to engage in a European Science Cloud Pilot that could be built on top of existing and highly successful distributed computing initiatives, in some of which CERN played a fu...

People and things. CERN Courier, Jan-Feb 1988, v. 28(1)

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Anon.

1988-01-15

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. The CERN history project yielded its first fruits a year ago with the publication of a volume covering the years of the creation of CERN. 17 November brought together many of the leading figures from the second period under study – covering the construction and first operation of the proton synchrotron through to the end of 1965 when the intersecting storage rings were authorized. The 3rd ESO/CERN Symposium on Cosmology, Astronomy and Fundamental Physics will be held at the Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna (Italy) from 16 to 20 May. New annual event, the next CERN Computing School will be in Oxford, UK, from 14-27 August: The programme covers software engineering, document preparation, communications and networks, hardware, data acquisition, computer-aided electronics design etc.

People and things. CERN Courier, Jan-Feb 1988, v. 28(1)

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Anon.

1988-01-01

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. The CERN history project yielded its first fruits a year ago with the publication of a volume covering the years of the creation of CERN. 17 November brought together many of the leading figures from the second period under study – covering the construction and first operation of the proton synchrotron through to the end of 1965 when the intersecting storage rings were authorized. The 3rd ESO/CERN Symposium on Cosmology, Astronomy and Fundamental Physics will be held at the Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna (Italy) from 16 to 20 May. New annual event, the next CERN Computing School will be in Oxford, UK, from 14-27 August: The programme covers software engineering, document preparation, communications and networks, hardware, data acquisition, computer-aided electronics design etc

29th November 2011 - Czech Parliament Members of the Social Committee of the Lower Chamber visiting CERN permanent exhibition Microcosm and ATLAS visitor centre with Senior Czech Physicist and ILO I. Lehraus.

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Jean-Claude Gadmer

2011-01-01

29th November 2011 - Czech Parliament Members of the Social Committee of the Lower Chamber visiting CERN permanent exhibition Microcosm and ATLAS visitor centre with Senior Czech Physicist and ILO I. Lehraus.

Nursing staff-led behavioural group intervention in psychiatric in-patient care: Patient and staff experiences.

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Salberg, Johanna; Folke, Fredrik; Ekselius, Lisa; Öster, Caisa

2018-02-15

A promising intervention in mental health in-patient care is behavioural activation (BA). Interventions based on BA can be used by mental health nurses and other staff members. The aim of this study was to evaluate patients' and staff members' experiences of a nursing staff-led behavioural group intervention in mental health in-patient care. The intervention was implemented at three adult acute general mental health in-patient wards in a public hospital setting in Sweden. A self-administrated questionnaire, completed by 84 patients and 34 nurses and nurse assistants, was administered, and nonparametric data analysed using descriptive statistics. Our findings revealed that both patients and nursing staff ranked nursing care and care environment as important aspects in the recovery process. Patients and staff members reported overall positive experiences of the group sessions. Patients with higher frequencies of attendance and patients satisfied with overall care had a more positive attitude towards the intervention. A more positive experience of being a group leader was reported by staff members who had been leading groups more than ten times. The most common impeding factor during implementation, reported by staff members, was a negative attitude to change. Conducive factors were having support from a psychologist and the perception that patients were showing interest. These positive experiences reported by patients and nursing staff, combined with previous research in this field, are taking us one step further in evaluating group sessions based on BA as a meaningful nursing intervention in mental health in-patient care. © 2018 Australian College of Mental Health Nurses Inc.

CERN welcomes its first doctoral students from Morocco

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Laëtitia Pedroso

2010-01-01

This year marks the start of a new phase between CERN and Morocco with the arrival of the first two Moroccan students.   Mohamed Gouighri and Sara Boutouil, the first two Moroccan students at CERN. Thanks to the efforts of a small group of Moroccan academics, Morocco has been participating in the LHC programme for over ten years. About ten Moroccan physicists are members of the ATLAS collaboration, which comprises over 2000 physicists and 165 research institutes from 37 different countries. The arrival of the first Moroccan doctoral students at CERN was the logical next step. The new programme is the result of a multi-party agreement between CERN, the Sharing Knowledge Foundation, the Moroccan universities participating in the LHC programme and the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology. Mohamed Gouighri is the first Moroccan to obtain a scholarship to study at CERN, which is being funded by the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology. He has been studying physics at the Faculty of S...

India and CERN: a collaboration in good shape

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2002-01-01

The addenda were signed by the director of India's Centre for Advanced Technology, Dilip Bhawalkar, and LHC project leader, Lyn Evans. Back row, from left to right: P.J. Bryant, Ph. Lebrun, V.C. Sahni, M. Karmarkar, S. Bhave, G. Govindarajan. The director of India's Centre for Advanced Technology, Dilip Bhawalkar, and LHC project leader Lyn Evans have just signed the final addenda for the first Indian contribution to the LHC at a meeting of the Indian Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) - CERN joint committee. The main component of this contribution covers the superconducting corrector magnets for the accelerator's main dipoles and quadrupoles. During their visit, members of the DAE delegation visited the assembly laboratory where Indian engineers working at CERN under the CERN-India co-operation agreement are involved in the warm and cold magnet measurements of the LHC magnets. The Indian collaboration with CERN started in 1991, when India signed a co-operation Agreement with CERN with a view to participatin...

CERN WOMEN’S CLUB

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CWC

2013-01-01

Tuesday 9th April 2013, 9:00 – 14:00 Bldg 504 (Restaurant No 2 – DSR) Ground Floor Spring Jumble Sale Those interested in helping should come along. New arrivals and all members are cordially invited.You can enrol for membership, renew membership, find out about and sign up for our activities. Visit our website: http://web.cern.ch/club-womensclub

King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway visit CERN

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Maximilien Brice

2006-01-01

Norway's King Harald V and Queen Sonja take a tour of the ATLAS detector with CERN's Director-General Robert Aymar in April 2006. During their visit the royal party met with members of CERN's Norwegian community. A group of about 40 students greeted the royal motorcade with a belting rendition of 'The King's Song', Norway's royal anthem.

Control week at CERN

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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...

The CERN branch of the UBS has a new manager

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2005-01-01

The staff of the UBS CERN branch (apart from Nicole Savoini, not in the picture). The new branch manager Mr Denis Mellet (fourth from the right) is standing just in front of his predecessor Mr Pierre Guyenon. Mr Pierre Guyenon, who has managed the CERN branch of the UBS for the last seven years, retired on 31 May. Pierre Guyenon was always committed to establishing a harmonious and trusting relationship between CERN, its employees and the bank. He also maintained an excellent atmosphere within his team. We would like to thank him for his work and wish him a happy retirement. Mr Denis Mellet, who has worked for the bank for many years in various capacities, has taken over from Mr Guyenon.

2011 Elections to Staff Council

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2011-01-01

Vote Elections to fill all seats in the Staff Council are being organized this month. Voting will begin on Monday 31 October. Make your voice heard and be many to elect the new Staff Council. By doing so, you will be encouraging the men and women who will  represent you over the next two years and they will doubtless appreciate your gratitude. More details on the elections can be found on the Staff Association web site. (http://association.web.cern.ch) Elections Timetable Monday 31 October, at noon start date for voting Monday 14 November, at noon closing date for voting Monday 21 November, publication of the results in Echo Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 29 November Staff Association Assizes Tuesday 6 December, at 10.00 a.m. first meeting of the new Staff Council and election of the new Executive Committee The voting procedure is monitored by the Election Committee. 

Cern Women's Club

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Club des cernoises

2013-01-01

Coffee MorningTuesday 14th January 2014, from 9 : 00 to 11: 00 Bldg 504 (Restaurant No 2 – DSR) 1st Floor, Club Room 3 Epiphany (French tradition - "Tirer les rois")   Those interested in helping should come along. New arrivals and all members are cordially invited. You can enrol for membership, renew membership, find out about and sign up for our activities. Visit our website: http://club-womensclub.web.cern.ch.

CERN and Israel

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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

The CERN branch of the UBS has a new manager

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2011-01-01

After seven years at the helm of the CERN branch of the UBS, Mr. Denis Mellet retired on 1 October.   Denis Mellet has always striven to develop harmonious relations, in a climate of trust, between CERN and the staff of the bank. He has succeeded in maintaining a pleasant atmosphere within his team. We would like to thank him for his work and wish him a happy retirement. He is succeeded by M. Ezio Mangia, who has worked for many years in the bank’s branches department.

People and things. CERN Courier, Oct 1991, v. 31(8)

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Anon.

1991-01-01

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: ; Hampton University Graduate Studies (HUGS) at CEBAF, a summer program in electromagnetic nuclear physics held at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia, has completed its sixth year. ; With research and development work pushing ahead for the experimental programme at the proposed LHC proton collider in CERN's LEP tunnel, attention is also turning to preparations for the experiments themselves

People and things. CERN Courier, Jul-Aug 1989, v. 29(6)

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Anon.

1989-01-01

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's 600 MeV Synchro-Cyclotron (SC) is to make fluorine-18 for radiopharmaceuticals used to develop positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging techniques at Geneva's Cantonal Hospital. PET itself is a spinoff from particle physics ideas: CERN and the Geneva hospital closely collaborated in the development of the technique. At the Real-Time Conference at Williamsburg, Virginia, in May, Rene Brun of CERN's Data Handling Division was presented with the second CANPS Award attributed by the 'Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences' technical subcommittee of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society of the IEEE for outstanding achievements in the applications of computers in nuclear and/or plasma sciences

Full steam ahead for the CERN Accelerator School

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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...

New arrivals

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2012-01-01

On Tuesday 20 March 2012, at the second part of the Induction Programme, members of CERN Management welcomed recently-recruited staff members and fellows (photographed here with Jean-Marc Saint-Viteux, Deputy Head of HR Department and Vincent Vuillemin, CERN Ombuds).  

New arrivals

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HR Department

2012-01-01

On Tuesday 20 March 2012, in the second part of the Induction Programme, members of the CERN Management welcomed recently recruited Staff Members and Fellows (photographed here with Jean-Marc Saint-Viteux, Deputy Head of HR Department, and Vincent Vuillemin, CERN Ombuds).  

New arrivals

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2012-01-01

On Tuesday 4 September 2012, in the second part of the Induction Programme, members of the CERN Management welcomed recently-recruited staff members and fellows (photographed here with Anne-Sylvie Catherin, Head of the HR Department and Vincent Vuillemin, the CERN Ombuds).  

New arrivals

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2010-01-01

On Thursday 9 December 2010, at the second part of the Induction Programme, members of the CERN Management welcomed recently-recruited staff members and fellows (photographed here with Jean-Marc Saint-Viteux, Deputy Head of HR Department, and Vincent Vuillemin, CERN Ombuds).

New arrivals

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2011-01-01

  On Tuesday 6 September 2011, at the second part of the Induction Programme, members of CERN Management welcomed recently-recruited staff members and fellows (photographed here with Jean-Marc Saint-Viteux, Deputy Head of HR Department and Vincent Vuillemin, CERN Ombuds).

New arrivals

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HR Department

2012-01-01

On Thursday 15 December 2011, at the second part of the Induction Programme, members of CERN Management welcomed recently-recruited staff members and fellows (photographed here with Jean-Marc Saint-Viteux, Deputy Head of HR Department and Vincent Vuillemin, CERN Ombuds).  

New arrivals

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