CERN Alumni Weekly News | Fermin Serrano, CERN Alumni Advent Calendars, Paolo Nespoli and Slawosz Uznansk at CERN
An experience at CERN, no matter how brief has a lasting and profound impact on our alumni. This week discover Fermin Serrano Sanz's trajectory from CERN to policy maker in the Aragon Government in Spain: https://alumni.cern/news/1020509
We are almost half-way through the CERN Alumni Advent calendar, featuring CERN Alumni from across the globe sharing their season's greetings with you: http://cern.ch/go/9Vkd
Would you like to share your wishes too? Why not transfer your 60-second message in your mother tongue to [email protected]
"The switch was flipped and the beams were dumped" on Monday 28th November. Read more about an exciting year for the LHC and its injector complex: https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/lhc-report-switch-was-flipped-and-beams-were-dumped
After a gap of four years, a test using collisions of lead ions was carried out in the LHC, an important milestone in preparation for the physics runs with lead-lead collisions that are planned for 2023 and the following years of Run 3 and Run 4: https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/first-lead-ion-collisions-lhc-record-energy
Space encounters: meet astronauts Paolo Nespoli and Slawosz Uznanski at CERN - 16 December - zoom link to follow soon
https://home.cern/news/announcement/cern/space-encounters-meet-astronauts-paolo-nespoli-and-slawosz-uznanski-cern-16
In a new paper published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers working on the CAST experiment at CERN report how they have repurposed part of the experiment to target a previously uncharted region of the axion space. https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/physics/cast-capp-inches-closer-axion-dark-matter
Finally, should you be seeking inspiration for Christmas gifts, look no further than Symmetry magazine and the Perimeter Institute for some enchanting ideas:
https://insidetheperimeter.ca/a-holiday-gift-guide-for-physicists-and-those-who-love-them/ and https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/physics-books-of-2022
Stay connected,
The CERN Alumni Relations team