CERN Alumni Weekly News | Advent 2025: Daily highlights from our CAN-doer engagement programme, Munich Christmas Market, Eindhoven Christmas Drink, Support Innovation — CERN & Society Foundation, Tetraquark quantum properties revealed
THIS WEEK’S DIGEST AT A GLANCE
- ADVENT CALENDAR 2025: Daily highlights from our CAN-doer engagement programme
- GROUPS: Munich Christmas Market, Eindhoven Christmas Drink
- CERN & SOCIETY FOUNDATION: Support Innovation — last campaign of the year
- FROM CERN: Tetraquark quantum properties revealed
- PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Sunrise at CERN captured by Sitong An.
ADVENT CALENDAR 2025
Our 2025 Alumni Advent Calendar has officially begun. This year, each day features a new way to get involved through our CAN-doer engagement programme. Follow along and discover fresh opportunities to participate throughout the month:
https://alumni.cern/news?block-tags%5Bcat_20387%5D=20387
GROUPS
- Munich Christmas Market — 10 December, 18:00–21:00 CET, Rindermarkt, Munich: https://alumni.cern/networks/events/196862
- CERN Alumni Christmas Drink Eindhoven — 19 December, 19:00–23:55 CET, De Lichttoren, Eindhoven: https://alumni.cern/networks/events/196860
CERN & SOCIETY FOUNDATION
Why not make a donation to CERN & Society’s final campaign of the year, Support Innovation? The campaign highlights four projects that bring CERN technologies and research closer to society.
If you choose to donate 50 euros or more, you will receive an authentic CERN data tape — a token of appreciation for your contribution and a symbol of the innovation you are helping advance. Please note that tapes can only be shipped to the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland.
Learn more and contribute here: https://cernandsocietyfoundation.cern/make-it-matter
FROM CERN
Deciphering the heavyweights of the tetraquark world: CMS has published the first measurement of the quantum properties of a newly discovered family of tetraquarks at the LHC. The study offers new insights into heavy-quark interactions and exotic hadron structures:
https://home.cern/news/news/physics/deciphering-heavyweights-tetraquark-world
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Sunrise at CERN captured by Sitong An.
You can still share yours in the Virtual R1 forum: https://alumni.cern/forum/t/40708