CERN Alumni Weekly News | Meet our 12,000th member — Marco Laucelli, Look Who We Bumped Into — Jason Ward, News from the Lab — protoDUNE, Electron badge & Network anniversary, ATLAS & cosmic rays
THIS WEEK’S DIGEST AT A GLANCE
COMMUNITY: Meet our 12,000th member — Marco Laucelli | Look Who We Bumped Into — Jason Ward
CERN COMES TO YOU: Budapest — 21 May | Vilnius — 6 May
EVENTS: News from the Lab — protoDUNE | 12 May
SHARE OF THE WEEK: Electron badge & Network anniversary
FROM CERN: Muon g-2 Breakthrough Prize | ATLAS & cosmic rays
COMMUNITY
We are now a community of 12,000!
A milestone worth celebrating: the CERN Alumni Network has now grown to over 12,000 members. Meet our 12,000th member, Marco Laucelli, and read about what being part of this community means to him: https://alumni.cern/news/13188355b
Look Who We Bumped Into — Jason Ward
Jason Ward returned to CERN to speak at the LHC Career Networking Event. Hear how his career has evolved since leaving CERN, and what he thinks of the Alumni Network: https://alumni.cern/news/13188358
CERN COMES TO YOU
Budapest — 21 May
The Head of Education, Communication and Outreach will be in Budapest and available for lunch with local alumni. A great opportunity to reconnect, hear about CERN's future and the evolving European Strategy for Particle Physics, and share your own perspectives: https://alumni.cern/events/210386
Vilnius — 6 May
Rachel and Elina from the Office for Alumni Relations will be in Lithuania and would be delighted to meet alumni in Vilnius: https://alumni.cern/events/211425
EVENTS
News from the Lab — protoDUNE | 12 May
From neutrino oscillations to CP violation in the lepton sector, this talk explores the new era of precision neutrino physics.
Discover CERN's contributions to Hyper-Kamiokande and DUNE, and the innovative nuSCOPE project that could transform how we measure these elusive particles: https://alumni.cern/events/207216
SHARE OF THE WEEK
The Electron anniversary
Next week, 30 April, marks the anniversary of J.J. Thomson's discovery of the electron in 1897: https://cerncourier.com/a/the-electron-century/
Did you know there is an Electron badge on the alumni platform? Currently held by 1,675 members, it is awarded simply for keeping your profile up to date — with a photo, location, latest job position, latest education, and industry.
If you haven't got yours yet, now is the perfect moment: https://alumni.cern/page/electron-badge
Save the date — the Network turns 9!
And looking ahead: on 8 June, the CERN Alumni Network turns 9!
To celebrate, we are inviting alumni to share what impact your CERN experience has had on your life. Send a short quote to [email protected] — it will be displayed on the CERN Alumni map in Restaurant 1 during birthday week.
FROM CERN
Muon g-2 pioneers win Breakthrough Prize
The team behind the Muon g-2 experiment has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics:https://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/muon-g-2-experiment-pioneers-win-breakthrough-prize-fundamental-physics
ATLAS recreates cosmic-ray interactions at the LHC
The ATLAS Collaboration has published its first measurement of proton–oxygen collisions at the LHC, shedding new light on how cosmic rays interact with Earth's atmosphere: https://home.cern/news/news/physics/atlas-acts-cosmic-ray-laboratory