CERN Alumni Weekly News | CERN Alumni Virtual Relay Race, The Next Frontier in Neutrino Detection, Virtual Company Showroom — Comet, Smarter Decisions at the Speed of Collisions

COMMUNITY: CERN Alumni Virtual Relay Race celebrates its 5th consecutive year
CERN Comes to You:  Budapest — 21 May
EVENTS: News from the Lab — The Next Frontier in Neutrino Detection | 12 May Virtual Company Showroom — Comet | 20 May
GROUPS: Athens | MiTo | Costa Rica | Madrid
SHARE OF THE WEEK: Join us for Digital Memory and help identify photos from 1985 - 2003
FROM CERN: Smarter Decisions at the Speed of Collisions | From Amazonia to CERN: First Brazilian Teacher Programme Held at CERN

COMMUNITY
For the fifth consecutive year, CERN alumni around the world joined the traditional CERN Relay Race virtually, completing relay legs across four corners of the globe. While teams at CERN ran the classic six-leg relay around the CERN site, alumni teams organised their own runs internationally, once again demonstrating the strength and spirit of the CERN community worldwide. 
➡️ Read the article here


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. This is an excellent opportunity to reconnect, hear about CERN’s future and the evolving European Strategy for Particle Physics, and share your perspectives. 
➡️ Register here


EVENTS
News from the Lab — The Next Frontier in Neutrino Detection | 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.
➡️  Register here

Virtual Company Showroom — Comet | 20 May
Comet Group is a globally leading Swiss technology company specialising in X-ray, RF power and ebeam technologies, and is currently hiring. 
➡️  Register here


GROUPS
Athens, first meet-up in 2026: ➡️ Register here
MiTo Group: Pavia — Visit CNAO: ➡️ Register here
Costa Rica — 1-year anniversary: ➡️ Register here
Madrid — Special screening of Almost Nothing: ➡️ Register here 

A reminder that alumni members can update their preferred time zone in their profile settings. 


SHARE OF THE WEEK
Were you at CERN between 1985 and 2003? Can you help identify the people, places and equipment appearing in historical CERN photographs? Join our Digital Memory event and help preserve CERN’s history. 
➡️ Register here

Save the Date — The Network Turns 9
On 8 June, the CERN Alumni Network celebrates its 9th anniversary. To mark the occasion, we invite alumni to share how their CERN experience has shaped their lives. Send a short quote to [email protected] which will be displayed on the CERN Alumni map in Restaurant 1 during the birthday week and shared on the alumni platform.


FROM CERN
Smarter Decisions at the Speed of Collisions. Machine learning is reshaping how ATLAS and CMS filter collisions in real time.
➡️ Read the article here 

From Amazonia to CERN: First Brazilian Teacher Programme Held at CERN. From 19 to 24 April 2026, CERN welcomed 24 high-school teachers from across Brazil for its first Brazilian Teacher Programme. 
➡️ Read the article here

AND FINALLY
CERN alumnus, Sir Tim Berners-Lee reflects on his life, work, influences and his favourite music in this BBC Desert Island Discs interview:
➡️ Listen here

Stay connected, 

The CERN Alumni Relations team