CERN Alumni Weekly News | Second Collisions Award Winner Fatima Soomro , CERN Alumni Regional Group Meet-ups and CERN Relay Race

Published on May 2, 2023

"It makes me happy that I could contribute to the CERN alumni network. Working at CERN was a valuable experience, where I learnt self discipline and self reliance and also the value of collaboration." Fatima Soomro, CERN Alumna and CERN Alumni Second Collisions prize winner highlights the value of a CERN experience.

The sixth anniversary of the Network will be  upon us soon and we would like you to help us celebrate. We will install the CERN alumni map in R1 in June and share your words about your CERN experience. Let us know what working at CERN meant to you:  https://alumni.web.cern.ch/form/cern-alumni-6th-anniversary

May is an exciting month for CERN Alumni regional groups, seeing three events in the pipeline (https://alumni.cern/topics):

Are you based in Boston, USA and interested in co-managing a CERN Alumni Boston group? Contact us: [email protected]

The CERN Running club is organising the famous CERN relay race on 31 May and alumni are invited to take part, wherever you are in the world - slip on your trainers and register here: https://alumni.web.cern.ch/form/cern-alumni-virtual-relay-race-2

Before embarking on its journey, critical components of ESA’s interplanetary mission were tested in the only facility on Earth capable of replicating Jupiter’s harsh radiative environment: CERN: https://home.cern/news/news/engineering/cern-jupiter-juice-embarks-its-historic-journey

Where did all the antimatter go? After the Big Bang, matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts. Why we live in a Universe of matter, with very little antimatter, remains a mystery. The ATLAS collaboration tested Higgs-boson interactions with the carriers of the weak force, looking for signs of charge-parity symmetry violation
https://home.cern/news/news/physics/probing-fundamental-symmetries-nature-higgs-boson

And finally, for those alumni located in London, May 4th will see CERN's Connie Potter, joined by authors including Doctor Who and Sherlock writer Steven Moffat, journalist and critic Bidisha Mamata, award-winning short story writer Adam Marek and novelist Luan Goldie read from their short stories inspired by CERN at the Science Museum:
https://alumni.cern/events/98189

Stay Connected,

The CERN Alumni Relations team

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