CERN Alumni Weekly News | 9000 members, London meet-up, Arts@CERN in Melbourne, Accelerator report

Published on August 7, 2023

We are thrilled to announce that on the year of its sixth anniversary, the CERN Alumni Network has grown to a vibrant community of 9000 members! A huge thank you to each and every member for your active participation and engagement and for helping us reach this impressive milestone. https://alumni.cern/news/1631452

To celebrate this achievement, join the forum discussion and describe your CERN highlight in one photo: https://alumni.cern/forum/t/23124
The first 25 posts will receive a CERN Alumni gift.

As we look ahead, we are excited to announce that we will be hosting the much-anticipated Third Collisions event on 9-11 February 2024 at CERN’s Science Gateway. As the finishing touches are being made, let us take you on a behind-the-scenes tour of this unique facility: https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/cern/sneak-peek-science-gateway

CERN Alumni in London are invited to join the regular quarterly meet-up, taking place on 10 August: https://alumni.cern/events/120498

Arts at CERN has joined forces with Science Gallery Melbourne and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics to present Dark Matters, an exhibition that seeks to explore the fundamental essence of life and the Universe and to question how their mysteries continue to elude us: https://alumni.cern/events/120525

On Monday, 17 July, the LHC beams were dumped after only 9 minutes in collision due to a radiofrequency interlock caused by an electrical perturbation – read the latest accelerator report: https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/accelerators/accelerator-report-quench-lhc-inner-triplet-magnet-causes-small-leak-major

As told by French physicist François de Rose, Robert Oppenheimer played a very important role in the creation of CERN, advocating for the collaboration among scientists across Europe. Read the full opinion piece by François de Rose in the CERN Courier: https://cerncourier.com/a/viewpoint-origins-the-early-days-of-cern-2/

Stay Connected,
The CERN Alumni Relations team

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