CERN Alumni Weekly News | Third Collisions for Members of Personnel, Hotel Card membership, ISIS and Hyperplan Company Showrooms

Published on October 16, 2023

📢 Calling all Members of Personnel! 
Registration for Third Collisions is now open.

As promised in last week’s Digest, we have an exciting challenge in store for you, thanks to our generous in-kind sponsor, Hotel Card.  You have a chance to be one of the 15 lucky winners who will receive a 6-month voucher from Hotel Card, granting you discounts of up to 50% off on selected hotels in Switzerland, France, Austria, and Germany.

Here's how you can participate:

  1. Register for Third Collisions and complete your payment: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1304845/
  2. Share your participation on one of the social media platforms (LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or alumni.cern - Live Feed). (You can use this picture: https://cernbox.cern.ch/s/YSu7XmBXyegh7bH )
  3. Share a link to your post in the comments here: https://alumni.cern/events/123274 

The first 15 of you to follow all three steps will win!

And for those who don't manage to secure a spot among the winners, we have a consolation prize. For a limited time until November 15, you can enjoy a special discounted price of 69 CHF (instead of the usual 99 CHF) for a 1-year Hotel Card membershiphttps://alumni.cern/page/hotel-card 

Join us as we connect you with exciting opportunities through two company showrooms, designed for you to meet representatives from companies eager to hire talent from within the CERN Alumni Network.

  • On 20 October, meet ISIS Neutron and Muon Source and find out more about this world-leading research centre and its extraordinary working conditions! You can join either online or at CERN: https://alumni.cern/events/119899
  • And on 27 October connect with fellow CERN alumni working at Hyperplan, a collaborative data platform designed for comprehensive crop monitoring and supply chain optimization: https://alumni.cern/events/125304

CERN has inaugurated its new emblematic centre for science education and outreach targeting a public of all ages - Science Gateway: https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/cern/cern-inaugurates-science-gateway-its-new-outreach-centre-science-education.
The recording of the inauguration ceremony is now available: https://videos.cern.ch/record/2298772

The decommissioned outer tracker of CERN’s LHCb experiment embarked on a one-week journey to the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany, where it will be used by the PANDA experiment to study how subatomic particles build up matter: https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/experiments/lhcb-sends-gift-panda

The latest Nature article explains how mixing academia and industry opens doors in graduate school and beyond: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01710-w