CERN Alumni Weekly News | Feedback about Third Collisions from Maria Gallo and Dr. Manfred Hoefert, New VCS with Sirona Technologies, Berlin regional group soon

Published on March 4, 2024

We have been deeply moved by the outpouring of positivity in your recent social media posts and the feedback you have generously shared following Third Collisions. Among the myriad inspiring messages, two have particularly captured our attention: one from former CERN Alumni Advisory Board member and Third Collisions panelist, Maria Gallo, which can be found at this link: https://alumni.cern/news/1902209; and another from CERN Alumnus and former Head of Radiation Protection at CERN, Dr. Manfred Hoefert, accessible here: https://alumni.cern/feed_posts/1484386 . We invite you to continue sharing your reflections on https://alumni.cern/feed as well.

A European city, boasting three UNESCO World Heritage Sites and purportedly more waterways than Venice or Amsterdam (1), will be the forthcoming location for the launch of a new CERN Alumni regional group. Can you venture a guess as to which city this might be? Find out here: https://alumni.cern/topics/40333/feed

Passionate about combating climate change? We cordially invite you to join us for the upcoming Virtual Company Showroom featuring Sirona Technologies, an innovative Direct Air Capture start-up established in 2023 and headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. Sirona Technologies specialises in the development of machinery designed to extract CO2 from the atmosphere, emphasising speed, scalability, and a cost-efficient design. Further details can be found here https://alumni.cern/events/139457

As part of CERN’s 70th anniversary celebrations, doctors, biologists and physicists will walk you through how the collaboration between fundamental physics and medicine is leading to innovative treatment methods and diagnostic techniques. https://home.cern/news/news/cern/particle-physics-medicine

In cooling positronium with laser light for the first time, AEgIS may also have taken the first step towards a matter–antimatter system that emits laser-like gamma-ray light: https://home.cern/news/news/physics/aegis-experiment-paves-way-new-set-antimatter-studies-laser-cooling-positronium

From the CERN Courier: Rising geopolitical tensions and techno-nationalism offer opportunities for new global organisations that build on the success of the CERN model, argue policy researchers Leonard Lynn and Hal Salzman. https://cerncourier.com/a/new-cerns-for-a-fractured-world/