CERN Alumni Weekly News | Seven years celebration, meet-up in Eindhoven and Copenhagen, Argusa course, Moving out of Academia to Machine Learning is available in the CERN Alumni Media Centre

Published on June 3, 2024

Join us for a celebration of seven years of vibrant CERN alumni connections on LinkedIn, 13 June. We'll feature interviews with alumni working in impactful fields and members of the CERN management team. The celebration will take place in an exciting location near CERN's data centre, highlighting the heart of CERN's entire scientific, administrative, and computing infrastructure. If you have any questions for our panellists, pop them in the comments field here: https://alumni.cern/events/148411

Calling all alumni located in the Netherlands, the Eindhoven group is restarting and hosting a meet-and-greet event to reconnect, share stories, and envision the future of the Eindhoven alumni community.
https://alumni.cern/events/147053

A brand new CERN Alumni Copenhagen group will launch soon! Make sure you join the group to stay updated about the launch event: https://alumni.cern/topics/45450/members

Two CERN Alumni, working in Argusa, have organised a three-day training session, targeted at members of the alumni network considering a transition from academia to an industry job in data. Members of the CERN Alumni network benefit from a 20% discount if they register before 26 July. https://alumni.cern/events/146840

CERN's annual relay race took place on Thursday 30 May, and a record 14 CERN Alumni teams also took part, congratulations to all who participated:
https://alumni.cern/news/2024875

For those interested in a career in Machine Learning, our recent Moving out of Academia to Machine Learning is now available in the CERN Alumni Media Centre:https://alumni.cern/media_center/folder/603cc9a4-6657-4865-94e9-080b1d3dedc8

Part Ten of the CERN70 series, features CERN's Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR).On 27 January 1971, the world’s first collisions between two beams of protons occurred in CERN’s Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR).
https://home.cern/news/series/cern70/cern70-worlds-first-hadron-collider

CERN and the US sign a joint statement of intent which concerns future planning for large research infrastructures, advanced scientific computing and open science:
https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-and-us-sign-joint-statement-intent

The FASER and FORMOSA collaborations team up to test a demonstrator experiment to detect particles with a tiny electrical charge:
https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/hunting-millicharged-particles-lhc

Finally, from the CERN Courier, in March of this year,  the CERN Council decided to launch the process for updating the European strategy for particle physics – the cornerstone of Europe’s decision-making process for the long-term future of the field: https://cerncourier.com/a/european-strategy-update/