CERN Alumni Weekly News | Talk with Dr. Paweł Gora, Summer Students: Gimme 5! with Lam Giang Tran, upcoming regional meetups, first DAMA Switzerland conference, ALICE PhD Awards

Published on August 8, 2025

Join us on 21st August for an inspiring summer talk with CERN alumnus Dr. Paweł Gora — scientist, entrepreneur, advisor, and philanthropist. Starting out as a CERN Summer Student in 2012, Paweł went on to lead international initiatives in AI and quantum technologies: https://alumni.cern/events/188478 

The fourth video in our Summer Students 2024: Gimme 5! series is now live. This project captures a snapshot of each student’s ambitions, with plans to reconnect in 2029 and see where their paths have led. Will they be working in research, industry, a startup—or something entirely unexpected? Watch the latest video with Lam Giang Tran here: https://alumni.cern/news/2762289

One of the benefits of being a member of the CERN Alumni Network is the possibility to come back on site. In the fourth “Look Who We Bumped Into” video, Natanael shares his impressions of coming back to CERN: https://alumni.cern/news/2762288

Several alumni group events are coming up:

  • CERN Alumni Munich – First Hiking (second attempt after weather cancellation), 7 September: https://alumni.cern/events/187806
  • CERN Alumni Tallinn Meet-up, 10 September: https://alumni.cern/events/188300
  • CERN Alumni Sustainability Group – First in-person event, including a visit to the Verbois Barrage and Solar III plant, a guest speaker session at CERN, and an apéro, 19 September: https://alumni.cern/events/183545

You are cordially invited to join the first DAMA Switzerland conference in Zurich. DAMA International is a global organization with the objective to develop and share best practices and methodologies in modern Data Management. Thanks to the support of alumnus Luca Pescatore, the first 20 alumni to register can receive a 20 CHF discount: https://alumni.cern/events/188473

On 15 July 2025, the ALICE collaboration celebrated its PhD thesis award winners during a special ceremony at CERN, honouring excellence in research, thesis quality, and contribution to the collaboration. This year, 20 theses were submitted, and five were selected for the award: https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/alice-honours-its-phd-thesis-award-winners

Finally, in symmetry magazine: “Impossible” Higgs boson measurement within reach, thanks to a detour. A team of young scientists paused their new physics searches to develop an innovative machine-learning tool that is now helping them zero in on a rare and complex Higgs boson decay: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/impossible-higgs-boson-measurement-within-reach-thanks-to-a-detour?language_content_entity=und

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