CERN Alumni Weekly News | SIXSQ Virtual Company Showroom, ATLAS new paper, Collide award, new technology initiative, launch of CERN Alumni Dubai group

Published on January 17, 2022

Is 2022 the year you seek to change your professional trajectory? Are you curious to find out more about current opportunities on the job market? If such is the case, join us for this week's Virtual Company Showroom, featuring SIXSQ Friday 21 January from 11:00 - 12:00 CET. Register here: https://alumni.cern/events/76944

During the Lepton Photon Conference last week, the ATLAS collaboration presented a new paper that describes how partons interact within the proton, find out more here: https://home.cern/news/news/physics/atlas-gives-new-insight-internal-structure-proton

A duo based in Basel, Switzerland, have been selected as the winners of this year’s edition of the Collide award alongside three Honorary Mentions. Collide is the flagship programme of Arts at CERN, which invites artists worldwide from all creative disciplines to submit proposals for a research-led residency based on interaction with CERN’s scientific community. https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/cern/dorota-gaweda-and-egle-kulbokaite-win-collide-residency-award

A technology initiative launched at CERN to address the lack of radiotherapy in low- and middle-income countries is preparing for its first linear-accelerator prototype: https://cerncourier.com/a/linacs-to-narrow-radiotherapy-gap/

Final call for those of you based in Dubai who would like to take part in the exciting launch of the CERN Alumni Dubai group, our first regional group in Asia! Taking place on 19 January: https://alumni.cern/networks/events/75932

Finally we dip into Symmetry Magazine and the fascinating world of quantum computing: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/from-bits-to-qubits

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