CERN Alumni Weekly News | International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, Norway entrepreneurship meet-up, 2022 CERN openlab Technical Workshop, MoEDAL collaboration

Published on April 4, 2022

 

April 6 is the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) and presents an opportunity to recognise the positive role sport and physical activity play in communities and in people’s lives across the globe. This is also an opportunity to focus on CERN Alumni Members' sporting activities and achievements: https://alumni.cern/news/720720

Calling all entrepreneurs based in Norway! Join other former and current CERN employees who are interested in start-ups, innovation, and entrepreneurship for a casual meetup in Oslo on 21 April: https://alumni.cern/events/p/53017

Research and industry united at the 2022 CERN openlab Technical Workshop where leading computing experts from research and industry came together to discuss the work carried out through 32 joint R&D projects spread across CERN.  https://home.cern/news/news/computing/research-and-industry-unite-2022-cern-openlab-technical-workshop

The MoEDAL collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is adding a new detector to its experiment, in time for the start of the next run of the collider this coming summer. Named as the MoEDAL Apparatus for Penetrating Particles, or MAPP for short, the new detector will expand the physics scope of MoEDAL to include searches for minicharged particles and long-lived particles.
https://home.cern/news/news/physics/moedal-gets-new-detector

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