CERN Alumni Weekly News | Interview with CERN Alumnus Rolf-Dieter Heuer, News from the Lab and Moving Out of Academia to the Big Tech Industry
In the upcoming weeks we have a rich programme of events catering to the needs of our alumni community.
Virtual company showrooms offer an opportunity for those job-searching or interested in a career change to meet companies currently recruiting. On 21 October we host Medidee, a MedTech consultancy company headquartered in Lausanne: https://alumni.cern/events/96561
On 28 October we will discover FactoryPal, a company providing cloud-based solutions built with AI and IIoT at its core in the manufacturing domain: https://alumni.cern/events/96582
Moving Out of Academia, 21 October provides the opportunity to learn from CERN alumni working in Apple, Microsoft, Meta and Google about their transition to Big Tech and their tips for a successful interview: https://alumni.cern/events/93818
In the next News from the Lab, colleagues from the CERN Knowledge Transfer group will highlight how CERN aims to help serendipity in order to find more innovation opportunities for companies: https://alumni.cern/events/96511
The Digital Memory meet-up on 19 October is an opportunity for those who have worked at CERN in the 1980s to come together and identify images from CERN archives with the aim of documenting a piece of CERN’s history: https://alumni.cern/events/96245
From 1 – 4 November, the first edition of the #QT4HEP conference will take place to investigate the nascent quantum technology and its great promise to support scientific research: https://alumni.cern/events/96856
A new CERN policy brings together existing open science initiatives to ensure a bright future based on transparency and collaboration at CERN: https://home.cern/news/news/knowledge-sharing/cern-publishes-comprehensive-open-science-policy
LHCf has completed its first data-taking period during LHC Run 3, taking advantage of the record 13.6 TeV collision energy. This coincides with the machine’s record fill time of 57 hours: https://home.cern/fr/news/news/experiments/lhcf-continues-investigate-cosmic-rays
In the latest CERN EP Newsletter, Rolf-Dieter Heuer reflects on the scientific results from LEP and the LHC and their potential huge impact on the future of CERN but also, the future of particle physics world-wide: https://ep-news.web.cern.ch/content/discussion-rolf-dieter-heuer
After the successful initiation of two new detectors, scientists have begun to envision an expanded suite of neutrino experiments at the Large Hadron Collide: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/catching-neutrinos-at-the-lhc