Dear CMS collaborator, The Technical Coordination team is organizing an evacuation exercise of the CMS underground caverns (USC55 and UXC55) on Friday the 3rd of February from 14:00. We would like to perform this exercise with the maximum number of…

“If you remember, Mark Twain once said, ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ If you use statistics in an improper way, you could get pretty much any result,” says Greg Landsberg, CMS’s new physics coordinator. “The…

On 10th January, a delegation from Serbia, led by President Boris Tadic, arrived at CERN to sign the agreement that would grant Serbia associate membership to CERN, as a step towards full membership. The agreement has to be ratified by the Serbian…

The official CMS calendar is now available in a variety of new formats: As an interactive webpage page on the new CMS website As a simple subscription using your Google calendar As a simple subscription using your Apple iCal calendar The classic…

The next Tracker Week is 30-Jan to 3-Feb. Details of the meetings are at: https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=159416 Please get in touch with session chairs to arrange your presentations.

Rolf Heuer, the Director General of CERN, welcomed back CERN personnel and users after the holiday period, at the annual New Year’s presentation held on 11th January. The LHC Heuer opened the talk with congratulations to all the accelerator…

An evacuation exercise of the USC55 and UXC55 caverns will be organized on the 3rd of February 2012 around 2 pm, we need volunteers to help and to participate. Please contact nduponts@cern.ch if you are interested. Thanks !

Serbian President Boris Tadic and Director General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Rolf Dieter Heuer signed on Tuesday in Geneva an agreement declaring Serbia a CERN Associate Member State.

Data are the currency of physics. As data accumulate, measurement uncertainty ranges narrow up to a certain point, increasing the potential for discoveries and making non-observations more stringent, with more far-reaching consequences. In collider…

The Collide@CERN Artist-in-Residence programme is currently seeking CERN scientists interested in engaging in thought-provoking and creative collaborations with visiting artists. In early 2012, a Digital artist will take up a 2-month residency…

Hundreds of millions of collisions per second -- Detectors collecting data to analyse 24/7 : the LHC and its experiements generate millions of gigabytes of data. The Computing Grid, a huge, worldwide network of computers was invented to manage,…

Recently I participated in my second Science Hack Day (SHD), in San Francisco in November 2011. What is a Science Hack Day, you ask? According to primary organiser Ariel Waldman: “The mission of Science Hack Day is to get excited and make things…