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“Voice of Science” event on 21 November at 14.00 at the CERN Library

Information: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1474890/


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Children’s book presentations at the CERN Library – 6 and 11 December

We would like to share with you the upcoming events of children’s book presentations at the CERN Library:

We invite you to bring your children and grandchildren along!

Kind regards,

Paulina BIRTWISTLE, Archives & Library, Scientific Information Service


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GAC-EPA end-of-year drink – 28/11/2024

Dear Members,

You are invited to the traditional GAC-EPA end-of-year drink that will take place:

Thursday, November 28, 2024 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
on the mezzanine adjacent to CERN’s main auditorium (building 500/1-001).

We hope to see many of you there.


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Cancellation of the 5 November Information Session

Dear Members,


We wish to inform you that the information meeting on Tuesday 5 November has been cancelled.


Yours sincerely,


Jean-François Michaud and Susan Leech O’Neale

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Meet the author of ‘Relic Gravitons’ – 17/10

Massimo Giovannini

thursday 17/10/2024- 1.30pm
52/1-052 – cern lIBRARY

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1450639/

CERN Library invite you to the upcoming talk given by Massimo Giovannini on Thursday, 17 Oct at 13.30: https://scientific-info.cern/events/meet-author-relic-gravitons.

Please note that the event requires a valid CERN access card.

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Take action to prevent strokes – 17/10

HSE Unit

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to the Stroke awareness campaign on 17 October organised by the Medical Service in collaboration with the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG) and several other partners. (See the Bulletin announcement here)

It will be unique opportunity to gather key information and tips from different organisations hosting stands from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m around R1 and the main building foyer.

We also warmly encourage you to register for the lunchtime conference (12 – 1.30 p.m.) at Building 222, which will bring you insights not only on the latest advances in stroke medicine and prevention by experts from the HUG, but also a thought-provoking testimonial by Elise and Louis, both young stroke survivors.

You will find all information about the campaign on https://hse.cern/stroke.

We hope to see many of you there!

Thank you,

The HSE Unit

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A symposium to celebrate Carlo Rubbia’s 90th birthday 18/10/2024

Join on Friday 18 October, as CERN celebrates the 90th birthday of Carlo Rubbia, CERN Director-General from 1989 to 1994.

Carlo Rubbia’s pioneering work on the proton–antiproton project led to the discovery of the W and Z bosons in 1983, earning CERN its first Nobel Prize in 1984. This discovery not only advanced understanding of the fundamental forces of nature through innovative detector and accelerator developments, but also established CERN as a global leader in particle physics, paving the way for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Register now to attend. The event is open to all and registration is required for organisational purposes and to issue CERN access cards for non-CERN attendees.

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Lecture “Who is qualified to talk about time” – 15/10

Etienne KLEIN

Tuesday 15/10/2024- 5.30pm
503/1-001 – COUNCIL CHAMBER (cern)

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1452877

The Staff Association is pleased to invite you to the lecture: Who is qualified to talk about time

There’s a paradox surrounding the word time: while it doesn’t give rise to any difficulty when it’s involved in the fast train of an ordinary sentence containing it, it becomes very embarrassing as soon as it’s taken out of circulation to be examined on its own. As soon as it is isolated from the words that surround it, as soon as it is extracted from the verbal flow in which it has been placed, it metamorphoses into enigmas that torment the mind. What exactly is time? she asks herself. Is it a particular substance? Does it exist in itself? Or is it just a secondary entity arising from the relationships between events? Does it depend on us? Is it a product of consciousness? 
How can such a familiar word give rise to such difficult questions?

Etienne Klein is a philosopher of science and director of research at the CEA. He heads the ‘Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Sciences de la Matière’ and is a member of the Académie des Technologies.
He is interested in the question of time and other subjects at the crossroads of physics and philosophy. He is also a professor at Centrale-Supélec. He speaks every Friday on France-Culture’s ‘La conversation scientifique’.

http://etienneklein.fr

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Upcoming events at the CERN Library in September

Meet Author – CERN Library

Information: https://indico.cern.ch/category/1280/

Tuesday 3 September: Zach Weinersmith, “The Voice of Science – Meet Zach Weinersmith (creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics)”

Monday 16 September: Satveer Sing Nehra, “Library Science Talk – Artificial intelligence, ChatGPT and research libraries”

Thursday 19 September: Lucio Rossi, Oliver Bruning, Paolo Spagnolo, “Meet the authors of ‘The Future of the Large Hadron Collider'”

Tuesday 24 September: Katherine Mack, “The Voice of Science – Meet Dr. Katie Mack (AstroKatie)”

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New Challenges and Opportunities in Physics Education – 13/08

Meet Author – CERN Library

Tuesday, August 13th at 10 AM

Information: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1433229/

Attending in person or via videoconference is possible, the link can be found on the indico page at the bottom. Person-attendees require a valid CERN access card in order to enter the CERN site.