Tag: Resources
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Montenegro
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER In Montenegro, high energy physics takes place at University of Montenegro. University of Montenegro has been a full member of several international scientific collaborations in particle physics: H1 collaboration at DESY institute in Hamburg, CMS collaboration at CERN in Geneva as well as RD50 collaboration at CERN. Scientists from University…
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Ireland
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER In Ireland, promoting curiosity, creativity and critical thinking through fundamental physics is an important part of our scientific and educational mission. The Irish particle physics and cosmology community is actively engaged in introducing students, teachers and the wider public to the wonders of the Universe – from the smallest building…
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Greece
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:NTUA outreach webpage Greece has a long tradition in HEP since it has been one of the founding members of CERN. HEP research is carried out in Athens (both in the National and Kapodistrian as well as in the National Technical University), Aegean, Crete, Ioannina, Thessaloniki and in…
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Germany
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:Netzwerk Teilchenwelt Germany has a very large community in basic research on particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics, with more than 2000 people attending the regular common national conferences. The diversity of the physics program in these fields is also reflected in the scales of the involved experiments…
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Finland
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER The Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) is a physics research institute that is operated jointly by the University of Helsinki, Aalto University, the University of Jyväskylä, the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, and the Tampere University. The research activity at the institute covers an extensive range of subjects in theoretical physics…
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Czech Republic
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER Particle physicists in Czech Republic are curious and keen on discovering of all beauties and secrets of the microworld – pretty much like their colleagues all over the macroworld. There are teams of tens Czech physicists on ATLAS and ALICE experiments at CERN, studying collisions of protons and heavy ions.…
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CERN
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE(S):CERN Public websiteCERN Educational Resources CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s leading laboratories for particle physics. The Organization is located on the French-Swiss border, with its headquarters in Geneva. At CERN, physicists and engineers probe the fundamental structure of the universe, by…
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Austria
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER Representative Natascha Hoermann Natascha started her education at a higher technical school for computer science and continued with physics at the Vienna University of Technology. Since 2007, she is working at the Institute of High Energy Physics (HEPHY) in Vienna. Her research field is physics analysis at the CMS experiment…
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Impact of science on society and sustainable development showcased by particle physics and CERN
This presentation provides an overview of the broad positive impact of science on society and sustainable development, using CERN as a main example. As scientific community faces threatened funding of large experimental endeavors and low interest of young generation to engage in studies of physics and related sciences (refered to as “STEM (science, technology, engineering…
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The dawn of neutrino astronomy
This is an informative e-book about the Cosmos, which can be downloaded in pdf version, written by various authors, reputed scientists and excellent popularisers in their different areas of work and study.(in Spanish). A chapter is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.