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On 17 November, Dr Nicole Yunger Halpern, theoretical physicist, will give a talk as part of the CERN QTI lecture series
The "Efficiency and caring at work" awareness campaign will be launched this autumn as part of the "Work Well Feel Well" project, which began in 2017
The Tomalla Prize ceremony 2022 will take place on December 16 at 17:30 in the Grand Auditoire de l’Ecole de Physique, Geneva
Maryna Viazovska holds the Chair of Number Theory at EPFL and has been awarded a Fields Medal in 2022
Don’t miss the public lectures organised by the University of Geneva in the framework of the 20th Wright Colloquium for science
For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CERN openlab summer students returned to CERN to work hands-on with cutting-edge computing technologies
Former manager of the ISS programme William Gerstenmaier will talk about the space station in the CERN Globe this evening
Edward Stone, project scientist for the Voyager probes since 1972, will talk in the CERN Globe at 8pm CEST