Education and outreach Archives – Page 16 of 16

Summer students benefit from CERN visit

CERN always has plenty of visitors, but never more so than in the summer, when the itinerant population is boosted by several hundred students from CERN member states and further afield.

Accelerator schools set sail

Every two years, Europe, Japan, Russia and the US collaborate to organize a Joint Accelerator School, giving accelerator physicists and engineers from each region an opportunity to meet experts from...

Painstaking research

In his Rutherford biography, New Zealand physicist John Campbell has done an immense amount of spadework. Some of this is references in the book, but more complete references are being assigned to ...

Caught in the QuarkNet

Large international collaborations formed around experiments at CERN's future LHC collider include outreach and education as part of their mission. Among the recipients of LHC data will be eager high...

Pakistani physics

With LHC increasingly a focus for world physics, distant communities become key partners in the preparations for the big experiments. In Pakistan, an annual International Summer College on Physics and...

EXPO 2000

At the Germany DESY laboratory in Hamburg, an ambitious X-ray laser is scheduled to come into regular operation in the year 2003. Next year, on-site EXPO 2000 visitors will be able to see the new m...

The incomprehensible is always fresh

Communicating the unfamiliar ideas of basic physics is already a challenge. With theories for the 21st century already on the drawing board and looking even more bizarre, CERN Courier editor Gordon F...