Hi Frank, Peter,
Have you ever heard of something called "European Researchers Night?"
Apparently it's a regular event (annual?) but this year CERN and other
astro/particle physics orgs are participating in a big way.
Maybe we should have something like this in the USA.
Thank you,
--Ray
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 09:06:24 -0500 (CDT)
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Subject: [Interactions News Wire] #66-13: CERN - Major European scientific
organisations to take part in European Researchers? Nights
Interactions NewsWire #66-13
18 September 2013 http://www.interactions.org
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Source: CERN
Content: Press Release
Date Issued: 18 September 2013
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Major European scientific organisations to take part in European
Researchers' Nights
Geneva, 18 September - CERN, ESA, ESO and UNESCO, in partnership with the
Italian Institute of Astrophysics (INAF), invite the public to participate
in "Origins 2013", an exceptional event to take place simultaneously in
Geneva, Paris and Bologna on European researchers' night, Friday 27
September. People from around the world can follow the event live via a
webcast.
What do particle physics, astrophysics and space research have in common?
They all address fundamental questions that link to our origins: from the
origin of matter to the origin of the Universe. In the past months, the
Large Hadron Collider, with the discovery of a Higgs boson, and the Planck
satellite, with the release of the most precise picture of the very early
Universe, have achieved major scientific breakthroughs. In addition, the
revolutionary ALMA telescope was recently inaugurated in Chile and will
enable unprecedented views of the cosmos. "Origins 2013" will showcase
these fascinating scientific endeavours with strong European leadership.
This unique event highlights the link between the infinitely small of
particle physics and the infinitely large of astrophysics. Researchers in
the two fields will share their passion with the general public.
The public at CERN in Geneva, UNESCO headquarters in Paris and in the
city centre of Bologna will be taken on a journey back in time and space,
to find out more about the origins of the Universe from a sudden expansion
of space 13.8 billion years ago. In the three locations, visitors will be
able to meet the researchers who took part in these scientific
achievements through face-to-face "speed-dating" discussions.
"With Origins 2013, we want to celebrate the thousands of researchers who,
through their work at frontier scientific instruments such as the LHC and
Planck, are contributing to deepen our understanding of the origin of the
Universe providing a new picture of its early moments", said Sergio
Bertolucci, CERN's Director for Research and Computing, who will open the
CERN event on Friday with Mark McCaughrean, Head of ESA?s Research and
Scientific Support Department, and, in a videoconference connection with
Paris, with Gretchen Kalonji, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for
Natural Sciences and Fernando Doblas, Head of ESA's Communications
Department.
INAF is organising the event in Bologna, and many researchers from partner
institutions, such as INFN in Italy and CNRS and CEA in France, will talk
to the local and online audiences during the live webcast streamed
simultaneously from Paris, Geneva and Bologna. Among the guest scientists
on stage, there will be: François Englert, one of the theorists who
predicted the existence of the Higgs particle, and François Bouchet,
deputy principal investigator for Planck's High Frequency Instrument, in
Paris; Nobel Laureate Sam Ting with Fabiola Gianotti and Joe Incandela
(the two physicists leading the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the moment of
the Higgs discovery announcement) in Geneva and Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami,
INAF's President, Fernando Ferroni, INFN President and Marco Bersanelli,
deputy principal investigator for Planck's Low Frequency Instrument, in
Bologna. Video conferences will link the three European cities to ESA's
Planck?s operations centre in Darmstadt, with Nazzareno Mandolesi,
principal investigator of Planck?s Low Frequency Instrument, and to remote
venues, such as ESO?s ALMA telescope site in the Atacama desert (Chile),
the International Space Station, with ESA?s astronaut Luca Parmitano, and
the LHC tunnel, 100 metres underground.
Participation in the speed-dating and live webcast at CERN is by
reservation only, via the ORIGINS website - http://www.origins2013.eu/.
Note: Origins 2013 is a project designed by CERN and realized in
partnership with INAF with the collaboration of ESO, ESA and UNESCO and
receiving funding from the European Commission through the Marie Curie
Researchers? Night initiative.
Links :
www.origins2013.eu
http://ec.europa.eu/research/researchersnight/index_en.htm
Participating Institutes links:
CERN - http://home.web.cern.ch
ESA - http://www.esa.int/ESA
ESO - http://www.eso.org/public/
UNESCO - https://en.unesco.org
INAF - http://www.inaf.it/en
INFN - http://www.infn.it/index.php?lang=en
CEA - http://www.cea.fr/english-portal
CNRS - http://www.cnrs.fr/index.php
PRESS CONTACTS
Paris: Annapaola Coppola, [log in to unmask]
Geneva: Arnaud Marsollier, [log in to unmask]
Bologna: Luca Valenziano, [log in to unmask]
[1] CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's
leading laboratory for particle physics. Its headquarters are in Geneva.
Its Member States are currently: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy,
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Romania has the status of Candidate
for Accession. Israel and Serbia are Associate Member States in the
pre-stage to Membership. India, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United
States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have
Observer status.
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