Yes - it's a big deal. Also CERN is having an open house that has become a
huge event - this does a lot of good in bringing the public into the
science.
--
Best regards,
Frank
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Ray F. Cowan wrote:
> 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
>
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> Geneva: Arnaud Marsollier, [log in to unmask]
> Bologna: Luca Valenziano, [log in to unmask]
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