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The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated every year on 11 February, and CERN is proud to be on board again for 2023
Registration is open for the 2023 CERN Accelerator Schools, taking place in Austria, Germany and Spain – surely one is the right fit for you!
The Tomalla Prize ceremony 2022 will take place on December 16 at 17:30 in the Grand Auditoire de l’Ecole de Physique, Geneva
Female ambassadors from CERN shared their passion for science and technology at the University of Geneva’s Expanding Your Horizons event
A day designed to break down gender stereotypes and broaden professional horizons
Maryna Viazovska holds the Chair of Number Theory at EPFL and has been awarded a Fields Medal in 2022
CERN hosted Partage ta science, the cross-border scientific symposium, in the Globe of Science and Innovation on Friday, 14 October 2022
This year, CERN celebrated the restart of the LHC, the beginning of the LHC Run 3 and the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery. These milestones contributed to a surge of interest in CERN and particle physics among the public.
Don’t miss the public lectures organised by the University of Geneva in the framework of the 20th Wright Colloquium for science
