President of Chile at CERN

The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, in the ATLAS cavern with, from left to right, Peter Jenni, ATLAS Spokesman, Vivian Heyl, CONICYT President, and Robert Aymar, CERN Director-General.

Robert Aymar, CERN Director-General, and Vivian Heyl, CONICYT President, signing a cooperation agreement between CERN and Chile’s Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT).

The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, paid a visit to CERN during her three-day tour of Switzerland. The charismatic Michelle Bachelet and her large delegation were greeted by the CERN Director-General and then taken to see the ATLAS experiment and the LHC. She also took time to meet the Chilean community working at CERN, comprising several physicists in the Theory Group and the ATLAS experiment.

The meeting was followed by the signing of a cooperation agreement between CERN and Chile’s Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT), represented by the latter’s President, Vivian Heyl. The agreement provides a framework for the long-term participation of students and scientific and technical staff from Chile’s universities and research institutes in CERN’s experimental programme. At the same time, Pedro Pablo Rosso, Rector of the Pontificia Universidad Católica (PUC), and José Rodriguez, Rector of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM), signed agreements with ATLAS Spokesman Peter Jenni relating to cooperation between the experiment and their two universities.