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Connecting the dots

The last arc interconnection of Sector 1-2 was completed on Wednesday 7 November, marking the end of a huge project to connect up the LHC. >>

Spotlight on the media

Do you want to know more about how the media works, how to deal with journalists? How to maximise opportunity and minimise threat? Then please join us on 22 November. >>

Green light for the VELO

Ten years after the beginning of the project, the LHCb’s delicate VELO detector has been successfully installed in its final position. >>

Successful beam test of the SPS-to-LHC transfer line TI2

Image of the first beam spot on the last BTV screen traversed by the beam during the TI 2 test.At 12:03:47 on 28 October a beam passed down the 2. >>

The LHC on an envelope

The series of envelopes featuring CERN issued this summer was a huge success. The French postal services of the Pays de Gex will shortly be launching the second set of pre-paid envelopes issued in collaboration with the Laboratory this year, this time highlighting the LHC. >>

CERN hosts training event on international management

CERN held its first training event on international management at the Globe on 2 October, sharing its expertise with high-level Swiss managers as part of their year-long part-time executive training programme on advanced management. >>

Discovery Mondays "Particle collisions - searching for a needle in a haystack"

Simulation of a collision in the ALICE detector.One of the great challenges facing the LHC experiments is how to find an interesting "needle" interaction in a "haystack" of data. >>

The Globe: Exhibitions and Events

Globe of Science and Innovation Route de Meyrin, 1211 Geneva Conference Nano materials: small dimensions, big opportunities Thursday 22 November at 8. >>

Wall Street comes to CERN

CERN will host an event on computing for finance on Wednesday, 21 November, 17:00-19:00, in the Main Auditorium. >>

Shadows behind the computers

EGEE organized a shadowing day to spur female students to take up careers in the IT field. Eleven female staff from CERN’s IT Department were kept under close surveillance last week, shadowed by female students from the Collège du Léman International School as part of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project Gender Action Plan. >>

CAS at the Cockcroft Institute

The CERN Accelerator School (CAS) and the UK’s new centre for accelerator science, the Cockcroft Institute, jointly organised a course on General Accelerator Physics, at intermediate level, at the Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury, UK, from 16 to 28 September 2007. >>

Literature in Focus: Statistical Methods in Experimental Physics

Frederick James was a high-energy physicist who became the CERN "expert" on statistics and is now well-known around the world, in part for this famous text. >>

Official News

Delay in the issuing of D-type Swiss cartes de légitimation  
Final reminder - Extension/suppression of allowance for dependent children aged 20 to 25  
CERN Pension Fund move  
Pension Fund  
Governing Board of the Pension Fund  
Part-time work as a pre-retirement measure  

Training and Development

CERN Technical Training: available Places in forthcoming Courses   
2007 2008 ACADEMIC TRAINING PROGRAMME  

General Information

Access to La Tour Hospital  
Selective sorting of waste - not much effort needed, just willpower  
Université de Genève  
FLU VACCINATION  
Maintenance of the CERN telephone exchanges  
The CERN car stickers for 2008 are now available  
Replacement of the pumps at the CERN petrol stations  
INFORMATION FOR STORES USERS  
Communication About the Selecta hot and cold drinks distributor  
ACCU MEETING  
UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE