Visit by two Ministers
Last December CERN received visits from two Ministers.
On 18 December, Robert Aymar welcomed Bulgaria’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and Education, Daniel Vylchev. A particular highlight of his visit was a tour of the CMS site, during which he met the many Bulgarian physicists working on the experiment. He also attended a presentation of the LHC Computing Grid and visited the Computer Centre. Bulgaria has been a CERN Member State since 1999.
On 7 December, Montenegro’s Minister of Education and Science, Slobodan Backović, visited the ALICE and ATLAS experiments. He then met CERN’s Director-General Robert Aymar, together with whom he signed a cooperation agreement between CERN and Montenegro on high-energy physics and related technologies. Similar agreements have already been concluded with other countries that were formerly part of Yugoslavia (Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia).