Visit by two Ministers

Last December CERN received visits from two Ministers.

Bulgaria’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and Education, Daniel Vylchev, visited the CMS experiment in the company of the CMS Spokesman, T. Virdee, and several Bulgarian physicists. From left to right: J. Stamenov, M. Mateev, S. Stavrev, T. Virdee, V. Genchev, the Minister Daniel Vylchev, A. Hristova Vutsova, L. Litov and G. Soultanov.

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).

CERN Director-General, Robert Aymar, and Montenegro’s Minister of Education and Science, Slobodan Backović.