Visit by two Ministers

Two European ministers have recently paid visits to CERN.

On 11 June, the Austrian Minister for Science and Research, Johannes Hahn, visited the CMS cavern and assembly hall, before being given a tour of the CERN Control Centre. Following a lunch with the Ambassador, he was shown the LHC Computing Grid. His visit was rounded off with meetings with Robert Aymar and with Austrian students working at CERN.

The Austrian Minister for Science and Research, Johannes Hahn, and Felicitas Pauss, Deputy Chair of the CMS Collaboration Committee, in front of one of the sections of the CMS detector.

Jos Engelen, CERN’s Chief Scientific Officer, Jens Jorgen Gaardhoje, a physicist from the Niels Bohr Institute and a member of the ALICE collaboration, and the Danish Employment Minister, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, in front of the ALICE detector.

On 12 June, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, the Danish Employment Minister, was welcomed to the Laboratory by CERN Director-General, Robert Aymar. He then went on to visit ALICE and Point 2 of the LHC, before being taken down to Point 1 to visit the ATLAS experiment, accompanied by Peter Jenni, the ATLAS spokesman.