Place: Building 61 – Staff Association room
From 1:30 to 4:00 pm
- Tuesday 4 February
- Tuesday 4 March
- Tuesday 2 April (tbc)
- Tuesday 6 May
- Tuesday 3 June
- Tuesday 2 September
- Tuesday 30 September
- Tuesday 4 November
- Tuesday 2 December
Category: Uncategorized
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Information Sessions dates 2025
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Life certificates for the Pension Fund
Our representative at the Pension Fund Governing Board informs us that the sending of requests for “life certificates” has been brought forward this year so as not to fall during the holiday season. You will therefore receive this request in the coming days.
The deadline for return is January 31, 2025.Don’t forget to respond, this step is essential to continue receiving your pension!
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Children’s book presentations at the CERN Library – 6 and 11 December
We would like to share with you the upcoming events of children’s book presentations at the CERN Library:
- 6 November at 13.30 “Your adventures at CERN” with Letizia Diamante https://indico.cern.ch/event/1470886/
- 6 December at 13.30 “The stars’ last dance” with Mairi Sakellariadou, Tania Regimbau https://indico.cern.ch/event/1470583/
- 11 December at 13.30 “Les Aventures Extraordinaires des Globifiques – Léon Photon découvre les particules élémentaires à Genève” https://indico.cern.ch/event/1470571/
We invite you to bring your children and grandchildren along!
Kind regards,
Paulina BIRTWISTLE, Archives & Library, Scientific Information Service
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GAC-EPA end-of-year drink – 28/11/2024
Dear Members,
You are invited to the traditional GAC-EPA end-of-year drink that will take place:
Thursday, November 28, 2024 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
on the mezzanine adjacent to CERN’s main auditorium (building 500/1-001).We hope to see many of you there.
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Cancellation of the 5 November Information Session
Dear Members,
We wish to inform you that the information meeting on Tuesday 5 November has been cancelled.
Yours sincerely,
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Take action to prevent strokes – 17/10
HSE Unit
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to the Stroke awareness campaign on 17 October organised by the Medical Service in collaboration with the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG) and several other partners. (See the Bulletin announcement here)
It will be unique opportunity to gather key information and tips from different organisations hosting stands from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m around R1 and the main building foyer.
We also warmly encourage you to register for the lunchtime conference (12 – 1.30 p.m.) at Building 222, which will bring you insights not only on the latest advances in stroke medicine and prevention by experts from the HUG, but also a thought-provoking testimonial by Elise and Louis, both young stroke survivors.
You will find all information about the campaign on https://hse.cern/stroke.
We hope to see many of you there!
Thank you,
The HSE Unit
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A symposium to celebrate Carlo Rubbia’s 90th birthday 18/10/2024
Join on Friday 18 October, as CERN celebrates the 90th birthday of Carlo Rubbia, CERN Director-General from 1989 to 1994.
Carlo Rubbia’s pioneering work on the proton–antiproton project led to the discovery of the W and Z bosons in 1983, earning CERN its first Nobel Prize in 1984. This discovery not only advanced understanding of the fundamental forces of nature through innovative detector and accelerator developments, but also established CERN as a global leader in particle physics, paving the way for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Register now to attend. The event is open to all and registration is required for organisational purposes and to issue CERN access cards for non-CERN attendees.
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Lecture “Who is qualified to talk about time” – 15/10
Etienne KLEIN
Tuesday 15/10/2024- 5.30pm
503/1-001 – COUNCIL CHAMBER (cern)https://indico.cern.ch/event/1452877
The Staff Association is pleased to invite you to the lecture: Who is qualified to talk about time
There’s a paradox surrounding the word time: while it doesn’t give rise to any difficulty when it’s involved in the fast train of an ordinary sentence containing it, it becomes very embarrassing as soon as it’s taken out of circulation to be examined on its own. As soon as it is isolated from the words that surround it, as soon as it is extracted from the verbal flow in which it has been placed, it metamorphoses into enigmas that torment the mind. What exactly is time? she asks herself. Is it a particular substance? Does it exist in itself? Or is it just a secondary entity arising from the relationships between events? Does it depend on us? Is it a product of consciousness?
How can such a familiar word give rise to such difficult questions?Etienne Klein is a philosopher of science and director of research at the CEA. He heads the ‘Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Sciences de la Matière’ and is a member of the Académie des Technologies.
He is interested in the question of time and other subjects at the crossroads of physics and philosophy. He is also a professor at Centrale-Supélec. He speaks every Friday on France-Culture’s ‘La conversation scientifique’. -
Upcoming events at the CERN Library in September
Meet Author – CERN Library
Information: https://indico.cern.ch/category/1280/
Tuesday 3 September: Zach Weinersmith, “The Voice of Science – Meet Zach Weinersmith (creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics)”
Monday 16 September: Satveer Sing Nehra, “Library Science Talk – Artificial intelligence, ChatGPT and research libraries”
Thursday 19 September: Lucio Rossi, Oliver Bruning, Paolo Spagnolo, “Meet the authors of ‘The Future of the Large Hadron Collider’”
Tuesday 24 September: Katherine Mack, “The Voice of Science – Meet Dr. Katie Mack (AstroKatie)”