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The 2020 EIROforum topical workshop on Big data, organised by the Instrumentation Working Group, will be held from 26-29 October 2020
More than 450 physicists and engineers took part in the first workshop to define CERN’s experimental programme from 2020 onwards
A Django Girls workshop that took place at CERN recently gave several girls and women their first taste of coding
Participants enrolled in the “We Start” programme spent a day immersed in technology
32 women working at CERN contributed to the fifth bi-annual "Expanding your Horizons (EYH) - Geneva" event at the University of Geneve
The fourth Energy for Sustainable Science Workshop took place in the end of November at the Extreme Light Infrastructure’s Magurele-Bucharest campus
Participants in the annual LHCreate workshop presented their most recent exciting ideas during a two-day event at IdeaSquare
Some 20 leading firefighters from 13 countries came to CERN from 15 to 19 November for a meeting of experts on fires involving hazardous materials
This week CERN is hosting the CERN-BINP workshop for young scientists in e+e- colliders
The goal of the Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH! 2016), was to lay the foundations of the open-source hardware for science movement