News from CERN Scanning the horizon for the next DG Search committee March Shortlist September Nomination December

New offers for visitors…. S’cool lab – a lab for use by visiting schools will be inaugurated later in the year A series of new visit points will start to come into use from 19 June

19-24 May. Quark Matter 2-7 June. LHCP 2-9 July. ICHEP Conferences.

François de Rose

CERN ESA agreement

Alumni network

CERN and Society Foundation

Member States

Upcoming press release(s)

CERN’s 60 th anniversary

UNOG event in June UNESCO event 1 July UN General Assembly 20 October

TEDxCERN

Three sessions starting after lunch Using 60 th anniversary tent 1000 people Sponsored by Rolex and possibly others Speaker invitations going out New series of TED-Ed animations Last year? Most popular talks viewed over a million times TED-Ed animations all over 250k views

TEDxCERN

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Beamline for schools

LHC restart LHC restart has begun: cooldown of sector 6-7 started on 7 May. Injector chain resumes with beam this year, starting this month with PSB. Beam available to LHC from week LHC re-commissioning with beam scheduled to start week 6.

LHC restart What shall we do? Big media event? Tweetup? In-country events? Just a press release? Other ideas?