Ministerial visits
Anton Anton (far right), president of the National Authority for Scientific Research in Romania, came to CERN on 19 April. His visit included tours of the ATLAS and ALICE experiments and the LHC tunnel. Here he talks with members of CERN's Romanian community.
On 11 June, the Austrian minister of science and research, Johannes Hahn (left), visited CERN. After touring the CMS experiment with Felicitas Pauss, deputy president for the collaboration committee of CMS, Hahn visited the computing centre, met with CERN's director-general, Robert Aymar, and later met Austrian students based at CERN.
The following day, on 12 June, it was the turn of Claus Hjort Frederiksen (left), the Danish employment minister, to come to CERN. He was given a tour of the ALICE cavern by Jens Jorgen Gaardhoje from the Niels Bohr Institute and a member of the ALICE collaboration, and also visited the ATLAS experiment.
Lithuanian prime minister Gediminas Kirkilas (far left) came to CERN on 2 July. His visit included a guided tour of the ATLAS cavern, accompanied by CERN's director-general, Robert Aymar (second from left) and an inspection of the LHC tunnel.
Poland's minister for science and higher education, Michal Sewerynski (centre), followed suit on 12 July. His tour of CERN included the CMS experiment, together with the spokesperson, Jim Virdee (left), and CERN's chief scientific officer, Jos Engelen. His visit finished with a presentation of Polish companies involved with CERN. The minister also had time to meet Polish personnel at CERN.
A day later, on 13 July, Ján Mikolaj (second from left), deputy prime minister and minister of education of the Slovak Republic, came to CERN. His visit included a tour of the ALICE experiment, here with deputy spokesperson Paolo Giubellino (yellow hard hat), ATLAS and the computer centre. He was also shown the CLIC facilities and took time to meet the Slovak personnel working at CERN.