Photographs from the day that the world came to CERN.
Open Day Statistics
Visitors:
• 5 April (CERN personnel and family/friends): 23,000 of which 11,000 visited the tunnels (LHC + SPS).
• 6 April (general public): 53,000 of which 23,000 visited the tunnels (LHC + SPS).
Media:
• 56 media from 13 different countries with 85 journalists visiting on site, resulting in 200 press articles
Lectures:
• 53 lecturers (including two Nobel laureates), and 20 conference rooms running in parallel on the CERN site and in the communes around the LHC ring.
Website:
• 155,000 visits and 8 million hits in four months of the open day website, http://lhc2008.web.cern.ch/LHC2008/.
Open Day Sponsors
CERN would like to thank the following for their invaluable support:
Main Sponsors: Air Liquide, Alstom Power, ASG Superconductors SpA, Babcock Noell GmbH, Ineo, Intel, Linde Kryotechnik AG, LUVATA, ORACLE, UBS.
Sponsors: CECOM, Force10 Networks, La Mobilière, Peugeot Gerbier, Sun Microsystems (Suisse) SA, TRANSTEC Computer AG, Western Digital.
Associate Sponsors: ACCEL, ArcelorMittal, BRUUN & SORENSEN, Carlson Wagonlit, Cegelec, Dell SA, E4 computer engineering S.p.A., EOS, Ernesto Malvestiti SPA, IBM, IEEE, Infortrend Europe Ltd., INIZIATIVE INDUSTRIALI SRL, Italkrane, Kaneka, La Tour Reseau de Soins, Migros, National Instruments, ProCurve Networking by HP, SERCO, Société Générale, Sunrise Communications AG, Super Micro Computer Inc., Xerox.
Supporters: A+Z Bürosysteme GMBH, Carbagas, CES, ECHO Magazine, ETM, GATE Informatic SA, Plansee Metall GmbH, SIG, Thales.
Institutional Sponsors: Camera di Commercio Italiana in Svizzera, Communauté de
Communes du Pays de Gex, Commune de Meyrin.
Media Sponsors: Le Temps, Radio Lac, Worldradio.ch.
Open Days Friends: C’est pas sorcier, Crédit Agricole Centre-est, Collège du Léman, CNAO Foundation, European Scientific Institute, European Physical Society, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, ETH Zurich, Fédération d’Improvisation Genevoise (FIG), Kodak, Materials with Novel Electronic Properties, Terapia con Radiazion Adroniche (TERA) Foundation, Université de Genève.
