Read article 'CERN’s role on the European stage'
CERN's new director-general, Robert Aymar, believes that the CERN Council should strengthen its mission to "sponsor co-operation" in particle physics across Europe.
Read article 'CERN Council rings the changes'
The CERN Council has formally approved the new structure for CERN, which was presented by the incoming director-general, Robert Aymar, at the Council's meeting on 19 December 2003.
Read article 'New Zealand signs up to co-operate with CERN'
On 4 December 2003 a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between CERN and the government of New Zealand was signed in the presence of Peter Hamilton, New Zealand's ambassador to Switzerland.
Read article 'PPARC announces research agenda for the UK'
The UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) has outlined its latest research goals in its Strategic Plan for 2003-2008.
Read article 'ICFA launches selection process'
The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA), chaired by director of SLAC Jonathan Dorfan, has announced the members of a 12-person International Technology Recommendation Panel (ITRP) f...
Read article 'US defines roadmap for science facilities'
The US Department of Energy's Office of Science has unveiled its 20 year science facility plan. This is in effect a roadmap for future scientific facilities to support the department's basic science a...
Read article 'CERN hosts major policy conference'
Scientists, policy makers and stakeholders from around the world came together at CERN on 8 and 9 December 2003, when the laboratory hosted The Role of Science in the Information Society (RSIS) confer...
Read article 'Endowment reward for string theorists'
String theory in India recently received an unexpected boost when Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire based in New York, gave string theorists associated with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TI...
Read article 'PAEC chairman pays visit to CERN'
Parvez Butt, chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), visited CERN on 15 October.
Read article 'Developing countries and the global science web'
Enabling scientists from developing countries to bridge the gap between rich and poor depends on closing another gap - the "digital divide". Now the technology exists to monitor this divide, and it re...
