Today, the CERN European School of High-Energy Physics starts in Garderen, the Netherlands. PhD students from all over the world are participating, and in the next two weeks, they will be attending a wide range of different High-Energy Physics (HEP) topic lectures: Particle Physics and Cosmology, Flavour Physics and CP violation, and Higgs Physics, to name but a few. Click here for a full programme. Nikhef is one of the co-organisers and is proud to be the host in this particularly festive year in which 60 years of science and innovation at CERN is celebrated.
The European School is targeted particularly at students in experimental HEP who are in the final years of work towards their PhDs. The school is held in a different CERN member state every year, and last took place in the Netherlands in 1989.
Nikhef-researcher Olya Igonkina is one of the organizers: "The European School of High-Energy Physics is a fantastic opportunity for our Nikhef students to listen to lectures given by some of the most brilliant theoreticians in High Energy Physics and to meet other PhD students in our field. It was very useful and educative for me to participate as a student in the school in Portugal. And now I am proud to welcome students in the Netherlands on behalf of Nikhef and to make their stay here most productive and pleasant."
The 2014 European School of High-Energy Physics (formerly the CERN–JINR School of Physics) is jointly organized by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia and together with Nikhef.
Website of the 2014 European School of High-Energy Physics
Would you like to know more about how Nikhef is celebrating 60 years of CERN in the Netherlands, please visit www.cern60.nl for more information about the ‘Nikhef celebrates 60 years CERN’ symposium on 26 June 2014. Tickets are free, but registration is necessary.