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| lapka | Engage with CMS
Paraskevas Sphicas, CMS' former co-Deputy Spokesperson of CMS (2014-2016), and CMS physics coordinator during the crucial phase from 2006 to the start of data taking, was elected as Fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of the UK and the…
| bianchi | Engage with CMS
This year, the CMS Data Analysis School (CMSDAS) celebrates a decade of hands-on trainings, exercises and challenges involving several hundreds of CMS members for the benefit of some 1500 students. Since 2010, the CMSDAS is designed to help CMS…
| analexop | Engage with CMS
New paper charts the progress of CMS-led education initiative to empower primary school teachers towards modern physics, scientific discovery and innovation A new, open access paper, published inPhysics Education, presents the development,…
| lapka | Engage with CMS
As well as making data from particle physics research public, the CMS experiment has developed additional tools in github to be used in schools It's exciting to use actual coding with real data from scientific experiments. I wish there was more of…
| lapka | Engage with CMS
There is no doubt that on the last Friday night of September many researchers are not only awake but also very busy explaining what they do to the public – it’s European Researchers Night. This year, it was for the fourth consecutive year that CMS…
| Anonymous | Engage with CMS
Can machine learning assist high-energy physics in discovering and characterising new particles? Physicists from the ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations have just launched the TrackML challenge– your chance to develop new machine learning solutions…
| cmspeopl | Engage with CMS
Consensus, the London-based hip-hop artist, has released a second video from his album Concerned, which we have previously written about. The video includes footage from Consensus's visits to CERN and CMS, as part of a collaboration with art@CMS.…
| analexop | Engage with CMS
On 21 August 2017, 10 primary science specialist teachers from the UK travelled to Geneva to participate in the 1st Playing with Protons UK CPD course at CERN. This five-day course, which was hosted in CERN's IdeaSquare, was organized by the CMS…
| analexop | Engage with CMS
South London-based hip-hop artist, Consensus, writes an entire album about particle physics and creates opportunities for new, under-represented audiences to discover and appreciate the beauty of scientific research (Image: Etienne "TETO" Bortoluzzi…
| analexop | Engage with CMS
The High Energy and Particle Physics (HEPP) Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) has announced the winners of its 2017 prizes. The Outreach Prize, for "outstanding outreach achievement connected with High Energy Physics and/or Particle…
| Anonymous | Engage with CMS
(French version below) (Geneva, 26 February 2016) – The inspiration for the latest art exhibition at the Cité du Temps came from a scientific experiment the height of a six-floor building, built to the precision of the thickness of a human hair. “…
| achintya | Engage with CMS
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration at CERN is excited to announce the public release of the first batch of high-level, analysable and open data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), recorded by the CMS detector. The datasets are available…