Category: Engage with CMS
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Paris Sphicas elected to the Royal Society
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 Commonwealth.
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The CMS Data Analysis School celebrates its 10th anniversary
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.
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Playing with Protons: two years and counting
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, implementation and evaluation of an innovative training course that started at CERN in 2016 under the name ‘Playing with Protons’ with the aim…
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Open Data: pushing back the frontiers together
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.
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Bringing CMS to Lithuania, Hungary, Mexico, Italy and Portugal
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.
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Are you up for the TrackML challenge?
Can machine learning assist high-energy physics in discovering and characterising new particles?
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CMS and CERN inspire UK primary-school teachers to play with protons
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.
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ConCERNed: Using Hip-Hop to Engage New Audiences in Particle Physics
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, Michael Hoch, Kt Watson Photography) Since its inception in the late 1970s, hip-hop culture has had a strong impact on young people across…
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art@CMS founder Michael Hoch wins 2017 EPS HEPP outreach prize
The High Energy and Particle Physics (HEPP) Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) has announced the winners of its 2017 prizes.