dndeswal
September 17th, 2006, 04:22 PM
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CERN: World’s largest particle physics laboratory (http://public.web.cern.ch/public/)
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN – French abbreviation), situated at Swiss-French border near Geneva, is world’s largest particle physics laboratory. How many of us know that the idea of World Wide Web was born at this institute in 1989? A CERN physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, wrote a proposal (http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html) for information management showing how information could be transferred easily over the Internet by using hypertext, the now familiar point-and-click system of navigating through information. At that time, nobody involved could have imagined the myriad of practical and commercial uses it has today. Info.cern.ch was the address of the world's first-ever website and web-server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch (http://info.cern.ch/) which centred on information regarding the WWW project. Click here (http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/AboutCERN/Achievements/Achievements-en.html) for knowing more details of this discovery.
The institute has been conducting large experiments, the one currently being done is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator which will probe deeper into matter than even before. Due to switch-on in 2007, it will ultimately collide beams of protons at an energy of 14 TeV*. For details of this project, please see this web-page (http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/AboutCERN/CERNFuture/WhatLHC/WhatLHC-en.html).
(* A TeV is a unit of energy used in particle physics. 1 TeV is about the energy of motion of a flying mosquito. What makes the LHC so extraordinary is that it squeezes energy into a space about a million-million times smaller than a mosquito).
CERN has 2500-strong staff, 6500 users, 500 Fellows and Associates and an annual budget of 840 million Euros (2005 figure). Its member states are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, The Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK (Total 20). The observer states are India, Israel, Japan, Russia, Turkey and USA.
The CERN Council recently granted Observer Status to India, an active partner of CERN for many years. India has contributed equipment and technical teams to LEP, the PS injector complex and fixed-terget experiments. In the framework of the 1996 Protocol signed with India’s Department of Atomic Energy, India became one of the first non-member states to make significant contributions to the LHC. Indian scientists are also valued members of the ALICE and CMS collaborations, and Indian IT expertise is being put to good use in GRID computing projects through additional protocols signed recently. Currently, the engineers from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre are working on the development of Extremely Large Fabric Monitoring and Grid Deployment & Operations software tools.
Those interested in CERN Students Programmes (http://humanresources.web.cern.ch/HumanResources/external/recruitment/Students/students.asp), may see the full information on its web page.
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CERN: World’s largest particle physics laboratory (http://public.web.cern.ch/public/)
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN – French abbreviation), situated at Swiss-French border near Geneva, is world’s largest particle physics laboratory. How many of us know that the idea of World Wide Web was born at this institute in 1989? A CERN physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, wrote a proposal (http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html) for information management showing how information could be transferred easily over the Internet by using hypertext, the now familiar point-and-click system of navigating through information. At that time, nobody involved could have imagined the myriad of practical and commercial uses it has today. Info.cern.ch was the address of the world's first-ever website and web-server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch (http://info.cern.ch/) which centred on information regarding the WWW project. Click here (http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/AboutCERN/Achievements/Achievements-en.html) for knowing more details of this discovery.
The institute has been conducting large experiments, the one currently being done is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator which will probe deeper into matter than even before. Due to switch-on in 2007, it will ultimately collide beams of protons at an energy of 14 TeV*. For details of this project, please see this web-page (http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/AboutCERN/CERNFuture/WhatLHC/WhatLHC-en.html).
(* A TeV is a unit of energy used in particle physics. 1 TeV is about the energy of motion of a flying mosquito. What makes the LHC so extraordinary is that it squeezes energy into a space about a million-million times smaller than a mosquito).
CERN has 2500-strong staff, 6500 users, 500 Fellows and Associates and an annual budget of 840 million Euros (2005 figure). Its member states are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, The Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK (Total 20). The observer states are India, Israel, Japan, Russia, Turkey and USA.
The CERN Council recently granted Observer Status to India, an active partner of CERN for many years. India has contributed equipment and technical teams to LEP, the PS injector complex and fixed-terget experiments. In the framework of the 1996 Protocol signed with India’s Department of Atomic Energy, India became one of the first non-member states to make significant contributions to the LHC. Indian scientists are also valued members of the ALICE and CMS collaborations, and Indian IT expertise is being put to good use in GRID computing projects through additional protocols signed recently. Currently, the engineers from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre are working on the development of Extremely Large Fabric Monitoring and Grid Deployment & Operations software tools.
Those interested in CERN Students Programmes (http://humanresources.web.cern.ch/HumanResources/external/recruitment/Students/students.asp), may see the full information on its web page.
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