Welcome to Accelerating Science and Innovation Patrick.Fassnacht@cern.ch CERN: Science brings people together
The Mission of CERN Push back the frontiers of knowledge E.g. the secrets of the Big Bang what was the matter like within the first moments of the Universe s existence? (well covered by Farida Fassi) Develop new technologies for accelerators and detectors Information technology - the Web and the GRID Medicine - diagnosis and therapy Train scientists and engineers of tomorrow Unite people from different countries and cultures
CERN: founded in 1954: 12 European States Science for Peace Today: 21 Member States ~ 2300 staff ~ 1400 other paid personnel ~ 12500 scientific users Budget (2015) ~1000 MCHF Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom Associate Member States: Pakistan, Turkey States in accession to Membership: Romania, Serbia Applications for Membership or Associate Membership: Azerbaijan, Brazil, Croatia, Cyprus, India, Russia, Slovenia, Ukraine Observers to Council: India, Japan, Russia, United States of America; European Union, JINR and UNESCO As of 2010, non-european countries may become Associate Members or Full Members of CERN. 3
Science is getting more and more global MENA: ~70 by Institute /~110 by passport
Age Distribution of Scientists - and where they go afterwards 26 Today: >2500 PhD students in LHC experiments 65 They do not all stay: where do they go?
Fundamental key questions Will we understand the primordial state of matter after the Big Bang before protons and neutrons formed? We have found the Higgs particle. What are its properties? Will we find the reason why antimatter and matter did not completely destroy each other? Will we find the particle(s) that make up the mysterious dark matter in our Universe? And what s dark energy?
2010: a New Era in Fundamental Science The LHC MENA contribution to: CMS ALICE ~5 ATLAS ~50 CMS ~60 LHCb ~10 Theory ~15 LHC ring: 27 km circumference LHCb ALICE Exploration of a new energy frontier Proton-Proton and Heavy Ion collisions at E CM up to 7 TeV ATLAS 7
Main results from LHC Run-1 1) Machine, detectors and computing performed extremely well, essentially from the start. Collisions modes: p-p / Pb-Pb / p-pb 2) We have consolidated the Standard Model (wealth of measurements at 7-8 TeV, including the rare B s μμ decay, very sensitive to New Physics) it works BEAUTIFULLY 3) We have completed the Standard Model: Discovery of the messenger of the BEH-field, the Higgs boson discovery (over 50 years of theoretical and experimental efforts!) 4) We have no evidence so far of new physics (YET) confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. 5) We need more and better, higher luminosity, higher energy (13TeV) RUN-2
The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid Tier-0 (CERN and Hungary): data recording, reconstruction and distribution nearly 160 sites, 35 countries ~250 000 cores Tier-1: permanent storage, reprocessing, analysis 173 PB of storage > 2 million jobs/day Tier-2: Simulation, end-user analysis 10 Gb links WLCG: An International collaboration to distribute and analyse LHC data Integrates computer centres worldwide that provide computing and storage resource into a single infrastructure accessible by all LHC physicists
LHC Computing in MENA Situation quite difficult for our MENA colleagues Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt have GRID sites that are associated with European Grid Infrastructure (EGI). However, there is only little information from them in the EGI accounting portal. On the networking side, hope is that the Africa Connect 2 project, of which ASREN leads the North African cluster, will improve the situation.
LHC Computing in MENA (con t) Oman (ASREN 2014) set up a working group to see if implementing Tier2/3 was feasible. Participants from Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, SESAME and ASREN CERN donates servers (typ. 100). Done for Morocco & Egypt. In the process for Algeria. More to come..if requested New computing center in place at the Academy in Cairo Open ceremony in presence of the minister
Collaboration Relations with CERN with CERN Focus on MENA Governmental Co-operation Agreements: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Jordan (SESAME), Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, U.A.E. Next: Lebanon Other scientific contacts: Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar Teachers programme: Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, U.A.E. Summer Student Programme: Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE
MENA CERN Collaboration CERN is open to collaboration with qualified and interested scientists from any country Co-operation agreements with governments of Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon (3.12.2015), Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia(signed 13.05.2014), UAE. Next: Palestine Contacts with individual scientists from many others (Oman, Qatar.) CERN provides access to training programmes to help capacity-building Physics, engineering, information technology Summer students, high-school teachers, Open access to scientific information Training in digital library techniques Exhibitions. Egypt (Alessandria), Morroco, Tunisia. Beirut 3 rd December 2015 UNESCO offers support through IBSP (*). What about ISESCO(*)? (*) International Basic Sciences Programme (ISESCO: Counterpart of UNESCO at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation) Looking forward to expanded collaboration with MENA
CERN Education Activities Scientists at CERN Academic Training Programme Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics Fukuoka, Japan, 2012 Puri, India, 2014 China, 2016 Latin American School of High-Energy Physics Natal, Brazil, 2011 Arequipa, Peru, 2013 Ibarra, Ecuador, 2015 Young Researchers CERN School of High Energy Physics CERN School of Computing CERN Accelerator School CERN School of Physics Bulgaria, June 2015 Physics Students Summer Students Programme CERN Teacher Schools International and National Programmes
CERN Teacher Programme 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 Teachers Programs, 2 options: International program (3 weeks in July), English Courses of one week duration in the mother language of the teachers, at CERN or remotely. Special programme for Algeria, Jan 2016.
Education and Capacity Building for the youngsters School Students Programs - slip into the skin of a researcher High School Students Programs - S Cool Lab - Beamline for Schools - Masterclasses Summer Students Program 16
CERN Summer Student Programme Total: 1531; MENA ~80 2015: Total 321; MENA 16
SUMMARY CERN is not only big science.. Is innovation and technology Is training of students and teachers Fabiola Gianotti (CERN, Physics Department) Brings people together. More and more from MENA and we will continue.. Shukran