Next Friday, September 24, CERN's scientific community - already 10,000 strong - will expand even more. As part of European Researchers' Night, the European laboratory for particle physics will give people from all over the world a peek into the lives of scientists on the Large Hadron Collider during an eight-hour-long webcast. More than 100 lucky students from CERN's local community will sit side by side with scientists and operators in the control rooms for the LHC experiments.
The Globe Show webcast, which will air from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern time, is presented in collaboration with the Italian science assocation Frascati Scienza, the Erasmus Medical Centre in The Netherlands, and the Joint European Torus fusion experiment. The webcast will air live from all four locations, bringing together scientists on the front lines of particle physics, astrophysics, medicine and energy research. Audiences participating from the four locations will be able to ask questions of physicists at CERN, scientists from the Ice Cube experiment in Antarctica, ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori, and Nobel laureate Sam Ting at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where he is preparing the AMS particle detector for its journey to the International Space Station. The webcast will be presented in multiple languages, including English, from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Eastern time, and primarily in English from 4 - 7 p.m. Eastern.
On September 24, watch the webcast at http://webcast.cern.ch.
For more information about European Researchers' Night, read the article in the CERN Bulletin or today's press release.
