Category: Education
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Meet the students: Francisco Resende
Meet the students: Francisco Resende How can machine learning boost the performance of ATLAS’s real-time event selection? That’s the question driving the work of Francisco Resende, a CERN openlab summer student from the Technical University of Munich. As part of the Next Generation Triggers project, his work focuses on bringing AI techniques into the upgraded
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Meet the students: Sara Abdelrazeq
Meet the students: Sara Abdelrazeq From Jordan to Geneva, Sara K. Abdelrazeq has joined CERN this summer through the CERN openlab programme, contributing her skills in computer science to the Next Generation Triggers project. Currently a student at the University of Bonn, she is working on one of the most critical aspects of modern particle
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Meet the students: Najla Sadek
Meet the students: Najla Sadek From Beirut to Geneva, Najla Sadek has brought her passion for computer science and artificial intelligence to CERN this summer. Currently studying Computer Science and Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics at the American University of Beirut, Najla is fascinated by how AI can be used responsibly and meaningfully
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Showcasing Innovation: NGT Summer Students at the CERN openlab Lightning Talks
Showcasing Innovation: NGT Summer Students at the CERN openlab Lightning Talks On 11 and 12 August 2025, the CERN openlab Summer Student Lightning Talks brought together this year’s cohort of 37 talented students from 31 nationalities, selected from more than 3,800 applicants worldwide, to present the results of their nine weeks at CERN. This year
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First CERN School of Computing in Latin America Opens for Applications
First CERN School of Computing in Latin America – Opens for Applications! For the first time, the CERN School of Computing (CSC) will take place in South America. The CSC Latin America 2026 will be held from 11–24 January 2026 in Santiago, Chile, in collaboration with the SAPHIR Millennium Institute and hosted at the Lo
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Bringing ML to the Trigger: Highlights from the ATLAS & CMS MLOps Workshop
Bringing ML to the Trigger: Highlights from the ATLAS & CMS MLOps Workshop On 2 June 2025, the NGT ATLAS & CMS MLOps Workshop took place at CERN’s IdeaSquare, marking the first installment in a new series of workshops & events looking to bring together intra and inter-experiment groups to start discussion on the effective deployment of Machine Learning algorithms
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“Being at CERN made everything much more real”
“Being at CERN made everything much more real” Tasos and Erwan reflect on their time at CERN through the NGT Exchange Programme As part of the Next Generation Triggers (NGT) exchange programme, we recently welcomed two master’s students from Uppsala University—Anastasios Kakos (Greece) and Erwan Larie-Kerboull (France)—. Working under the supervision of Prof. Rebeca González Suárez and
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1st NGT Hackathon: a week of innovation and collaboration
1st NGT Hackathon: a week of innovation and collaboration The 1st NGT Hackathon, held at CERN’s IdeaSquare from 7–11 April 2025, brought together more than 40 students and researchers from across the Next Generation Triggers (NGT) collaboration and other 15 institutes. Throughout the week, participants rolled up their sleeves to explore a range of hands-on topics, including writing their