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Other cooperation events
The Académie des Sciences hosted the physics class of the Swedish Academy of Science from 19 to 21 November 2013: it organized
for the class a tour of prestigious laboratories in the region Île-de-France and meetings with physicist members of the Académie on
the theme of energy. The Académie also greeted a delegation of members of the Young Academy of Sweden on 17 March 2014.
In line with the interacademic meeting the Académie in 2012 had organized in
2012 with the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, its Secrétaire perpétuel
Catherine Bréchignac took part in the symposium held on Nicola Tesla’s scientific
and technological legacy on 17 December 2013 in Zagreb. This meeting was
an opportunity to discuss the challenges of research in Croatia, on the eve of its
integration into the European Union.
The Board of the Académie moreover hosted the presidents of the Royal Society, Sir Paul Nurse, on 5 June 2014, and of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, Vladimir Fortov, on 22 October 2014.
On 15 April 2014, at the invitation of HE Alain Le Roy, the Ambassador of France in Italy, of Jean-François Bach, the Secrétaire
perpétuel of the Académie des Sciences, and of Lamberto Maffei, the President of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the members
of the Académie Jean-Pierre Changeux and Salvatore Califano have present a conference on Neurosciences and Arts at the Palazzo
Farnese in Rome.
On 2 April 2014, the Académie des Sciences moreover greeted a visiting delegation from the
Nationale Akademie der
Wissenschaften Leopoldina
.
On 26 June 2014, French and German scientists held, at the Embassy of Germany in Paris, a seminar entitled Energy and
Europe. Members from the four academies,
Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina and Deutsche Akademie der
Technikwissenschaften
on the one hand, and Académie des Sciences and Académie des Technologies on the other hand, have
taken part in the debates. A second round-table meeting on the same theme took place at the Embassy of France in Berlin on
14 November 2014
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celebrating cern’s 60 years of existence
A great success of european, and from now on international,
scientific cooperation, the european Organization for nuclear
Research (ceRn, as centre d’études et de recherche
nucléaire) is the most important laboratory of fundamental
physics in the world. major progress in the field of particle
physics has been achieved there. in 2014, physicists have
celebrated the 60
th
anniversary since the founding of ceRn.
Such was the case at the Académie des Sciences which,
in the name of the French scientific community, devoted a
scientific session to this event on 1 July 2014, along with
the official ceremony celebrating this anniversary at UneScO.
this session gave the opportunity to look back into the most
important fundamental breakthroughs achieved at ceRn, with
special awards to higgs boson, but also to remind that the
technologies developed at ceRn have numerous applications
in our daily lives. the session ended with a review of the
european strategy on particle physics
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN