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General Pervez Musharraf (right), President of the On 14 February Michalis Sarris Islamic Republic of Pakistan, (left), Minister of Finance for the shakes hands with Republic of Cyprus, and CERN’s Pakistani scientists working Director-General, Robert Aymar, at CERN during his visit signed a Cooperation Agreement on 27 January. He and his between CERN and the Republic entourage toured CMS, to of Cyprus to further scientific which Pakistan is making and technological cooperation. a substantial contribution. Musharraf emphasized the importance of scientific research and higher education in his address to CERN personnel.
European Commissioner for Science and Technology, Janez Potočnik (right) came to CERN on 31 January, touring the magnet testing with AT Department Leader, Philippe Lebrun.
Norway’s Queen Sonja and King Harald V received a warm welcome to CERN from members of the Norwegian community on 4 April. During their visit the King and Queen toured ATLAS and the LHC tunnel, and met Norwegian scientists and staff members. Norwegian contributions are focused on the ATLAS and ALICE experiments.
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The Algerian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Rachid Haraoubia (right), came to CERN on 14 November. CERN’s Director-General Robert Aymar accompanied him during a tour of ATLAS and the LHC tunnel.
Stephen Hawking (front) paid a week-long visit to the Theory Unit in September. Dur- ing his stay he visited the ATLAS cavern with theorist Thomas Hertog (left), ATLAS spokesperson Peter Jenni (back centre) and ATLAS deputy spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti, and toured CMS before giving a colloquium on the origins of the Universe.
On 25 October, the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Switzer- land, Won-Hwa Park (left), signed, together with the Director-General Robert Aymar, a formal Coopera- tion Agreement between CERN and the Government of the Republic of Korea. The agreement covers the de- velopment of scientific and technical cooperation in high-energy physics.
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Peter van Nieuwenhuizen of Stony Brook University (left), Sergio Ferrara of CERN (centre), and Daniel Freed- man of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology received the 2006 Dannie Heineman Prize for constructing and developing the first supersymmetric extension of Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
Top - Florian Métral (right), an electronics apprentice at CERN, was honoured at the 2006 Cité des métiers et des formations job and training fair by Union Industrielle Genevoise. The event was held at Palexpo, Geneva’s main exhibition centre, on 13 to 19 November.
Bottom - Rafael Ballabriga Suñe (right) received the 2006 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society’s Student Paper Award. Ballabriga’s winning paper reported on a prototype chip, which belongs to a new generation of single-photon-counting hybrid pixel detector readout chips—Medipix3. Deputy programme chair Vince Cianciolo (left) presented the award at the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium held in San Diego from 29 October to 4 November.
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On 29 June CERN’s Gabriele Veneziano was awarded the prestigious Albert Einstein Medal for significant contributions to the understanding of string theory. The Albert Einstein Society in Berne gives the award to individuals whose scientific contributions relate to the work of Einstein.
The American Physical Society awarded its 2007 W K H Panofsky prize to CERN’s Heinrich Wahl from the University of Ferrara (left), Italo Mannelli from Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (right) and Bruce Winstein of the University of Chicago (not pictured). These three physicists led experiments that resulted in a multitude of precision measurements of properties of neutral kaons, most notably the discovery of direct CP violation.
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