Last chance EVER to see the LHC!

François Grey (who will speak today about the GRID) has kindly arranged for four groups of 12 people each from Lift conference to get a guided tour at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory (where the Web was born), on Saturday.

This is probably the last chance ever for people to see the giant underground particle detector ATLAS being built for CERN's new accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC is scheduled to start operation this summer, at which point the underground detectors will be inaccessible to the public forever.

The visits start at the CERN reception, which you can reach by the number 9 bus to CERN (end stop), from the central train station for example. Make sure you arrive on time, the guides will not wait!

9:50 (two groups of 12)
14:50 (one group of 12)
15:50 (one group of 12)

To sign up for a visit please email francois.grey@cern.ch.

Notes:

IMPORTANT: as the ATLAS cavern is a construction site you must wear covered shoes: no sandals or high heels.

We will give priority to people from out of town. People from the region can visit CERN anytime by booking a visit a few weeks in advance with the CERN visits service.

Note that there is also an exhibition about the history of CERN inside the CERN reception, which is open on Saturday. It contains, amongst many other artefacts, the first web server used by Tim Berners Lee.

To get to the CERN with public transports:
• take tram number 14 or 16 from Cornavin to Avanchet, then bus number 56 to CERN. Allow at least 45 minutes from Cornavin.