
Russian navy shells before transport for melting to be used as absorber material in the CMS Hadron Calorimeter at the LHC.
Tuesday, 9th of June, 16.00
(16.00 Coffee & Cake in the foyer, 16.30 talk & discussion)
Lecture Hall III
CERN, the research center in Geneva that hosts the Large Hadron Collider, was founded in 1954 with the aim of bringing together scientists from countries that had been at war only a few years earlier. As early as 1955, collaborations with institutes in the former Soviet Union were established. Since then, scientists from a wide range of countries have worked together, largely independent of nationality and origin.
DESY, a national laboratory in Hamburg founded in 1959, established scientific contacts with institutes in the former GDR, Poland, and the Soviet Union already during the Cold War. The ARGUS experiment, and later the experiments at HERA, were prominent examples of scientific cooperation across political boundaries. This situation changed with the war against Ukraine in 2022, when scientific contacts were drastically reduced. Future international cooperation in science, including with other countries, is now increasingly uncertain. At the same time, discussions about opening civilian research institutions and universities to military research are making open scientific collaboration even more difficult.
In this talk, Hannes Jung from DESY in Hamburg will argue in favor of the Science4Peace concept and advocate for maintaining scientific exchange and cooperation, even in challenging times.
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