APC colloquium

The Council of CERN is responsible for formulating the scientific and financial policy of CERN. It does this with strong coordination with the CERN Director General and Management.

I will describe how the CERN Council reaches its decision in general and the process this year that had led to initiating the Fourth European Strategy Group for Particle Physics.

Supernova remnants (SNRs), the relics of stellar explosions, are among the most significant sources of non-thermal radio emission in the universe. As the shock fronts created by the supernova expand, they compress and distort the ambient matter and magnetic fields, producing energetic particles via diffusive shock acceleration. This talk undertakes a journey to uncover the multifaceted nature of SNRs through the lens of radio astronomy.
Neutrinos are very reticent fundamental particles. Tau neutrinos make electron and muon neutrinos look positively gregarious.  The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has sensitivity to all three active neutrino flavors over an energy scale spanning six orders of magnitude.  We report on recent results from the experiment, including the first high-significance measurement of the most energetic tau neutrino candidates ever observed.