Belgrade, Aug 13, 2008 –Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic met yesterday with researchers and engineers from Serbia who work with the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN).
Djelic spoke with them on further participation of Serbian scientists in CERN and how to apply their know-how in Serbia.
CERN is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, situated on the Franco-Swiss border. It is currently the workplace of more than 7,000 scientists and engineers who are working on a €5 billion project to build a 27 km-long circular tunnel used to build the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The first attempt to circulate beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for this autumn and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on October 21, 2008.
The LHC is the greatest experiment in the history of particle physics in which 20 scientists from Serbia participate.
Djelic met with all four group managers representing Serbia in CERN, namely Assistant Minister of Science and Technological Development who heads the group from the Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics in Novi Sad Miroslav Veskovic, Petar Adzic from the Vinca Institute for Nuclear Sciences who cooperates with the Faculty of Physics in Belgrade as well as representatives of the Institute of Physics in Zemun Dragan Popovic and Aleksandar Belic.
Also participating in LHC project are experts from Zastava Alati and plants Lola and Krio-Oprema.
The internet widely used today originates from the 1960s when CERN scientists created a network to make their communication easier.