Theme: Multiplying Dimensions

Under the theme Multiplying Dimension, TEDxCERN 2013 was the very first TEDx event at CERN; and what a Day! Our speakers were incredible. Our guests had smiles on their faces and a rush of new ideas in their heads. We had total audience of 700 people at CERN + more than 25 viewing parties through our insitutes connected + more than 10.000 online ! We produced 19 talks and 5 animations in collaboration with TED Ed . Three of our talks were featured on TED.com and more than 1 million people has seen it. It is all available on our homepage TEDxCERN.ch!

Globe of Science and Innovation at CERN
Square Galileo Galilei
Route de Meyrin
Meyrin, Genève (fr), 1217
Switzerland

Becky Parker

Physicist

Becky Parker, MBE, Head of Physics at Simon Langton Grammar School, has inspired many students to pursue science. She won the first RAS Patrick Moore Medal for outstanding work as a teacher of astronomy.

Brittany Wenger

Science

Brittany Wenger won the 2012 Google Science Fair's Grand Prize for building a cloud-based neural network to accurately assess tissue samples for signs of breast cancer.

Chris Lintott

TV Presenter

Chris Lintott is co-presenter of BBC’s long-running series Sky at Night. He also runs Zoouniverse, a successful collection of citizen science projects that investigates galaxy formations to discover planets and more.

Dave Barney

Physics

Dave Barney, physicist, is the project leader for the CMS experiment’s electromagnetic calorimeter. He has worked as the experiment’s outreach coordinator and served as chair of the International Particle Physics Outreach Group.

Eliezer Rabinovici

Physics

Eliezer Rabinovici is vice president of SESAME and physics professor at Hebrew University. A theoretical physicist, his area of research are quantum field theory and string theory.

George Church

Medical Professor

George Church is director of personalgenomes.org, which provides the world’s only open-access information on human Genomic, Environmental and Trait data. He is also a professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.

Gian Giudice

Physics Scientist

Gian Giudice was appointed the 2013 International Jacques Solvay Chair in Physics. A theoretical physicist at CERN, he studies what the Higgs measurement might mean for the fate of the universe.

Hiranya Peiris

Astronomy

Hiranya Peiris is a reader in Astronomy at University College London and coordinator of the CosmicDawn project. She studies the fossilized heat of the Big Bang for clues about the physics that governed the very early universe.

Ian Foster

IT

Ian Foster is director of the Computation Institute in Chicago. His research on high performance distributed and parallel computing has many calling him 'father of Grid computing'.

James Gillies

Physics + communication

James Gillies is the Head of Communication at CERN. He holds a DPhil in particle physics from the University of Oxford.

John Searle

Philosophy + language

John Searle is the Slusser Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language at UC Berkeley. He is most known for his Chinese room argument and concept of consciousness as a biological phenomenon.

Lee Cronin

Chemistry Professor

Lee Cronin is the Regus Chair of Chemistry at University of Glasgow. He explores how chemistry can revolutionize modern technology. His lab has created a 3D printer that could make matter come alive.

Londa Schiebinger

Medics + Engineering + environment

Londa Schiebinger is Stanford University’s John L Hinds professor of History of Science and director of the EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment.

Marc Abrahams

Editor

Marc Abrahams is editor and co-founder of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. He started the Ig Nobel Prizes honouring achievements that make people laugh, then think.

Maria Ferrante

Soprano Singer

Maria Ferrante is a soprano singer who was ‘discovered’ in a voice class at university. She has studied with great singers like Franco and travelled to China to learn from Jiang Jou, the bel canto master. She has collaborated with many musicians worldwide. She also has four solo CDs to her credit, including Christmas in Worcester, Best Kept Secrets and Sea Tides and Time.

Maya Tolstoy

Geology

Maya Tolstoy is a marine geologist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Her research interests include mid-ocean ridge earthquakes and the impact of anthropogenic noise on marine mammals.

Rolf Landua

Physicist

Rolf Landua, PhD in particle physics and research physicist at CERN, is Head of CERN’s Education Group, presenting particle physics through exhibitions and guided tours to the public and aiming to innovate physics teaching at schools.

Steve Goldfarb

Physicist

Steve Goldfarb is a physicist from the University of Michigan, working on the ATLAS experiment. He is currently the Outreach & Education coordinator for the experiment and lead singer of the Canettes Blues Band.

Steve Myers

Medics

Steve Myers is the head of CERN’s Office of Medical Applications. He steered the operation of the Large Hadron Collider from 2010 to 2012. By July 2012, the collider had produced enough events to allow ATLAS and CMS experiments to discover the Higgs boson.

Tim Smith

Physics

Tim Smith is a physicist and Group Leader of CERN’s Collaboration and Information Services, which runs audio visual, conferencing, digital library, ePublishing, video conference and webcast services for the CERN user community.

Tom Whyntie

Physics + Education

Tom Whyntie was the STFC-funded ‘Researcher in Residence’ for the CERN@School (link sends e-mail) project. He completed his PhD and worked as a Research Assistant at Imperial College London’s High Energy Physics Group.

Zehra Sayers

Biology

Zehra Sayers is a founder of Sabanci University and co-chair of SESAME's Scientific Advisory Committee. Her interests include studying 3D structure to function relationship in biological macromolecules.