Pictures of the LHC incident
Yesterday we played board games in the CERN restaurant. Talking about an official event on friday one of the guys said, that he probably won’t be invited to official events for some times, because of a recent dispute with the CERN management. Surely we wanted to know what he did and he told us, that in his blog he pointed to a talk given by CERN Director-General Robert Aymar where one of the topics was the status of the LHC. The interesting thing about the talk was, that it contains pictures from the LHC incident on September 19. In his blog he pointed to the slides of the talk which were publicly accesible, but hidden deep inside the CERN Web.
Shortly after he posted the link to the slides, the access to the slides was restricted. So he contacted the CERN Press Office, why this was done. The official reply from the CERN Press Office was, that they wanted to inform the CERN community first, before publishing the pictures to the general public.
The incident has happend quite a while ago and it’s good to finally see some pictures of it, even if many members of CERN criticize the lack of openness regarding this topic.
December 8th, 2008 at 14:31
Not being invited to official events was a bit of a joke, of course — not least because, as a grad student, I never get any special invitations anyway.