The Rector of Tbilisi State University, Academician Jaba Samushia held a working meeting with the CERN delegation on the sidelines of the international event dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
At the meeting, a group of physicists from two major experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, ATLAS and CMS, in collaboration with their Georgian counterparts, summarized the results of collaboration and outlined potential avenues for future collaboration.
The Rector of Tbilisi State University, Academician Jaba Samushia noted that in the history of independent Georgia, over the past three decades, collaboration with CERN and the participation of TSU researchers in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider can be regarded as one of the country’s most significant scientific achievements. “For TSU, collaboration with CERN and the achievements of our physicists are of strategic importance. During my visit to CERN, I met with the Georgian participants of the ATLAS and CMS experiments, and I was very proud to observe the high level of success and recognition that our Georgian physicists are achieving at CERN. TSU is ready to participate in the forthcoming Future Circular Collider (FCC) project and a memorandum of understanding will be signed by the end of the year,” said Jaba Samushia.
The representatives of the CERN delegation focused on the involvement of students and young scientists in the experiments conducted at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Ludovico Pontecorvo, the technical coordinator of the ATLAS experiment, emphasized the significance of providing students with the opportunity to engage in CERN-related research. He highlighted the 30-year collaboration between CERN and Tbilisi State University (TSU), noting the invaluable contributions of TSU physicists to CERN’s research endeavors.