The 2024 issue of the ISOLDE Newsletter is available via https://isolde.web.cern.ch/isolde-newsletter-2024. 

29th November - 1 December

This workshop aims to bring together the present and prospective ISOLDE user community to review the status of the ISOLDE experimental programme and to discuss future plans and ideas. Prizes, donated by CAEN, will be awarded for the best young speakers and the best posters presented at the workshop poster session.

This event will have a hybrid format so if you cannot attend in person you will be able to follow the presentations online.

The 2023 edition of the ISOLDE Newsletter is now available via https://isolde.web.cern.ch/isolde-newsletter-2023 .

The ISOLDE Open data Policy was approved by the ISOLDE Collaboration Committee (ISCC) on the 15th June 2023. It applies to all projects approved by the INTC to run at the ISOLDE Facility. The document sets out an "Open Data Policy for the ISOLDE Collaboration", followed by advice to spokespersons of ISOLDE proposals on important aspects of a data management plan.

The observation at CERN’s nuclear physics facility of a long-sought decay of the thorium-229 nucleus in a solid-state system is a key step towards a clock that could outclass today’s most precise atomic clocks. Click here for more details. 

30th November - 2 December

This workshop aims to bring together the present and prospective ISOLDE user community to review the status of the ISOLDE experimental programme and to discuss future plans and ideas. Prizes, donated by CAEN, will be awarded for the best young speakers and the best posters presented at the workshop poster session.

This event will have a hybrid format so if you cannot attend in person you will be able to follow the presentations online.

The ISOLDE Newsletter for 2022 is now available below:

Information related to Covid-19 at CERN can be found https://hse.cern/covid-19-information .

The ISOLDE newsletter for 2021 is now available below.

Visa for taking up residence in France or Switzerland only for UK citizens:

If you are coming for less than 90 days per period of 180 days:
No visa or work permit required for France or Switzerland but a convention d’accueil will be required (equivalent to a work permit). The teamleader of the person coming to CERN should contact Jenny as early as possible to request preparation of the convention d'accueil. This document has to be signed by the French authorities and, at present, this process can take a couple of weeks.