17–24 Jul 2024
Prague
Europe/Prague timezone

When physicists met novellists : the success story of Collision

18 Jul 2024, 11:45
15m
Club C

Club C

Parallel session talk 15. Education and Outreach Education and Outreach

Speaker

Connie Potter (CERN)

Description

For the first time ever, the CERN community has collaborated with established (non-science) writers to produce an anthology of fictional short stories. The stories, based on submissions of ideas from the world-wide CERN community, were put together in a book entitled Collisions : Stories from the Science of CERN, co-edited by Rob Appleby of Manchester University and Connie Potter of CERN. The book has sold thousands of copies and has been a huge success. We talk about the idea, the process and the marketing of such a unique public outreach project, which has left the public wanting more.

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Authors

Connie Potter (CERN) Dr Robert Barrie Appleby (University of Manchester (GB))

Presentation materials