3.15 p.m. OPENING OF THE CEREMONY
- Welcome Address by CERN’s Director-General, Professor Rolf Heuer
- Video presentation: “CERN and science for peace”
- Official speeches
- Video presentation: "CERN and the rise of the Standard Model"
- Official speeches
- Video presentation: "Knowledge and technology: from CERN to society”
- Official speeches
- Address by the President of the CERN Council, Professor Agnieszka Zalewska-Bak
Concert given by the European Union Youth Orchestra, directed by Maestro Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Programme:
Domenico Vicinanza – CERN 60th Anniversary project based on the sonification of the CONVENTION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF A EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH
Darius Milhaud - La Création du Monde
5.15 p.m. COCKTAIL
6.30 p.m. END OF THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
ORDER OF SPEECHES:
- His Royal Highness The Duke of York, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- His Excellency Mr Nicolas Niemtchinow, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the French Republic to the United Nations Office and other international organisations at Geneva
- Dr Mauro Dell'Ambrogio, State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation, Swiss Confederation
- Mr Peter Pellegrini, Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport, Slovak Republic
- Professor Stefania Giannini, Minister of Education, University and Research, Republic of Italy
- Professor Johanna Wanka, Federal Minister of Education and Research, Federal Republic of Germany
- Professor Nuno Crato, Minister for Education and Science, Republic of Portugal
- Professor Agnieszka Zalewska, President of CERN Council