Istanbul Nişantaşı University has been accepted as a full member of the CERN CMS experiment, which includes 286 universities and research institutes from more than 60 countries. The university is joining the experiment, in which more than 6,000 researchers work, with three academics.
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The CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment, one of the world’s most widely participated scientific collaborations, conducted at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, a global science hub that studies how the universe works and the most fundamental building blocks of matter and energy, has gained a new full member from Türkiye. According to a statement from Istanbul Nişantaşı University, the university has joined the full members of the experiment carried out at the Large Hadron Collider, located at the center on the border between Switzerland and France.
CERN’s CMS experiment includes 286 universities and research institutes from more than 60 countries. The more than 6,000 people working on the experiment include physicists, engineers, computer scientists, technicians and students. The 27-kilometer Large Hadron Collider is known as the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. The CERN experiment carries out research aimed at understanding the fundamental structure of matter and how the universe works.
The university’s CMS research team includes Prof. Dr. Baki Akkuş and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gül Gökbulut. Prof. Dr. Didar Dobur, a faculty member at Ghent University in Belgium, contributes to the team as a visiting researcher at Istanbul Nişantaşı University. With the participation of the academics, the aim is to develop new projects in the fields of particle physics, engineering and computational sciences.
According to the university’s statement, the membership is expected to contribute to research in different disciplines, particularly at the Faculty of Engineering. High-performance computing, artificial intelligence, big data analytics and scientific software development are among the experiment’s key areas. Data obtained from the collisions is analyzed with advanced detector systems and computing technologies. The methods used also have the potential to be applied in the fields of healthcare, industry and information technology.
Through the projects to be developed as part of the CERN membership, Istanbul Nişantaşı University students are expected to get to know large-scale scientific experiments up close and gain experience working with international teams. Graduate studies, graduation projects and scientific software development are planned within this scope.
The university considers its full membership a notable development in terms of expanding the role of higher education institutions in Türkiye in international scientific research.
