Ken Bloom, Willa Cather Professor of Physics and Astronomy, oversees Nebraska’s leadership of the National Science Foundation-funded portion of the U.S. CMS Operations Program. The university’s role in this effort is advancing cutting-edge work in subatomic physics at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland. CERN is the site of the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest, most powerful particle accelerator.
