I just finished my setting up my new LAMP server (Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS).
I decided to go for the good old fashioned by-hand setup instead of the Plesk configuration I used in the recent past. Excuses to all of you who do not understand, by this was on my list for quite some time and since this blog is running on the new server as well, I thought it would be worth a post.
Today the first (real) running period of the LHC ended. We’ll have a shutdown of about two years to repair, upgrade and whatnot the LHC and the experiments. And of course a lot of time to analyse the data we took in the past years … for the moment that still means searching for long-lived stable massive particles for me. Let’s see what comes next …
It’s official, CERN will have another Open Day in September this year.
On Saturday, September 28th you can visit CERN if you know someone working there and on Sunday, September 29th everybody can have a look!
On the previous Open Day in 2008, we managed to see all experiments and the tunnel during the friend-and-family day. So let me know if you wanna join this year’s tour (again).
I’ve already seen it a few months ago, but finally the CMS LEGO model went public on the web site of the high energy physics group of the University of Maryland.
I must say, it is a very nice piece of work!
Let’s see if I can convince my LEGO friends to produce a few of these as well!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
to all fans and friends ;)
