Just came back from a short Easter trip to the west coast of Denmark. We took a room in a youth hostel in Hvide Sande and explored the area around the Ringkøbing Fjord. Relaxing on the endless beach, playing adventure golf and football golf, eating fish burgers, walking the national parks and and and … very nice, but as usual too short!
Tonight the LHC continued the 2011 data taking with a new world record in luminosity of 4.67 x 1032cm-2s-1, breaking the previous record of the Tevatron of 4.0247 x 1032cm-2s-1.
After quite some time we finally managed to finish an ATLAS note on some of the stuff I did during my last longer stays at CERN in 08/09: “A Summary of Thermal Measurements from the Pixel Commissioning Program” (ATL-INDET-INT-2011-003) has been approved today!
Following my birthday last week (thanks to everyone who remembered and for all the presents) my parent and my sister came over for the weekend.
We went to see (amongst others) a very nice Olafur Eliasson exhibition in the Arken museum south of Copenhagen, went to Roskilde, visited Malmö on the other side of the Øresund, walked the beaches around Dragør and had a look at Charlottenlund Palace and fort.
Besides that we ha some very nice ice cream in Nyhavn and some (unfortunately not to exciting) food at Klubben (traditional Danish restaurant) and made some nice dinner ourselves on Saturday.
April 12th 1961: Yuri Gagarin is the first man ever to journey into outer space in his Vostok 1 capsula!
In memory of this day, an open movie called First Orbit is released today.
