Last week, I was at the 2026 IEEE Quantum Week in Toronto, Canada, to once again represent Munich Quantum Valley (MQV), this time joined by some of our partners and start-ups.
A week full of quantum sessions, discussions at the booth, a Bavarian evening reception, and many more things as well as a bit of Toronto.
Today, my ATLAS Lego model at the ATLAS Visitor Centre1 was briefly featured in a short ‘Sportschau’ report related to the Tour de France, which covered CERN, on the main German broadcaster ARD :)
For those of you speaking German, here’s the link to the clip [in German].
Also in 2026, we once again had a pair of blue tits move in to our balcony bird house. Last week, two little birds finally made it all the way through, left the house and here’s a time-lapse of this year’s season.
For those of you interested, there are more time-lapse and motion-detection clips in a YouTube playlist.
This week, with the kids on holidays and out of town, we finally managed to redeem a one-year-old birthday voucher for Mario Gamba’s Acquarello and had a very nice a-la-carte dinner for two.
Here’s a a few verbal and optical impressions of our very delicious self-made menu …
Time for another Open Day at the research campus in Garching (‘Forschungscampus Garching’). Once again, around 40 research institutes and companies on the campus will open their doors on 3 October from 10 am to 5 pm and once again I am taking care of the website of the event: https://forschungscampus-garching.de/.
Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) will be present with a booth at the Walther Meißner Institute (WMI) and Build Your Own Particle Detector (BYOPD) will be present at the ORIGINS booth .. along with lots of other activities, exhibits, projects to explore.
