Congratulations to the ICHEP2016 organisers for having a great idea, already before the actual start of the conference … why not invite people for snacks and drinks during one of the free open-air concerts of the Grant Park Music Festival at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. Perfect! And just to round things off properly, add an ICHEP picnic blanket to the conference bag, to be used to sit on the lawn in front of the stage. Well done!
I’m on my way to ICHEP2016 in Chicago.
Looking forward to a great conference in a great city.
I have good memories of both:
ICHEP2012 in Melbourne and Chicago, as a memorable start of a road-trip to New York.
I’ll have both physics (long-lived particles) and outreach (BYOPD) contributions for this year’s conference … let’s see how it goes :)
Today I reached the magic 100 and here’s a little history clip to celebrate!
In case you don’t know what this is about … have a look here.
And feel free to join ;)
Tickets booked, hotel booked, pieces sent, adds out, registration open … now I just have to wait a few more weeks and off I go to the Sydney Science Festival.
Last weekend I had a quick trip to Geneva. Aside the usual meetings at Cern, I had the pleasure to host another BYOPD event. This time as part of the ‘Nuit de la science‘ at the ‘Musée d’histoire des sciences‘ on invitation of the Atlas group at the University of Geneva.
With in total 17 hours plus preparation and clean-up time, it was quite a bit of work, but it was certainly a lot of fun again. We had over 80 contestants, ranging age three to 74, entering the competition and quite a few more people just chatting with us about particle physics, Cern, Atlas and whatnot.
We also had cloud chamber as well as the ATLASrift as part of the particle physics contribution.
