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Weltmaschine

Today the Weltmaschine exhibition starts in Berlin!
Its supposed to be a very nice exhibition on the LHC and the connected experiments such as ATLAS. There’s physicists from all over Germany coming to the Bundestag Subway Station in Berlin to explain the physics and more to the visitors.

First impressions from CERN

Well the first two weeks (with a little break though) are already over …
I am slowly settling in Geneva and at CERN … quite a few new things that came up during these weeks … and quite some work, man! But its cool … ;)
Here’s two pictures of the Globe in yesterday’s fine Geneva morning fog and of my office (I sit on the left side) at CERN. Btw the weather got really nice later the day … it often starts shitty like this …

Geneva Pet

Just one week after my arrival in Geneva I already got myself a nice little pet.
I found I cute little annoying tick at the back of my left knee … dammit!
Here’s the little bastard that now graces our whiteboard in 32 2-A18 …

Weltmaschine.de

Just on time for the LHC start-up the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in collaboration with the German institutes working on the LHC and it’s experiments launched a new website called Weltmaschine.de (only German though).

It is another piece of an outreach campaign that started with the very successful LHC-Train that was cruising the S-Train ring in Berlin for the Long Night of Science in June.
The Grand Finale is an exhibition in the so far unused subway station Bundestag in the period from October 15th to November 16th.

(c) Logo – BMBF/CERN

O2 World Soft Opening

Just returned from todays Soft Opening of the O2 World in Berlin, the new home of the local hockey and basketball team, the Eisbären Berlin and ALBA Berlin, respectively.
One day before the official start-up this venue was tested by hosting a friendly between an O2 World OldStars team and a Gazprom Allstars team. The OldStars team partially consisting of former Einbären player and/or Eisbären officials lost in 5:0 game against the Russian selection.
The venue is quite nice, but could certainly need some improvements … e.g. in DJ Cool, the local music responsible!