Category Archives: Cities

Decision

Berlin, DESY

After treading water for a too long time, I finally made up my mind and came to a decision concerning my (near) future! I guess it probably was the hardest I ever had to take.

Not to put you on the rack for too long…
its not Copenhagen,
its not Paris,
its not Freiburg,
its BERLIN!

Right! I’m gonna stay in Berlin for (at least) the next three years! It was a tough decision and took a while to be made.
Anyway… now I’m gonna do my Ph.D. at Humboldt-University of Berlin and DESY Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in Zeuthen.
It will be about top-quark physics and data-quality monitoring using the higher-level-trigger of ATLAS.

And since this is not enough!
I’m also moving, since we already cancelled our old apartment, due to the fact that I would end up in Freiburg according to the original plan.
The new apartment, located in Berlin-Friedrichshain, will of course be opened with a little house-warming party… I’ll give more details!

The snow is after me [update]

Copenhagen

Is it an omen?
Last night we got heavy snowstroms in the north-eastern part of Denmark… unfortunately including the airport in Copenhagen…
Which implicated that my Supervisor couldn’t get the flight he intended to :-(
We’ll see if he gets here until tomorrow…

I seem to have a problem with snow this winter… hmm

[update]
after some (or maybe a lot) delay, Heike, my sister and father and Troels are finally here

Holidays… suck! [update][update]

Copenhagen

damn… well that’s a start!
I am sitting at the airport in Copenhagen waiting for the flight that was scheduled 45min ago…
and even better… now its scheduled for 13h50…
yap, right… four hours late

13h50… that’s also roughly the time when my connection coach is about to leave Stansted…
I am really enjoying my holidays so far…

[update]
well, now it has been cancelled!
the best alternative they could offer was Sunday morning…
honestly that’s what they offered looking at my ticket with return flight on Monday morning…

I AM PISSED! and not going to Oxford btw!

[update][update]
I wont get back the money for the coach I booked in advance…

Writing my thesis

Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institue


Since I had some complains about me not writing anything in my blog for a while and people gettin upset about it… here we go!
Unfortunately I don’t do a lot these days besides writing and working, ergo there’s not much to write about! So I uploaded a picture of my desk/workplace/home ;-)

Well, you gotta cheer me up with some nice comments ;-)

CERN > Freiburg > Wuppertal > Berlin

Berlin, CERN

The way back from the glaciers of the French alps we (Heike and me) started with an enjoyable night on the floor of Esbens CERN hostel room (thanx again) … as it turned out this was not the right way to recover after a day of snowboarding …

The next step on the journey was Freiburg where we were visiting some friends of mine I met at a summer university this year …
After dropping of Heike at the train-station (she had to go back to Berlin) I enjoyed another day in Freiburg and continued my journey …

The last stop before Berlin was the beautiful city of Wuppertal…
Climbing some hills, eating cookies, visiting the university built in the adorable style of the 70s and of course taking the “Schwebebahn Wuppertal” … this thing is over 100 years old! And for all you train-geeks here’s a little video