Category Archives: Cities

ATLAS (25) week in Bratislava

13 October 2017Bratislava, CERN, Outreach, Physics, Slovakia, TravellingSascha

Just left the closing session of this year’s outside ATLAS Overview Week 2017 which took place in Bratislava, Slovakia. Besides the usual physics, detector and performances updates, we had our internal ATLAS25 celebration party on Thursday.
From the outreach side we presented and got people involved in various activities and presented some really nice videos documenting the past 25 years during the celebration.
Obviously there was also some (though not much) time to see the city, the castle, the Most SNP and to escape from the clutches of a corrupt policeman.

Last but not least, the ATLAS collaboration board just granted me the honour to be the next outreach co-coordinator, starting next March :)

Thunderstorm deluxe

19 August 2017Munich, PhotographySascha

Just witnessed more than 30 minutes of constant lightning strikes and nonstop thunder from our balcony. Somewhat scary, but certainly impressive!
I managed to capture a few lightning bolts :)

In case you wanna see some of it for yourself ;)
https://youtu.be/B6stzlgp3lM

Summer …

30 July 2017Germany, MunichSascha

… just because it’s nice :)

EPS HEP2017

6 July 2017Italy, Physics, VeniceSascha

After a one hour flight and an even longer boat trip from the airport to my hotel / the venue, I finally arrived in Venice yesterday. To be precise, it’s on Lido (long strip of land in the background above) and (sadly) it’s not for holidays, but this year’s EPS HEP conference, which started today.

Let’s see how it goes …

Happy Birthday
Higgs Boson

4 July 2017CERN, Geneva, Melbourne, PhysicsSascha

It’s been five years already since the announcement of the discovery of the final and most intriguing particle of the Standard Model – the Higgs Boson! I joined the official presentation/announcement remotely from the main auditorium of the ICHEP conference taking place in Melbourne at the time. It was quite the day … summed up nicely in a retrospective released by CERN just now.

And yes, the picture with Peter was taken about a year after the announcement, just after he’s been presented as Nobel laureate together with François Englert in 2013.