Eight years ago I’ve been at Maria Laach as a student, it’s about time to return as a tutor ;)
Let’s see if I can have a equally nice experience this time around.
I just arrived yesterday and the school started today, so I might add updates over the next few days …
Summer time, holiday time … this time South Tyrol, with a nice mixture of mountains, rivers, lakes, castles, climbing, funiculars, geocaching, cows, llamas ?!, hiking, relaxing and more. A couple of days on a farm close to Olang and the rest on a campsite in Tisens. Certainly some very nice spots in the area, I guess we’ll be back once the kids are more mobile and have more stamina ;)
Deadwood, South Dakota it is for this week. The IX International Conference on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology (PPC2015) at The Lodge at Deadwood, to be even more precise. Yesterday we had our excursion to Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse, today I gave my presentation on Dark Matter searches in ATLAS (so I’m done with the compulsory part .. hehe) and tonight we’ll have the conference dinner :)
It’s all a bit in the middle of nowhere, but it’s seemingly really beautiful landscape in the Black Hills and the Badlands. Unfortunately, I ain’t got no time to see it all, or even a small part for that sake.
What a great outcome of a family celebration at the local Mütterzentrum … four tickets for Legoland :)
Today we finally went there and had a great day, being especially happy about the fact that we didn’t have to pay the ridiculous entry fee …
As the Atlas Lego model will be an official part of the Collider exhibition in Paris, due to open in November I received an official invitation to the inauguration party :)
Unfortunately it seems I wont find the money to actually go there :)
Anyways, it’s great to see the Atlas Lego model being an official part of this exhibition.
