Category Archives: BYOPD

Open Day in Garching

ATLAS, BYOPD, CERN, Coding, Garching, LMU, Munich Quantum Valley, Outreach, Physics, Quantum Science

Time for another Open Day at the research campus in Garching (‘Forschungscampus Garching’). Once again, around 40 research institutes and companies on the campus will open their doors on 3 October from 10 am to 5 pm and once again I am taking care of the website of the event: https://forschungscampus-garching.de/.

Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) will be present with a booth at the Walther Meißner Institute (WMI) and Build Your Own Particle Detector (BYOPD) will be present at the ORIGINS booth .. along with lots of other activities, exhibits, projects to explore.

Open Day in Garching

BYOPD, Garching, LEGO, Munich Quantum Valley, Outreach, Quantum Science

Last Thursday, 3 October 2024, I took part in the Open Day at Garching.

With over 80 venues and activities to visit and take part in, and thousands of people attending, it was quite an event.

I myself took part in the stand activities of the Munich Quantum Valley (MQV), moderated talks and discussions at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) and set up another ‘Build Your Own Particle Detector’ (BYOPD) competition as part of the activities of the ORIGINS Cluster of Excellence. Both the MQV stand and the BYOPD activity were well attended and we had quite a number of participants in the BYOPD competition … entries and results soon(ish) to come.

The official website for the Open Day, which I expanded and recoded over the past few weeks, also seems to have done a good job for the 6500 or so unique visitors on that day alone.

© MQV | Flavio Cury
© MQV | Flavio Cury

IPPOG Meeting in Sofia

Bulgaria, BYOPD, CERN, Games, Outreach, Physics, Quantum Science, Sofia

This week I had the pleasure to have been invited to the 25th IPPOG Meeting in Sofia, in fact to talk about Munich Quantum Valley and quantum-computing in general in a quantum-computing panel discussion.

It was a pleasure to reconnect to my former colleagues and discuss what is my new job now with them.
Besides that, Netzwerk Teilchenwelt also presented the ALICE LEGO project I cohosted recently and the Particle Twister game I codeveloped :)