Category Archives: Hobbies

Slightly addictive …

CNPS, Hobbies

… would be a good and short way to describe my latest addition in hobbies:
Consecutive Number Plate Spotting.

carplate1 carplate2 carplate3

As it’s always with these addictive things, I’ve been introduced to it by a good old friend of mine (thanks Carsten) and you can get hooked in different degrees of addiction.  When practiced just on the side, it can actually be quite fun :)

And why am I writing about it now, even though I started already in August 2015. Good question! It’s because I combined my new hobby with some of my long-standing ones … coding and numbers :)

You are hereby kindly invited to join the spotting club and track and compare your count!
Of course, I will add some stats later on :)

X-mas wrap-up

Climbing, Family & Friends, Music

xmas2015

Here’s my personal Christmas harvest ;)

It’s been the first time we did not spent Christmas in Berlin and it’s been a bit strange not to see old friends this time, yet it’s been slightly more relaxing than usual (less appointments, less driving, …).
Unfortunately, and somehow the standard over the last months, at least one of us has been sick and on medicine each day :(

Anyways, it’s been fun holidays and I am looking forward to test all presents next year :)

A book, two bottles of wine and my name on Amazon

Books, CERN, Deggendorf, Outreach, Physics

DFDDA

Today, I received this very nice box with two copies of the book “GoBD und Big Data: Neue Herausforderungen für die digitale Datenanalyse”, two bottles of wine and a kind letter from the Deggendorfer Forum zur digitalen Datenanalyse e.V., to celebrate the publication of the proceedings for the annual meeting I went to end of June.

It’s also a celebration of my first book as an author on Amazon :)

Thanks a lot to Prof. Georg Herde and the DFDDA e.V. for inviting me and of course for the gift box :)

It’s public …

LEGO, Outreach, Physics

… my first ever public note on outreach :)
“Building Blocks of the Universe – using stackable plastic bricks to impart knowledge in particle physics“

ATL-OREACH-PUB-2015-001Abstract: This article presents possibilities to impart knowledge of and enthusiasm for particle physics to essentially all non-expert target audiences by the use of LEGO bricks and models of particle physics experiments built from these. Methods of using LEGO models, both as a passive exhibit and as part of interactive outreach events, are presented, along with a historical review of the “Build Your Own Particle Detector” programme and the corresponding idea of hosting competitions in building detector models in LEGO pieces as a perfect setting to grasp people’s attention, get them involved and ultimately convey knowledge in particle physics to them.