Category Archives: Travelling

ATLAS (25) week in Bratislava

Bratislava, CERN, Outreach, Physics, Slovakia, Travelling

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 :)

Bucharest

Bucharest, Physics, Romania, Travelling

Just returned from a week in Bucharest at the ‘ATLAS Exotics and SUSY Joint Workshop’, which took place at the Ministry of Culture and had its conference dinner at the slightly oversized Palace of Parliament, depicted above. The latter holds some interesting records, e.g. as the world’s largest civilian building with an administrative function, the world’s most expensive administrative building and the world’s heaviest building!?
Anyways …  the workshop was nice, the dinner was nice, my talk was nice ;) and Buchrest certainly interesting … which reminds me of an equally interesting article on Bucharest I read this week.

Lucky delay and another wedding

Family & Friends, Travelling

For the first time in my life I was extremely happy about a delayed plane. Returning from Perugia last Friday, it actually saved my day. With trains as well as bussed being delayed I only made it to the check-in at boarding time. Only by the fact that the plane had one hour delay anyways I got on it … puha!
With more than an hour delay I finally made it home at 1h30 next morning, leaving again at 8h30 for another of this year’s weddings (there were a couple of friends getting married this year).
Nice ceremony and party somewhere in the outback of North-East Germany.