Another time me and the machine, ATLAS! Its alwas a moving moment to see this masterpiece of physics engineering, especially for me doing all of the actual work in front of a computer and never really getting in touch with the hardware. You feel this certain satisfaction, when walking through the little radiation protection tunnel with a small blue door at the end to then enter the huge canvern, housing the now almost as huge ATLAS detector. Simply one of the coolest things ever…
Category Archives: CERN
LHCb & Dvorak & Betting Game
Today I had a tour of the LHCb detector and the associated electronics and computing parts (thanks to Gareth). Not quite as big as ATLAS but still very impressive!
I’ll put some more pictures in the gallery…
In the evening I followed the invitation of the CERN Concerts Club and listened to some Dvorak, Gershwin and Mersson music in the CERN main auditorium.
And last but not least … after some complains, the betting game on my webpage has finally got a new and more reasonable mode for evaluating rugby games ;-)
Early Flight
Another time at CERN and always a pleasure! I had to take the early flight leaving at 6h20. Which was kind of a pain in the a**, but I got a bit rewarded by the view on the sunrise though.
Over the weekend I am staying at Troels’ place …
Another ATLAS poster
My most favourite experiment just got a new poster showing some of the people working on it… unfortunately it’s only a collection of people…
I have to admit that the poster is probably not the beautiest, but still fun though!
each person shows up several times… found myself twice so far.
Perfect Goodbye
Three weeks is not very much if you look at it afterwards…
but it has been great to be back at CERN and Geneva!
And as if Geneva wanted to say goodbye the weather turned back to sunshine after almost a week of clouds and rain…
On Friday we had a dinner party “Chez Troels” along with a number of 2007 CERN Summer Students, talking, discussing, enjoying the sunset on the roof, and so on…
it was very nice and brought back my summer student memories… I guess I could easily do it again… hmmmm!
Anyhow… Saturday started pretty slow… with a little breakfast and lunch at Bains de Paquis, on of the Geneva beaches, along with probably one of the best view of Mont Blanc I ever had…
just perfect!
After lunch I met Gareth who had just arrived the day before and had some good smalltalking… another reminder of the good old time!
Unfortunately we only had some little while since I had to catch my flight back home…
which btw. was delayed by an hour…