Last friday i finally went down to see the ATLAS pit, home of the biggest experiment ever! 92m under ground… unfortunaltely it’s so big, that it almost fills out the whole cavern, making it hard to get a good view. Anyway, it’s just awesome huge!
Having seen the detector (or at least the parts, that are already down there) I went on to see the BigBang… On Saturday there was the Fete du Lac in Annecy… which was a bit odd, because they locked the whole city, but offered the most impressive fireworks I’ve ever seen. They started out with some choir singing and ended up with 90m of fireworks… bambambigbang! Yeah!
I guess I’ll be disappointed by the Fetes de Geneve firework and/or the New Years Day fireworks in the next years…?!
Category Archives: CERN
Winner
Yeah… like every year there has been a t-shirt design competition for the summer student t-shirt… and guess what!? I won the competition (at least for the front)… CELEBRATION!
CERN talk
Yeah… I’m still alive… and it wasn’t as bad as I expected… Today I had my first “real” talk in the ATLAS InnerDetector CombinedTestBeam meeting at 40-SS-D01 CERN. Which lasted approx. four hours and I was second last… yo! It was actually kind of good, even though I was fr**king nervous. The major players seemed to like it… somehow!
Here are the transparencies if someone is keen on looking at them… you nerds!
Shaun and The Insane Objects
Today I finally made it to the KiwiLab to inspect the awesome work of one of my SummerStudent fellows… “The Insane Object”.
He (Shaun from New Zealand) made the inpossible possible: talking to his power supplies!
And not just that… he even made a “simulation” of The Final War.
I actually have to admit that this is not the only thing he’s doing in his lab (at least that’s what he says). He claims to do some proper work in addition.
btw
kudos Shaun
Tunnels, detectors and bad taste
Finally I got to see some of the cooler things at CERN. Going down the 100m shaft to the LHCb/Delphi detectors, walking through the myon beam tunnel of the COMPASS experiment and seeing this experiment itself, actually gave some touch of reality to the quite theoretical standard model lectures of the last days… (pictures can be found in the gallery). And again it was time for Charly’s on Tuesday (like every week) and another KP (a kitchen parade not held in a kitchen but in a restaurant) called “The Bad Taste Party”… look a the pix and explain it yourself. To add another attraction to the SummerSchool Programm I announced a SKAT (a german card game) competition including teaching lessons for all the newbies that wanna learn the game and join the tournament… I already got my Kiwi-padawan in the game (greetz to Shaun)…yeah!