Category Archives: Outreach

PopScience, BYOPD and PhD Comics

26 September 2015CERN, Geneva, LEGO, Outreach, SwitzerlandSascha

Yesterday, we had another PopScience BYOPD event in Geneva. While it was a bit calm in the morning it ended up quite nice with a decent number of visitors/participants in the afternoon. In fact, I had Jorge Cham, creator of PhD Comics, joining the competition. Unfortunately, I missed his talk and the showing of the PhD Movie sequel the day before. Luckily, I could make it up with a nice autograph from him (see below).
For the actual European researchers’ night, there were discussion of the physics in movies such as Gravity, Interstellar, Star Trek or Angels & Demons as well as a screening of Particle Fever and a discussion with some of physics cast.

Science Night in Garching

28 June 2015LEGO, LMU, Outreach, PhysicsSascha

Yesterday, I had yet another great Build Your Own Particle Detector outreach event as part of the Science Night in Garching. With the large Atlas Lego model, a little particle physics exhibition and a great team of students from my group at LMU, we managed to talk to hundreds of visitors. And 36 models entering the BYOPD competition (also for the audience award) is not a bad number either :)

Looking forward to the next one … 25 September 2015 at Balexert in Geneva, Switzerland.

Wrapping it up at the George Lamb Show

14 June 2015CERN, LEGO, Outreach, PhysicsSascha

Last week I had the pleasure to get one minute of private air time on the George Lamb Show to talk about LEGO and the LHC.
Here’s the link to the podcast (itunes) of the show, which actually turned out to be a LHC special, also featuring ATLAS colleague Clara Nellist.
My part starts at about 01:01:30 (ten minutes to the end).

New office decoration

13 April 2015LEGO, LMU, Munich, OutreachSascha

Last week some colleagues (and in some cases their family) helped building yet another one of the large Atlas Lego models. Thanks a lot!
For now it’s a nice decorative addition to my office interior :)

Exciting times ahead

14 March 2015CERN, Deadwood, Deggendorf, Outreach, PhysicsSascha

In a few weeks the LHC is restarting at never seen before energies. And to put some topping on this physics cream cheese, I’ll have the pleasure to be co-convenor of the ATLAS RPV/LL SUSY subgroup for one year, starting in April.

And just because that’s not enough yet, there is a few more news that came up recently … I’ll be giving a talk on ‘big data’ at ATLAS/CERN at the 11th Deggendorf forum on digital data analysis in mid June and one on Dark Matter searches in ATLAS at the IX International Conference on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology in Deadwood, SD end of June.