Yesterday, ATLAS recorded its first 2017 events during stable beams conditions and thereby marked the beginning of physics data taking for this year, as was reported on ATLAS’ web site. Looking forward to another exciting year …
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.
Yesterday, ATLAS recorded the first beam-splash events of the year!
First signs of this year’s physics programme … looking forward!
Find out more here.
As many (though certainly not enough) others, we went to the March for Science in Munich today (have a look, you might find someone you know on this BR.de – pa/dpa picture).
Just returned from this year’s annual Spring Meeting of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) [German Physics Society] on particle physics in Münster.
I had the pleasure to chair a session on ‘searches for new particles’, listened to a few very nice talks, joined a couple of interesting discussions and got the chance to see a bit of a nice city.
