Category Archives: Physics

CERN user

Woohoo! From today on I’m a real CERN user and not just a short term user… since my original CERN contract ended last Friday, I had to get a new contract (which was horribly difficult btw)… So my group decided to get me the “full membership”. Now I’m a valid member until I finish my degree in Copenhagen, which will hopefully work out… it looks not to bad!

September plans

For everyone that wants to know, here are my current plans:

Sat 10 – CERN
Sun 11 – CERN
Mon 12 – CERN
Tue 13 – CERN
Wed 14 – CERN
Thu 15 – CERN
Fri 16 – CERN > Aix en Provence (visit Julie)
Sat 17 – Aix en Provence …
Sun 18 – Aix en Provence …
Mon 19 – Aix en Provence …
Tue 20 – Aix en Provence …
Wed 21 – Aix en Provence > Frankfurt (visit Jana)
Thu 22 – Frankfurt …
Fri 23 – Frankfurt …
Sat 24 – Frankfurt …
Sun 25 – Frankfurt …
Mon 26 – Frankfurt > CERN (meet Heike)
Tue 27 – CERN (InnerDetectorWeek presentation)
Wed 28 – CERN
Thu 29 – CERN > Berlin
Fri 30 – Berlin
Sat 31 – Berlin

Encore, encore

<Yeah right… my supervisor just told me that he’ll get money so that I can stay for some more days in my CERN office to finish up my/our project… which means some more days in heaven! Even though the rest is mainly writing things up and dealing with bad bad c++ and python code. Anyway it’s great… And I will even have the time to concentrate on my work since the summer school is slightly fading off…
(greetz to all who have gone already)

To many errors

Horrible… today I probably had the worst day at CERN. I was trying to find solutions to a variety of error-messages arising from the usage of my new friend Athena and CMT.
And the worst part of the story is… I had the idea to deal with those myself… damit!
Hasssss
(the pic just shows one out of several error messages… btw the permissions are right?!)

Goodbyes, Zurich, art and spatial separation

Another week(end) is over… After a very nice italian dinner (last Wednesday) behind the CERN hostel, arranged by all the italian summer students, we had another GoogByeParty on Friday (greetz to Katrine & Mark) making people drown in sad mood and alcohol… nevermind.
I went ot bed early since we wanted to go to Zurich on Saturday… and so we (me and 4 sleepy people) did. In Zurich, which is btw a very nice city, we enjoyed and created art (can be found in the gallery) and joined a party in the National Museum of Switzerland.
Besides all that… I also had to experience the spatial separation (not to say loss) of my “siamese” friend… (May the Boogie be with you! Shaun – I’ll be back!)