After roughly a year of internal reviewing the ATLAS publication committee and the ATLAS spokesperson have finally approved the paper I was, amoung others, working on during my master thesis.
The “Re-evaluation of the LHC potential for the measurement of mW” can now be found in SPIRES and hep-ex arXiv and has been submitted to The European Physical Journal C.
Angela@ATLAS
On April 29th Angela Merkel, the current German chancellor, visited ATLAS/CERN. The picture shows Rolf Heuer (the designated Director-General), Robert Aymar (the current Director-General), who knows, Angela Merkel and Peter Jenny (the ATLAS spokesman) in the ATLAS Control Room.
Since Mrs. Merkel is a graduated physicist it was actually about time for her to visit.
Especially since the public underground access is closing next week. From than on only a few people are allowed to go down and only after iris scan based authentification (cool but unfortunately needed due to French laws applying at the LHC).
Theres also an entry in Mrs. Merkel’s travelbook, see it here (but only in German, so far).
Face Recognition in Google
Just found out about a cool feature in Google’s image search engine.
In case you are looking for portrait of a certain person you can add ‘&imgtype=face‘ to the URL of your search result and off you go … only faces in your result!
Example with today’s featured article on wikipedia about Monaco:
GAME OVER Project
Just got pointed out a great page paying tribute to the old classics in computer/machine games.
Just enjoy …
Official webpage of Guillaume Reymond and his GAME OVER Project.
Michael Clayton
Its been a while since the last time in a real cinema. Partially due to the now regular foosball ‘n’movie nights and partially due to a lack of good new movies.
But this one, starring George Clooney, is quite an entertaining and good industrial-crime-thriller-whatever movie … its not gonna be one of my all-time favourites, but its certainly worth seeing!