I just returned from the 39th German Autumn School for High Energy Physics Maria Laach.
Maria Laach is a monastery in western Germany located in the caldera of an old vulcano.
Covering lectures from cool to reasonable good, from detetor physics to extra dimensions as well as exercises on Feynman diagrams and group talks.
For physicists: One of the guys doing all that elektroweak radiative-corrections stuff I used in my master thesis (Uli Baur) was there and also one of the heads in extra dimension theories (Nima Arkani-Hamed)… both with cool lectures!
Mr. Jensen bails out
Another post about a book… which is unfortunately a German-only book again!
Its about a guy who never really got into his life facing the German bureaucracy… ;-)
Short novel thats fun to read!
Encyclopedia of the Unknowingness
Please don’t be shocked, but yes this is arleady the second post about a book in kind a short time (at least for normal Sascha-like behaviour)…
The Encyclopedia of the Unknowingness, unfortunately only available in German (“Lexikon des Unwissens”) so far, tries to describe several of today’s unsolved miracles.
It gives an introduction to subjects like the lifecycle of eels, dark matter, yawning, ball-lightnings, the functionality of sticky tape, the Riemann hypothesis, and many more…
A bit too many “funny” comments in my opinion though… otherwise very interesting!
Measuring the World
In the same manner as I use to comment movies I’ve seen I am gonna start it for books now, even though this will happen by far less often.
Anyway… During my holidays in Greece I read a book written by Daniel Kehlmann called “Measuring the World”.
It’s I nice book about Mr. Gauss (the one with the distribution, etc.) and Mr. Humboldt (the brother of the founder of my university) that Troels recommended to read.
It’s originally a German book, that’s why the picture/link is German. For all others heres the English link even though it’s on the German Amazon.
Physics gives me a hadron!
Sorry for my infatile humour and writing insider jokes on my blog, but today I heard about this nice groupname at facebook… haven’t checked out the group or even facebook itself though!
It’s stupid… I know, but still in a way quite genius, isn’t it!