Today I got a warm welcome to a new job within ATLAS. After one year as co-convener of the ATLAS SUSY subgroup for R-parity violating and long-lived signatures, which ends today, I’ll have the pleasure to be co-convener of the ATLAS Exotics subgroup for Unconventional signatures and Exotic Higgs searches for one year starting tomorrow.
Once again, it’s an exiting time as in 2016 we might get up to ten times the data we had in 2015. I’m very much looking forward :)
ATLAS Experiment © 2016 CERNAfter a great year 2015 and the usual winter break, the LHC is back up and produced the first beam splash events in the ATLAS detector last week. Only a couple of weeks/days and we’ll have stable beams and physics data again … find out more here.
Time for a small anniversary celebration … my CERN user account was created exactly eleven years ago :)
Berlin Calling – yesterday, I went to see the opening concert of Paul Kalkbrenner‘s 2016 tour in Munich.
Once you accept the fact that it’s a well planned concert more than a live set in a club, which it usually is these days with him, it was actually quite nice. There were not too many surprises: he played his classics and stuff from the new album (where my preference lies on the classics). Here and there he could have given it a bit more drive, but you could call it a fair mixture. In my opinion, the first encore was the best part/track of the night (which unfortunately started 30 minutes late). The location (Zenith, Munich) was nice, though the organisation (especially the coat check) could certainly improve a bit. All in all, it was a good concert and a nice evening, but it could have rocked (not sure that’s the word) a bit more …
Check out his new album.
… would be a good and short way to describe my latest addition in hobbies:
Consecutive Number Plate Spotting.
As it’s always with these addictive things, I’ve been introduced to it by a good old friend of mine (thanks Carsten) and you can get hooked in different degrees of addiction. When practiced just on the side, it can actually be quite fun :)
And why am I writing about it now, even though I started already in August 2015. Good question! It’s because I combined my new hobby with some of my long-standing ones … coding and numbers :)
You are hereby kindly invited to join the spotting club and track and compare your count!
Of course, I will add some stats later on :)
