Category: Newsletter
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Summer Student at CERN: An amazing opportunity
Summer Student at CERN: An amazing opportunity How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? Hans Danielsson who works at CERN had a presentation during my third year at my university and meantioned this program. I had already thought about applying as a technical student for my master thesis. So when I
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Artificial L. Intelligence C. E.
Artificial L. Intelligence C. E. My name is Ioannis Kiaras, I am a Computer Scientist specialised in Artificial Intelligence and I received my bachelors degree from the University of Hertfordshire/IST Campus in Athens. My thesis project was to create an Artificial Neural Network that would be able to classify if the next day's closing price
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A summer of…chasing electrons
A summer of…chasing electrons I had heard about the CERN summer student program many years ago when a relative of mine was working here as summer student. This winter I was in my third year of Engineering Physics in Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland) and CERN was advertised in our university. I had no plans for
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An Olympic winner at CERN!
An Olympic winner at CERN! I am a physics/astrophysics student at The University of Manchester. I also did a year in exchange at National University of Singapore this year. My background also contains 12 National Olympiads in 4 different scientific fields (one of them being Astronomy, where I won a 3rd prize) in my home
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Working with Gas Chromatographs
Working with Gas Chromatographs I am Meera Al Mehairi, a Mechanical – Nuclear Engineering undergrad from Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates. In CERN , I’m working in PH-DT department under the supervision of Dr. Roberto Guida. At the beginning I had some handouts and research papers which discuss particle detectors and gas analysis in details.
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Working on a “cool”-ing project for detectors
Working on a "cool"-ing project for detectors My name is Kaltham Tahnon. I study at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. I applied for the summer student programme through my scholarship ENEC (Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation). Eight students were chosen by the scholarship as candidates to the program but
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Can a summer be better?
Can a summer be better? CERN: A dream for every physicist, every student, since the day he/she starts learning about the basics of Science. The world is a game of Physics and it wouldn’t be wrong to say CERN has played a pivotal role in making understand this game to all. My dad is a
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From Thailand to CERN
From Thailand to CERN How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? I have always wanted to explore the world. Studying abroad is the perfect choice since I can continue my study and see the world in parallel. CERN summer student programme was advertised in many universities across Thailand. Due to its
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Simulating a detector for iOS/Android devices.
Simulating a detector for iOS/Android devices. How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? I knew about CERN’s summer program long time ago. Actually, I was planning to apply for it last year. However, for a certain reason, I decided to apply for the CERN’s program in 2013. The HEP game team
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Search engines for metadata in ATLAS
Search engines for metadata in ATLAS How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? I was a DESY summer student last year(2012) and that’s when I first heard about the CERN summer student. It sounded like a great experience working at CERN and hence I decided to apply. What is your previous