Category: Newsletter
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Mario D’Andrea
Mario D'Andrea Hello! My name is Mario. I am from Berkeley, California, and although I fell in love with physics many years ago, this is not why I wanted to come to CERN. Rather, I believe CERN represents humanity’s best future, not just for science but for our subjective human experience too. I believe this
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Juan Salvador Tafoya Vargas
Juan Salvador Tafoya Vargas
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Sabrina Milagros Zacarias
Sabrina Milagros Zacarias From South America (Argentina, in my case), Europe seems to be far away. Impossible-to-reach far away. Therefore, having the opportunity to spend the summer working at CERN was a dream coming true. The Summer Student program was perfectly build in order to understand the physics going on at CERN. Not only did
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Wendo Beuker
Wendo Beuker
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Raul Richard Stein
Raul Richard Stein My name is Raul Richard Stein and this is a scenic depiction of me jumping into a summer internship at CERN with a mere Bachelor’s degree in physics as my safety rope. I come from Estonia but completed my studies in the UK, at the University of York. Previously, I have focused
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Harshani Sri Hewa Pedige
Harshani Sri Hewa Pedige I am from Sri Lanka.This programme was great opportunity in my life.I got many friends from CERN. I worked in the GEM lab in the French side. My project was Preparing lecture presentation for new comers to GEM lab.In that project I learnt about GEM detectors which are constructed for next
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Kimara Naicker
Kimara Naicker It has been an unexplainable experience! As a physicist, this is the epitome, no place tops CERN – the ‘centre of scientific excellence’. This internship has developed me as a researcher and has allowed me to gain work experience which has taken me out of my comfort zone of being a student. I
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Mirza Basyir Bin Rodhuan
Mirza Basyir Bin Rodhuan I am Mirza, and I come from Malaysia. I am 3rd year student, take Applied Physics in my university. This is my first time out of my country. Yeah, quite challenging. Firstly I was surprised, be selected to go to CERN. I am actually an introvert person that don’t want to
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David Marques
David Marques Every year, the GDD Summer Students organize a lunch where every student cook something traditional from his country. This year we had the following countries represented: Portugal, China, Finland and Pakistan!
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Lia Formenti
Lia Formenti I recall asking myself if CERN has a summer student program, and searching on the internet to find the answer. I am so happy that applying to the programme finally lead me here! What I’ve learned is to appreciate how much work goes into every piece of equipment. I have been helping with