Category: Newsletter
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Usman Amin Fiaz
Usman Amin Fiaz I am Usman Amin Fiaz, an undergraduate student of Electrical Engineering (Final year) at Pakistan Institute of engineering and applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad, Pakistan. My dream of visiting CERN started in back in 2012, following the discovery of the Higgs boson. Then I read more about the largest particle accelerator facility in
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Brian Thorsbro: from science fiction to scientific data
Brian Thorsbro: from science fiction to scientific data Hi, I am Brian Thorsbro and I am a summer student at CERN year 2014. I work at the Alice experiment and my work involves Monte Carlo simulations of particle collisions. Most Monte Carlo generators export the generated data to the format called HepMC and my task
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Matthew Quenneville: from Canada to CERN
Matthew Quenneville: from Canada to CERN I am Matthew Quenneville and I am an undergraduate studying Mathematical Physics at Simon Fraser University, near Vancouver, Canada. I heard about the programme, through a student who worked here last summer, and I decided to apply! My time at CERN has been an experience that I will never
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Stathis Megas: a summer at the front of HEP research
Stathis Megas: a summer at the front of HEP research I am a physics student at the university of Athens specialising in High Energy Particle Physics. Studying mathematics and physics, in addition to what is needed to carry on my projects (either here at CERN or back at UoA), is a big part of my
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Bagus Hanindhito
Bagus Hanindhito Working day-to-day in the biggest particle physics laboratory in the world is just awesome. At first, I think that I fall into the deepest of my daydream. But then, I realize that it is real just when a door in building 304 hit me. I can see the famous, Globe of Science and
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Katrin Kroeger: studying jets with ATLAS
Katrin Kroeger: studying jets with ATLAS I am Katrin Kroeger from Germany and I have recently obtained my Bachelor of Science in Physics at the University of Goettingen. During this summer I am participating for nine weeks in the CERN summer student programme. I decided to apply for the programme when some of my friends
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Florian M. Brunbauer
Florian M. Brunbauer Working in a great team on a fun and interesting project, while hearing lectures about various fields of physics and engineering from renown experts and visiting the world’s most advanced high energy physics experiments – a perfect recipe for an unforgettable summer! I arrived in late June unsure what my actual project
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Editorial – July 2014
Editorial – July 2014 Dear Colleagues, while the preparation for the Run 2 of the LHC experiments is progressing at full steam, the analysis of the Run 1 data has advanced on many fronts, as presented at the ICHEP conference in Valencia at the beginning of this month. Beyond the LHC, CERN has a rich
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The ELENA project
The ELENA project CERN has a longstanding tradition of pursuing fundamental physics on extreme low and high energy scales. The present physics knowledge is successfully described by the Standard Model and the General Relativity. In the anti-matter regime many predictions of this established theory still remain experimentally unverified and one of the most fundamental open
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Knowledge Transfer at CERN: from particle physics to everyday life
Knowledge Transfer at CERN: from particle physics to everyday life Technologies developed for HEP experiments have many applications in our daily lives. In the past 60 years, CERN has been one of the places where new technologies were developed to answer some of the fundamental questions of modern physics. These technologies that emerged from the