August 2013

Searching for degenerate Higgs bosons

How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? The first time I heard about CERN was when I was in high school (2007- 2010). I remember thinking: "I want to go there someday." After high school I continued studying physics in the…

Nine o'clock in the morning

Nine in the morning, the courses in the University of Buenos Aires were up to start but I needed a few more minutes for myself. I took a seat in the cafeteria of pavillion 1 and grabbed a booklet which often appears in the tables of the faculty, a…

Riding on our bikes to CERN!

When we heard that we were accepted to CERN's summer students programme we decide to ride on our bikes to Geneva. The trip from Sweden has been a long one since we had to cover around 2000km but luckily the weather was nice for most part of the road…

Static analysis: software analyzes software

How did you decide to apply for the programme? I attended a lecture introducing university students in Prague to CERN student programmes including the Summer Student Programme. I had heard some rumours about CERN and it seemed very interesting from…

Keep the CERN smile on!

How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? I first heard about CERN's summer student programme a few years ago while looking for interesting opportunities for a summer research project. Later, I discussed about CERN's summer…

My summer at CERN

How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? I was looking for an internship and heard by chance about the summer student program. It sounded great thus I decided to apply. What is your previous background? I just…

Meeting with ALiBaVa

From my professor at the University of Bonn in Germany I learned about the possibility of spending my summer as a summer student at CERN. I had at this time just begun working on my bachelor's thesis on a physics analysis. I thought the CERN summer…

Online monitoring for LHCb detector

How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? I heard about the summer student programme at CERN already some years ago and I also saw a poster in my home university in Erlangen. From October '11 to June '12 I was at Imperial College…

An astronomer at CERN.

I first heard about the programme after a visit to our university by Emmanuel Tsesmelis, who is one of the international liasons for CERN - to the Asia-Pacific region. He visited my home university in New Zealand and lectured there. Well, I had…

Working with FPGAs in the ESE group

I first learned about CERN during high school, when I participated in a visit to CERN organized by my physics class. During the subsequent years, I became amazed by the huge contribution of CERN into both computing science…

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