August 2013

Developing software tools for nuclear spectroscopy

I was born in Bratislava. I'm currently student of Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies of Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. I love sports, especially Wing Chun, the martial art that I train, weight lifting, swimming but many…

A biochemist at CERN.

How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? My dad is a nuclear physicist collaborating with a group in CERN from the time I remember. Hence I was hearing a lot about CERN, Geneva, the lake and the beautiful mountains around from…

Summer Students of 2013 Ask 'What's the Matter?

What is your previous background? Most of what I had learned about the physics at CERN, the LHC in particular, was only from a project for a single class. My research back home focused on lower energy nuclear physics, since I work under…

A unique oportunity of approaching experimental physics

My name is Miguel Campos and I come from Chile. I am a Master student in high energy physics and my area of interest and research has always been theoretical physics. I received an email from the secretariat of my university at the…

Sketching the Higgs boson decay channel.

I’m in an engineering school, but on top of that I would like to study particle physics!’ ‘Then you should apply for the CERN Summer Student Program’ said Etienne Klein, who also studied in the Ecole Centrale Paris and finally became a physicist…

Crossing the borders on the Y bus

In the autumn 2011 I won a physics competition among the students at Copenhagen University. The award was a four-day tour to Norway at a particle physics conference, nicely combined with skiing vacation. The tour was in January during the second…

Searching for the Higgs with CMS

I am a student from China. I first saw the information of the CERN summer student program in my university’s website. Since some of my teachers and my fellow students who had helped me with my bachelor’s thesis have worked or are working at CERN…

Searching for SUSY with ATLAS

I am a master student in Nanjing University, China. My major is in high energy physics. I worked both at Nanjing University and IHEP. There I got some basic knowledge and skills for HEP experiment, such as quantum field theory and …

Working on detector technologies

I am a summer student in the PH/DT department at CERN. I was informed for the summer student programme from my colleagues in the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and decided to apply for a place. I had heard that…

CERN, No Longer Just a Dream

Gazing up into the dark night sky, dappled with countless shimmering stars, I cannot help but feel mystified and captivated as the thought of the Universe runs through my mind. Why is the Universe the way it is? What gave rise to it all? The…

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