August 2013

Pushing analysis to the frontiers

How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? I first heard about the program from a fellow student in the year above me who had applied for the program last year. After discussing it with a few of his friends who were previous…

Upgrades studies for the ATLAS experiment: The search for SUSY

How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? I heard about the summer student programme through the Institue of Particle Physics (IPP) of Canada. I applied for the programme and was extremely excited when I got my offer.…

A wonderful opportunity to start working in the field of HEP

I had heard about CERN's summer student programme in the Physics Department of my University. I discussed with some friends from my university who have previously been here as summer students. I thought this will be a precious experience and…

CERN: One of the "top" places for doing sciences

The first day I came here I was thinking that CERN is a really scary place because it is one of the "top" places for doing science so it turns out to be a great place to study physics and provides a very friendly and intellectually stimulating…

Hunting 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 have helped me with my bachelor’s thesis have worked or are working at CERN. I…

The best summer of my life!

My stay at CERN was fantastic. I learnt about it through my institute and my supervisor in Pakistan. I am a physicist and I am working here under the supervision of Peiluigi Paolucci. My project title is "RPC chamber…

Summer Student at CERN: a life changing experience.

Without doubt, it's every particle physicist's dream to be involved in some work at CERN. And my dream just came true. My name is Chilufya MWEWA and I'm from Zambia. Currently, I am pursuing a master's degree in experimental…

From Robotics to CERN and back

Let me introduce my self. I'm Imre Nagi, but you can call me Imre. I am an undergraduate student from Bandung Institute of Technology majoring Electrical Engineering (specialization in Control Engineering). Okay, it will be better if I answer…

Fluctuations and correlations in Heavy Ion collisions

I am currently an undergraduate student at the University of Malta starting my final year in a combined degree in Mathematics and Physics. I am more interested in theoretical physics rather than experimental physics, although experiments are there…

Working in in the LHCb: the search for CP violation

I am from China and stduy in the University of science and technology of China. Last year ,I saw the information about applying for summer students at CERN in the web of my university. My major is particle physic, so my supervisor and other teachers…

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