Patatrack Hackathons 7th edition. Working hard having fun
Guest Post by Felice Pantaleo - CERN
Patatrack Hackathon's group, 7th edition. Picture credit: Felice Pantaleo
One unforgettable week with Nobel laureates
Guest post by Nadezda Chernyavskaya - ETH Zurich
Bavarian Evening at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings - Picture Credit: Christian Flemming
Subatomic Desire at CMS
Les Atomes Dansants at CMS experimental site
Many philosophers thought that the Desire is the driving force of the world, on both microscopic and macroscopic scales. The same Desire that moves scientists in their demanding and endless quest after knowledge.
SURATÓMICA
Guest post by Daniela Brill Estrada
Finding the Higgs boson within minutes in the cloud
Guest post by Clemens Lange
Lukas Heinrich presenting the keynote. In the background, you can see the Higgs boson mass peak emerge from the background in simulation and data as the jobs running in the cloud are completing.
There’s No Such Thing as a Fish… At CERN
Guest post by James Gillies
Left to right: James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, Dan Schreiber and Andrew Hunter Murray, collectively the QI Elves, pose for selfies at CMS. Their guide, CMS physicist Dave Barney, is on the far left.
On Friday 31 May, some of the writing team behind the cult UK TV panel show, QI, visited CERN to find inspiration before a live show in Geneva that night.
Day-to-day life in the CMS control room
Guest post by Andrea Massironi and Shervin Nourbakhsh
CMS has just completed four years of data collection. During this period, all groups within the CMS collaboration contributed to the operation of the detector.
Summer, particle physics, and deep learning
By Vitória Barin Pacela
Friends, BBQs and the Universe
By Joshua Beirer
As a physicist in my early career, I felt incredibly happy when I was informed last March that I was selected as a future participant of the highly selective and renowned Summer Student Programme at CERN. At that time, I already had worked within the ATLAS Collaboration for the scope of my Bachelor’s thesis, but I had never actually worked in situ.
A dream come true
By Ann Njeri
Ann Njeri at CERN. (Image: CERN)
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