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.
Guest post by Daniela Brill Estrada
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.
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.
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.
By Vitória Barin Pacela
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.
By Ann Njeri
Ann Njeri at CERN. (Image: CERN)
By Gaia Grosso
My name is Gaia and I have joined the CMS collaboration for three months as Summer Student at CERN. I completed my Bachelor in Physics in 2017 at the University of Padua and I am now attending a Master in Physics at the same institution. I had a great opportunity to take part in research work related to the use of machine learning to develop new statistical tools for detecting signals in particle physics.
by Kathryn Coldham
This summer, I had the extraordinary opportunity of being a CERN Summer Student. I was ecstatic when my CERN Summer School application had been accepted; I could not wait to contribute to cutting-edge research, attend the world-class Summer Student lectures, visit various CERN sites and meet people from around the world!
For the placement I worked alongside CERN intern Agustina Quesada, supervised by Dave Barney, EP-CMX group leader.
