Category: Newsletter
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Meeting with ALiBaVa
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 school would a very good opportunity
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Online monitoring for LHCb detector
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 in London as
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An astronomer at CERN.
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 never really before considered particle physics as an
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Working with FPGAs in the ESE group
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 and engineering fields. After high school I enrolled in the
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Developing software tools for nuclear spectroscopy
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 other sports as well. I like to hang out with my
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A biochemist at CERN.
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 my childhood. But it never came
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Summer Students of 2013 Ask ‘What’s the Matter?
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 the Nuclear Engineering department.
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A unique oportunity of approaching experimental physics
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 beginning of the year explaining
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Sketching the Higgs boson decay channel.
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 and a philosopher as a result
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Crossing the borders on the Y bus
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 year of my studies. The winter came