Category: Newsletter
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Searching for the Higgs with CMS
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 I felt interested and
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Searching for SUSY with ATLAS
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 ROOT. I received the email of summer student program
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Working on detector technologies
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 it is a great experience and i was
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CERN, No Longer Just a Dream
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 Universe is so mysterious,
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From Feynman diagrams to histograms, experimental training for an aspirant theorist.
From Feynman diagrams to histograms, experimental training for an aspirant theorist. My name is Silvia, and I am the girl from the island. I come from a village in the south-west coast of Sardinia, where the starry sky in summer nights gave birth to my passion for physics. Then, like some of my friends love
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CERN: the pinnacle of science
CERN: the pinnacle of science I discovered the programme through my university in Cyprus. Being an undergraduate from an unknown university in a small country, I was surprised to be accepted, given the vast competition. I was therefore greatly excited and proud for this impressive opportunity. After all, I have always considered CERN to be
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From Particle Physics to Computational Biology
From Particle Physics to Computational Biology My name is Argyris Zardilis and I come from Lefkosia, the capital of Cyprus. For the last 3 years however I have been living in England doing my undergraduate degree in Computer Science at the University of Southampton(just graduated!). Normally you don't expect computer scientists to consider CERN. As
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VAMOS FUEGO! HAIDE FOC! IMOS LUME! ANDIAMO FOUCO! VAMOS FOGO! GREMO OGENJ!
VAMOS FUEGO! HAIDE FOC! IMOS LUME! ANDIAMO FOUCO! VAMOS FOGO! GREMO OGENJ! How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? I have seen an advertisement of the programme 1 year ago on facebook. I didn’t apply at that time but I promised myself that next year I am definetly applying. So here
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Remembering the great physics, the fun times and …vamos fuego!
Remembering the great physics, the fun times and …vamos fuego! How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? I first found out about it at University, more than a year ago while searching for Physics Summer Programs. I was in second year then and didn’t know much about Particle Physics. However, I
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Communicating Science
Communicating Science How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? I decided to apply for the summer student programme when I first heard a friend saying that her stay here had been the best time of her life. I’ve always looked forward to working in these kind of institutions where science overcomes