Category: Newsletter
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Simulating the deexcitation of (anti)hydrogen
Simulating the deexcitation of (anti)hydrogen I’m a Masters student in Physics and Astronomy from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and this autumn I will start my last year of studies. I have been working with the ASACUSA group, with Chloe Malbrunot as supervisor, simulating the deexcitation of (anti)hydrogen. How did you decide to apply for
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ATLAS: discovering a giant
ATLAS: discovering a giant How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? The first time I heard about this summer student was… at CERN ! I came here to visit some experiments with my University and I learned that there is this amazing opportunity to spend two months studying and working at
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CERN: An ideal place for research
CERN: An ideal place for research I am working as a research assistant at the Egyptian center of Theoretical physics. My supervisor in Egypt is the team leader of an associate member group in ALICE. We are very interested to enhance our group by a new trained people to work with ALICE collaboration, and I
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Summer Student at CERN: An amazing opportunity
Summer Student at CERN: An amazing opportunity How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? Hans Danielsson who works at CERN had a presentation during my third year at my university and meantioned this program. I had already thought about applying as a technical student for my master thesis. So when I
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Artificial L. Intelligence C. E.
Artificial L. Intelligence C. E. My name is Ioannis Kiaras, I am a Computer Scientist specialised in Artificial Intelligence and I received my bachelors degree from the University of Hertfordshire/IST Campus in Athens. My thesis project was to create an Artificial Neural Network that would be able to classify if the next day's closing price
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A summer of…chasing electrons
A summer of…chasing electrons I had heard about the CERN summer student program many years ago when a relative of mine was working here as summer student. This winter I was in my third year of Engineering Physics in Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland) and CERN was advertised in our university. I had no plans for
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An Olympic winner at CERN!
An Olympic winner at CERN! I am a physics/astrophysics student at The University of Manchester. I also did a year in exchange at National University of Singapore this year. My background also contains 12 National Olympiads in 4 different scientific fields (one of them being Astronomy, where I won a 3rd prize) in my home
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Working with Gas Chromatographs
Working with Gas Chromatographs I am Meera Al Mehairi, a Mechanical – Nuclear Engineering undergrad from Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates. In CERN , I’m working in PH-DT department under the supervision of Dr. Roberto Guida. At the beginning I had some handouts and research papers which discuss particle detectors and gas analysis in details.
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Working on a “cool”-ing project for detectors
Working on a "cool"-ing project for detectors My name is Kaltham Tahnon. I study at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. I applied for the summer student programme through my scholarship ENEC (Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation). Eight students were chosen by the scholarship as candidates to the program but
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Can a summer be better?
Can a summer be better? CERN: A dream for every physicist, every student, since the day he/she starts learning about the basics of Science. The world is a game of Physics and it wouldn’t be wrong to say CERN has played a pivotal role in making understand this game to all. My dad is a