Category: Newsletter
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10th PATRAS Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs
10th PATRAS Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs The first PATRAS Workshop took place at CERN in 2005. Last July, it returned to CERN for its tenth anniversary. The initial aim of this series of workshops was to provide academic training to the new generations of scientists working within the EU – ILIAS network, which
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Maria Bader: Studying the mass spectra of particles
Maria Bader: Studying the mass spectra of particles It is without any doubt every particle physicist’s dream to be involved in a project at CERN. And my dream just came true. My name is Maria Bader and I’m from Germany. Currently, I’m pursuing a Master’s degree in Experimental Physics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands
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CERN: a new homeplace for Mohamad Tahawi
CERN: a new homeplace for Mohamad Tahawi A couple of years ago, I couldn’t imagine that one day I would be at CERN. It all started in the end of 2013. I met a former CERN summer student through an online course we were taking together. During our studying sessions we used to have breaks
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Usman Amin Fiaz
Usman Amin Fiaz I am Usman Amin Fiaz, an undergraduate student of Electrical Engineering (Final year) at Pakistan Institute of engineering and applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad, Pakistan. My dream of visiting CERN started in back in 2012, following the discovery of the Higgs boson. Then I read more about the largest particle accelerator facility in
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Brian Thorsbro: from science fiction to scientific data
Brian Thorsbro: from science fiction to scientific data Hi, I am Brian Thorsbro and I am a summer student at CERN year 2014. I work at the Alice experiment and my work involves Monte Carlo simulations of particle collisions. Most Monte Carlo generators export the generated data to the format called HepMC and my task
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Matthew Quenneville: from Canada to CERN
Matthew Quenneville: from Canada to CERN I am Matthew Quenneville and I am an undergraduate studying Mathematical Physics at Simon Fraser University, near Vancouver, Canada. I heard about the programme, through a student who worked here last summer, and I decided to apply! My time at CERN has been an experience that I will never
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Stathis Megas: a summer at the front of HEP research
Stathis Megas: a summer at the front of HEP research I am a physics student at the university of Athens specialising in High Energy Particle Physics. Studying mathematics and physics, in addition to what is needed to carry on my projects (either here at CERN or back at UoA), is a big part of my
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Bagus Hanindhito
Bagus Hanindhito Working day-to-day in the biggest particle physics laboratory in the world is just awesome. At first, I think that I fall into the deepest of my daydream. But then, I realize that it is real just when a door in building 304 hit me. I can see the famous, Globe of Science and
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Katrin Kroeger: studying jets with ATLAS
Katrin Kroeger: studying jets with ATLAS I am Katrin Kroeger from Germany and I have recently obtained my Bachelor of Science in Physics at the University of Goettingen. During this summer I am participating for nine weeks in the CERN summer student programme. I decided to apply for the programme when some of my friends
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Florian M. Brunbauer
Florian M. Brunbauer Working in a great team on a fun and interesting project, while hearing lectures about various fields of physics and engineering from renown experts and visiting the world’s most advanced high energy physics experiments – a perfect recipe for an unforgettable summer! I arrived in late June unsure what my actual project