Tag: August 2013
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Pushing analysis to the frontiers
Pushing analysis to the frontiers How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? I first heard about the program from a fellow student in the year above me who had applied for the program last year. After discussing it with a few of his friends who were previous summer students, I decided
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Upgrades studies for the ATLAS experiment: The search for SUSY
Upgrades studies for the ATLAS experiment: The search for SUSY How did you decide to apply for the summer student programme? I heard about the summer student programme through the Institue of Particle Physics (IPP) of Canada. I applied for the programme and was extremely excited when I got my offer. What is your previous
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A wonderful opportunity to start working in the field of HEP
A wonderful opportunity to start working in the field of HEP I had heard about CERN’s summer student programme in the Physics Department of my University. I discussed with some friends from my university who have previously been here as summer students. I thought this will be a precious experience and maybe important to my
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CERN: One of the “top” places for doing sciences
CERN: One of the "top" places for doing sciences The first day I came here I was thinking that CERN is a really scary place because it is one of the “top” places for doing science so it turns out to be a great place to study physics and provides a very friendly and intellectually
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Hunting the Higgs with CMS
Hunting 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 have helped me with my bachelor’s thesis have worked or are working at CERN. I felt interested in the
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The best summer of my life!
The best summer of my life! My stay at CERN was fantastic. I learnt about it through my institute and my supervisor in Pakistan. I am a physicist and I am working here under the supervision of Peiluigi Paolucci. My project title is "RPC chamber construction, commissioning of CERN RE4 RPC detectors and analysis of
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Summer Student at CERN: a life changing experience.
Summer Student at CERN: a life changing experience. Without doubt, it's every particle physicist's dream to be involved in some work at CERN. And my dream just came true. My name is Chilufya MWEWA and I'm from Zambia. Currently, I am pursuing a master's degree in experimental High Energy Physics (HEP) at the Unversity of
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From Robotics to CERN and back
From Robotics to CERN and back Let me introduce my self. I’m Imre Nagi, but you can call me Imre. I am an undergraduate student from Bandung Institute of Technology majoring Electrical Engineering (specialization in Control Engineering). Okay, it will be better if I answer all of your questions. But please note that my english
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Fluctuations and correlations in Heavy Ion collisions
Fluctuations and correlations in Heavy Ion collisions I am currently an undergraduate student at the University of Malta starting my final year in a combined degree in Mathematics and Physics. I am more interested in theoretical physics rather than experimental physics, although experiments are there to prove or rather more likely to disprove theories that
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Working in in the LHCb: the search for CP violation
Working in in the LHCb: the search for CP violation I am from China and stduy in the University of science and technology of China. Last year ,I saw the information about applying for summer students at CERN in the web of my university. My major is particle physic, so my supervisor and other teachers