au revoir Genève! I had a brilliant time at CERN. I could learn quite a lot and met a bunch of super-fun and fascinating people. My personal highlights included: after work editor-wars at R1, one student’s mum calling after seeing him on TV to tell him “you should shave”, one guy getting corrected on the […]
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CERN LHC: First beam(s)
Yesterday the 10th of September 2008 thus the CERN LHC had its start-up and the first beam(s) were successfully circulating. As I’m part of the ATLAS project this summer I was in the “first-row”when the first beams were injected. We watched the transmission from the CCC, inside CERN, in the main auditorium. This video captured […]
A picture I recently took at the CERN computing center of the world’s first web server: “This machine is a server DO NOT POWER DOWN!!“