August 4, 2010This was originally posted in the SMU CERN blog (http://blog.smu.edu/smucern). It’s reproduced here because I am the author! On the night of my last ATLAS night shift, I recorded some of the more interesting parts of getting from my temporary home in Carouge (south of downtown Geneva) to CERN. The photos and movie below tell [...]
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July 15, 2010This was originally posted in the SMU CERN blog (http://blog.smu.edu/smucern). It’s reproduced here because I am the author! 10:45 p.m., a cluster of massive buildings marking the location of the Point 1 Control Room for the ATLAS Experiment. ATLAS is itself 90 meters below the earth. It’s 10:40 p.m. when I leave building 1, cut [...]
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July 12, 2010This was originally posted in the SMU CERN blog (http://blog.smu.edu/smucern). It’s reproduced here because I am the author! What DOES a professor do during the summer months? I found it amusing – and, to be fair, a bit reminiscent of my own beliefs when I was a student – that several undergraduates at SMU thought [...]
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July 11, 2010This was originally posted in the SMU CERN blog (http://blog.smu.edu/smucern). It’s reproduced here because I am the author! I made some promises to myself for the summer: not too much eating out, regular food shopping, and home-cooked meals. Switzerland and France are expensive places; for instance, a shopping bag containing some vegetables (a few peppers [...]
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June 17, 2010This was originally posted in the SMU CERN blog (http://blog.smu.edu/smucern). It’s reproduced here because I am the author! Physicists seem to have a reputation, self-made or otherwise, for discussing physics on writing surfaces that are . . . less than typical. The most common phrase for a quick, short, but somewhat accurate calculation is a [...]
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June 14, 2010The following were originally published on the SMU CERN blog (http://blog.smu.edu/smucern/) [1] [2] and are re-printed here because I am the author. Stumbling upon CERN Particle physics is not about traveling, although you tend to travel a lot in this business. It is not about speaking foreign languages or learning foreign customs, although collaboration with [...]
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June 10, 2010It’s the last two days before I leave for CERN. The next six weeks will be an all-out science-packed physics-fest. A few key events have started happening just in the past few weeks which have me very excited about this summer. Despite being very tired, and feeling very drained, I am actually quite thrilled about [...]
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May 21, 2010(Photos from day four) Our last full day of the trip began with a drive up the peninsula’s scenic highway, 280, to highway 1, and then just shy of the Golden Gate Bridge. Construction routed us away from the usual exit and instead up a scenic road overlooking the Pacific and the mouth of the [...]
May 21, 2010(Photos from day two) The last two days were extremely busy. Tuesday began with breakfast at Izzy’s Bagels again (by popular demand), and then we took some rest before piling into the van and heading to a few stops. The first was Eric’s Gourmet, a great little sandwich shop right near SLAC and a SLAC [...]
May 18, 2010We met for breakfast at Izzy’s Brooklyn Bagels at 10am, and fueled up for our first day here in the Bay Area. After a short walk back to the hotel, we piled in the giant van we’ve rented for this trip and, in the cold drizzling rain, took a short driving tour of Stanford University [...]
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Steve Sekula is an Assistant Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at Southern Methodist University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004, and currently works on the BaBar Experiment at SLAC and the ATLAS Experiment at CERN.
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