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Girls, at CERN – loads of ’em! 26 Aug 2013 | 02:09 am
My pal got chatting to a drunk fella in a bar in Oxford a few weeks before he started a new job at CERN. When he mentioned the identity of his future employer, the drunk fella guffawed with a “well yo...
The International Linear Collider: More than Just a Higgs Factory 23 Aug 2013 | 11:06 am
The ILC site has been chosen. What does this mean for Japan? The two ILC candidate sites: Sefuri in the South and Kitakami in the North. Credit: linearcollider.org Hi Folks, It is official [Japanes...
Visiting my high school in Arkansas 22 Aug 2013 | 01:27 am
This week I will be going to visit my high school in Arkansas. It was 20 years ago that the school first opened its doors and I was part of that Charter class. The Arkansas School for Mathematics, S...
At Fermilab, National Accelerator is our middle name 22 Aug 2013 | 12:03 am
This article appeared in Fermilab Today on Aug. 21, 2013. Craig Hogan Craig Hogan, head of the Center for Particle Astrophysics, wrote this column. Everyone knows that Fermilab builds accelerators,...
Can String Theory predict stuff? 21 Aug 2013 | 01:18 am
What’s the deal with string theory? Why do people claim string theory is nonsense? Can we predict anything with it? As a theorist with too many experimental friends, these questions are thrown at me a...
A fresh look for the standard model 20 Aug 2013 | 01:27 am
(Note: This is an updated version of a post that I originally made on my personal website theoryandpractice.org.) Recently I’ve been more involved in communication, education, and outreach activities...
Mother-hunting at CERN 19 Aug 2013 | 01:44 am
The CERN Summer Student Webfest 2013 was held at CERN during the first weekend of August. The objective of the weekend was for student web enthusiasts to work together in teams to design web-based app...
Confessions of a CERN summer student 12 Aug 2013 | 02:53 am
This post focuses on the social aspects of life on the CERN Student Summer Programme. Gathering hundreds of 20-somethings from around the globe and plonking them in Switzerland is inevitably going to ...
The Take Away Message of Snowmass on the Mississippi 9 Aug 2013 | 08:28 pm
Snowmass Came and Passed. What have we learned from it? Skyline of Minneapolis, home of the University of Minnesota and host city of the Community Summer Study 2013: Snowmass on the Mississippi. Hi ...
Notre Univers est le vôtre 9 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Les 28 et 29 septembre de 9h00 à 20h00, le CERN ouvrira encore une fois ses portes au grand public. Ce sera l’occasion de visiter des dizaines de montages expérimentaux et de découvrir le plus grand l...
