Barcelona
Hola! Okay a bit clichéd but whatever, I just got back from Barcelona! This was the first real vacation I have taken since coming to Caltech where I didn’t... Read more.
VIP visit to Point 5
Eight weeks down, two weeks to go. Our time here at CERN is coming to an end and I am rushing to wrap up all of my work and document it. Even when one is piled up... Read more.
Flying and Shaking
So this weekend I spent most of my time inside working, especially since there was a torrential downpour in Geneva. I went out to buy a bunch of chocolate early... Read more.
Night Hike at Salève
This past Thursday was one spectacularly exciting and eventful day filled with plenty of adventure and heroic feats. It all started when Cedric and I decided to... Read more.
Basel
It is now the end of the weekend and it did not go quite as planned but was eventful nonetheless. My original plan was to go to Lyon and then go to the beach but... Read more.
LEIR/LINAC
This week has been incredibly productive and we are only half way through the week. We had a typical college student dilemma the other night. We have been staying... Read more.
New Car
It is Saturday but I am going back into work today at CERN to see if I can fix a few bugs in my code and straighten everything out for the work week. I am trying... Read more.
Hi again
This weekend has been pretty eventful. I made a decent amount of progress on work and got to tour around most of Lake Geneva over the past two days. My roommates... Read more.
Fête Nationale…
Welp the weekend is over and honestly, not much happened in terms of wild and crazy adventures.. I had to get a bunch of work done for a presentation I am giving... Read more.
CMS Week
Hi everyone, This week has been super eventful with tons of work. It was CMS Week so a bunch of meetings and presentations were going on all over the place focusing... Read more.
Happy Higgs Day at ATLAS
Hi everyone, We are reaching the end of our second week of work. I completely forgot that today was the 4th of July for Independence Day seeing that the new celebration... Read more.
Le Reculet
Hey guys, The weekend is now winding its way down in France. The weather has been pretty interesting here. By interesting I mean that it has been raining which is... Read more.
Let the projects commence
We’ve touched down in Geneva and have now made it through our first week at CERN. I am living with two other Caltech students this year, Chi Chi and Cedric,... Read more.
Return to CERN
Hi everyone, my name is Valère and I am a rising senior working with the High Energy Physics group at Caltech. Last summer I wrote about my first experiences at... Read more.
European Nuclear Physics Conference
Hi all, So I am currently finishing my last night in Bucharest and in Europe in general. Finally after 13 weeks I will be returning to the US. This week I have been... Read more.
Cambridge
Hi all! Since I left Paris I have been visiting Cambridge, sort of as a college visit and somewhat as just a chance to see the UK. It has been pretty fun getting... Read more.
Marché aux Puces
This weekend I pretty much kept to the same theme of walking through forests and eating, my typical vacation schedule. It’s actually pretty entertaining since... Read more.
Fireworks and Ferries
Hello, This was our last weekend here at CERN, therefore we found it fitting to announce the beginning of the end with fireworks! Our house and the people from our... Read more.
Sur le pont d’Avignon
So I don’t know about everybody else but I definitely danced there … This weekend Lisa and I went to Avignon, to old Papal city in the south of France.... Read more.
Zürich Street Parade
This weekend I went to Zurich to see ETH Zurich for grad school, and of course because one of the largest techno parades was happening. It was pretty funny because... Read more.
Sampling Monte Carlo
The city was very pretty but fairly hot and humid, at least in comparison to the Geneva area and San Diego, where I’m from. Still, it was probably the best... Read more.
Thank Goodness for Radiation
So this week has actually beem cool from the stand point that I actually learned real world applications of particle physics. 😀 For those of you who find the... Read more.
From Geneva to Genova
This weekend I added one more country to my list of places seen … Italy! While Max and Alex went to my home region of Paris, Lisa and I headed down south to... Read more.
So much chocolate, so much happiness!
Hi guys, So this weekend I kind of split off from my three housemates who were going to Munich so that I could explore a little bit of Switzerland. I ended up going... Read more.
Fête Nationale!
So this past Saturday was the 14th of July which is Fête Nationale in France, basically the equivalent of the 4th of July in France, as it marks the anniversary... Read more.
Heidelberg
Hey everyone! So with the end of the second week we all decided that it was time to explore a bit of Germany. All four of us bought Eurail passes so Alex went to... Read more.
A New Candidate Boson!
So … it turns out that my last post was actually put up after the whole Higgs thing happened on Wednesday and this one will probably be posted even later.... Read more.
First week
I am pretty excited to say that I have finished my first week here at CERN. I spent most of this week filling out paperwork, attending meetings and trying to write... Read more.
