Archive for January, 2011

CERN LAPTOP REGISTRATION

Monday, January 31st, 2011

You need to register your laptop with CERN before you can use the internet there. Click the ‘Register Portable’ option on the following link and fill up the form:
www.cern.ch/network
If you have any technical problems, email: computing.helpdesk@cern.ch

French literature books -good deal

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

Payot (which is a stop away on the 16 tram on the way to Uni Mail or CERN) is having this deal of 4 folio books for 10 Francs. It’s an amazing deal, I already got 4 books. So if you want to read French, or if you are in love with Russian translated literature like I am, I think that you seriously need to check it out!

Meeting at CERN

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Where: CERN: Restaurant 1 @ 10h

CMS visit

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Visit of the CMS underground facilities with Prof. Sulak.

How to get there: 13h05 take Bus F, NE corner Gare Cornavin (opposite la Poste) to Segny.

CMSAEP lecture

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Who: Prof. Arno Heister

Room: CERN 354-1-016

Lecture material is available from here. The CMSSW root files are located here.

Please bring your laptop.

Homework presentations: t.b.d.

CMSAEP lecture – Introduction to ATLAS and CMS

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Who: Prof. Arno Heister

Room: CERN: 28-S-029

Preparation for the CMS P5 visit on Wednesday: Introduction to the Large Hadron Collider with examples from ATLAS and CMS (Slides in Quicktime format) Use your buphy login to download the files. (In case you do not have a login please ask Guoan Hu.)

Please bring your laptop.

Homework:

  • CMS event display: Install on your computer or lxplus Fireworks.The instructions can be found here. (In case you cannot access the CMS internal pages look here).
  • Challenging: What is a gauge theorie? i.e. why/what makes classical electrodynamics is a gauge theorie?

Revolution: Particle Physics

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Conversation/lecture with Dr. Chris Quigg, noted Fermilab theorist, co-author: “the Higgs Hunter’s Guide”.

ATLAS visit

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Details given here.

Introduction to ATLAS

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Who: Prof. Kevin Black

Where: CERN, Bat.60