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Photo a day: the great whiteboard experiment, part 3
We have (apparently) successfully generated a fully interactive whiteboard surface right on a wall, using only a can of speciality paint. As you can see, having such a surface IMMEDIATELY led to a...
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Photo a day: normal conducting
A heap of high-current, normal-conducting cables lies in a waste bin by the side of the road at CERN. 10 points to any former students of mine who can explain with mathematics why high-current cables...
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Photo a day: The ATLAS Detector 1
Behold! The ATLAS Experiment! Many thanks to James Saxon (University of Pennsylvania) for arranging this tour for ATLAS physicists! Here, we see the endcap toroid magnet in the center of the photo,...
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Photo a day: The ATLAS Detector 2
A different view of the ATLAS Experiment, taken more from the end of the tour walkway. You can see more components now on the end of the ATLAS detector, and the tour group on the left for scale.
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Photo a day: no, seriously, we were in the ATLAS cavern
From left to right: myself, Aidan Randle-Conde, and Tingting Cao. Thanks to Sven Kreiss (NYU) for taking the photo of us on Aidan’s camera, and thanks to Aidan for having an awesome camera.
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Photo a day: the weather
The weather has been crazy lately, vacillating between freezing and above-freezing; between blue skies, pouring rain, dark gray skies, and intense snowfall.
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Photo a day: drone over CERN
After an art and science workshop today at CERN, the photographer showed off his camera drone. He’s controlling it with his iPad. I think a bunch of us died and went to nerd heaven. YouTube Videos...
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Atop the world
This weekend, a few of us took a break from summer lectures, physics analysis, and meetings (oh, the endless meetings!), and had an outing to Mount Blanc. Towering above the Chamonix Valley, this...
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The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2013: The Mechanism of the Origin of Mass
This post originally appeared in Stephen Sekula’s blog, “Going Up Alleys,” and is reproduced here by the author. An image of a Higgs Boson candidate captured by the ATLAS Detector at CERN. The 2013...
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