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Category Archives: Travel
Your mileage may vary
The corona-cancellation of travel, for both work and holiday, at least means I’m making some progress on a long-standing “to do” list. I’m fortunate; we have a loft space where I can work, and my kids are old enough to … Continue reading
Posted in Physics, Science, Travel, Writing
Tagged books, Boost, Coronavirus, Cosmic Shambles, EPSHEP, Les Houches, Postcards from the Energy Frontier, Standard Model
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Things beginning with P
I occasionally get asked, since the LHC is not currently providing collisions, what we’re actually doing now. Answers include Protons, Papers, Poppadoms, Preparation, Python, Pictures and Philip Pullman.
Posted in Arts, Particle Physics, Physics, Rambling, Science, Silly, Travel, Writing
Tagged A Map of the Invisible, CERN, Chris Wormell, LHC, LINAC4, Manchester, Philip Pullman, UCL
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Genoa and Atomlandia
I’m on the way back to London from Genoa now, after an enjoyable visit to the Festival della Scienza. I was giving a talk to help launch the Italian edition of Atom Land/A Map of the Invisible, (Atomlandia, published by … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, History, Physics, Science, Travel, Writing
Tagged A Map of the Invisible, Atom Land, brexit, Emmanuele Luzzati, Genoa, Hoepli, Monty Python, Quentin Blake
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Summer Highlights
One of the highlights of my summer was giving the “Highlights” talk at the end of the European Physical Society’s High Energy Physics meeting in Ghent. I wrote something about it here and here already, but today my write up of … Continue reading
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Travel
Tagged arXiv, CMS, cricket, dark matter, EPSHEP, Europe, Flavour, Ghent, gravitational waves, heavy ions, LHC, LHCb, Neutrinos, open data
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