Category Archives: Travel

Mile End Road

Posted on 04/01/2019 by Jon Butterworth

I spent most of the past two days in the “Arts 2” building of Queen Mary University of London, on Mile End Road. According to Wikipedia, Mile End was one of the earliest suburbs of London, recorded in 1288 as … Continue reading →

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Boosting boost

Posted on 09/10/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Regular readers (hello!) will know that the topics of jet substructure, boosted objects and the annual Boost meeting often feature here, because I work on them and they are interesting and important for physics at the Large Hadron Collider (and … Continue reading →

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The Oval, Hull, ExCel and CERN

Posted on 29/09/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Talking about particle physics is very audience-dependent A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk – “Scientific Section Presidential Address“, in fact – at the British Science Festival in Hull. I’ve just been sent links to a write-up (in … Continue reading →

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Geneva Monopoly

Posted on 01/09/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Just returned from a couple of weeks at CERN. Saw this in Geneva and had to buy it – you can probably tell why.

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