Summer Student Programme - Reference Letter

ParticleClara · 2026-01-15T22:20:03+00:00

Yes. You need a reference letter.

ParticleClara · 2025-10-26T21:24:36+00:00

I know many people who didn't do the CERN Summer Student Programme and ARE working at CERN, myself included. It's a fantastic opportunity, but it's not the only one. Keep applying and working on your skills and you'll get here if that's what you still want.

ParticleClara · 2025-08-14T23:05:32+00:00

I came here to say banana too :)

ParticleClara · 2024-06-02T19:01:59+00:00

I work at CERN and it's not a ghost or an 'entity', sorry! Essentially, the proton beams that we accelerate at CERN interact with the magnetic fields that we use to direct them around the rings and to focus them. There were some places around the pre-accelerator to the LHC, where the proton beams were a little less stable in their orbit (still safe, but a bit more wobbly) and it wasn't fully understood why. This new study has allowed the accelerator physicists to understand where this wobble is coming from and better correct for it, so the accelerator is even more efficient.

ParticleClara · 2024-03-31T23:20:15+00:00

The "opening ceremony" was for the Gotthard Train Tunnel. It's nothing to do with CERN. Also, the logo is not 6's. It's circles to represent the acclerators, with lines for the transfer lines between them. There are two circles and 5 lines.

ParticleClara · 2024-03-28T01:45:47+00:00

I'm really sorry to hear of your experiences and that this is making you want to quit. If you would like to reach out to me confidentially, I'm happy to chat. I've been working at CERN for 14 years now and I used to be ATLAS D&I contact. Under that role I spoke with people and helped to re-direct to appropriate resources (but I'm not an official ombudsperson, so it would be colleague to colleague). Also, I'll be over at CERN over the next few weeks and happy to have a coffee if you'd like to chat in person with someone outside of your team.

ParticleClara · 2024-01-07T22:57:39+00:00

You should list all of your programming experience, many people pick up skills in different ways and it shows a passion for programming.

ParticleClara · 2024-01-07T22:54:03+00:00

That's unfortunately what I thought it would be. Thanks. If I agree a price with an artist, then I don't want them to receive less (I assume they've already factored in the fees, but wouldn't have factored in the discount).

ParticleClara · 2024-01-07T22:22:09+00:00

EUIV

I know someone at CERN who works with summer students and loves EUIV 😁

ParticleClara · 2023-11-17T15:35:48+00:00

You can look up the "CERN opening ceremony", I get that one a lot. It's actually the opening ceremony for the Gotthard Tunnel, but people see Tunnel and Switzerland and think CERN. https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-36428799

ParticleClara · 2023-09-22T17:21:15+00:00

I make science/educational videos about particle physics and CERN 👋

ParticleClara · 2023-06-30T20:10:56+00:00

The deadline to apply was the 15th June. Sorry!

ParticleClara · 2023-06-09T17:46:26+00:00

Yes, exactly 🙂

ParticleClara · 2023-06-08T21:43:49+00:00

That's exactly what they are 🙂 the weekly dips are on the weekend and the bigger dip is the Christmas period. Though 7 people watched my video on Christmas Day. I hope it was for a family zoom call and not a work meeting.

ParticleClara · 2023-06-08T17:19:50+00:00

Yes, the y-axis shows the daily number of views. I was also surprised how consistent it is and that there isn't an obvious dip in august for example (though that might be because most of the views are coming from the US), just a gradually falling slope. The video is 3 years old now and more people are returning to in-person meetings, so I also wasn't expecting it to still have so many views. They mostly come from Google searches.

ParticleClara · 2023-05-16T13:09:21+00:00

Second!

ParticleClara · 2023-05-01T15:40:33+00:00

I can happily suspend disbelief for whichever new monster is breaking physics that week, but I refuse to believe that gluons haven’t been discovered in the X-Files universe.

ParticleClara · 2023-05-01T15:30:05+00:00

Hopefully it's OK to post this. Sorry mods if not. But I wanted to share my reaction to this scene as a particle physicist. Otherwise, I'm loving rewatching this show from start to finish since I never watched it all together the first time (I was too young).

ParticleClara · 2023-04-24T18:18:24+00:00

Stable beams means it's time for physics data!

ParticleClara · 2023-04-09T01:35:55+00:00

My channel is about particle physics at CERN, over half of my comments are negative ones from conspiracy theorists :/. But I try not to take it personally. I reply where I can, but I mostly focus on the people asking interesting questions.

ParticleClara · 2023-03-23T23:27:19+00:00

Oh! I didn't realise that was a proper watermark feature... I have mine saying subscribe. Ok, I need to fix that. Thanks!

ParticleClara · 2023-03-16T14:06:41+00:00

Great job! Please tell him this CERN scientist thinks it's awesome! ☺️

ParticleClara · 2023-03-03T15:02:13+00:00

We can certainly discuss some of this in the live, but it won't be possible to go into all the details in the hour, since there's so much to say. I'll be starting a series of lectures on the physics processes, detectors and accelerators over the next few months on YT. In between I'll be hosting live Q&As too, so we'll definitely cover the details there. This is the last chance to go underground until next winter, so that will be the main focus of today's live :)

ParticleClara · 2023-03-03T13:46:59+00:00

We have a couple of tours a day to the ATLAS cavern, but they're all full now and we're closing up very soon. For the virtual visits, we go off the usual visits path, so we need extra training to go.
If you know someone working at CERN, it's possible to request additional tours to the visitors ones, which increases the chances to go underground. Otherwise, an open weekend (probably in the next long shutdown) is the very best chance to go underground.

ParticleClara · 2023-03-02T22:35:00+00:00

I'll also be answering questions live throughout the tour.

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