Today was the day, I am going to CERN! The main focus for this visit was of course LHC. At that time, LHC was near to completion and brought up the hype of creating a black hole. We were visiting CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) in particular. We arrived quite early and have sufficient time to look around CERN. To much of my surprise, CERN was not a nerdy place that I thought, you just look at the activities that CERN had. It brings me into deep contemplation, individual and social development was just as important as scientific development.
This is it, building 500!
Activity boards.
During our trip to the CMS, we had some chat with Dr. Emmanuel Tsesmelis that had accompanied us during the entire CERN visit. He mentioned about they had made contact with Malaysia several years back, but they lost contact with the Malaysia representative and nothing was not followed up. From the presentation earlier by Dr. John Ellis, somehow Malaysia is missed from even the non-member states which includes Iran, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, etc. (Pakistan again, Malaysia knew about Lindau Meeting from Pakistan.) Another big disappointment for me.
On our way to CMS in France!
From Geneva, Switzerland to France was just a difference in road distance. We were greeted by Prof. Guido Tonelli and to CMS we go! We need to take a lift to visit the CMS underground experimental area, along the way Prof. Guido Tonelli gave us some information about CMS and its construction. According to him, we were very lucky because the CMS was just about to complete and therefore we got to see the inner structure of the CMS before it was closed and connected.
Prof. Guido Tonelli on the right.
If you didn’t see the CERN detector yourself, you will not understand how great the science is behind this LHC project. Even the photo cannot tell you how awesome the CMS detector is and this is just part of the LHC detector. Although I am not very interested in particle physics, but the passion to work with CERN grew very strong after my visit to this facility.
CMS and me.
Why? But they are so cute.
Later, Dr. Ian Bird gave us the introduction to the LHC Computing Grid project and how it is function. Computing Grid was the next generation computer network that provides supercomputing capability to support the enormous data collected by LHC. In simple terms, it connects all the participating computer centers and integrates into one giant supercomputing facility. The name Grid should gave some idea about how the computers work together, like a net.
The Grid.
We have a final meeting with Dr. John Ellis and Dr. Emmanuel Tsesmaelis, together with a Malaysian student. I was very surprised that CERN was very enthusiastic to collaborate with us, Malaysian. Their willingness to cooperate with any country was a hint that scientific research has no boundaries.
We met with another Malaysian student, Casey Chew.
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