I built the CMS Guitar to celebrate the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the CERN LHC collider. This blog documents the construction of the guitar and my musical projects featuring this instrument.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Symmetry Magazine
A very nice article on Famelab 2013 appeared today in the Symmetry Magazine, with a description of my performance with the CMS guitar. Check it out!
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/march-2013/research-with-flair-at-famelab-2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
Second place in Famelab.ch Geneva round!
Last week I suddenly decided to take part in this year's edition of Famelab. The Swiss edition first round was held at CERN on Saturday (March 16th). So I had to quickly prepare a 3-minute presentation "explaining a science concept to general audience". Of course I couldn't have gone there without the CMS guitar, and in fact I based my talk on the idea of particle physics being like a jigsaw puzzle, an idea that I first showed in this blog some time ago.
I ended up taking the second place, the winner was Divya Ail with a very entertaining talk about... Viagra, among other things. A small personal victory was having John Ellis himself tell me that he liked my open-ended puzzle analogy and that he "shall steal it for his next public lecture".
Anyway second place means that I'm still in the game - now I have to prepare something for the Swiss Finals in May. Hmm....
photo: Tomasz Chrul
I ended up taking the second place, the winner was Divya Ail with a very entertaining talk about... Viagra, among other things. A small personal victory was having John Ellis himself tell me that he liked my open-ended puzzle analogy and that he "shall steal it for his next public lecture".
photo: Tomasz Chrul
Anyway second place means that I'm still in the game - now I have to prepare something for the Swiss Finals in May. Hmm....
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