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.

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....

1 comment:

  1. Awesome, I did not know that the guitar had such a history!

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