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CRIPTic emanations...
May. 2nd, 2013 12:06 amSeriously? It's only Wednesday? (errr, I just looked and technically it's Thursday, but I don't admit to it being tomorrow until I've slept at all). Up at 7:00AM, out the door at 7:40AM, home at 11:37PM (I only worked until 6:30PM but was running around with other stuff until late). Ugh. I sometimes joke that the work I do (part time... I am a full time student still) is "particle physics and light housekeeping". However... this contract I'm doing is heavy labour... I'm coming home at the end of the day (has it only been three??? ugh!), stiff and sore, and exhausted and ready to crawl into bed as soon as I'm home. And it's not like it's the only thing on my plate as well...
Today, I found out that after my contract on the CRIPT disassembly is over, another professor in the department (the one that supervised me during the I-CUREUS research grant) has found money to hire me part time during the summer to continue work on the EUDET Pixel Telescope project (more about it another time perhaps) and learn the ropes of the ATLAS project software infrastructure so I can start data analysis on information coming out of the Large Hadron Collider. Did you know that Carleton University had a pivotal role in the discovery of the Higgs Boson? And that we designed and built the ATLAS "forward calorimeter" here? Not many people do... (even people who go to Carleton, because the physics department there generally sucks at communicating all the cool stuff it's doing). Anyway, an honour to be asked to participate and a challenge to survive it on top of my studies over the summer... we shall see... I'm still trying to find a way of balancing things, but it's hard to say no to stuff that I could have only dreamed of being involved with at any point in my life, much less as an undergraduate student (okay, sort of a freakish one because of my age and previous experience, but... a larval physicist by any stretch).
Here are a couple of links from a media event last week for the CRIPT project:
Carleton University builds new detector for nuclear materials
A closer look at CRIPT: Commissioning of Canada’s first full-scale muon tomography imaging system
Today, I found out that after my contract on the CRIPT disassembly is over, another professor in the department (the one that supervised me during the I-CUREUS research grant) has found money to hire me part time during the summer to continue work on the EUDET Pixel Telescope project (more about it another time perhaps) and learn the ropes of the ATLAS project software infrastructure so I can start data analysis on information coming out of the Large Hadron Collider. Did you know that Carleton University had a pivotal role in the discovery of the Higgs Boson? And that we designed and built the ATLAS "forward calorimeter" here? Not many people do... (even people who go to Carleton, because the physics department there generally sucks at communicating all the cool stuff it's doing). Anyway, an honour to be asked to participate and a challenge to survive it on top of my studies over the summer... we shall see... I'm still trying to find a way of balancing things, but it's hard to say no to stuff that I could have only dreamed of being involved with at any point in my life, much less as an undergraduate student (okay, sort of a freakish one because of my age and previous experience, but... a larval physicist by any stretch).
Here are a couple of links from a media event last week for the CRIPT project:
Carleton University builds new detector for nuclear materials
A closer look at CRIPT: Commissioning of Canada’s first full-scale muon tomography imaging system
