Paging Ivan

So were you on duty at the weekend? how did the final pre ops open day go?
I believe tens of thousands were expected

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Hog

Ivan's under a bit of pressure at the moment.

But that's only to be expected when you've just created a mini black
hole and it's eating the planet.

 

At a court in Hawaii lolol
www.liveleak.com/view?i=a84_1207075452

 

No, unfortunately; I couldn't justify the time and travel
expenses. Which is a pity, as it now means I'll probably never get to
see the experiment in the cavern. Guess there's a chance I might get
into the electronics chamber at some stage, though.

I only got my new passport last week (complete with my first RFID
chip), so it would have been a bit expensive to buy last-minute tickets, too.

I'm not sure how many people they could get through in a day,
although of course the other experiments were taking their share of the
expected numbers too.

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I read now 60,000 visitors!

Are you not a permanent member of staff there once it goes live? I thought
you were working with the detector arrays pre and post construction.

 

Lol. "Eeeee! The vacuum pockets!".

 

And nicely put down by the "real" scientist they interviewed

 

No, I'm contract staff at Brunel (until the end of September; the
rolling grant continues so there's not _too_ much danger I won't be re-hired
although a colleague on a different project always has trouble getting a
new contract).

I've worked on the detectors, and various aspects of software for
getting the data out and analysed. I'm currently working on a new method
for automatically comparing two-dimensional histograms (I've done it; now
trying to get the draft report approved, but the referees want extensive
changes/additions). The grant calls for me to change my focus now --
along with the rest of the group -- to "exploitation", i.e. analysis of
data looking for scientific results. I'm just about to rebuild/update
a server that we use as the User Interface to Grid jobs submission (latest
versions of our software require Scientific Linux 4 and it's running 3)
so that we can get analysis jobs running on a routine basis.

I will be expected to spend some time on-site "taking shifts" I
expect, but given 2,000+ people in the collaboration and maybe only 8
or so (possibly only 2 or 3) to actually babysit the machine the shift
periods may not be too frequent. A lot of the babysitting will be done
by remote control, too; there's a Remote Operations Centre at Fermilab
which will probably do most of the monitoring during their daytime
(roughly 1700-0100 CERN time).

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

<nods>

Sounds wise to me.

 

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Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Lovely, thanks