Women in Research at #LINO19: Laura Pereira Sánchez from Spain
#LINO19 Lindau Alumna Laura Pereira Sánchez from Spain talks about her career path, her favourite projects and more in this interview with Ulrike Böhm.
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Nature Lindau video: Is dark matter real?
The morning after CERN announces the discovery of the Higgs particle, three young physicists sit down with Nobel prizewinners George Smoot and Martinus Veltman to digest the news.
Nature Video: The last boson?
Tantalizing glimpses of the Higgs boson have been spotted at CERN. This elusive particle is the last piece of the Standard Model to be confirmed. While at the Lindau meeting, physics Nobel laureates give Nature their views.
Lindau-Bilanz 2012
Die Lindauer Tagung 2012 ist nun bereits zwei Wochen her. Zeit für meinen Rückblick: Wie war’s? Von den Vorträgen her war durchaus ein gewisses Crescendo zu bemerken. Begonnen hatte es mit einem soliden und schönen, aber eben eher konventionellen Vortrag zur Dunklen Energie von “Frischling” Brian Schmidt. Rumoren, aber auch Stirnrunzeln, gab dann in der […]
Heather Gray: chaotic starts and Higgs excitement
Heather Gray, a researcher working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN, was at this year’s Lindau meeting. I spoke to her over email before it started to find out about her expectations, and afterwards she told me about her impressions of the meeting and what it was like to watch the announcement from CERN with other […]
Higgs search update: basics and subtleties
I admit to having been skeptical. The Higgs – so what? It’s not like this was unexpected. But the Lindau meeting is a good place to get many different perspectives on the new discovery: watching the CERN press conference, attending Lindau’s own press conference with Carlo Rubbia, David Gross and Martinus Veltman, listening to the […]
Higgs boson and CERN stir up excitement at Lindau
The news that scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have discovered a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson, which may explain how matter attains its mass, excited and energized the Laureates