In this newsletter:
- Word from the chair
- Announcements
- Places around you: Fort Vyšehrad
- Two questions for Elisabetta Barberio
- Weather for tonight
Word from the chair
It’s Saturday, the first day of a weekend and the ICHEP program is as heavy as yesterday. Work or business travels on weekends used to be a common thing, yet it is under discussion nowadays. Fortunately, Sunday is free for most of you and allows you to enjoy our city and country. Still, there are various board members that use the presence of many people to hold their meetings. So after three working ICHEP days we would like to wish you a relaxing Sunday!
Announcements
Places around you: Fort Vyšehrad
A few hundred metres from the conference site towards the Vltava river, can be found the 10th century Fort Vyšehrad. The name, of Slavic origin, can loosely be translated as "Castle on a Hill". It is connected to a legendary story about an imprisoned knight, Horymír, who escaped from the castle by jumping over the fort walls into the Vltava river while on his horse Šemík (check out the height of the jump!)
The resting place of several famous people, the Slavín cemetery, is located inside the fort, as well as various statues from Czech mythology. This area is also popular amongst local people for nice walks and also nice views in the local garden-pub “Na hradbách” (recommended).
Two questions for Elisabetta Barberio
(went to about 60 conferences before ICHEP)
Why did you choose to come to the ICHEP2024?
I always come to the ICHEP conference when I can because there is the whole sector of particle physics, mostly the HEP. Normally, it is also the conference where everybody aims to guide new results. So you can also meet everybody else in the field and have conversations with them. There are also discussions about the future of the field - it is a conference where everybody comes and every two years knows what is going on.
What are you looking forward to the most? It can even be about the city of Prague if you want.
I like the parallel sessions because there are new results, and the results are explained in detail. And the panel discussions where the future of the field is discussed. The plenary sessions are also interesting; it is nice to have a summary, but I prefer the parallel ones.
Elisabetta is professor of physics at the University of Melbourne, and she has worked most of her career on collider experiments at CERN. Recently, she moved to dark matter detection in Australia.
Weather forecast for tonight (from www.chmi.cz)
No rain. Some high clouds, particularly in the afternoon. Maximum temperature of 30 ℃ (80℉) will decrease to 22 ℃ (72 ℉) at midnight.
