CERN Alumni Weekly News | Annemarie Mattman Spotlight, Meet Penelope Hoffman from Germany, CERN Alumni Summer Students 2025 group, CERN Alumni Munich meeting
“Storytelling is worth nothing if you tell a lie. Whenever you're sticking to the truth and working on your story to tell truth, then it gets a little more complex— but it also gets better. There’s beauty in truth, even if it’s messy.” CERN alumna Annemarie Mattman opened up about her unconventional path from data preservation to storytelling, and how she now helps researchers turn complexity into clarity without losing the heart of the story: https://alumni.cern/news/2750007
Where will you be in five years? That’s what we asked our 2024 summer students in Summer Students Gimme 5—a new video series capturing their hopes now, with plans to follow up in 2029. Meet Penelope Hoffman from Germany in the third episode: https://alumni.cern/news/2754250
Are you a summer student at CERN this year? Join the CERN Alumni Summer Students 2025 group to stay connected after your time here: https://alumni.cern/topics/52861/members
After the last event was rained out, the CERN Alumni Munich group invites you to join us for a relaxed hike and lunch at Kloster Andechs on Sunday, 7 September—good food, easy walking, and even better company guaranteed: https://alumni.cern/events/187806
Following the successful oxygen and neon ion runs, protons are back in the LHC, delivering luminosity at a high rate and slowly catching up with the forecast production rate. Read the latest accelerator report: https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/accelerators/accelerator-report-focus-luminosity-production
Orthodox quantum mechanics is empirically flawless, but founded on an awkward interface between quantum systems and classical probes. Carlo Rovelli, the originator of the relational interpretation, describes the major schools of thought on how to make sense of a purely quantum world in this Courier article: https://cerncourier.com/a/four-ways-to-interpret-quantum-mechanics/