No, not another URL for you to misinterpret... Finally got the new contract offer today. Surprisingly it offered the same salary point as current rather than one down. Don't know if this is because someone didn't transfer the grade correctly from the job specification, or due to some rule that if you extend someone's contract you can't reduce their salary. (I'd half anticipated it because of the second pissibolity, but naturally didn't voice my speculations.) When I mentioned it to The Professor he admitted that he hadn't noticed that particular point when scanning the offer last week. I signed. So y'all have got me to kick around again for at least another two years. -- 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".
Damn right. I'd have signed that so fast the squiggle would have been damned near a straight line. Then returned it with wet ink. No so bad, there's worse prospects. Good work, Ivan ;-)
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Ivan D. Reid <mutter, mutter> Come over here, stealin' our bosons... Good news, Ivan.
Well, in the last day or so LHC has reached a record for proton- (anti)proton collision intensity. We're currntly pausing and doing a few runs at 1.38 TeV each way, as a request from ALICE as that's the nucleon- nucleon interaction energy when we do heavy-ion collisions with 82-Pb-208. http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/op-webtools/vistar/vistars.php?usr=LHC1 The flood of papers continues undiminished (and unsustainably!) though many have yet to reach actual journal publication. My H-index (the number H of your papers with at least H citations) just jumped from 18 to 19, it'll go much higher soon. I should be drinking that bottle of champagne the Grauniad sent me! Cheers, folks! By the end of the year I expect either people will be chattering about a "Higgs peak" at such-and-such an energy "but we don't have the statistics yet", or there will be a rather severe set of exclusion zones[1] where "it won't be there!". [1] There are already some; I expect them to expand dramatically. -- 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".
No. I haven't got a bus pass yet, and wouldn't have even before they started pushing out the eligibility age. :-( -- 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".
If I understood the article on supersymmetry in last week's New Scientist [1], the journos are already trailing the idea that the Higgs boson may turn up missing altogether, leading to the collapse of the standard model. What then, eh? Will we have to build a bigger collider? [1] That's a very big "if".
I'm glad that you're doing the 82-Pb-208 runs, I was just discussing that down the pub with a few of the lads, we agreed it was prolly the way forward. BTW congrats Ivan.
Was that before or after discussing sport, women's tits and beauty of pork scratchings as a tavern snack?
No, for writing inscrutable cryptic crossword clues: http://www.guardian.co.uk/extra/extra-blog/2010/dec/20/1?INTCMP=SRCH maybe... -- 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".
Well, there's already the International Linear Collider http://www.linearcollider.org/ ...and we're trying to work out ways of colliding muons together. -- 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".
