Berkeley

On Friday, I went to Berkeley with Howie and TJ because there was an interesting workshop on supersymmetry and Higgs physics. Both the experimental and theoretical talks were really good. I learned especially a lot from Howie's talk.
I was surprised to meet some people I knew: Prof. Klute who had given the "introduction to particle physics" in Göttingen before leaving to MIT, and Mike who coordinated the photon cross section measurement at ATLAS last year when I was a summer student at CERN.
However, one of the best aspects there was definitely the location! Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (or short, LBNL) is located on a very steep hill which offers a magnificent view on the bay area including Berkeley campus (the bell tower imitates a bit il campanile di Siena), Oakland, San Francisco skyline, bay bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge!

I even met students from Göttingen on campus. We watched this beautiful sunset together and had dinner and a beer in town before I went back with TJ.