{"id":17,"date":"2009-07-07T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/hanging-out-at-cern\/"},"modified":"2009-07-07T09:05:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T17:05:03","slug":"hanging-out-at-cern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/hanging-out-at-cern\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging Out at CERN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I end my European tour with a seminar at CERN.&nbsp; It turns out that Stephen Weinberg was scheduled to speak at the same time as I.&nbsp; Although I was scheduled first, Stephen&#8217;s rock star status trumped me and my talk was moved 2 hours earlier.&nbsp; The official count for my seminar was 42.&nbsp; Not bad considering the competion.<\/p>\n<p>The fortunate part of being &#8220;bumped&#8221; was that my host made sure I was well taken care of.&nbsp; I had a reserved front row seat for Weinberg&#8217;s seminar and I got to attend the VIP lunch where I met Weinberg, the director of CERN and the spokespersons and heads of several of the groups working here.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>My talk seemed to be received quite well and I had several questions afterwards.&nbsp; Notable attendees for my talk included Nobel prize winner Jack Steinberger and Rocky Kolb, author of &#8220;The Early Universe&#8221;.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I end my European tour with a seminar at CERN.&nbsp; It turns out that Stephen Weinberg was scheduled to speak at the same time as I.&nbsp; Although I was scheduled first, Stephen&#8217;s rock star status trumped me and my talk was moved 2 hours earlier.&nbsp; The official count for my seminar was 42.&nbsp; Not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/hanging-out-at-cern\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hanging Out at CERN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-and-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}