Workshops / Lectures

Upcoming, ongoing or finished workshops, organized by me and collaborators are featured here.

28th of July 2008
Personal “One-on-One” courses

Custom tailored mini-workshops in order to discuss and practice the specific field the interested person wants to deepen are offered on a regular basis. Please send any inquiries directly to Peter Fauland.

15th of March 2008
CERN Photo-Happening – Sensors beyond Full-Frame

The workshop will bring us down 100 meter below ground level to the gigantic particle detectors at CERN in Geneva. And in addition, this is the almost last chance to do so, because these gigantic caverns will soon be close for external visitors.

In fact, it is the worlds largest particle accelerator. With this huge installation, and its core, a 27 kilometers long tunnel, physicists attempt to simulate the big bang in order to better understand the fundamental basics of matter.

This sounds very complicated, but it’s even more impressive when standing in front of it. The large detectors and machines constructed in the course of the last 10 to 15 years are installed in 4 gigantic caverns deep below ground level.

The large experiments are about to start this coming summer 2008. This is the reason, why access to the caverns will be closed for visitors in April.

Report : A group of photographers underground

After we managed to catch all our fellow photographers, that were stuck in several traffic jams, we started our descent 100 meters down into one of the big four experiments about to start taking data later this year.

Equipped with the most serious photo equipment and at least one tripod per person, everyone started to look for the “perfect spot” to catch the eye-catching image.

Besides gigantic installations, that fill huge parts of the cavern there were many details and “still lives” to be explored.

Finally, we could throw an eye on the very central part of the experiment. Here we see the beam pipe stretching through the huge quadrupole magnet.

I would like to thank everybody for their interest, all the questions that were asked, (and I tried to answer as good as possible) and hope to see many, many of your photographs soon here.

Stay tuned … and see you maybe soon on another workshop.