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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · May 31

"It seems to be a lesson of history that the commonplace may be understood as a reduction of the exceptional, but the exceptional cannot be understood as an amplification of the commonplace.”

— Edgar Wind (1967)

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · May 27

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · May 23

Dusk.

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · May 14

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · May 13

Um, let me help you.

Every single lecture is carefully planned, advertised ahead of time, and delivered according to the schedule. Which is the opposite of 'random'.

You are welcome. 😊

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Apr 25

Come to Edinburgh to work with our colleagues on LHCb!

William Barter @wjbarter.bsky.social · Apr 25

Job Opportunity

Myself and colleagues are delighted to be hiring up to three postdoctoral positions in Edinburgh on LHCb.

More details here:
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Postdoctoral Research Associate

The Edinburgh Particle Physics Experiment (PPE) group is excited to offer up to three Postdoctoral Research Associate positions to strengthen our activities and analyse data collected by the recently ...

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Mar 31

The European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) aims to shape the future of physics with high-energy accelerators.

What advances do we expect to make in fundamental physics with the next collider?

- 3 years of studies
- documented in 288 pages
- by 369 contributors
- with 1,477 references

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Mar 21

Brutal.

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Mar 3

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Jan 31

"A high precision W mass measurement at CMS".

Friday afternoon Particle Physics Experiment @edinburghppe.bsky.social seminar at Edinburgh given by Josh Bendavid.

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Jan 31

Let's try the link again: gist.github.com/seungwonpark...

Fourier Series of Square Wave

Fourier Series of Square Wave. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Jan 31

In the animation above, you see the approximation of a square wave if we only consider the first four terms (n=1, 3, 5 and 7).
Credit for the illustration: Sungwon Park
Code at: gist.github.com/.../b10d86dd...

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gist.github.com

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Jan 31

A square wave can be expressed as the infinite sum of odd sine waves with ever-decreasing amplitudes and periods. This is an example of a Fourier transform, a powerful tool in maths & physics that can be used for encoding/decoding information stored in waves. 1/2

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Jan 11

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Jan 10

Meeting room booked by students. 🙄

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Dec 29

That's some serious beef there between Cabibbo and Gell-Mann.

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Dec 22

"20 years ago, I used to find the anthropic interpretation of the universe upsetting, in part bc of the difficulty it might present in understanding physics. Over the years I have mellowed. I suppose I reluctantly came to accept the universe was not created for our convenience in understanding it."

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Dec 22

11:30 AM, one day after Winter Solstice.

Look how low on the horizon the sun is.

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Dec 19

Ouch.

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Dec 18

Particle Physics Experiment (@edinburghppe.bsky.social) Xmas group meeting.

Ben & Sally (@girliknow.bsky.social) reading "The Little Robot & the Mars Mystery", a Xmas story for children (and physicists, I guess).

Ben & Sally reading "The Little Robot & the Mars Mystery", a Xmas story for children at the Particle Physics Experiment Xmas group meeting.

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Dec 17

[*] e.g. gender, minority ethnicity, disability, disadvantaged circumstances, etc.

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Dec 17

The School of Physics & Astronomy invites applications for the 2025 Elizabeth Gardner Fellowship. This four-year Fellowship specifically supports early-career, postdoctoral researchers from backgrounds that are under-represented in the School’s academic community [*]

www.ph.ed.ac.uk/research/res...

Elizabeth Gardner Fellowship

Application details.

www.ph.ed.ac.uk

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Dec 16

“What man among you has a hundred forty scripts for marking, and if one of them should be lost, would not leave the hundred and thirty nine in the wilderness and go seek that one which is lost until he would find it?”

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Dec 4

The MacDonald Equation, by Freeman Dyson

At the School of Physics & Astronomy, Univ of Edinburgh.

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Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · Dec 4

A bit of a specialised paper title, but definitely a very accessible abstract.

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