Heavy machinery for kids
Few things are more attractive to kids than big machines. “Controlling big physics machines” was the title of an outreach talk that oPAC fellow at Cosylab, Pavel Maslov, has recently given in two schools in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana.
Atom smashers, fusion reactors, radio telescopes, and cancer treatment facilities were all featured in Pavel’s talk. He gave an overview of the challenges related to the operation and design of their control systems, and talked about the existing opportunities for young researchers in the frame of the Marie Curie Initial Training Networks.
Pavel encouraged the students to pursue a career in science, technology, engineering and maths, to get a chance to “play” with these powerful machines. Hopefully they will have learnt the lesson that power is nothing without control.
