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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva smashes very high energy particles and tries to find the answer to answer “to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything”. Well almost – we want to create the condition which existed at the beginning of the universe, and learn what are the smallest building blocks of the nature.  Now after each collision, hundreds of thousands of particles come out, so our task is to find out what exactly happened in that collision, shifting through all that information. This is essentially like trying to find broken pieces of a needle in the haystack!

The best part about doing science is often we get to set our own schedule, and the work is hardly boring. However, since I am a part of 3000+ people strong collaboration working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Geneva, and the collaborators are from all over the world, the work rarely stops, and working remotely with a collaborator from USA during our late evenings are more than common. To know what happens each each collision at the LHC, we need to use write computer programs and that takes a lot of my time. I am also responsible for making sure that the postgraduate students in our group are making progress, so I spend a bit of time talking with them. These are interspersed with reading papers, thinking about the results I am getting, and talking to the collaborators at CERN and beyond, via emails, videoconferences or skype.