1. PhD student impressions Zdenko van Kesteren RECFA 23-09-2005

2. Zdenko van KesterenRECFA 20052 Introduction Started Ph.D january 2005, working on ATLAS @ CERN One of the first graduates on new bachelor/master particle physics (joint NIKHEF, UvA, UU, VU program)

3. Zdenko van KesterenRECFA 20053 Water Cherenkov muon detector 4 months project

4. Zdenko van KesterenRECFA 20054 CERN summerschool

5. Zdenko van KesterenRECFA 20055 Graduation on B-field sensors

6. Zdenko van KesterenRECFA 20056 After graduation: Ph.D at NIKHEF Education never ends... Topical lectures 3 days –Gravitation, Monte Carlo, loop calculations, … BDN summerschool2 weeks –At this very moment: Texel summerschool Give education –Supervising undergraduate students

7. Zdenko van KesterenRECFA 20057 Research & service tasks Service tasks Cabling MDTchambers at CERN Research – NIKHEF good environment Software –Muonspectrometer and tracking –Threshold to make contribution to large software framework high Physics at ATLAS –Single top analysis

8. Zdenko van KesterenRECFA 20058 Conclusions Master program at NIKHEF excellent dive into particle physics Master and Ph.D at NIKHEF good opportunity to work at a large-scale experiment such as ATLAS