Bilge Demirköz (credit: Christina Reed) Christina Reed Bilge Demirköz "I'm in physics because I'm trying to understand something that is bigger than me." --Bilge Demirköz Inside the underground labyrinth that leads to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the physics institute that straddles the border of Switzerland and France, Bilge Demirköz, a 28-year-old high-energy physicist from Istanbul...
For those who aren't familiar with it, the "tipping point" is a concept from epidemiology (popularized by the best-selling book by Malcolm Gladwell) that suggests that small changes accumulate innocuously until a critical mass is reached, at which point a large-scale, irreversible change occurs in the system under study. There is reason to think that the institution of the postdoc is approaching ...
