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MIT grad student mentors Indian team’s CERN experiment

MIT grad student Manu Srivastava mentored a team of Indian high school students, Team attoPION, in their CERN Beamline for Schools experiment—one of only five teams selected from 712 worldwide.
Six Indian high school students, Ayush Bhardwaj, Misbah Shaikh, Nenavath Abhay Vivek Sidhartha, Aniket Jaiswal, Aarush Mandala, and Aritra Sadhukhan, developed a classroom idea into a working experiment at CERN this past spring, with mentorship from MIT graduate student Manu Srivastava. Srivastava, a PhD student studying quantum gravity with Professor Hong Liu, accepted the mentorship request…
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