In September this year the first trainees of Tomsk Polytechnic University, three young scientists, two have been from the Institute of Cybernetics, went on a long-term internship to the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN) situated near Geneva (Switzerland). They took an active part in the experiment “ATLAS” at the Large Hadron Collider. One of the fellow staff, Maksim Gubin, the programmer of the Department of control system optimization, told about the work there and how the experience gained at TPU helped him.