Accelerator and Particle Physics Education at A-Level - APPEAL 2

Saturday, 2 July 2011 from to (Europe/Zurich)
at University of Oxford
Description

APPEAL - Accelerator and Particle Physics Education at A-Level

The University of Oxford is organising in collaboration with CERN a one-day school to give A-level teachers an opportunity to learn about the physics underlying the LHC. This school will give basic information about particle accelerators and particle physics to Physics teachers who are not necessarily Physics specialists. Preference will be given to teachers coming from schools which usually send very few pupils to University. The school will address questions such as “How does a particle accelerator work?” “What are the questions the LHC will answer?” “How does an experiment at the LHC work?” “What are the applications of particle accelerators in our daily lives?” and “What is the origin of the Universe and of matter?”
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Go to day
  • Saturday, 2 July 2011
    • 09:50 - 10:05 Arrival and coffee/tea 15'
    • 10:05 - 10:20 Welcome and Introduction 15'
      Speaker: Andrei Seryi
      Material: Slides powerpoint file
    • 10:20 - 11:10 Introduction to particle physics 50'
      Speaker: Alan Barr
      Material: Slides powerpoint file
    • 11:10 - 11:25 Coffee/tea
    • 11:25 - 12:15 Astrophysics talk exploring dark matter and dark energy 50'
      Speaker: Renee Hlozek
      Material: Slides pdf file
    • 12:15 - 12:55 Funding at the University of Oxford and beyond and careers in physics 40'
      Speaker: Cat Murdoch
      Material: Slides powerpoint file
    • 12:55 - 13:15 Walk to Jesus College
    • 13:15 - 14:10 Lunch and Visit at Jesus College 55'
    • 14:10 - 14:30 Walk back to Physics Department
    • 14:30 - 15:00 Lab tour and presentation of scientific equipment related to particle accelerators and detectors 30'
      Speaker: Suzie Sheehy
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Small group activity: Building a cloud chamber in your A-level physics class 1h0'
      A video of how to build a cloud chamber can be found on Youtube
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=400xfGmSlqQ&feature=feedu 
      Speaker: Suzie Sheehy
      Material: Slides link
    • 16:00 - 16:15 Coffee/tea
    • 16:15 - 17:05 The LHC and applications of particle accelerators to particle physics 50'
      Speaker: Emmanuel Tsesmelis
      Material: Slides powerpoint file
    • 17:05 - 17:55 Applications of particle accelerators outside particle physic 50'
      Speaker: Ken Peach
      Material: Slides powerpoint file
    • 17:55 - 18:15 Departure