CERN-Solvay student camp

1 Oct 2023, 14:00 → 8 Oct 2023, 12:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

The CERN-Solvay student camps are residential camps for high school students aged 16+ who are curious about CERN and want to learn more about fundamental research in particle physics. For an entire week on site, participants will have the exciting opportunity to do hands-on experiments, visit research facilities at CERN, attend lectures and Q&A sessions, explore STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) careers, and take part in social activities. All participants will work in small groups on dedicated research projects guided by volunteers from CERN’s scientific community. The camps will be entirely in English. They will be attended by 30 high school students from all over the world. This is the agenda for the first camp, which will take place from 1 to 8 October 2023. 

More information & application form: https://cern.ch/solvay-camp

Sunday 1 October

14:00 → 19:00 Welcome to CERN!

14:00 Arrive at CERN & check-in at CERN hotel

Check-in is possible as of 14:00. If you arrive earlier, you can leave your luggage at the hotel reception.

17:00 Welcome reception

Speakers: Guillaume Durey (CERN), Julia Woithe (CERN)

17:45 Discover CERN Treasure Hunt

19:00 → 20:15 Dinner

20:15 → 21:00 Introductory Remarks

Convener: Guillaume Durey (CERN)

Welcome presentation.pdf

Monday 2 October

07:40 → 08:20 Registration & breakfast

Group 1: Crystal Lab and Data workshop students meet with Cédric in front of the Hotel reception at 7:30. Get your CERN access card from Building 55 ground floor, then your CERN computing account from Building 55 top floor. Then have breakfast.

Group 2: All other students have breakfast with Marina, then go get their CERN access card from Building 55 ground floor.

All students: Bring your identity document with you.

07:45 Walk

Meet at 7:45am at the Hotel Reception (Building 39)

08:00 See where hundreds of people get their CERN access card and computing account

Speakers: Cedric Vanhoolandt, Marina Dorocki

08:20 → 09:30 Breakfast

09:30 → 13:00 Introduction to CERN

09:30 Questionnaire 1

https://cern.ch/solvay-camp-q1

Speaker: Cedric Vanhoolandt

10:00 Introduction to CERN

Speaker: Dr Sascha Schmeling (CERN)

CERN_General_20231002.pdf

CERN_General_20231002.pptx

11:15 CERN Visits

11:15 Walk
11:30-12:00 AVC group 1, SC group 2
12:00 Walk to
12:15-12:45 SC group 1, AVC group 1
12:45 Walk

Speakers: Jeff Wiener (CERN), Julia Woithe (CERN)

Higgs in a box - Investigating the Nature of a Scientific Discovery

13:00 → 14:15 Lunch break

14:15 → 17:50 Introduction to particle accelerators

Meet at 14:15 in front of UBS in the main building

14:15 Walk to

14:30 Lab workshop: electron beams

Speakers: Anastasia Tezari, Patrick Georges Thill (CERN)

15:45 Group photo

16:00 Lab workshop: seeing the invisible

Speakers: Anastasia Tezari, Patrick Georges Thill (CERN)

16:15 Lecture: introduction to particle accelerators

Speaker: Rende Steerenberg (CERN)

rs20231002_Intro2Acc CERN-Solvay.pdf

rs20231002_Intro2Acc CERN-Solvay.pptx

18:00 → 19:30 Dinner

19:30 → 20:30 Social activities

Tuesday 3 October

07:30 → 09:30 Registration & breakfast

Group 1: Crystal Lab and Data workshop students meet with Cédric in front of the Hotel reception at 7:30. Get your CERN access card from Building 55 ground floor, then your CERN computing account from Building 55 top floor. Then have breakfast.

Group 2: All other students have breakfast with Marina, then go get their CERN access card from Building 55 ground floor.

All students: Bring your identity document with you.

Conveners: Cedric Vanhoolandt, Marina Dorocki

09:30 → 13:00 Introduction to particle detectors

09:30 Walk

Meet at 9:30 in front of Hotel reception.

09:45 Lab workshop: cloud chambers

Speakers: Anastasia Tezari, Julia Woithe (CERN)

10:45 Break

11:00 Lecture: introduction to particle detectors

Speaker: David Barney (CERN)

DaveBarney_Smartboard.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 17:00 CMS visit

14:30 Visit the CMS service cavern

14:30 Bus transport leaving in front of Hotel reception bld 39
15:00-16:30 Visit the CMS service carvern
16:30 Bus transport

Speakers: Antra Gaile (Riga Technical University (LV)), Breno Ferreira (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR)), Kathryn Wendy Coldham (Brunel University (GB))

17:30 → 18:30 Online safety courses

Only for Data workshop group (computer security course) and for Crystal Lab group (all three courses).

Conveners: Cedric Vanhoolandt, Marina Dorocki

Computer Security

Radiation Protection - Awareness

Radiation Protection - Supervised Area

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

20:00 → 22:00 Movie night: Particle fever

Conveners: Cedric Vanhoolandt, Marina Dorocki

Wednesday 4 October

08:55 → 12:30 Lectures

09:00 Lecture: Antimatter

Speaker: Prof. Niels Madsen (Swansea University (GB))

10:30 Break

11:00 Lecture: The Standard Model of Particle Physics

Speaker: Frederik Van Der Veken (CERN)

StandardModel.key

StandardModel.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 17:00 Visits

14:00 Walk

Meet at 14:00 in R2

14:15 LEIR and LINAC 2

Group 1 (10 people): Markus Joos
Group 2 (10 people): Yiota Chatzidaki
Group 3 (10 people): Martin Schwinzerl

Speakers: Markus Joos (CERN), Martin Schwinzerl (CERN), Panagiota Chatzidaki (Lund University (SE))

15:05 Walk

15:20 Antimatter factory and Data centre

Group 1 + Group 2 (20 people)
15:20-16:00 Antimatter factory (Milena Vujanovic + Yiota Chatzidaki)
16:10-16:50 Data centre (Martin Schwinzerl)

Group 3 (10 people)
15:20-16:00 Data centre (Enrico Bocchi)
16:10-16:50 Antimatter factory (Yiota Chatzidaki)

Speakers: Enrico Bocchi (CERN), Martin Schwinzerl (CERN), Milena Vujanovic (University of Leeds), Panagiota Chatzidaki (Lund University (SE))

16:35 Walk

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Thursday 5 October

08:30 → 18:00 Project day

08:30 CERN Linear Electron Accelerator for Research

Meet at 8:15 with Marina in front of the hotel

Speaker: Pierre Korysko (University of Oxford (GB))

09:00 Crystal Lab

Meet at 8:45 with Marina in front of the hotel.
Bring your dosimeter.

Speaker: Giulia Terragni (Technische Universitaet Wien (AT))

09:00 Data workshop

Meet at 8:45 with Cédric in front of the hotel.
Bring your laptop.

Speaker: Giuseppe Lo Presti (CERN)

09:00 Theory workshop

Meet at 8:45 with Guillaume in front of the hotel.
Bring your laptop if you have one.

Speakers: Frederik Van Der Veken (CERN), Silke Van Der Schueren (CERN)

CheatSheet.pdf

Particle Table.pdf

TheoryProject.pdf

09:25 Cryo Lab

Meet at 9:10 with Guillaume in front of the hotel.
Bring a laptop with Excel or Python.

Speaker: Dr Torsten Koettig (CERN)

09:30 Polymer Lab

Meet with Anja and Niklas at 9:10 in front of the hotel, they will take you by car to the Prévessin site.
Bring your lunch with you.
Bring your laptop with Excel if you have one.
Take the CERN Shuttle 2 back to the Hotel from building 927.

Speakers: Bharti Verma (CERN), Christian Scheuerlein (CERN), Roland Piccin (CERN)

Shuttle schedule

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Friday 6 October

09:00 → 12:40 Lectures

09:00 Lecture: Cosmology

Speaker: Miguel Escudero Abenza (CERN)

Escudero_Cosmology_CERN.pdf

10:15 Lecture: Plasma Wakefield Acceleration and the AWAKE Experiment at CERN

Speaker: Marlene Turner (CERN)

2023-10-06 High School Students.pdf

11:30 Final Q & A

Speaker: Frederik Van Der Veken (CERN)

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Careers & people at CERN & Solvay

14:00 Student opportunities at CERN

Speaker: Priscilla Marinho Valavicius (CERN)

CERN Careers - Presentation - Solvey High School .pdf

14:30 Student opportunities at Solvay

Speaker: Anne-Solenne Chapuis (Solvay)

15:00 Q & A

Speakers: Anne-Solenne Chapuis (Solvay), Panagiota Chatzidaki (Lund University (SE)), Priscilla Marinho Valavicius (CERN), Silke Van Der Schueren (University of Ghent)

15:30 → 15:45 Break

15:45 → 19:30 Final session

15:45 Briefing for Science Gateway Inauguration

Speaker: Julia Woithe (CERN)

20231006_JW_Inauguration_setup_piazza_labs.pdf

20231006_JW_Inauguration_setup_piazza_labs.pptx

16:00 CERN people bingo

Speaker: Julia Woithe (CERN)

17:00 Synchrocyclotron visit

Speaker: Guillaume Durey (CERN)

18:00 Review of the project day & international gift swapping game

Speakers: Cedric Vanhoolandt, Guillaume Durey (CERN), Julia Woithe (CERN), Marina Dorocki

CLEAR

Cryo Lab

Crystal Lab

Data workshop

Polymer Lab

Theory workshop

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Saturday 7 October

08:30 → 16:15 CERN Science Gateway Inauguration

08:30 Walk to Science Gateway

Meet at 8:30 in front of the dipole, outside Restaurant 1

08:45 Get your volunteer vest and inauguration badge

Speaker: Guillaume Durey (CERN)

09:00 Walk

Team Crystal, CLEAR, Theory & Data --> Labs with Marina & Guillaume
Team Polymers & Cryo --> Piazza with Cédric (big space where we took the first group picture)

09:15 Session 1

Labs
- Crystal, CLEAR & Theory: Lab workshop superconductivity
- Data + Marina: Explain Cloud chamber, Electron beam & Seeing the invisible to visitors

Piazza
- Polymer: particle identities with Merten
- Cryo: 2 people + Cédric for soap bubbles & shapes // 3 people with Niklas (vortex cannon stand)

10:45 Lunch break at R1

12:15 Session 2

Labs
- Polymer, Cryo & Data: Lab workshop superconductivity 12:15-13:45
- CLEAR + Marina: Explain Cloud chamber, Electron beam & Seeing the invisible to visitors 9:00-10:45

Piazza
- Theory: particle identities with Merten
- Crystal: 2 people + Marina for soap bubbles & shapes // 3 people with Niklas (vortex cannon stand)

16:30 → 17:00 Closing ceremony

19:00 → 22:00 Bowling & Pizza

Sunday 8 October

09:00 → 11:00 Breakfast & departures

11:00 → 12:00 Latest possible hotel check-out