High School Teachers 2011

3 Jul 2011, 09:00 → 23 Jul 2011, 09:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

2011 CERN High School Teachers Programme

Sunday 3 July

16:30 → 17:30 Welcome Reception

Informal get together, with refreshments and light snacks

Speaker: Mick Storr (CERN)

17:30 → 18:30 Short site tour

Designed to help participants orient theselves on site and locate lecture rooms.

Speakers: Mick Storr (CERN), Dr Sascha Marc Schmeling (CERN)

18:30 → 19:30 Practical Information

Speaker: Mick Storr (CERN)

Monday 4 July

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

Speaker: Maureen Prola-Tessaur (CERN)

09:00 → 09:30 CERN Education

Speaker: Mick Storr (CERN)

Slides https://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=5&materialId=slides&confId=127676

09:30 → 10:15 Audio-visual Introduction to CERN

Speaker: Mick Storr (CERN)

A 50 Year Journey to the Heart of Matter https://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=6&materialId=0&confId=127676

The Large Hadron Collider in 10' https://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=6&materialId=2&confId=127676

The LHC Rap https://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=6&materialId=1&confId=127676

10:30 → 12:30 Team Building

Speaker: Mick Storr (CERN)

14:00 → 15:00 Team Building (cont)

15:30 → 17:00 Parallel Visits : Globe Universe of Particles Exhibition and Microcosm

17:00 → 17:45 Visits evaluation

Tuesday 5 July

08:30 → 12:30 Visit DELPHI/LHCb

Speakers: Martin Hawner (Bayerische Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg), Dr Sascha Schmeling (CERN)

14:00 → 15:30 Introduction to Particle Physics (1/4)

Speaker: Rolf Landua (CERN)

Slides PP_Cosm_1_2010.pptx

15:30 → 17:00 Parallel Visits : Globe Universe of Particles Exhibition and Microcosm

17:00 → 17:45 Visits evaluation

18:30 → 23:00 Pool and Pizza

Swim at the pool across the road from CERN entrance B and/or walk to Pizza restaurant in Meyrin. (Swim and walk dependent on weather).

Speaker: Mick Storr (CERN)

Wednesday 6 July

08:30 → 10:00 Introduction to Detectors (1/2)

Speaker: Frank Hartmann (KIT - IEKP)

Slides Detektoren_Lehrer_CERN_Hartmann.e.7.longer.incl.CMS.2011.pptm

10:00 → 10:45 Introduction to CERN

Speaker: Rolf Heuer (CERN)

Slides and video https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=134034

11:00 → 12:00 Introduction to Particle Physics (2/4)

Speaker: Rolf Landua (CERN)

14:00 → 17:00 Visit CMS

Speakers: Noemi Beni (Institute of Nuclear Research (ATOMKI)-Hungarian Academy of Sc), Zoltan Szillasi (Institute of Nuclear Research (ATOMKI)-Hungarian Academy of Sc)

17:00 → 20:00 Welcome Drink

Thursday 7 July

09:00 → 12:00 Parallel activity : Build a Cloud Chamber

Alternative apparatus https://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=2&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=127676

How to build a cloud chamber http://teachers.web.cern.ch/teachers/document/cloud-final.pdf

Video of modified alternative apparatus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=400xfGmSlqQ&feature=youtu.be

09:00 → 12:00 Tutorial : The Concept of Mass

Speaker: Goronwy Jones (University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy)

Notes GoronNotes.pdf

14:00 → 15:30 Introduction to detectors (2/2)

Speaker: Frank Hartmann (KIT - IEKP)

15:30 → 16:30 Introduction to Particle Physics (3/4)

Speaker: Rolf Landua (CERN)

16:30 → 17:30 Lecture Review and Discussion

Friday 8 July

09:30 → 10:30 Introduction to Particle Physics (4/4)

Speaker: Rolf Landua (CERN)

10:30 → 11:30 Parallel activity : Introduction to Teachers Lab

Group 4

10:30 → 11:30 Parallel activity : Lecture Review and Discussion Session

Groups 1,2,3

11:30 → 12:30 Q/A

Speaker: Rolf Landua (CERN)

13:30 → 16:30 Parallel activity : Calculating mass

13.30 Groups 1 and 2 14.30 Groups 3 and 4

Speaker: Goronwy Jones (University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy)

Notes GronNotes1TheConceptOfMass.pdf GronNotes2CalculatingMass.pdf

13:30 → 16:30 Parallel activity : Introduction to Teachers Lab

13.30 Group 3 14.30 Group 2 15.30 Group 1

13:30 → 16:30 Parallel activity : Visit B40

13.30 Group 4 14.30 Group 1 15.30 Groups 2 and 3

16:30 → 17:30 Presentation of Working Groups

Sunday 10 July

13:00 → 23:00 Discover Geneva Treasure Hunt

Have fun discovering Geneva and finish the day with a well deserved fondue at the Cave Valaisanne, Plain Palais.

Speaker: Mick Storr (CERN)

Monday 11 July

09:00 → 10:00 Bubble Chamber Tutorial

Speaker: Goronwy Jones (University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy)

Bubble Chamber Website https://teachers.web.cern.ch/teachers/archiv/HST2006/bubble_chambers/BCWebIntro.htm

10:30 → 11:30 Key Concepts of Particle Physics (1/2) : Basics

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Slides Mangano-HST11-1.pdf

11:30 → 12:30 Introduction to Cosmology (1/2)

Speaker: Geraldine Servant

Slides Cosmology_HST2011.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Introduction to Accelerators (1/2)

Speaker: Dr Simone Gilardoni (CERN)

Slides simo_HST_2011.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 Reflection

16:00 → 16:30 Selection of Working Groups

Tuesday 12 July

09:00 → 10:00 Introduction to Cosmology (2/2)

Speaker: Geraldine Servant

14:00 → 15:00 Introduction to Accelerators (2/2)

Wednesday 13 July

09:00 → 10:00 Key Concepts of Particle Physics (2/2)

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Slides Mangano-HST11-2.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 History of Scientific Ideas (1/3)

Speaker: Goronwy Jones (University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy)

Slides http://epweb2.ph.bham.ac.uk/user/gron/cernhst08hosi/

Thursday 14 July

14:30 → 15:30 Antimatter Mysteries

Speaker: Rolf Landua (CERN)

Slides https://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=21&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=141408

Video https://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=21&materialId=video&confId=141408

16:00 → 16:30 Cool Apps

Speakers: Joao Antunes Pequenao (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL)), Neng Xu (Department of Physics-University of Wisconsin)

Camelia http://pdgusers.lbl.gov/~pequenao/camelia/

16:30 → 17:30 Accelerator Q/A

Speaker: Dr Simone Gilardoni (CERN)

Friday 15 July

14:00 → 15:00 Medical Applications of Particle Physics

Speaker: Manjit Dosanjh (CERN)

Slides TeachersJune2011.pdf TeachersJune2011.ppt

16:00 → 17:00 Key Concepts of Particle Physics : Q/A

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Sunday 17 July

14:00 → 17:00 Visit PS/LINAC/LEIR and Computer Centre

Speaker: Mick Storr (CERN)

Monday 18 July

09:00 → 11:30 Perimeter Institute workshop

Perimeter Institute http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/en/Outreach/General/Teachers/

13:00 → 15:30 Perimeter Institute workshop

19:00 → 00:00 International Evening

Speaker: Everyone

Tuesday 19 July

11:30 → 12:30 History of Scientific Ideas (2/3)

Speaker: Goronwy Jones (University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy)

15:00 → 16:00 Let's talk about books

Speaker: Doris Eva Wagner (Inst. fuer Kern- und Teilchenphysik (IKTP)-Technische Universit)

16:00 → 17:00 CERN's Black Swan

The story of WWW@CERN plus an additional presentation 'From the Web to the GRID'

Speaker: Ben Segal (Unknown)

Slides HST-Web-Grid-VC.pdf HST_WWW.pdf

Wednesday 20 July

15:30 → 16:30 Gaugin and CERN

Speaker: Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)

18:30 → 21:30 Visit SM-18 and CCC

Speakers: Marina Savino (ITEP Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP)), Mick Storr (CERN)

Thursday 21 July

15:00 → 15:45 Introduction to MasterClasses

Speaker: Mr Konrad Jende (Technische Universitaet Dresden)

Slides Masterclasses-HST-kj-2011-07-19-ENG[1].pdf

16:00 → 17:00 Reports from Working Groups

17:30 → 19:00 Visit PS/LINAC/LEIR

Speaker: Mick Storr (CERN)

19:30 → 20:30 History of Scientific Ideas (3/3)

Speaker: Goronwy Jones (University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy)

Friday 22 July

09:00 → 12:00 Reports from Working Groups (cont)

14:00 → 16:00 Reports from Working Groups (cont)

16:00 → 16:30 Closing Session with the CERN Director General

Speaker: Rolf Heuer (CERN)

19:00 → 00:00 Farewell BBQ

Meet outside the B33 Reception at 18.30