We are planning five different tours in alternative. You can register for your favourite in the survey linked in the end of this description. The participants will be distributed among the tours in a first-come-first-served basis.
The form for the registration in the tours can be accessed only by participants who have completed the payment of their registration fee. If you have paid for your registration fee but cannot see the submenu entry "Tour selection" under "Scientific tours", please send us an e-mail as soon as possible so we can register you.
The visits will last throughout the morning of 3rd of September (Thursday) and the participants will be brought again to the conference venue for lunch.
Registrations for tours 1, 2 and 3 will close on the 20th of August.
We include a short description of each tour, retrieved from the relevant websites to help you with your choice.
Tour 1: ELI beamlines
Number of participants: 50
Meeting place: To be announced
Meeting time: 8:00
The ELI Beamlines Facility is a leading laser research center and a key part of the Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, a pan-European research initiative that hosts the world’s most intense lasers. https://www.eli-beams.eu/
Program of the visit:
ELI Beamlines Facility Overview: A short presentation introducing ELI, our laser technologies, and scientific activities
Tour of the Visitor Gallery: A view of our ultra-intense laser systems through special windows
Virtual Tours & 3D Simulations: Virtual tours of the experimental halls and 3D physics simulations of our experiments
Tour 2: Tandetron and AMS facility at the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (NPI CAS)
Please read the mandatory safety instructions
Number of participants: 30
Meeting place: To be announced
Meeting time: 7:45
(Bus shared with the participants visiting CVŘ)
The Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (NPI) conducts research across a broad spectrum of nuclear and particle physics, both experimental and theoretical, as well as applied.
For more information:
Tandetron laboratory
Laboratory of AMS
Tour 3: R-0 and LVR-15 reactors nuclear reactors at the Research Centre Řež (CVŘ)
Please read the mandatory safety instructions
Number of participants: 32
Meeting place: To be announced
Meeting time: 7:45
(Bus shared with the participants visiting NPI CAS)
The Research Centre Řež s.r.o. was established on 9 October 2002 as a 100% subsidiary of the Nuclear Research Institute Řež, a. s. Currently, it represents an important research institution not only in the Czech Republic, but also within Europe and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.
This tour consists in a visit to the R-0 and LVR-15 reactors. Research nuclear reactors LVR-15 and LR-0
Tour 4: IEAP Van de Graaff laboratory
Number of participants: 15
Meeting place: Masarykova Kolej
Meeting time: 8:30
The IEAP owns an electrostatic light ion accelerator Van de Graaf HV2500 (VdG) with maximum proton energy 2.5 MeV. Experiments are pursued in basic research such as on the interaction of polarized neutrons on polarized targets and nuclear reactions for astrophysics research. VdG website...
Tour 5: IEAP Radiation imaging, detector R&D and space applications groups
Number of participants: 15
Meeting place: Masarykova Kolej
Meeting time: 8:30
This tour will guide you through three of the labs of IEAP. IEAP's website...