Playing with Protons UK

18 Aug 2025, 09:00 → 22 Aug 2025, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

3179/R-E06 (CERN)

Cristina Lazzeroni (University of Birmingham (GB)), Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

Bringing together UK primary and secondary school teachers, science education specialists and researchers from CERN, the University of Birmingham and STFC, to develop creative approaches to engage students with physics, discovery and innovation.

Sponsored by the LHC experiments, the Ogden Trust, the University of Birmingham, and the Science & Technology Facility Council UK. 

 

Monday 18 August

1 Arrival and hostel check-in

2 Lunch

3 Welcome and site orientation

Speaker: Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

4 Ogden Trust: Introductory Workshop

5 Visit to the Gateway

6 TBC

7 Dinner

Speaker: Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

Tuesday 19 August

8 Introduction to CERN - film

Laying of the foundation stone speeches by Sir Ben Lockspeiser, President of CERN Council and Prof. Felix Bloch Director General, highly recommended

Speaker: Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

laying-foundation-stone-cern-1955.pdf

9 Visit Synchrocyclotron

Speaker: Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

10 Workshop 1,2: (Odgen Trust+UnivBirm)

11 Lunch

12 Workshop 3 (Ogden Trust): classroom approach

13 Visit to B6 - the 'Heart of CERN'

CLEAR control room and exhibition, B6 Exhibition corridor, Billinge Room, Low Energy Ion Ring

Speaker: Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

14 Dinner in restaurant 1 (with guests), optional after dinner walk to UA1

Walk through the fields to visit (the ghosts of) UA1 to celebrate the discovery of the W and Z bosons in 1983.

Speaker: Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

Wednesday 20 August

15 Workshop4: (Odgen Trust)

16 Guest lecture

17 Lunch

18 Visit to Lab 2 (CCC and AMS)

Visits to the CERN (Accelerator) Control Centre and the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Payload Operations Control Centre

Speaker: Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

19 Visit to CMS

Underground visit to CMS including the experiment cavern. Thanks to CMS for support.

Speaker: Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

20 Drinks, Dinner and conversation in Geneva

Thursday 21 August

21 Visit to Computing Centre, and history walk-around CERN

Globe, CERN Shop, Web Corridor B1, Antimatter Factory, Data Centre timeline of CERN computers including Wim Klein, (plus home for retired mice and LINAC 4 boundary stone)

Speaker: Mick Storr (University of Birmingham (GB))

22 Next Steps (Ogden Trust)

23 Lunch and departure

24 Leave CERN