i2Planet EPFL and St Gallen

28 Apr 2025, 02:00 → 30 Apr 2025, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

3179/R-E06 (CERN)

Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN)

IdeaSquare Planet is a novel methodology created by CERN IdeaSquare and its collaborators. It aims to give participants a chance to truly use their imagination, practice orders of magnitude thinking and estimations, back of the envelope calculations, challenging assumptions and radical teamwork.

The adventure is comprised of two parts, exploring the unknown on an imaginary exoplanet, and applying the learnings and ideas back to Earth for the good of the Planet and society.

Directions on how to get to CERN you can find here: https://home.cern/directions

When on CERN site, find your way to the car park behind the Globe. IdeaSquare is there, towards West (France). Google map is here.

For registering your laptop/mobile phone for wifi access at CERN, please connect to the CERN visitor wifi. You will receive a code as a text message. Your connection will be valid for a week. You will need to register each device separately.

Monday 28 April

09:30 → 11:00 Experiment Tour for EPFL students

11:00 → 12:30 Lunch

12:30 → 13:15 Welcome to CERN and IdeaSquare

Speaker: Laura Wirtavuori

13:15 → 14:00 Getting to know each other

14:00 → 15:00 Your adventure starts here

Speaker: Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN)

15:00 → 17:00 teamwork

17:00 → 18:30 Experiment tour for St Gallen students

Tuesday 29 April

09:00 → 09:30 Back of the envelope calculations and orders of magnitude estimations

Speaker: Laura Wirtavuori

09:30 → 12:00 Teamwork

12:00 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 14:30 Visit to Science Gateway

14:30 → 17:00 teamwork

Wednesday 30 April

09:00 → 12:00 Teamwork

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Presenting Trappist plans

15:30 → 16:30 Reflection moment

16:30 → 17:00 Cleaning up