CERN-Solvay student camp 4

5 Oct 2025, 14:00 → 11 Oct 2025, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

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 fourth camp, which will take place from 5 October to 11 October 2025. 

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

Sunday 5 October

Welcome to CERN!

1 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.

2 Welcome reception

Speaker: Guillaume Durey

3 Discover CERN Treasure Hunt

19:00 Dinner

Introductory remarks

20:00 Walk

4 Introductory remarks

Speaker: Guillaume Durey

Monday 6 October

Registration & breakfast

All students: Bring your identity document with you.

Group 1
8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-9:00 Registration

Group 2
8:00-8:30 Registration
8:30-9:00 Breakfast

Introduction to CERN

09:15 Walk

5 Lecture: Introduction to CERN

Speaker: Jeff Wiener (CERN)

10:45 Walk

6 Synchrocyclotron and ATLAS Visitor Center

Group 1
11:00-11:40 Synchrocyclotron
11:40-11:50 Walk to AVC
11:50-12:30 ATLAS Control Room

Group 2
11:00-11:40 ATLAS Control Room
11:40-11:50 Walk to SC
11:50-12:30 Synchrocyclotron

12:30 Walk

12:45 Lunch break

Workshops & Lectures

13:45 Walk

7 Lab Workshop: Electron Beams

15:30 Break

8 Lecture: Introduction to Particle Accelerators

18:00 Dinner

19:30 Social activities

Tuesday 7 October

Visits & Lectures

9 Lecture: Introduction to the Standard Model

Speaker: Silke Van Der Schueren (CERN)

10:45 Walk

10 Visit: Low Energy Ion Ring & LINAC2

12:05 Walk

12:15 Lunch break

Lectures & Workshops

11 Lab Workshops: Cloud Chamber

15:00 Break & Group Photo

12 Lecture: Introduction to Particle Detectors

Speaker: David Barney (CERN)

17:30 Dinner

Movie night: Particle Fever

Wednesday 8 October

Lectures & visits

08:45 Walk

13 Lecture: Introduction to Medical Applications

Speaker: Manjit Dosanjh (University of Oxford (GB))

10:15 Break

14 Visit: CMS Cavern

10:30-11:00 Bus transport
11:00-12:30 CMS Underground Visit
12:30-13:00 Bus transport

13:00 Lunch break

CERN people bingo

Lectures & Visits

15 Lecture: The ATLAS Particle Detector

Speaker: Clara Nellist (University of Amsterdam and Nikhef (NL))

16:15 Walk

16 Visit: Antimatter Factory & Data Centre

Group 1
16:30-17:20 Antimatter Factory
17:20-17:30 Walk to Data Centre
17:30-18:20 Data Centre visitor point

Group 2
16:30-17:20 Data Centre visitor point
17:20-17:30 Walk to Antimatter Factory
17:30-18:20 Antimatter Factory

18:20 Dinner

Thursday 9 October

Project day

18:00 Dinner

Edit your videos

Friday 10 October

Lectures & Workshops

17 Solvay Lectures

10:45 Walk

18 Lab workshop: Superconductivity

12:30 Walk

12:45 Lunch break

Final Session

14:00 Walk

19 Q&A: Big science questions

Speaker: Frederik Van Der Veken (CERN)

15:15 Break

20 International gift swapping game

16:30 Break

21 Review of project day videos and closing ceremony

Bowling & Pizza

18:30 Tram to Balexert

22 Bowling & Pizza

Saturday 11 October

09:00 Breakfast & departures

Science Gateway Exhibitions

You are invited to visit the Science Gateway Exhibitons on your own, at any time throughout the day, as you wait to depart for the airport :)

Latest possible hotel check-out