Is a public understanding of abstract physics concepts feasible?

1 Mar 2012, 08:30 → 2 Mar 2012, 14:00 Europe/Zurich

222/R-001 (CERN)

Thursday 1 March

08:30 → 09:50 The CERN Microcosm - Guiding Principles of the Exhibition

Speaker: Emma Sanders (CERN)

09:50 → 10:00 Welcome

Speaker: Rainer Bromme (University of Muenster)

10:00 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 11:45 Universe of Particles

Speaker: Bernard Pellequer

12:00 → 13:15 Lunch Break

13:15 → 15:30 Abstract Physics Concepts

Conveners: Johannes Wessels (Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (DE)), NN, Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 18:15 Public Understanding of Fundamental Physics – Impulses from the Priority Program

Conveners: Holger Horz (University of Frankfurt), Rainer Bromme (University of Muenster), Rüdiger Pfister (University of Lüneburg)

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner: Café du Soleil

Cheese Fondue

Friday 2 March

08:30 → 10:30 The Relevance of Communicating Fundamental Physics; Motivating Publics to Attend to Complicated Science

Conveners: James Gillies (CERN), Sharon Dunwoody (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 13:00 Excursion to ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment)

Convener: Johannes Wessels (Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (DE))

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch Break