Name: Is a public understanding of abstract physics concepts feasible?
Start: 2012-03-01T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2012-03-02T14:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Is a public understanding of abstract physics concepts feasible?

from Thursday 1 March 2012 (08:30) to Friday 2 March 2012 (14:00)
CERN (222/R-001)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

1 Mar 2012

2 Mar 2012

08:30	The CERN Microcosm - Guiding Principles of the Exhibition - Emma Sanders (CERN) (Bldg. 55; CERN reception)
09:50	Welcome - Rainer Bromme (University of Muenster)
10:00	--- Coffee Break ---
10:45	Universe of Particles - Bernard Pellequer (Globe of Science and Innovation)

08:30	The Relevance of Communicating Fundamental Physics; Motivating Publics to Attend to Complicated Science - James Gillies (CERN) Sharon Dunwoody (University of Wisconsin-Madison) (until 10:30)
10:30	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00	Excursion to ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) - Johannes Wessels (Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (DE)) (until 13:00) (UX2)

12:00	--- Lunch Break ---
13:15	Abstract Physics Concepts - Johannes Wessels (Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (DE)) Urs Wiedemann (CERN) NN (until 15:30)
15:30	--- Coffee Break ---
16:00	Public Understanding of Fundamental Physics – Impulses from the Priority Program - Rainer Bromme (University of Muenster) Rüdiger Pfister (University of Lüneburg) Holger Horz (University of Frankfurt) (until 18:15)
20:00	--- Dinner: Café du Soleil ---

13:00

--- Lunch Break ---

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