UK Teachers Programme 02/2013

18 Feb 2013, 17:00 → 21 Feb 2013, 20:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Mick Storr

Monday, 18 February

1 Welcome to CERN

Speaker: Mick Storr (CERN)

Tuesday, 19 February

2 Programme Objectives

Speaker: Mick Storr (CERN)

Slides TPObjectives.pdf TPObjectives.ppt

3 Introduction to CERN

Speaker: Mick Storr (CERN)

Slides UKIntroCERN.pdf UKIntroCERN.ppt

4 Cosmology

Speaker: Leonardo Senatore (CERN)

12:30 Lunch

5 Cloud Chamber Workshop

Speaker: Mick Storr (CERN)

Alternative Apparatus Cloud_Chamber.pdf Cloud_Chamber.pptx

How to build a cloud chamber cloud-final.pdf

How to make dry ice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFVerpNmEzA

Video of another apparatus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=400xfGmSlqQ

6 Visit PS + SM-18

7 Review

Wednesday, 20 February

8 Introduction to Particle Physics

Speaker: Bill Murray (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

Slides cern-teachers.odp cern-teachers.pdf

9 Introduction to Accelerators

Speaker: Dr Simone Gilardoni (CERN)

12:30 Lunch

10 Visit CCC and AMS

11 Q/A

12 Programme Dinner

Thursday, 21 February

13 Review of the CMS Experiment

Speaker: Dr Piotr Traczyk (Univ. of California Los Angeles (US))

14 Medical Applications of Particle Physics

Speaker: Manjit Dosanjh (CERN)

15 Visit CMS

16 Action Plan

17 Programme Evaluation

Speaker: Mick Storr (CERN)

18 Aperitif with UK scientists and engineers