Visit of International Association of Physics Students (IAPS) to CERN

22 Apr 2014, 20:00 → 24 Apr 2014, 22:35 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Tuesday, 22 April

20:00 → 20:25 Intro to the visit

Speaker: Mr Konrad Jende (CERN, Education Group)

20:30 → 21:00 IAPS - Who we are and what we do

Slides IAPS2CERN2014_presentation.pdf IAPS2CERN2014_presentation.pptx

Wednesday, 23 April

08:45 → 10:45 Lectures on Particle Physics

Convener: Mr Konrad Jende (CERN, Education Group)

08:45 Particle World

Speaker: Tara Shears (University of Liverpool (GB))

Slides into_pp.pptx

11:00 → 13:00 Visit + Hands-on activity

We start from building 13, split the group in 2 smaller sub-groups: one group starts with the visit, the other with the hands-on part. After one hour we swap.

Convener: Mr Konrad Jende (CERN, Education Group)

11:00 Cloud Chamber Workshop - Group B

Speaker: Mr Konrad Jende (CERN, Education Group)

summary cloudchamber-handout.pdf

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iJhF4PUR3c

11:00 Visit to LINAC/LEIR - Group A

Speakers: Mr Alexandre Zabi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR)), Yuri Ermoline (Michigan State University (US))

12:00 Cloud Chamber Workshop - Group A

Speaker: Mr Konrad Jende (CERN, Education Group)

summary cloudchamber-handout.pdf

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iJhF4PUR3c

12:00 Visit to LINAC/LEIR

Speakers: Mr Alexandre Zabi (Ecole Polytechnique (FR)), Yuri Ermoline (Michigan State University (US))

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:45 → 17:45 Visits 2

We will meet in front of building 39 (hostel reception), take the bus and visit three facilities.

Convener: Mr Konrad Jende (CERN, Education Group)

15:00 Visit to the magnet test facility (SM18)

Speakers: Claudio Santoni (Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR)), Jana Kraus (Universitaet Bonn (DE)), Klaus Batzner (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)), Yuri Ermoline (Michigan State University (US))

16:10 Visit to CERN's Control Center (CCC) - Group A

Speaker: Klaus Batzner (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

16:10 Visit to the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) - Group B

Speaker: Mr Konrad Jende (CERN, Education Group)

16:50 Visit to CERN's Control Center (CCC) - Group B

Speaker: Klaus Batzner (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

16:50 Visit to the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer - Group A

Speaker: Mr Konrad Jende (CERN, Education Group)

19:00 → 23:59 Party around the CERN region

Directions to the fun http://goo.gl/maps/ozFF3

Thursday, 24 April

09:00 → 11:30 Lectures on Particle Physics

Convener: Mr Konrad Jende (CERN, Education Group)

09:00 Data processing at CERN

Speaker: Latchezar Betev (CERN)

Slides data_processing_lecture.pdf data_processing_lecture.pptx

10:45 Introduction to CERN

Speaker: Mr Konrad Jende (CERN, Education Group)

Slides CERN-intro.pdf

11:30 → 12:45 Lunch break

13:00 → 16:00 Visits 3

Convener: Mr Konrad Jende (CERN, Education Group)

13:00 Visit to the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS)

16:30 → 18:00 Lectures on Particle Physics

Convener: Mr Konrad Jende (CERN, Education Group)

16:30 The Higgs discovery

Speaker: Trisha Farooque (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES))

Slides TheHiggsDiscovery.pdf TheHiggsDiscovery.pptx

19:00 → 22:35 Football@CERN

http://goo.gl/maps/r41nU

Convener: Mr Konrad Jende (CERN, Education Group)

Directions to the football pitch http://goo.gl/maps/r41nU

19:20 football match: Le Club Zapata vs BBQ afterwards

20:35 BBQ afterwards