ISEF students at CERN

28 Jun 2009, 12:00 → 2 Jul 2009, 10:00 Europe/Zurich

Various locations (CERN)

Visit of ISEF category winners with their chaperons

Slides ISEF_Students_Projects.docx ISEF_Students_Projects.pdf

Sunday 28 June

12:00 → 13:00 Arrival

Group arrives at airport by train

13:00 → 15:00 Transfer to hotel - check-in

Bus from airport to hotel, check-in, free time

15:00 → 18:00 Hike in the Jura mountains

Bus from hotel to the Col de la Faucille - easy hike to Mont Rond Walk to hotel La Mainaz

18:00 → 18:30 Informal Get-Together

Enjoy the view of the mountains, chat about programme of the coming days

18:30 → 21:00 Dinner at La Mainaz

21:00 → 21:30 Transfer from La Mainaz to hotel

Monday 29 June

08:30 → 08:45 Transfer from hotel to CERN

CERN bus brings group to Globe of Science and Innovation

09:00 → 10:30 Introduction to CERN

General overview of CERN, followed by visit of exhibition "Angels and Daemons"

Speaker: Wolfgang Von Rueden (CERN)

Slides Introduction_to_CERN_.pdf Introduction_to_CERN_.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 CERN shop

Pass via CERN boutique and walk to building 6

11:00 → 12:00 Introduction to Accelerators

An overview of the the basic principals of particle accelerators with examples from CERN and elsewhere

Speaker: Roland Garoby (CERN)

Slides Intro_Accelerators_June2009_RGaroby.pdf Intro_Accelerators_June2009_RGaroby.ppt

12:00 → 13:00 CLIC - Introduction and visit

Overview of the latest development of the future high-tech accelerator CLIC, followed by a guided tour

Speaker: Jean-Pierre Delahaye (CERN)

Slides 090629_CLIC@ISEF.pdf 090629_CLIC@ISEF.ppt

13:00 → 15:00 Lunch Break

Lunch in restaurant 2 (self-service)

15:00 → 16:00 Particle Detectors

An introduction to Particle Detectors and their application

Speaker: David Barney (CERN)

Slides ParticleDetectorsOverview.pdf ParticleDetectorsOverview.ppt

16:00 → 17:00 Visit of a CMS Detector Lab

Walk to 184, guided tour of the detector lab with demonstration of a few detector technologies

Speaker: Archana Sharma (CERN)

17:30 → 18:30 Finish the day at the pool next to CERN

Informal discussion, Q&A, relax or swim

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner

20:30 → 20:45 Transfer from "Le Squash" to Hotel

Tuesday 30 June

08:30 → 08:45 Transfer from hotel to CERN

09:00 → 10:00 Physics at the LHC

Why are we so excited about LHC and what do we expect to find

Speaker: Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

10:00 → 11:00 Introduction to LHC experiments

What are they? What does it take to design, build and operate an LHC detector. Technical and social challenges.

Speaker: Markus Nordberg (CERN)

Slides Intro_to_LHC_experiments.pdf Intro_to_LHC_experiments.ppt

11:00 → 12:00 Tour of Atlas experiment exhibition

Walk from bldg 14 to Atlas. Guided tour of the experiment.

Speaker: Markus Nordberg (CERN)

12:00 → 12:15 Transfer to Prevessin lab 2

Transfer by CERN bus

12:15 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 14:00 Walk to CCC

14:00 → 14:30 Presentation and tour of CERN Control Centre

Speaker: Laurette Ponce (Unknown)

14:30 → 15:00 Transfer to CMS experiment

15:00 → 16:00 Guided tour of CMS experiment

Speaker: Tejinder Virdee (CERN/Imperial College)

16:00 → 16:45 Transfer to downtown Geneva

17:00 → 19:00 Geneva City Centre

- Walk in the Old Town - Reception at Geneva City Hall from 17:30 to 18:30, by M. Dominique Louis, Chef du protocole adjoint - Walk in the city

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Dinner somewhere in Geneva

21:00 → 21:30 Transfer from Geneva to hotel

Wednesday 1 July

08:30 → 08:45 Transfer from hotel to CERN

09:00 → 10:30 Antimatter and visit of experiment

Talk about antiprotons, antimatter and related topics. Visit to the antiproton facility.

Speaker: Michael Doser (CERN)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Computing at CERN

An overview of the computing for LHC and the world-wide computing Grid

Speaker: Wolfgang Von Rueden (CERN)

Slides Computing_at_CERN.pdf Computing_at_CERN.pptx

12:00 → 12:30 Visit of the Computer Centre

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch with journalists at the Caravelle (restaurant 2)

followed by one-on-one interviews during coffee

14:30 → 14:55 CERN openlab

Speaker: Mr Francois Fluckiger (CERN)

Slides 01_FF-openlab_Education__and_related_things-public.pdf

14:55 → 15:15 CERN-Intel Collaboration

Examples of what we do with Intel in the framework of the openlab collaboration.

Speaker: Andrzej Nowak (CERN)

Slides CERN_openlab_Collaboration_with_Intel.pdf

15:15 → 16:15 Restricted: Round table on education with press

Participants: Rolf Landua, François Fluckiger, Mélissa Le Jeune, Nicola procaccio - PR Manager for Intel Corp., Thomas H. Osburg - Director Europe - Corporate Affairs for Intel Corp., Wolfgang von Rüden

Speaker: Melissa Le Jeune

15:15 → 15:30 Students walk to main building

Speaker: Julien Leduc

16:00 → 17:00 Students meet young openlab researchers

Informal discussion on openlab and other topics

Speaker: Julien Leduc

17:00 → 19:00 Join summer student reception

20:00 → 20:15 Transfer from CERN to hotel