ISEF students at CERN

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

Various locations (CERN)

Visit of ISEF category winners with their chaperons

Slides ISEF_Students_Projects.docx ISEF_Students_Projects.pdf

Sun, June 28

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Arrival

Group arrives at airport by train

1:00 PM → 3:00 PM Transfer to hotel - check-in

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

3:00 PM → 6:00 PM Hike in the Jura mountains

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

6:00 PM → 6:30 PM Informal Get-Together

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

6:30 PM → 9:00 PM Dinner at La Mainaz

9:00 PM → 9:30 PM Transfer from La Mainaz to hotel

Mon, June 29

8:30 AM → 8:45 AM Transfer from hotel to CERN

CERN bus brings group to Globe of Science and Innovation

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM 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 AM → 11:00 AM CERN shop

Pass via CERN boutique and walk to building 6

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM 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 PM → 1:00 PM 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

1:00 PM → 3:00 PM Lunch Break

Lunch in restaurant 2 (self-service)

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM Particle Detectors

An introduction to Particle Detectors and their application

Speaker: David Barney (CERN)

Slides ParticleDetectorsOverview.pdf ParticleDetectorsOverview.ppt

4:00 PM → 5:00 PM 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)

5:30 PM → 6:30 PM Finish the day at the pool next to CERN

Informal discussion, Q&A, relax or swim

6:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

8:30 PM → 8:45 PM Transfer from "Le Squash" to Hotel

Tue, June 30

8:30 AM → 8:45 AM Transfer from hotel to CERN

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Physics at the LHC

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

Speaker: Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

10:00 AM → 11:00 AM 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 AM → 12:00 PM Tour of Atlas experiment exhibition

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

Speaker: Markus Nordberg (CERN)

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

Transfer by CERN bus

12:15 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch

1:45 PM → 2:00 PM Walk to CCC

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Presentation and tour of CERN Control Centre

Speaker: Laurette Ponce (Unknown)

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Transfer to CMS experiment

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM Guided tour of CMS experiment

Speaker: Tejinder Virdee (CERN/Imperial College)

4:00 PM → 4:45 PM Transfer to downtown Geneva

5:00 PM → 7:00 PM 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

7:00 PM → 9:00 PM Dinner

Dinner somewhere in Geneva

9:00 PM → 9:30 PM Transfer from Geneva to hotel

Wed, July 1

8:30 AM → 8:45 AM Transfer from hotel to CERN

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Antimatter and visit of experiment

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

Speaker: Michael Doser (CERN)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM 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 PM → 12:30 PM Visit of the Computer Centre

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

followed by one-on-one interviews during coffee

2:30 PM → 2:55 PM CERN openlab

Speaker: Mr Francois Fluckiger (CERN)

Slides 01_FF-openlab_Education__and_related_things-public.pdf

2:55 PM → 3:15 PM 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

3:15 PM → 4:15 PM 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

3:15 PM → 3:30 PM Students walk to main building

Speaker: Julien Leduc

4:00 PM → 5:00 PM Students meet young openlab researchers

Informal discussion on openlab and other topics

Speaker: Julien Leduc

5:00 PM → 7:00 PM Join summer student reception

8:00 PM → 8:15 PM Transfer from CERN to hotel