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

1 Arrival

Group arrives at airport by train

2 Transfer to hotel - check-in

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

3 Hike in the Jura mountains

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

4 Informal Get-Together

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

5 Dinner at La Mainaz

6 Transfer from La Mainaz to hotel

Monday 29 June

7 Transfer from hotel to CERN

CERN bus brings group to Globe of Science and Innovation

8 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

9 CERN shop

Pass via CERN boutique and walk to building 6

10 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

11 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 Lunch Break

Lunch in restaurant 2 (self-service)

12 Particle Detectors

An introduction to Particle Detectors and their application

Speaker: David Barney (CERN)

Slides ParticleDetectorsOverview.pdf ParticleDetectorsOverview.ppt

13 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)

14 Finish the day at the pool next to CERN

Informal discussion, Q&A, relax or swim

18:30 Dinner

15 Transfer from "Le Squash" to Hotel

Tuesday 30 June

16 Transfer from hotel to CERN

17 Physics at the LHC

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

Speaker: Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

18 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

19 Tour of Atlas experiment exhibition

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

Speaker: Markus Nordberg (CERN)

20 Transfer to Prevessin lab 2

Transfer by CERN bus

12:15 Lunch

21 Walk to CCC

22 Presentation and tour of CERN Control Centre

Speaker: Laurette Ponce (Unknown)

23 Transfer to CMS experiment

24 Guided tour of CMS experiment

Speaker: Tejinder Virdee (CERN/Imperial College)

25 Transfer to downtown Geneva

26 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 Dinner

Dinner somewhere in Geneva

27 Transfer from Geneva to hotel

Wednesday 1 July

28 Transfer from hotel to CERN

29 Antimatter and visit of experiment

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

Speaker: Michael Doser (CERN)

10:30 Coffee break

30 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

31 Visit of the Computer Centre

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

followed by one-on-one interviews during coffee

32 CERN openlab

Speaker: Mr Francois Fluckiger (CERN)

Slides 01_FF-openlab_Education__and_related_things-public.pdf

33 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

34 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

35 Students walk to main building

Speaker: Julien Leduc

36 Students meet young openlab researchers

Informal discussion on openlab and other topics

Speaker: Julien Leduc

37 Join summer student reception

38 Transfer from CERN to hotel