Riga Technical University - Engineering High School

18 Mar 2019, 10:45 → 21 Mar 2019, 21:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Dear Students,

We warmly invite you to register to your upcoming CERN visit.

Please proceed as follows in order to obtain a temporary access badge:

1. Register and indicate your first name, last name, email address, birth date, country of birth and place of birth.

2. We have to approve your request in order for you to receive a confirmation email that will allow you to download and print your temporary access card.

3. Please print and bring this card with you in order to enter the CERN site.

Find out how to get to CERN.

We recommend you to download the app “MapCERN” prior to your arrival which will help you to find your way on the CERN site.

The Hostel Reception is located in building 39. Please enter the site via the CERN Reception (during opening hours: Monday - Friday from 8am to 5.45pm, Saturday 8.30am to 5.15pm) or Entrance B (24/7).

We remind you that important safety instructions are applicable to all CERN Guided Tours. Failure to respect any of these instructions may lead to your guided tour being cancelled! Please read them carefully and share them with all visitors:

Safety information for the visitors: closed, flat or block-heeled shoes are required for the site visits (duckboard) and helmets will be provided; Access to underground areas is limited for pregnant women and for persons equipped with any of the following: pacemaker, defibrillator, electronic medicine dispenser, hearing aid, metal implant.

Internet Access for Visitors.pdf

Route Gate B to CERN Hostel.pdf

Monday 18 March

10:45 Arrival

Tuesday 19 March

07:50 Breakfast

Cafeteria / Restaurant No.1 NOVAE (Meyrin)
Mo-Fri 06:30-00:00, Meals:11:30-14:15,18:00-21:30

08:45 Meeting at the Hostel Reception

1 Welcome and General Introduction to CERN's activities

Speaker: Prof. Christoph Schaefer (CERN)

2 Visit: CERN's first accelerator - the Synchrocyclotron

Speaker: Prof. Christoph Schaefer (CERN)

3 Visit: ATLAS Visitor Centre

Speaker: Antonella Del Rosso (CERN)

11:40 Lunch break

12:40 Meeting at the Hostel Reception

Walking to the Data Centre ~10minutes

4 Visit: Data Centre

Speaker: Giovanni Porcellana

5 Visit: Antiproton Decelerator

Speakers: Giovanni Porcellana, Xiaofeng Yang (University of California Los Angeles (US))

15:10 Meeting at the CERN Reception

6 Workshop: Build your own Cloud Chamber

Speaker: Michal Zamkovsky (Charles University (CZ))

17:00 Dinner

Wednesday 20 March

07:10 Breakfast

Cafeteria / Restaurant No.1 NOVAE (Meyrin)
Mo-Fri 06:30-00:00, Meals:11:30-14:15,18:00-21:30

08:15 Meeting at the Hostel Reception

7 Lecture: Medical Applications

Speaker: Rita Ferreira (CERN)

8 Lecture: Robotics activities at CERN

Speaker: Arturs Ivanovs (Riga Technical University (LV))

9 Self-guided tour to Microcosm and Globe permanent exhibitions

12:00 Lunch break

13:00 Transport from the Hostel Reception to AMS and CCC

10 Visit: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)

Speaker: Alexis Kalogeropoulos (Princeton University)

11 Visit: CERN Control Center (CCC)

Speaker: Alexis Kalogeropoulos (Princeton University)

15:00 Transport from CCC to the Hostel Reception

15:15 Meeting at the Hostel Reception

Bring your computer

12 Workshop: Explore your coding skills

Take part in your own scientific adventure and explore your coding skills by programming proton beam alignment inside the CMS detector

DON'T FORGET YOUR COMPUTER

Speakers: Marzena Lapka (CERN), Piotr Traczyk (National Centre for Nuclear Research (PL))

17:00 Transport from the Hostel Reception to CMS

13 Visit: CMS underground area

Speakers: Arturs Ivanovs (Riga Technical University (LV)), Atanu Modak (Kansas State University (US)), Hussein Maziad (Lebanese American University (LB)), Muhammad Bilal Kiani (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

19:00 Transport from CMS to the Hostel Reception

19:30 Dinner

Thursday 21 March

05:30 Departure