Vilnius Jesuit Gymnasium (VJG)

10 Mar 2019, 10:45 → 13 Mar 2019, 22:15 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.

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

The Hostel Reception is located in building 39. Please enter the site via the CERN Reception or Entrance B (for more info refer to the enclosed document).

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

Sunday 10 March

10:45 → 11:45 Arrival to CERN Hostel

Check-in possible from 14:00 (luggage can be kept at the Reception until check-in)

13:00 → 18:00 Visit: Geneva city

Monday 11 March

07:15 → 08:15 Breakfast

Cafeteria / Restaurant No.1 NOVAE (Meyrin)
Mo-Fri 06:30-00:00, Meals:11:30-14:15,18:00-21:30
Sat-Sun 07:00-22:00, Meals:11:30-14:00,18:00-19:30

08:15 → 08:25 Meeting at the Hostel Reception

08:30 → 09:20 Welcome and General Introduction to CERN's activities

Speaker: Prof. Christoph Schaefer (CERN)

09:30 → 09:55 Visit: CERN's first accelerator - the Synchrocyclotron

Speaker: Prof. Christoph Schaefer (CERN)

10:00 → 10:30 Collect access cards at Building 55

Passport needed

10:35 → 11:35 Lecture: Detecting particles at CERN: Particle Detectors

Speaker: Aurelijus Rinkevicius (Cornell University (US))

19.03.11_Particle_detectors_Rinkevicius.pdf

11:45 → 12:45 Lunch

12:45 → 13:00 Meeting at the Hostel Reception walking to AD

13:00 → 13:50 Visit: Antiproton Decelerator

Speakers: Dr Dainius Simelevicius (Vilnius University (LT)), Giovanni Porcellana

14:00 → 14:45 Visit: Data Centre

Speaker: Giovanni Porcellana

14:55 → 15:35 Visit: ATLAS Visitor Centre

Speaker: Dr Dainius Simelevicius (Vilnius University (LT))

15:45 → 17:15 Workshop: Build your own Cloud Chamber

Speaker: Alexandra Jansky (University of Vienna (AT))

17:15 → 18:15 Dinner

Tuesday 12 March

07:45 → 08:45 Breakfast

08:45 → 08:55 Meeting at the Hostel Reception

09:00 → 09:30 Transport to CMS

09:30 → 10:30 Visit: Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) underground area

10:30 → 11:00 Transport from CMS to the CERN Hostel

11:00 → 12:00 Lecture: Particle Physics and A Life of a Scientist

Speaker: Migle Stankaityte (University of Oxford (GB))

Fizika_ir_Gyvenimas_Prezentacija

12:00 → 12:50 Lecture: LHC and Future Particle Accelerators Projects - Engineering Challenges

Speaker: Tadeusz Kurtyka

12:50 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 13:50 Meeting point at the Hostel Reception

Have your computer ready

14:00 → 15:30 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

Requirements: Laptop

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

15:45 → 17:00 Self-guided tour to Microcosm and Globe permanent exhibitions

17:00 → 19:00 Dinner

Lithuanians @ CERN also present

Wednesday 13 March

09:00 → 10:00 Check-out

Possible until 10:00 (luggage can be kept at the Reception until departure time)

10:00 → 15:00 Visit: UN headquarters in Geneva, Permanent Mission of Lithuania and WIPO

16:00 → 17:00 Departure