DAY 17: Alice!

7.45 a.m. My alarm clock wakes me up again. After the International evening, today is going to be hard. I've just checked the agenda on my phone: lectures in the morning and visits in the afternoon, as usual.

9.00. Rolf Landua talks about CERN and education. Here you can read how to arrange a visit with your students.

10.00. Kate Shaw talks about IPPOG (International Particle Physics Outreach Group) that organizes masterclasses to high-school students from all over the world. This event takes place every year in March at a local University and consists in introductory lectures, analysis of real LHC data and an international video conference with CERN.

11.00. Steven Goldfarb from University of Michigan talks about the role of communication in science and the goals of the Outreach Department, that are focussed mainly in atract and retain the next generation of scientists and science educators.

He is showing us resources from the outreach platform, such as
ATLAS virtual visit or hangouts with CERN
every Thursday at 17.00.

11.45. Julia Woithe from Universitaet Kaiserslautern  talks about CERN S'cool lab, which was officially inaugurated on July 3rd, 2014. Lots of experiments can be done here such as, Rutherford's experiment, measurement of Planck's constant or cosmic ray detection using a cloud chamber.

Look at this video: S'Cool Lab: the complete story.

In the afternooon two visits: COMPASS (COmmon Muon Proton Appararus for Structure and Spectroscopy) and ALICE (A Large Hadron Collider Experiment)...

COMPASS experiment is located at surface.
We can see its different layers
unlike the other four main detectors.

The aim of COMPASS experiment is to investigate
 how quarks and gluons interact to give particles we observe.

Nearly 240 physicists from 13 countries
and 24 institutions work in COMPASS experiment. 

Going underground again to visit ALICE.

ALICE experiment studies gluon-quark plasma, a state of
matter that was formed just after the big bang.

ALICE detector is 26m long, 16m high
and 16 wide. 



Waiting for the bus to come back CERN.

... and in the evening the third lecture about History of scientific ideas in western culture by Gron Jones.

Discussion at the end of the lecture.