DAY 21: Bye, bye CERN

Thank you very much to CERN, Konrad, Rolf, Gron and Maureen for these
 unforgettable weeks. I hope to see you again some day.



Day 20: Clossing session and barbacue.

Final presentations of working groups 3, 5, 1 and 4 and clossing session.

Cosmic rays.



Open SESAME!

Masterclasses in developing countries.

Teaching resources.

Nice finish: voleyball, barbecue and party at restaurant 1.

Day 19: The end is coming...!

In the morning, we've attended the last three lectures: Open questions in particle physics by Rolf Landua, The CLIC Project by Lucie Linssen (CERN) and Future Circular Collider Study by Michael Benedikt (CERN).

In the afternoon working groups 7, 2 and 6 have presented their final reports. Well done!

Measuring the impact of HST Programme.

We love 'bubble chambers'!

New School Experiments at CERN's S'Cool Lab

DAY 18: Chat with the General Director

8.45 a.m. Ask Rolf about CERN.

Rolf Heuer is a German paticle physicist and
the General Director of CERN since 2009.

In a few minutes two lectures: From particle physics to medical applications by Manjit Dosanjh and Accelerating Innovation by Enrico Chesta from Knowledge Transfer, CERN.  

 

Meanwhile, some people are working hard in their presentation for tomorrow.

 

In the afternoon, a pretty interesting Question & Answer Session with Michelangelo Mangano: quark-gluon plasma state, black holes, hidden dimensions, geometry of space-time,...

Thank you very much for your time and your explanations.

 

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.

DAY 16: Workshop and International Evening.

Workshop in building 216 by Greg and Kevin from Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Canada). We've been almost 5 hours doing experiments and discussing results... 

Different models can produce the same
observation in our universe.

Double slit experiment with classical particles.

Double slit experiment with waves.

Making predictions.

My team analizing results: How are mass and velocity
 connected in circular motion? The first clue of the
existence of dark matter.
 

... and then International Evening.

Cooking in the hostel kitchen.

The Spanish corner.

DAY 15: Just resting!

Yesterday was a long day for most of us... So, today is going to be 'The rest day', but only until 19.30, when we will attend the second lecture about History of Scientific Ideas in Western Culture by Gron Jones.

I'll come back tomorrow.

DAY 14: Free day in Chamonix-Mont Blanc.

Going to the mountains.



Feeling the pressure

Glacier des Bossons.



At CERN again.