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 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 8: Discover Genéve treasure hunt

12.00: Meeting with Gron. Come on! Everybody in line!

Mick Storn was in charged of this programme
 from 1998 to 2013.

My team: Ravjett, Karen, Yossi, Waldemar, Silvia and Bishnu.

Checking questions.



Getting answers.

First break: Directly from South Africa,  Lance the magician.

Particle accelerator.

Second break. Thanks Mick!




Lake crossing.

Broken Chair: A symbol for peace.

United Nations.

17.30. Just in time!

This is the treasure.










DAY 3: A glimpse into Particle Physics

7.00 a.m. My alarm clock wakes me up. It's too early for a Spanish teacher who is on holidays. The schedule gives me and idea of how interesting the day will be. A bit  of Particle Physics, working groups and a Question and Answer Session.  Everything sounds good and even better if our plan in the evening is to go bowling.

Now, at the end of the day, I can tell you that I was right. During the morning and afternoon we've been revising  Particle Physics since the beginning of 20th century until now and learning about how the Standard Model works. Everything in two lectures by Rolf Landua.

After that we discuss for a while about weak charge and colour charge. The problem was finally solved in the Question and Answer Sessions. Thanks Rolf !

And then...



Waiting in a line. Everybody is here?.

Taking the bus in groups of ten.

Ready?

Some members of my bowling team:
Jean-Christophe, Magisha and Elleanor.

 

Having a pizza. Konrad is always smiling!

DAY 1: Welcome reception

Departure time from Santiago de Compostela airport: 9.30 a.m.

Arrival time to Genève airport: 11.30 a.m.

Instead of waiting for an hour to catch a bus I took a taxi. In 15 minutes I arrived at CERN. After walking under the sun for a while, I finally got into my hotel in building 39. Here everything has a number...

and all the streets are named after scientists...

My visitor card.

Our welcome reception was at 5.00 p.m. in restaurant 1, building 501. Numbers again! It must be so difficult to remember all this stuff.

Here you have some photos of the event.

Rolf Landua giving us some tips.

Something to eat before going around CERN.

Discover CERN treasure hunt