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HST

HST 2000 Programme

First Week

Second week Third week



First Week

Sunday July 2
7:30pm, CERN Cafeteria (outdoor if no rain): Informal get-together

Monday July 3,
9:00am-9:30pm Building 60 (main building), 6th floor - Registration
9:30am-12:30pm Building 60 (main building), 6th floor
Welcome and Introduction to the HST Programme
Introduction of all participants
2pm-5pm, Building 60 (main building), 6th floor
Continue Introduction of all participants

Tuesday July 4
9:30am-12:30pm, Building B593 room 13 (HST bldg)
Mick Storr: Assignment of office space, introduction to the computing facilities
2:30pm-4:30pm, room to be assigned
Emma Sanders and James Gillies: Introduction to CERN's Microcosm, and to CERN's hands-on activities and travelling exhibits.
4:30pm-6:00pm, CERN Cafeteria,
Welcome drink for Summer Students and High School teachers

Wednesday July 5
10:15am-12:00pm, Main Auditorium
Luciano Maiani, CERN Director General, Opening of Summer Student Lecture programme
2:00pm-4:00pm, Main Auditorium
Summer Student Lectures (see separate programme)
4:30pm-5:30pm, room to be assigned
Neil Calder, CERN Press Office, Introduction to available documentation about CERN (booklets, photo packages, video-tapes, etc.) and to the Physics on Stage
initiative.

Thursday July 6
9:15am-12:00pm, Main Auditorium
Summer Student Lectures (see separate programme)
2:00pm-5:00pm, HST Bldg
Gron Jones: An Introductory Look at the Exchange Model of Forces
All: discussion

Friday July 7
9:15am-12:00pm, Main Auditorium
Summer Student Lectures (see separate programme)
2:00pm-6:00pm, HST Bldg
Stefan Haslinger and Christian Gottfried: An Introductory to the ESPACE package for the development of teaching units using the Web.
All: discussion, and first assessment of the course progress.

Second week

Monday July 10
9:15am-12:00pm, Main Auditorium
Summer Student Lectures (see separate programme)
2:00pm-6:00pm, HST Bldg
Gron Jones: ``From Athens to E = mc**2''
All: discussion
Working group activities

Tuesday July 11
9:15am-12:00pm, Main Auditorium
Summer Student Lectures (see separate programme)
2:00pm-6:00pm, ALEPH TPC Bldg (precise location to be announced)
Sascha Schmeling: presentation of and work with Particle Physics experiments for Schools

Wednesday July 12
9:15am-12:00pm, Main Auditorium
Summer Student Lectures (see separate programme)
2:00pm-6:00pm, HST Bldg
Louis Kruger: Proposal for ``An Internet-Based Learning Community for Physics Teachers''
Discussion
Working group activities

Thursday July 13
9:15am-12:00pm, Main Auditorium
Summer Student Lectures (see separate programme)
2:00pm-5:00pm, LEAR building
Rolf Landua: Introduction to the physics goals of LEAR and AD
RL: guided tour of the LEAR accelerator complex
RL: guided tour of the AD experiments

Friday July 14
9:15am-12:00pm, Main Auditorium
Summer Student Lectures (see separate programme)
2:00pm-6:00pm, HST Bldg
Working group activities
Weekly course review and discussion.

Third week

Monday July 17
9:15am-12:00pm, Main Auditorium
Summer Student Lectures (see separate programme)
2:00pm-6:00pm, HST Bldg
Michelangelo Mangano: Simple physics concepts, and their use in understanding modern physics
All: discussion
Working group activities

Tuesday July 18
9:15am-12:00pm, Main Auditorium
Summer Student Lectures (see separate programme)
2:00pm-6:00pm, HST Bldg
Working group activities

Wednesday July 19
9:15am-12:00pm, Main Auditorium
Summer Student Lectures (see separate programme)
2:00pm-4:30pm, HST Bldg
Ted Wilson: Introduction to accelerator physics, and applications to non HEP

Thursday July 20
9:15am-12:00pm, Main Auditorium
Summer Student Lectures (see separate programme)
2:00pm-6:00pm, HST Bldg
Working group activities

Friday July 21
9:15am-12:00pm, Main Auditorium
Summer Student Lectures (see separate programme)
2:00pm-6:00pm, HST Bldg
Final presentations by the Working Groups
Overall evaluation of the programme, discussion
7:00pm-> no limit, place to be decided
Farewell party

Saturday July 22
Departures

Other activities planned for some of the afternoons, dates to be assigned:

Visit to the LEP experiments
Discussion of possible EU-sponsored education projects to be done in collaboration with CERN
Computing tutorials
Discussion of your own proposals, presentations by the participants, etc.
Discussions with lecturers of summer student courses

The details of the working group activities will be specified as the programme develops.


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