17–18 Sept 2026
Lund University, Physics Department
Europe/Stockholm timezone

CERN OpenData for teaching and outreach

18 Sept 2026, 09:50
15m
A-salen (L317) (Lund University, Physics Department)

A-salen (L317)

Lund University, Physics Department

Sölvegatan 14, Lund

Speakers

Alice Ohlson (Lund University (SE)) Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE)) Christian Ohm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE))

Description

The CERN OpenData project has made a huge amount of LHC data open to the public for use in education, outreach, and research.  This data, and the related analysis tools provided by the experiments, can be used in our teaching to give students of all levels hands-on experience in data analysis and introduce them to modern particle physics methods.  In this talk, we will show several examples of OpenData exercises that we have developed for use in our classrooms, and discuss the varied pedagogical goals of the exercises, target student groups, and classroom implementations.

Authors

Alice Ohlson (Lund University (SE)) Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE)) Christian Ohm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE))

Presentation materials