UK national media visit

29 Jan 2025, 13:00 → 30 Jan 2025, 17:30 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Steph Hills, STFC's European Communications and Stakeholder Manager, is looking forward to welcoming you to CERN, the UK's national laboratory for particle physics!

Please note this safety notice:

For safety reasons, closed, flat or block-heeled shoes are required for the site visits (duckboard); access to radiation-controlled areas is forbidden to pregnant women. We will be walking between facilities; if you have any mobility issues or any other questions/concerns, please contact stephanie.hills@stfc.ukri.org. 

For practical information about the visit (public transport, accommodation, meals, WiFi instructions...) see the attached PDF. 

Other useful links are:

• PRACTICAL INFORMATION
• PUBLIC TRANSPORT WEBSITE
• CERN WEBSITE

STFC visit practical information January 2025.pdf

Wednesday 29 January

1 Introduction to CERN

Including a welcome from the Director General, Fabiola Gianotti at 13:30

NMV Jan 2025.pdf

NMV Jan 2025.pptx

13:45 Break/transport

2 Visit to Antimatter Factory

Speaker: Dr April Cridland Mathad (Swansea University)

14:45 Break/transport

3 ATLAS IT (cleanroom with Dave Robinson and Sara Alderweireldt)

(B2175)

15:45 Transport - Walk to ATLAS AVC

4 Underground visit to ATLAS detector

Speaker: Adam Rennie (University of Glasgow (GB))

17:15 Pre-dinner break

You can use this break to take the 68 bus to St Genis to check into the ibis before the dinner at O Brasseur (see practical info PDF)

5 Dinner at O Brasseur (St Genis)

Thursday 30 January

08:45 Transport to SM18

6 HL-LHC crab cavities and superconducting string

Amelia Edwards and Sam Pitman
String with tbc

7 CCC with Simon Albright

Current operations (CCC Inside)

10:50 Transport - Walk to New Data Centre

8 Preparing more data - Wayne Salter

New Data Centre, data challenges and sustainability

11:45 Transport to Meyrin

12:00 Lunch and submit interview requests

(Restaurant 1)

9 Meet the DG designate

10 Interviews, self-guided visit to Science Gateway

(Restaurant 1)

16:30 Depart