Tag: Germany
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IMC Coming Up
Upcoming Campaign: 11.02 – 10.04 2026 The IMC 2026 season is in preparation: institutes registration procedure will start on October 17. As soon as schedules are ready the links below will be updated and schools will be able to register. CERN: Fermilab: KEK: GSI: Pierre Auger:
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IMC Contact
Contact Should you have any inquiries or suggestions regarding the International Masterclasses, please do not hesitate to contact us: ippog-imc-contact@cern.ch Acknowledgements In 1997, the IMC program started in the UK, see report by Roger Barlow in CERN courier 2014. The next step happened in 2005, the World Year of Physics, when the program was organised in many…
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25th IPPOG spring meeting in Sofia
Another wonderful international meeting has just finished. We were in Sofia, Bulgaria. From May 9th to May 13th, 2023, one of the most dynamic and lively IPPOG events took place at the marvelous district of Sofia Tech Park. The afternoon of May 9th was dedicated to the International Masterclasses meeting led by the two coordinators,…
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A Beamline For Schools – 10th edition
Let’s start this new year with a wonderful announcement: the international competition “Beamline for Schools” is now in its 10th edition! BL4S is an ideal opportunity to expose today’s cutting-edge physics to tomorrow’s scientists. The competition began in 2014 to celebrate CERN’s 60th Anniversary and had already nine successful runs beamline-for-schools.web.cern.ch What is Beamline for…
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IPPOG: 25th years of public commitment
The particle physics community has a moral obligation to inform the public on its activities. To do this well, experiences must be shared among countries in view of the need to optimise the use of resources These were the words of the former-CERN Director General Chris Llewellyn Smith during the first EPOG meeting in September…
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Summer job opportunities for physics students
It is well known that summer is a holiday period. Many people have more free time, and they use it to travel, eat out, visit places of interest and relax, pursue their hobbies, do more shopping and even find a seasonal job.Especially for future particle physicist there are many opportunities. In this article we will…
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Teaching the Standard Model with charges and interactions
This article is part of the proceedings of the GIREP-MPTL conference 2018. It describes the key ideas and argumentation steps of the teaching approach developed by Netzwerk Teilchenwelt for the introduction of the base concepts of the Standard Model of particle physics, namely charges, interactions and particles. This approach is the basis for the four-volume…
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Explaining Particle Physics to the Public
IPPOG forum members regularly discuss how to explain complex particle physics topics to the public. This specific working group took up the challenge to extract, from a long tradition, a wide range of working documents and even more ideas, the following stories: More are expected by the end of 2024, and will be grouped in…
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IMC – International Masterclasses
Mandate The organisers of the international activities (IMC) and the developers of the Masterclass measurements are organised in a steering group that meets and reports during each IPPOG collaboration meeting. Conveners Members Steering group members: Ralf Averbeck, GSI, Germany (ALICE Masterclass), Uta Bilow, TU Dresden, Germany (ATLAS W Masterclass), Ken Cecire, University of Notre Dame, U.S.…
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Netzwerk Teilchenwelt
INTRO On the track of the Big Bang. In the network “Netzwerk Teilchenwelt” one can enjoy particle physics and astroparticle physics to touch. At workshops in schools, student labs or museums, young people and teachers across the whole of Germany experience the world of Quarks, Elektron & Co. with real data from science or their…