The Geneva Treasure Hunt

The weekend was a real adventure. The time off was really appreciated and on Sunday afternoon, from 3pm-7pm all the teachers from the program participated in a treasure hunt around Geneva. The amazing city was explored from the tram stop, to the cobbled streets of the Old City, to the heights of the Cathedral to the water spray of the Jet D'eau and the boat ride across Lake Geneva. The city is full of amazing architecture, art and history. The evening was spent eating fondue, which was wonderful.

Today we continued on with lectures from Daniel Brandt on an introduction to particle accelerators and the physics ideas behind particle detectors from our resident physicist Gron Jones. The key concepts from Gron's lecture are all to do with momentum and energy, and the importance of the conservation laws in all types of physics, Newtonian and Relativistic. This is a concept that is generally hard for students to grasp, and I hope that the extra information I have gleaned from Gron's lecture will be useful in making better connections in this topic for Physics students.

There was also an announcement of the projects on offer, as we all are to participate in programs that improve the activities already offered by CERN for visiting teachers and students. These projects will be presented at the end of the third week.

Tomorrow holds more lectures and a decision on which project we would like to work on.