European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN (Switzerland)
| CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest centers for scientific research. Founded in 1954, the CERN was one of Europe’s first joint ventures and now it has 20 Member States. Its business is fundamental physics. At CERN, the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments are used to study the basic constituents of matter — the fundamental particles. The instruments used at CERN are particle accelerators and detectors. Accelerators boost beams of particles to high energies before they are made to collide with each other or with stationary targets. Detectors observe and record the results of these collisions. Two experiments involving particle detectors ATLAS and CMS comprise more than 2000 scientists and engineers each. Both experiments will make some part of the data available for students around the world and are developing tools to facilitate student analyses. In Go-Lab, the CERN team is involved in the Go-Lab federation of online labs (WP2) and in the Implementation (WP7). CERN will offer access to scientific data from the ATLAS and CMS detectors as well as to series of interactive applications (AMELIA, ATLANTIS, LHC Game, CernLand) that will be integrated in the classroom practice. Further, CERN will integrate the Go-Lab scenarios in the international and national physics teacher programs with the goal of bringing the excitement of modern physics research into classrooms in an intuitive way. Similar activities will be also organized in scope of the CERN visits program and all CERN exhibitions. CERN will act as National Coordinator of the project implementation in Switzerland. |
Address: European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN CH-1211, Genève 23, Switzerland |