DESY Summerstudent Lecture and Event Programme 2024

16 Jul 2024, 08:00 → 5 Sept 2024, 20:00 Europe/Berlin

Auditorium (DESY)

The programme consists of lectures and events:

• The lectures are listed in the timetable. They provide introductions and overviews on selected key topics of DESY research in Particle and Astro-Particle Physics, Photon Science, as well as in Accelerators. The lectures cover both experimental and theory aspects. 

• The events are listed in the tables below (a subset is also listed in the timetable). They comprise welcome/final meetings, social events, tours and more.

Events:

The DESY places mentioned in the following can found  on this special map (or see the full map). A special map shows the pedestrain paths to FLASH SR28c.

Date	Time	Place	Event	Webpage	Comments
Tu 16 July	10-11am	FLASH SR 28c	Welcome Session	Link	Please bring all the necessary documents mentioned here with you.
Tu 16 July	4-6pm	FLASH SR 28c	Welcome coffee & cake
Th 18 July	11.15-11:30	FLASH SR 28c	Photo taking
Th 18 July	11:20-11:30	FLASH SR 28c	Collect fee for boat trip 25. July		Each participant of boat trip please pay 7 Euro in cash
Th 18 July	4-5pm	SR1	Greetings/Welcome of DESY Ukraine school students	Link	Only for participants of DESY Ukraine school
Fr 19 July	6-10pm	Canteen Extension bld. 9a	Welcome Dinner
Mo 22 July	2-4pm	Foyer of Bld. 1	DESY Tour	Register here during 17-20 July	For up to 50 participants
Tu 23 July	2-4pm	Foyer of Bld. 1	DESY Tour	Register here during 17-20 July	For up to 50 participants
Th 25 July	6-8pm	In Hamburg Harbour	Boat trip	Registration (deadline 17 July) and Info here	7 Euro fee payment see above
Tu 30 July	2.30-4.30pm	SR1	Workshop: 'Create a career that fits'	More info and registration here Registration during 24-29 July on first come first serve base	Max. 15 participants
Tu 31 July	2.30-4.30pm	SR3	Workshop: 'Create a career that fits'	More info and registration here Registration during 24-29 July on first come first serve base	Max. 15 participants
Tu 13 Aug	09:00-early afternoon	XFEL experimental site Schenefeld	XFEL Tour	More info here
We 14 Aug	2.30-5.30pm	DESY main audit. Bld. 5	DASHH/PIER graduate schools present themselves	More info here
We 21 Aug	4-5 pm	ZOOM	DAAD Funding opportunities	Link
Th 22 Aug	5:30-9.30pm	Canteen Extension Bld. 9a	Fest of international students	More info to come	This will be a Barbecue event for all Summies: DESY Hamburg/Zeuthen + Ukraine school
We 28 Aug	2.30pm-6pm	ZOOM	DESY summer student Alumni meeting	Link	We will meet with DESY summer students  from previous years for information exchange
We-Th 4-5 Sep	10am-1pm	DESY main audit. Bld. 5	Final student session	Link	Presentations on selected work projects; programme evaluation and closing words

 

Next Table: Special Tours on the DESY Campus with limited number of participants and individual registration in Indico on first come first serve basis. Registration will be open during 24-31 July. Please register for a max. of 2 tours. July 30-31 it is allowed to register for further tours in case there are still free places available.

Date	Time	Venue	Event	Webpage	Comment
Th Aug 1	2-4pm	See map at link	FLASH Accelerator	Link	30 mins tour
Mo Aug 5	2-4pm	See map at link	Testbeam Tour	Link	DESY II test beam
Tu Aug 6	2:00 - 2:30pm	See map at link	REGAE tour 1	Link	REGAE
Tu Aug 6	3-4pm	See map at link	PETRA Accelerator Tour	Link	Tour inside the PETRA tunnel
We Aug 7	10:00 - 10:30am 10:30 - 11:00am	See map at link	REGAE tour 2 and 3	Link	REGAE
We Aug 7	2-4.30pm	See map at link	ALPS Tour	Link	ALPS II experiment at HERA-North - searching for Axions
Fr Aug 9	2-3.30 pm	See map at link	PETRA III imaging beamlines and PETRA upgrade	Link
Aug 15,16,19	2pm	See map at link	Tour of DESY Computing Centre	Link
Aug 19	2pm, 2.45pm	See map at link	Detector Assembly Facility	Link	where ATLAS and CMS High Lumi LHC  Tracker Endcaps  are assembled

 

Tuesday 16 July

1 Welcome Session

This event has its own Indico webpage: https://indico.desy.de/event/45395/

2 General safety instructions for students working on HEP or M projects (students working on Photon Science projects or at XFEL have their own instructions and should NOT join)

Wednesday 17 July

3 Introduction to HEP 1

This is a basic introduction to the world of particle physics addressing all physicists and requiring no pre-knowledge on the topic.

Speaker: Achim Geiser (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe QCD))

ParticlePhysicsResearch24a.pdf

4 Introduction to HEP 2

Speaker: Achim Geiser (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe QCD))

5 Discussion time

Thursday 18 July

6 Introduction to HEP 3

Speaker: Achim Geiser (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe QCD))

ParticlePhysicsResearch24b.pdf

7 Introduction to HEP 4

Speaker: Achim Geiser (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe QCD))

8 Discussion time

9 Introduction to Photon Science 1

Speaker: Sadia Bari (FS-BIG (Biomolekuele in Gasphase))

Introduction Photon Science_I_Bari_Jul24.pdf

Friday 19 July

10 Introduction to Photon Science 2

Speaker: Sadia Bari (FS-BIG (Biomolekuele in Gasphase))

Introduction Photon Science_II_Bari_Jul24.pdf

11 Introduction to Photon Science 3

Speaker: Sadia Bari (FS-BIG (Biomolekuele in Gasphase))

Introduction Photon Science_III_Bari_Jul24.pdf

12 Discusssion time

Monday 22 July

13 Accelerator physics 1

Speakers: Dr Michaela Schaumann (MPY (Beschleunigerphysik)), Michaela Schaumann (CERN)

DESYSummerStudentLectrues_2024_IntroductionToAccelerators_Schaumann_L1.pptx

14 Accelerator physics 2

Speakers: Dr Michaela Schaumann (MPY (Beschleunigerphysik)), Michaela Schaumann (CERN)

DESYSummerStudentLectrues_2024_IntroductionToAccelerators_Schaumann_L2.pptx

15 Discusssion time

16 DESY Tour

This event has its own Indico webpage: https://indico.desy.de/event/45444/

Tuesday 23 July

17 Accelerator physics 3

Speakers: Michaela Schaumann (CERN), Dr Michaela Schaumann (MPY (Beschleunigerphysik))

DESYSummerStudentLectrues_2024_IntroductionToAccelerators_Schaumann_L3.pptx

18 Accelerator physics 4

Speakers: Michaela Schaumann (CERN), Dr Michaela Schaumann (MPY (Beschleunigerphysik))

DESYSummerStudentLectrues_2024_IntroductionToAccelerators_Schaumann_L4.pptx

19 Discussion time

20 DESY Tour

This event has its own Indico page: https://indico.desy.de/event/45445/

Wednesday 24 July

21 PS: X-ray Spectroscopy of Quantum Materials

Speaker: Markus Scholz (FS-FLASH (FLASH))

summer_school_mscholz_2024.pdf

Thursday 25 July

22 HEP: Detectors 1

Speakers: Ingrid-Maria Gregor (DESY/Uni Bonn), Simon Spannagel (DESY)

Detectors_Summer2024_part1.pdf

23 HEP: Detectors 2

Speakers: Ingrid-Maria Gregor (DESY/Uni Bonn), Simon Spannagel (DESY)

2024-07-25-Summerstudent-Lecture-part2.pdf

24 HEP: Detectors 3

Speakers: Ingrid-Maria Gregor (DESY/Uni Bonn), Simon Spannagel (DESY)

Detectors_Summer2024_part3.pdf

25 HEP: Detectors - discussion time

Friday 26 July

26 HEP: Detectors 4

Speakers: Ingrid-Maria Gregor (DESY/Uni Bonn), Simon Spannagel (DESY)

2024-07-26-Summerstudent-Lectures-Tracking-Detectors (1).pdf

27 HEP: Detectors 5

Speakers: Ingrid-Maria Gregor (DESY/Uni Bonn), Simon Spannagel (DESY)

Detectors_Summer2024_part5.pdf

28 HEP: Detectors 6

Speakers: Ingrid-Maria Gregor (DESY/Uni Bonn), Simon Spannagel (DESY)

29 HEP: Detectors - discussion time

Tuesday 30 July

30 PS: X-Ray Nano-Analytics and Microscopy 1

Speaker: Christian Schroer (FS-PETRA (PETRA III))

X-Ray Microscopy 01.pdf

X-Ray Microscopy 02.pdf

31 Create a Career That Fits

Aims:
- gain awareness on strategic career planning
- reflect on your own expertise and values
- use tools to be your own advocate
- know the power connection

Methods: 
-i ndividual and group activities, discussion and reflection 

There will be a separate indico page for this training event with participant registration. Please take note that the workshop is limited to a maximum of 15 participants.

Speaker: Annette Leemans (PE (Personalentwicklung))

Wednesday 31 July

32 PS: X-Ray Nano-Analytics and Microscopy 2

Speaker: Christian Schroer (FS-PETRA (PETRA III))

33 HEP: LHC Physics 1

Speakers: Lydia Beresford (CERN), Lydia Beresford (ATLAS (ATLAS-Experiment))

LHCPhysics_Beresford_Intro.pdf

34 HEP: LHC Physics 2

Speakers: Lydia Beresford (ATLAS (ATLAS-Experiment)), Lydia Beresford (CERN)

LHCPhysics_Beresford_EWTop.pdf

35 HEP: LHC physics - discussion time

36 Create a Career That Fits

Aims:
- gain awareness on strategic career planning
- reflect on your own expertise and values
- use tools to be your own advocate
- know the power connection

Methods: 
-i ndividual and group activities, discussion and reflection 

There will be a separate indico page for this training event with participant registration. Please take note that the workshop is limited to a maximum of 15 participants.

Speaker: Annette Leemans (PE (Personalentwicklung))

Thursday 1 August

37 HEP: LHC Physics 3

Speakers: Lydia Beresford (ATLAS (ATLAS-Experiment)), Lydia Beresford (CERN)

LHCPhysics_Beresford_Higgs.pdf

38 HEP: LHC Physics 4

Speakers: Lydia Beresford (CERN), Lydia Beresford (ATLAS (ATLAS-Experiment))

LHCPhysics_Beresford_BSM.pdf

39 HEP: LHC Physics - discussion time

Friday 2 August

40 PS: Diagnostic of Light

Speaker: Ulrike Fruehling (FS-FLASH-O (FLASH Scientific User Operation))

41 Dark Matter 1

This lecture is focusing on evidences for dark matter in the universe and the axion as one of the prime dark matter candidates. Furthermore, astrophysical motivations for the existence of axions are discussed.

Speakers: Axel Lindner (ALPS (ALPS _ Any Light Particle Search)), Christina Schwemmbauer (ALPS (ALPS _ Any Light Particle Search)), Clara Garcia Perez

DM1.pdf

42 Dark Matter 2

In this lecture different basic approaches for axion search experiments are presented and the ALPS II experiment at DESY, which started data taking in May 2023, is discussed in some detail. In addition, actual PhD theses in the context of ALPS II are
sketched, including opportunities for other direct dark matter searches.

Speakers: Axel Lindner (ALPS (ALPS _ Any Light Particle Search)), Christina Schwemmbauer (ALPS (ALPS _ Any Light Particle Search)), Clara Garcia Perez

DM2.pdf

43 Dark Matter - discussion time

Monday 5 August

44 PS: Scattering Methods for Investigation of Sustainable Materials

Speaker: Stephan Roth (FS-SMA (Sustainable Materials))

Talk_Roth_SummersStudents_August2024.pdf

Tuesday 6 August

45 PS: Fundamentals of X-ray Matter Interaction

Speakers: Sang-Kil Son (FS-CFEL-3 (FS-CFEL-3 Fachgruppe 3)), Sang-Kil Son (CFEL-DESY)

Photon Science Lecture 2024.pdf

46 HEP: Quantum Chromo Dynamics 1

Abstract:
Quantum Chromodynamics is the part of the Standard Model
that describes the strong interactions between quarks and
gluons, which bind to protons, neutrons, etc. The lectures
will cover several aspects of this theory, with a focus on
phenomena and methods relevant to collider physics. Where
needed, some background from quantum field theory will be
provided.

Topics covered:
- perturbation theory, running coupling and scale dependence
- QCD in electron-positron annihilation, hadronic jets
- from the parton model to the concept of factorisation
- QCD in Monte Carlo event generators
- parton distribution functions

Speaker: Markus Diehl (DESY)

lect-1.pdf

47 HEP: Quantum Chromo Dynamics 2

Speaker: Markus Diehl (DESY)

lect-2.pdf

48 HEP: Quantum Chromo Dynamics - discussion time

Thursday 8 August

49 HEP: Quantum Chromo Dynamics 3

Speaker: Markus Diehl (DESY)

lect-3.pdf

50 PS: Ultrafast Phenomena 1

Speaker: Robin Santra (DESY & UHH)

talk1.pdf

51 HEP: Quantum Chromo Dynamics 4

Speaker: Markus Diehl (DESY)

lect-4.pdf

52 HEP: Quantum Chromo Dynamics - discussion time

Friday 9 August

53 PS: Ultrafast Phenomena 2

Speaker: Robin Santra (DESY & UHH)

talk2.pdf

Monday 12 August

54 Science at the European XFEL

Speaker: Robert Feidenhans'l (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

Tuesday 13 August

55 XFEL Tour

See webpage https://indico.desy.de/event/45637/

Wednesday 14 August

56 Introduction to Machine Learning 1

Speakers: Matthias Komm (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches)), Matthias Komm

summerstudents_ml.pdf

57 Introduction to Machine Learning 2

Speakers: Matthias Komm (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches)), Matthias Komm

58 Introduction to Machine Learning - discussion time

59 Dashh/Pier Graduate schools present themselves to the summer students

This event has its own Indico webpage: https://indico.desy.de/event/45440/

Friday 16 August

60 Introduction to Scientific Computing at DESY

Speaker: Dr Kilian Schwarz (IT (IT Scientific Computing))

SC-introduction-final.pdf

61 Sustainable Computing

Speaker: Yves Kemp (IT (IT Systems))

SustainableComputing-Summerstudents-20240816.pdf

SustainableComputing-Summerstudents-20240816.pptx

Tuesday 20 August

62 HEP: Future Colliders 1

The „next big thing“ in HEP colliders has still a long way to go. While the
community agrees that the next energy-frontier collider should be a Higgs
Factory, the path towards realisation, the form factor, or even the family
of colliding particles has still to be decided. The path towards very high
collision energies is even less clear and has a lot of technological
challenges to pass. I will discuss the possible developments starting with
HL-LHC towards the next circular (FCC, CEPC, Muons) or linear (ILC, CLIC)
collider.

Speaker: Dr Karsten Buesser (DESY)

240820_Future_Colliders.pdf

63 HEP: Future Colliders 2

Speaker: Dr Karsten Buesser (DESY)

64 HEP: Future Colliders - discussion time

Wednesday 21 August

65 Plasma Wakefield Acceleration 1

Speaker: Andreas Maier (MLS (Laser fuer Plasmabeschleunigung))

66 Plasma Wakefield Acceleration II

Speaker: Andreas Maier (MLS (Laser fuer Plasmabeschleunigung))

67 DAAD Funding Opportunities in Germany for international students

This ZOOM online event has its own webpage at https://indico.desy.de/event/45986/

Friday 23 August

68 Astroparticle Physics 1

I will give a short introduction in the physics and detection method of
high-energy astrophysics. This includes a discussion of the highest
energetic particles in the Universe, well beyond what can be produced in
man-made accelerators. Mechanism for acceleration, propagation and
interaction of charged cosmic rays, high-energetic gamma rays and neutrinos
are discussed in the context of the large astroparticle projects IceCube and
CTA, which form a central part of DESY’s activities in this field.

Speaker: Gernot Maier (DESY)

20240823-DESY-Summerstudentlectures.pdf

69 Astroparticle Physics 2

Speaker: Gernot Maier (DESY)

70 Astroparticle Physics - discussion time

Wednesday 28 August

71 DESY Summer Student Alumni Meeting in ZOOM

This will be a ZOOM only meeting where we will invite summer students from previous years to join for mutual information exchange - there will be an own Indico webpage for this event.

Wednesday 4 September

72 Final student sessions part I

See the separate Indico page: https://indico.desy.de/event/45446/

Thursday 5 September

73 Final student sessions part II

There is a separate Indico webpage at https://indico.desy.de/event/45446/