DESY Summer Student Lecture and Event Programme 2025

22 Jul 2025, 08:00 → 11 Sept 2025, 20:00 Europe/Berlin

Main Auditorium Bld. 5 (DESY)

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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.

 

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Selected Lectures will be broadcasted in ZOOM (mentioned in the timetable with (+ ZOOM). We will use this room:

https://desy.zoom.us/j/68771687163

Zoom Passcode: upon request

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Events:

The DESY places mentioned in the following can founqd  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 22 July	10-11 am	Main Auditorium	Welcome Session	Link	Please bring all the necessary documents mentioned here with you.
Tu 22 July	4-6 pm	Canteen Extension	Welcome coffee & cake
Th 24 July	4 pm	SR7a	Greetings/welcome of DESY Ukraine school students	Link	Only for participants of the DESY Ukraine school
Fr 25 July	6 pm	Centeen Extenson bld. 9a	Welcome Dinner
We 30 July	4.45 pm	Hamburg	Boat trip	Link	Registration will open July 28
We 6 Aug	1 pm	Foyer of Bld. 1	DESY Tour	Link	Registration 25 July - 4 Aug
Mo 11 Aug	1 pm	Foyer of Bld. 1	DESY Tour	Link	Registration 25 July - 4 Aug
Tue 12 August	8.45 am - 2 pm	XFEL experimental site Schenefeld	XFEL Tour	Link https://www.xfel.eu/	Registration 25 July - 4 Aug
Thu 21 August	11 am-1 pm and 1-3 pm	Seminar Room 7a	Career Orientation Workshop	Link	Two sesssions (20 people each) Registration will open 1 August
Tue 26 August	2:00-5:00 pm	Main Auditorium	Introduction to PIER/DASHH Graduate Schools	Link
Thu 28 August	6 pm	Canteen extension	Festival of international students		This will be a BBQ event for all Summies: DESY Hamburg/Zeuthen
We-Th 10-11 Sep	10 am-1 pm	Main Auditorium	Final student session	Link	Presentations on selected work projects; programme evaluation and closing words

 

Special Tours on the DESY Campus with limited number of participants and individual registration in Indico on first-come-first-serve basis.

Registration is now open for all tours! Since places are limited, please register initially for a maximum of 2 tours so that everyone has a chance to participate in some of them. Further tours can be registered for at a later date, if there are places remaining. 

ALL EVENTS SUBJECT TO CHANGES IN TIME/DATE!!!

Date	Time	Venue	Event	Registration Link	More Information
30th July	13:30	Building 28	FLASH Accelerator tours	https://indico.desy.de/event/50159/	https://flash.desy.de/
1st August	13:30	Building 48	PETRA tours	https://indico.desy.de/event/49913/	https://photon-science.desy.de/facilities/petra_iii/index_eng.html
4th & 7th August	14:00	"Experimental Hall II" (Building 27)	Testbeam tours	https://indico.desy.de/event/49950/	https://particle-physics.desy.de/test_beams_at_desy/
12th, 14th, & 20th August	4PM (12th) or 2PM (all others)	Building 2a	Computing Centre tours	https://indico.desy.de/event/50192/
13th & 19th August	14:00	Hall North (Building 51)	ALPS II tours	https://indico.desy.de/event/49914/	https://alps.desy.de/our_activities/axion_wisp_experiments/alps_ii
18th August	14:00	Building 48e	Petra imaging beamlines and upgrade tour	https://indico.desy.de/event/49915/	https://photon-science.desy.de/facilities/petra_iii/index_eng.html
20th August	14:00	Building 28k	Flash Experimental Hall tours	https://indico.desy.de/event/49917/	https://flash.desy.de/

 

Summer Students Map.pdf

Tuesday 22 July

10:00 → 11:00 Welcome Session

https://indico.desy.de/event/50167/

Event page

14:30 → 15:30 Safety Training

(not necessary for Photon Science students (A1-A6 project categories) as they will complete the safety trainings online)

16:00 → 17:00 Welcome Coffee and Cake

Wednesday 23 July

10:00 → 10:45 Introduction to High Energy Physics (+ ZOOM)

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

ParticlePhysicsResearch25a.pdf

11:00 → 11:20 Group Photo

11:15 → 12:00 Introduction to High Energy Physics (+ ZOOM)

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

Thursday 24 July

09:30 → 10:15 Introduction to High Energy Physics (+ ZOOM)

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

ParticlePhysicsResearch25b.pdf

10:30 → 11:15 Introduction to High Energy Physics (+ ZOOM)

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

11:30 → 12:15 Introduction to Photon Science 1 (+ ZOOM)

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

Introduction Photon Science_I_Bari_Jul25.pdf

14:00 → 14:45 Introduction to Scientific Computing

Speakers: Dr Kilian Schwarz (IT (IT Scientific Computing)), Kilian Schwarz (GSI)

SummerstudentLecture-SciComp.pdf

Friday 25 July

10:00 → 10:45 Introduction to Photon Science 2 (+ ZOOM)

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

Introduction Photon Science_II_Bari_Jul25.pdf

11:00 → 11:45 Introduction to Photon Science 3 (+ ZOOM)

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

Introduction Photon Science_III_Bari_Jul25.pdf

14:00 → 14:45 Sustainable Computing

Speaker: Dwayne Spiteri (IT (IT Scientific Computing))

ITLecture25072025.pdf

18:00 → 21:00 Welcome Dinner

Monday 28 July

10:00 → 10:45 Introduction to Accelerators (+ ZOOM)

Speaker: Dr Michaela Schaumann (MPY (Beschleunigerphysik))

DESYSummerStudentLectrues_2025_IntroductionToAccelerators_Schaumann_L1.pdf

11:00 → 11:45 Introduction to Accelerators (+ ZOOM)

Speakers: Gregor Loisch (MIN (Hochfrequenz)), Dr Michaela Schaumann (MPY (Beschleunigerphysik))

DESYSummerStudentLectures_2025_IntroductionToAccelerators_Loisch_L2_upl.pdf

Tuesday 29 July

10:00 → 10:45 Introduction to Accelerators (+ ZOOM)

Speaker: Dr Michaela Schaumann (MPY (Beschleunigerphysik))

DESYSummerStudentLectrues_2025_IntroductionToAccelerators_Schaumann_L3.pdf

11:00 → 11:45 Introduction to Accelerators (+ ZOOM)

Speaker: Dr Michaela Schaumann (MPY (Beschleunigerphysik))

DESYSummerStudentLectrues_2025_IntroductionToAccelerators_Schaumann_L4.pdf

Wednesday 30 July

10:00 → 10:45 Reciprocal space and principles of diffraction

Speaker: Oleksandr Yefanov (FS-CFEL-1 (Forschung mit Photonen Experimente 1))

Lecture for summers in 2023 (1st part)

Lecture for summers in 2023 (2nd part)

11:00 → 11:45 Modern crystallography: processing petabytes of data

Speaker: Oleksandr Yefanov (FS-CFEL-1 (Forschung mit Photonen Experimente 1))

yefanov_basics_250730.pdf

18:00 → 20:00 Hamburg Harbour Roundtrip - Boat ride

This is a nice social event, cruising with a barge through Hamburg harbour.
More details will be announced in due time.

Thursday 31 July

10:00 → 10:45 Introduction to Machine Learning (+ ZOOM)

Speaker: Stephen Jiggins (ATLAS (ATLAS-Experiment))

DESY-Lecture-ML-Intro.pdf

Supplementary-Notes.pdf

11:00 → 11:45 Introduction to Machine Learning (+ ZOOM)

Speaker: Stephen Jiggins (ATLAS (ATLAS-Experiment))

Friday 1 August

10:00 → 10:45 Dark Matter (+ ZOOM)

Speakers: Aaron Dean Spector (DESY), Axel Lindner (ALPS (ALPS _ Any Light Particle Search))

DM1.pdf

11:00 → 11:45 Dark Matter (+ ZOOM)

Speakers: Aaron Dean Spector (DESY), Axel Lindner (ALPS (ALPS _ Any Light Particle Search))

DM2.pdf

Monday 4 August

09:59 → 11:44 Exploring Quantum Materials via X-ray Spectroscopy 1

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

summer_school_mscholz_2025_part1.pdf

10:00 → 10:45 LHC Physics

Speaker: Lydia Beresford (ATLAS (ATLAS-Experiment))

LHCPhysics_Beresford_Intro.pdf

11:00 → 11:45 LHC Physics

Speaker: Lydia Beresford (ATLAS (ATLAS-Experiment))

LHCPhysics_Beresford_EWTop.pdf

Tuesday 5 August

09:59 → 11:44 Exploring Quantum Materials via X-ray Spectroscopy 2

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

summer_school_mscholz_2025_part2.pdf

10:00 → 10:45 LHC Physics

Speaker: Lydia Beresford (ATLAS (ATLAS-Experiment))

LHCPhysics_Beresford_Higgs.pdf

10:55 → 11:40 LHC Physics

Speaker: Lydia Beresford (ATLAS (ATLAS-Experiment))

LHCPhysics_Beresford_BSM.pdf

Wednesday 6 August

10:00 → 11:45 Diagnostics of Light

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

13:00 → 15:00 DESY Tour

Thursday 7 August

09:30 → 10:15 Detectors for HEP

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

2025-08-07-Summerstudent-Lecture-Interactions.pdf

Detectors_Summer2025_part1.pdf

Detectors_Summer2025_part3.pdf

10:29 → 12:14 Ultrafast Phenomena 1

Speaker: Robin Santra (DESY & UHH)

Santra1.pdf

10:30 → 11:15 Detectors for HEP

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

11:30 → 12:15 Detectors for HEP

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

Friday 8 August

09:30 → 10:15 Detectors for HEP

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

2025-08-08-Summerstudent-Lectures-Tracking-Detectors.pdf

Detectors_Summer2025_part5.pdf

10:29 → 12:14 Ultrafast Phenomena 2

Speaker: Robin Santra (DESY & UHH)

Santra2.pdf

10:30 → 11:15 Detectors for HEP

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

11:30 → 12:15 Detectors for HEP

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

Monday 11 August

10:00 → 11:45 X-ray nano-analytics and microscopy 1

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

X-Ray Microscopy 01.pdf

13:00 → 15:00 DESY Tour

Tuesday 12 August

09:00 → 13:00 XFEL Tour

Wednesday 13 August

09:59 → 11:44 X-ray nano-analytics and microscopy 2

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

X-Ray Microscopy 02.pdf

10:00 → 10:45 Flavour Physics

Speaker: Thibaud Humair (BELLE (BELLE Gruppe))

SumStuLec.pdf

11:00 → 11:45 Flavour Physics

Speaker: Thibaud Humair (BELLE (BELLE Gruppe))

Thursday 14 August

10:00 → 10:45 HEP Theory

Speaker: Hyungjin Kim (T (Cosmology))

DESY_summer_25.pdf

11:00 → 11:45 HEP Theory

Speaker: Hyungjin Kim (T (Cosmology))

Friday 15 August

09:59 → 11:44 Fundamentals of X-ray interaction with matter

Speaker: Sang-Kil Son (CFEL-DESY)

Fundamentals of X-ray interaction with matter_Son_2025-08-15.pdf

10:00 → 10:45 HEP Theory

Speaker: Hyungjin Kim (T (Cosmology))

11:00 → 11:45 HEP Theory

Speaker: Hyungjin Kim (T (Cosmology))

Monday 18 August

10:00 → 10:45 QCD

Speaker: Markus Diehl (DESY)

abstract.txt

lect-1.pdf

lect-2.pdf

lect-3.pdf

lect-4.pdf

11:00 → 11:45 QCD

Speaker: Markus Diehl (DESY)

Tuesday 19 August

10:00 → 10:45 QCD

Speaker: Markus Diehl (DESY)

11:00 → 11:45 QCD

Speaker: Markus Diehl (DESY)

Wednesday 20 August

10:00 → 10:45 Plasma Wakefield Accelerators 1 (+ ZOOM)

Speaker: Andreas Maier (MPL (Plasmabeschleuniger und Laser))

11:00 → 11:45 Plasma Wakefiled Accelerators 2 (+ ZOOM)

Speaker: Andreas Maier (MPL (Plasmabeschleuniger und Laser))

Thursday 21 August

11:00 → 13:00 Career Orientation Workshop (1)

See link for details:
https://indico.desy.de/event/50196/

Sign-up

14:00 → 16:00 Career Orientation Workshop (2)

See link for details:
https://indico.desy.de/event/50196/

Sign-up

Friday 22 August

10:00 → 10:45 Cosmology

Speaker: Thomas Konstandin (T (Cosmology))

Tuesday 26 August

14:00 → 17:00 Introduction to DASHH/PIER Graduate Schools

See link for details:
https://indico.desy.de/event/50198/

Wednesday 27 August

10:00 → 10:45 Future Colliders

Speaker: Dr Karsten Buesser (DESY)

11:00 → 11:45 Future Colliders

Speaker: Dr Karsten Buesser (DESY)

Thursday 28 August

18:00 → 22:00 Festival of International Students

Friday 29 August

10:00 → 10:45 Astroparticle Physics (+ ZOOM)

Speaker: Andrew Taylor (Z_THAT (Theoretische Astroteilchenphysik))

11:00 → 11:45 Astroparticle Physics (+ZOOM)

Speaker: Andrew Taylor (Z_THAT (Theoretische Astroteilchenphysik))

Wednesday 10 September

09:00 → 13:00 Student Presentation Sessions: Student Presentations Part 1

Thursday 11 September

09:00 → 13:00 Student Presentation Sessions: Student Presentations Part 2