DESY Summer Student Lecture and Event Programme 2025

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

Auditorium (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.

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 22 July	10-11am	Main Auditorium	Welcome Session	Link	Please bring all the necessary documents mentioned here with you.
Tu 22 July	4-6pm	Canteen Extension	Welcome coffee & cake
Tue 12 August	TBA	XFEL experimental site Schenefeld	XFEL Tour	https://www.xfel.eu/	Further details TBA
Thu 21 August	11am-1pm and 2-4pm	Seminar Room 7a	Career Orientation Workshop		Two sesssions (20 people each)
Tue 26 August	2:00-5:00pm	Main Auditorium	Introduction to PIER/DASHH Graduate Schools
We-Th 10-11 Sep	10am-1pm	Main Auditorium	Final student session	TBC	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 will be opened after your arrival.

ALL EVENTS CURRENTLY TBC AND SUBJECT TO CHANGES IN TIME/DATE!!!

Date	Time	Venue	Event	Registration Link	More Information
1st August			PETRA tours		https://photon-science.desy.de/facilities/petra_iii/index_eng.html
4th & 7th August			Testbeam tours		https://particle-physics.desy.de/test_beams_at_desy/
13th August			ALPS II tours		https://alps.desy.de/our_activities/axion_wisp_experiments/alps_ii
TBC			REGAE tours		https://www.desy.de/research/facilities__projects/regae/index_eng.html
TBC			FLASH tours		https://flash.desy.de/

 

Summer Students Map.pdf

Tuesday 22 July

10:00 → 11:00 Welcome Session

15:00 → 16:00 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

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

11:00 → 11:20 Group Photo

11:30 → 12:15 Introduction to High Energy Physics

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

Thursday 24 July

09:30 → 10:15 Introduction to High Energy Physics

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

10:30 → 11:15 Introduction to High Energy Physics

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

11:30 → 12:15 Introduction to Photon Science 1

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

14:00 → 14:45 Introduction to Scientific Computing

Speaker: Kilian Schwarz (GSI)

Friday 25 July

10:00 → 10:45 Introduction to Photon Science 2

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

11:00 → 11:45 Introduction to Photon Science 3

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

14:00 → 14:45 Sustainable Computing

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

18:00 → 21:00 Welcome Dinner

Monday 28 July

10:00 → 10:45 Introduction to Accelerators

Speaker: Dr Michaela Schaumann (MPY (Beschleunigerphysik))

11:00 → 11:45 Introduction to Accelerators

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

14:00 → 16:00 DESY Tour

Tuesday 29 July

10:00 → 10:45 Introduction to Accelerators

Speaker: Dr Michaela Schaumann (MPY (Beschleunigerphysik))

11:00 → 11:45 Introduction to Accelerators

Speaker: Dr Michaela Schaumann (MPY (Beschleunigerphysik))

14:00 → 16:00 DESY Tour

Wednesday 30 July

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:00 → 11:45 Introduction to Machine Learning

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

Friday 1 August

10:00 → 10:45 Dark Matter

Speakers: Andreas Lindner (LMU Munich), Axel Lindner (ALPS (ALPS _ Any Light Particle Search))

11:00 → 11:45 Dark Matter

Monday 4 August

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

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

10:00 → 10:45 LHC Physics

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

11:00 → 11:45 LHC Physics

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

Tuesday 5 August

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

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

10:00 → 10:45 LHC Physics

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

10:55 → 11:40 LHC Physics

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

Wednesday 6 August

10:00 → 11:45 Diagnostics of Light

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

Thursday 7 August

09:30 → 10:15 Detectors for HEP

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

10:29 → 12:14 Ultrafast Phenomena 1

Speaker: Robin Santra (DESY & UHH)

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

09:25 → 10:10 Detectors for HEP

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

10:29 → 12:14 Ultrafast Phenomena 2

Speaker: Robin Santra (DESY & UHH)

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))

Tuesday 12 August

10:00 → 11:45 X-ray nano-analytics and microscopy 2

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

Wednesday 13 August

10:00 → 10:45 Flavour Physics

Speaker: Thibaud Humair (BELLE (BELLE Gruppe))

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))

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)

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)

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

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

11:00 → 11:45 Plasma Wakefiled Accelerators 2

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

Thursday 21 August

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

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

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

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

Speaker: Andrew Taylor (Z_THAT (Theoretische Astroteilchenphysik))

11:00 → 11:45 Astroparticle Physics

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