Euro Physics News 54-2 | Page 6

YOUNG MINDS

2 nd EPS TIG Hands-on Event - bringing together students from all over Europe

l Richard Zeltner 1 , 2 , Stefan Kubsky 1 , Markus Nordberg 3 and Christophe Rossel 1 l 1 EPS Technology and Innovation Group , 2 EPS Young Minds Action Committee , 3 IdeaSquare , CERN
One of the goals of the Technology and Innovation Group ( TIG ) of the European Physical Society is to bring EPS members from all age groups and career levels together with specialists in the domain of scientific instrumentation , technology and related innovation . Aligned with this objective the “ 2 nd EPS TIG Hands-on Event for Science , Technology and Interfaces ” brought together 19 students from Europe and the neighbouring Mediterranean countries at the CERN innovation hub IdeaSquare and provided the participants training in how to design and implement an experiment .

The start of a Master thesis or PhD thesis project represents a caesura in the academic education of many students in physics , engineering , and STEM in general . Frequently , the focus is not only on acquiring theoretical knowledge and understanding physical concepts , but also on conceptualising , realising , and operating an experimental setup suited to investigate the research topic at hand . This change requires specific skills from the students to master successfully the new challenges

Acknowledging this transition in the academic education and career of many students the “ Technology and Innovation Group ” of EPS and the IdeaSquare innovation space at CERN hosted the “ 2 nd EPS TIG Hands-on
Event for Science , Technology and Interface ” from September 30 to October 2 at CERN , Geneva .
Following welcoming words by Stefan Kubsky the workshop started for the 19 students from across Europe and the neighbouring Mediterranean countries with introductory lectures by Markus Nordberg on rapid prototyping and IP-related issues . After these lectures the participants visited the Compact Muon Solenoid ( CMS ) particle detector of the CERN Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ), including a guided tour in the underground levels .
On day 2 the participants received tutorial introductory lectures into different technologies . Joining the event remotely Prof . Jan Meijer of the University Leipzig , gave an introduction on quantum sensing and quantum computing based on nitrogen vacancy ( NV ) centers in diamond , which was followed by a talk on nm-precise position sensing by Olivier Acher of the international R & D company HORIBA .
Afterwards the students were assigned into several groups , each of them being responsible for realising one subcomponent of a tutorial experiment , e . g ., the mechanical setup , the
04 EPN 54 / 2