Additional activities

2015

Visit of 20 US High School students, during their exchange visit to IES San Fernando, 20th March 2015 (see pictures)

Participation in "La noche europea de los investigadores", 26 september 2014, with the outreach talk "El origen del Universo: Inflación y Multiverso", by Juan García-Bellido.
Participation in "La noche europea de los investigadores", 26 september 2014, with the Hands-on workshop "Descubriendo el bosón de Higgs", about the LHC at CERN and the discovery of the Higgs boson, by David G. Cerdeño and Víctor Martín Lozano.
Award Ceremony for the Madrid students who made it to the finals in the CERNland contest, 13th May 2014.

Participation by Angel Uranga in the program "Rutas Científicas" of Centro de Intercambios Escolares, Dirección General de Mejora de la Calidad de la Enseñanza, Comunidad de Madrid. November 2012.
Visit to the IFT by the High School students of IES José Luis Sampedro al IFT (2º course, with their teacher María Ángeles Novella Viejo), 27 May 2012. Organizers: Alberto Casas, David G. Cerdeño, G. Sierra.

Participation of the IFT in the outreach activity "La UAM explica CosmoCaixa". PhD students from the IFT explained the Physics laws and principles underlying some of the interactive modules in the Cosmocaixa Science Museum in Madrid. 14-15 May 2011.
Participation of the IFT in the outreach activity "La Física en la UAM para Estudiantes de Bachillerato", addressed to High School students. 26 April 2011.

"Una [breve] historia del Universo: del BIG-BANG al acelerador LHC del CERN". Participation of the IFT, through presentation of its posters on the nature of matter and the expanding Universe, in collaboration with the Universidad de Murcia, in the Semana de la Ciencia y la Tecnología de la Región de Murcia (SECYT 10). 4-5 November 2010. (see link).

Participation of the IFT, through presentation of its posters on the nature of matter and the expanding Universe, in collaboration with the Universidad de Murcia, in the Semana de la Ciencia y la Tecnología de la Región de Murcia (SECYT 09). 6-7 November 2009.
"El CERN a través de los ojos de Peter Ginter, la visión de un poeta", outdoor photographic exhibition by author Peter Ginter, documenting the construction work of the LHC and its detectors in Geneva (Switzerland), organized by the CPAN (National Center of Particle Physics, Astroparticles and Nuclear Physics, which includes the IFT). The exhibition took place in Plaza de España, Madrid. 24 October - 9 November 2009.