Tour in English:

• The standard tour /explanation of the workings of observatory
• A review of the types of jobs at the observatory and topics to study at school
  to work/research in that area
• Some recent topics in the news dealing with astronomy
• A question answer session with a 'snack'

The aim of the Blue Brain Project, a Swiss brain initiative founded and directed by Professor Henry Markram, is to build accurate, biologically detailed digital reconstructions and simulations of the rodent brain, and ultimately, the human brain. The supercomputer-based reconstructions and simulations built by Blue Brain offer a radically new approach for understanding the multilevel structure and function of the brain.

http://bluebrain.epfl.ch

Virtual reality is the next big technology wave. It will be the innovative business ideas in the next few years and it will become an everyday tool in the sectors of education, military, video games, live events, real estate, healthcare, interactive desktop applications, social VR, project collaboration and engineering.  We have teamed an innovative VR developer in Carouge, Geneva to offer an opportunity to experience and understand the development of this new exciting technology.  Join us at Virtual Room Genève for the experience of a lifetime and an explanation of the technology behind virtual reality.

Underground experiment in Cessy

This visit covers a broad physics programme. The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The CMS experiment is one of the largest international scientific collaborations in history, involving 4300 particle physicists, engineers, technicians, students and support staff from 182 institutes in 42 countries.

Location: Cessy, France.

National History Museum Geneva (Private guided tour)

Every year we choose one of the exhibitions at the Natural History Museum to have a private tour. Join us this year as Chloë gives a guided tour of its permanent exhibition filled with the wonders of the world on the first floor of the Museum. We will focus on evolution and more specifically natural selection to understand how tigers, kiwis, brown bears, marsupials as well as other exotic birds and mammals adapted to their respective environments.