Conveners
Education and Outreach
- Marge Bardeen ()
Education and Outreach
- Pedro Abreu ()
Description
Allocated time includes time for questions as follows: 15 (13+2), 20 (17+3), 30 (25+5)
Dr.
Nicolas Arnaud
(LAL (CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Sud))
03/07/2014, 11:00
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
Teaching particle physics at high-school level is always challenging, one issue being that there is no easy window onto the world of the “infinitely small”. Cosmic rays are therefore an invaluable tool to allow the students to sense the elementary particles and to understand the problems raised by their detection.
In France, a collaboration started several years ago between the “Institut...
Dr.
Tom Whyntie
(Queen Mary, University of London)
03/07/2014, 11:15
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
CERN@school [1] brings technology from CERN [2] into the classroom to aid with the teaching of particle physics. It also aims to inspire the next generation of physicists and engineers by giving participants the opportunity to be part of a national collaboration of students, teachers and academics, analysing data obtained from detectors based on the ground and in space to make new,...
Dr.
Sofia Andringa
(LIP)
03/07/2014, 11:30
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
The Pierre Auger Observatory is the largest extensive air shower detector, covering 3000 km² in Argentina. The observatory makes available, for educational and outreach purposes, 1% of its cosmic ray data set, which after 10 year of running corresponds to more than 30000 cosmic ray events. Several different proposals of educations activities have been developed within the collaboration and are...
Dr.
Steven Goldfarb
(University of Michigan)
03/07/2014, 11:40
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
The ATLAS Education & Outreach program supports a wide variety of projects designed to communicate the goals and accomplishments of the ATLAS Experiment to the general public. Essential to the implementation of these projects are a well structured and current communication plan, an active core group with diverse expertise, and an engaged and imaginative collaboration. We present a small...
Dr.
Thomas McCauley
(University of Notre Dame)
03/07/2014, 12:00
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
The CMS Collaboration is preparing for a public release up to a half of the reconstructed collision data collected in 2010, in accordance with its commitment to open access and data preservation. Efforts are at present focused on the usability of the data in education. The data will be accompanied by example applications tailored for different levels –– including ready-to-use web-based...
Mrs.
ANA MARÍA MARÍN FARRONA
(INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA DE CANTABRIA (IFCA))
03/07/2014, 12:15
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
“Café Científico” is a series of relaxed discussions about different topics of interest related to research done at the UC that tries to connect research and society. This outreach activity allows people to ask/discuss/comment with the researcher while engaging with cutting-edge researchers from University of Cantabria. To avoid the formalism that the university space offers it is done in an...
Dr.
Harry Cliff
(University of Cambridge & Science Museum, London)
03/07/2014, 12:30
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
On 12th November 2013 the Science Museum in London launched Collider, a major temporary exhibition about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The launch event was attended by Peter Higgs, Stephen Hawking, Rolf Heuer and the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer and attracted significant media attention and critical praise in the UK and internationally. By the time the exhibition completes its London...
Mrs.
MARÍN ANA MARÍA
(INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA DE CANTABRIA)
03/07/2014, 12:45
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
In April 2013, a CERN exhibition was shown in Santander: “The largest scientific instrument ever built”. Around the exhibition, were proposed several activities done by the researchers that work on the subjects: guided tours for children, younger and adults, workshops, film projections… In this form, the exhibition was visited by more than two thousand people, a complete success keeping in...
Dr.
Nicolas Arnaud
(LAL (CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Sud))
03/07/2014, 13:00
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
Sciences ACO is a non-profit association based in Orsay (France). It manages a “Museum of Light and Matter” visited by more than 1,000 people each year. In this unique place, scientists and cultural mediators preserve, exhibit and explain pieces of the history of science & technology, to pass on the knowledge of this heritage to the audience.
The museum is located at the centre of the...
Dr.
Michael Barnett
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
03/07/2014, 13:15
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
Phantom of the Universe is a planetarium show premiering late summer 2014 that will showcase an exciting exploration of dark matter, from the Big Bang to the Large Hadron Collider. The show will reveal the first hints of its existence through the eyes of Fritz Zwicky. Viewers will marvel at the astral choreography witnessed by Vera Rubin in the Andromeda galaxy. They will plummet deep...
Dr.
Uta Bilow
(TU Dresden)
04/07/2014, 09:00
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
Netzwerk Teilchenwelt is a German network of HEP scientists, high school students, and teachers in direct contact with CERN. It aims at sharing the excitement of particle and astroparticle physics research. Scientists from 24 research institutes work with students and teachers to bring cutting edge research to the classroom. Programmes in particle physics and astroparticle physics are offered...
Prof.
Peter Watkins
(University of Birmingham)
04/07/2014, 09:15
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
The Particle Physics group at the University of Birmingham has tried many different formats for Outreach competitions over recent years. We have found that a ‘Cascade’ competition is a very efficient way to introduce Particle Physics concepts and experiments to a wide range of students. Small groups of students research, prepare and deliver a short presentation to other students.
We will...
Prof.
Kourkoumelis Christine
(University of Athens and IASA)
04/07/2014, 09:30
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
The “ HYPATIA” (HYbrid Pupil’s Analysis Tool for Interactions in ATLAS) is a tool which has been created by the authors of this abstract and has been evolving over a number of years. Apart from the IPPOG’s International Masterclass downloadable HYPATIA version, there is an online version which now exists in the form of a webapp. All data from the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider...
Mrs.
Maiken Pedersen
(University of Oslo)
04/07/2014, 09:45
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
Sharing ATLAS data and research with young students
Maiken Pedersen, Farid Ould-Saada, on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration and IPPOG International Masterclasses
In recent years the International Masterclasses (IMC) featured the use of real experimental data as produced by the LHC and collected by the detectors. We present ATLAS-based educational material using these data allowing...
366.
Data Portfolio: Instructional materials provide particle physics data in high school classrooms
Ms.
Marge Bardeen
(Fermilab)
04/07/2014, 10:00
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
We discuss Data Portfolio (DP), a new suite of activities that provide experimental particle physics data to high school students and a professional development program for their teachers. DP is a website resource with a broad range of instructional materials that allows teachers to select activities of the correct level and scope for their students. Activities range from introductory to...
Dr.
Thomas McCauley
(University of Notre Dame)
04/07/2014, 10:15
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
QuarkNet is an educational program which brings high school teachers and their students into the particle physics research community. The program supports research experiences and professional development workshops and provides inquiry-oriented investigations, some using real experimental data.
The CMS experiment at the LHC has released several thousand proton-proton collision events for...
Ms.
Ana Trisovic
(CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
04/07/2014, 10:30
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
The LHCb experiment is a general purpose spectrometer in the forward region optimized for precision studies of beauty and charm hadron properties. The volumes of data produced by the LHC make it possible to perform such precision measurements with only a fraction of the total LHCb dataset, making it an ideal playground for developing new types of masterclass exercises. We present here LHCb's...
Mr.
Achintya Rao
(CMS Experiment, CERN)
04/07/2014, 10:45
Education and Outreach
Oral presentation
On 4 July 2012, particle physics became a celebrity. Around 1,000,000,000 people (yes, 1 billion) saw rebroadcasts of two technical presentations announcing the discovery of a new boson. The occasion was a joint seminar of the CMS and ATLAS collaborations, and the target audience were particle physicists. Yet the world ate it up like a sporting event.
Roughly two days later, in a parallel...
