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Chair: Daniele de Gruttola
Virtual reality (VR) technologies present exciting opportunities for astrophysics education and outreach. VR turns abstract concepts into experienceable phenomena and can increase interest and engagement with physics and astronomy. However, we still lack knowledge about how to maximise the benefits of VR when we use these technologies in public outreach programs. In this talk, we will present...
The International Particle Physics Group (IPPOG) is a global network active in informal education and outreach in particle physics and related research, including cosmic-ray and astro-particle physics. Since many years, IPPOG has been actively supporting the International Cosmic Day organized by DESY and the International Muon Week organized by Quarknet. In 2015 IPPOG started work on...
The International Masterclasses "Hands on Particle Physics" is an initiative sponsored by the International Particle Physics Outreach Group and hosted by CERN, Fermilab and multiple research centers around the world. It aims to make particle physics knowledge available to high school-grade students and to create an environment where the students can feel how it is to work on an international...
Since 1984 the Italian groups of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and Italian Universities, collaborating with the DOE laboratory of Fermilab (US) have been running a two-month summer training program for Italian university students. While in the first year the program involved only four physics students of the University of Pisa, in the following years it was extended to...
With the onset of the COVID pandemic in 2020 all outreach and educational activities with in-person participation had to stop. The ALICE collaboration adapted to the new situation and continued reaching out to the public using the multitude of online tools and platforms available. We will focus here on two of our main outreach activities, virtual visits and masterclasses.
With the...
LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA form the second-generation global network of gravitational wave detectors. From the first detection of the GW150914 binary black hole merger to the latest results from the recent O3 observing run, our observations are pushing frontiers in observational astrophysics. To continue inspiring the wider public with our findings, one key communications activity of the LVK...
The recent discoveries of Gravitational Wave (GW) signals have attracted a lot of interest from the general public and scientific colleagues. It is crucial to properly communicate the excitement of the emerging field of GW science to the society and have the potential to engage and educate new generations of future scientists.
The EGO-Virgo Collaboration is active in many outreach and...
In my presentation, I will discuss my study on middle school students’ understanding of Einsteinian physics with an emphasis on quantum physics that demonstrates the possibility of teaching physics from an Einsteinian standpoint. Firstly, I will show the age group dependence between students of year 7—10 by measuring students’ knowledge, and attitude towards physics. Secondly, I will...
The Cosmic Ray Live project aims at building three muon detectors at SNOLAB. The detectors can measure muons in real time and show their trajectories. They would add significant data to the existing array and promote the international relationships that make science possible. One of SNOLAB’s missions is to inspire the next generation of innovators through strong educational outreach. This...
The International Dark Matter Day is celebrated worldwide on October 31 every year since 2017. In Argentina, it was organized for the first time in 2019 in an outreach effort coordinated by the ANDES deep underground laboratory. In 2019, we started a call for art students to propose an audiovisual piece on Dark Matter, asked about whether basic science was important for Argentina and...
The International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) is a network of scientists, science educators and communication specialists working across the globe in informal science education and outreach for particle physics. The primary methodology adopted by IPPOG requires the direct involvement of scientists active in current research with education and communication specialists, in order to...
The Darkside experiment aims at the direct detection of Dark Matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). It is a 20-tonne (fiducial) argon dual-phase Time-Projection Chamber (TPC) that exploits the cryogenic SiPM technology to identify unambiguously the nuclear recoils induced by WIMPs. The experiment is being installed at the LNGS and will start operation around...
The Extreme Energy Events experiment (EEE) is an extended array of about 60 cosmic ray detectors installed in several Italian High Schools and in a few research laboratories. The EEE experiment has two main targets: a scientific and a dissemination. An array of telescopes made of three MRPC detectors is used to detect cosmic rays and perform physics measurements, such as studies on galactic...
