2021 Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society (DPF21)

Session

Education and Outreach

13 Jul 2021, 14:30

Zoom

Conveners

Education and Outreach: E&O 3H

• Mateus F. Carneiro (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• Sarah Marie Demers Konezny (Yale University (US))

392. Accessibility considerations for resuming in-person conferences

maria monzani (Stanford University)

13/07/2021, 14:45

Diversity and Inclusion

talk

The ongoing pandemic has exacerbated the isolation of people with disabilities, due to the loss of physical access to habilitation personnel and facilities. However, the elimination of business travel in favor of virtual meetings has simplified the participation of physically disabled scientists in the intellectual life of the particle physics community. In view of the imminent restart of...

187. ATLAS Educational Printables: from coloring books to cheat & fact sheets

Elise Maria Le Boulicaut (Duke University (US))

13/07/2021, 15:00

Education and Outreach

talk

The ATLAS Collaboration has developed a variety of printables for education and outreach activities. We present two ATLAS Coloring Books, the ATLAS Fact Sheets, the ATLAS Physics Cheat Sheets, and ATLAS Activity Sheets. These materials are intended to cover key topics of the work done by the ATLAS Collaboration and the physics behind the experiment for a broad audience of all ages and levels...

140. Developing a Highly Successful Planetarium Show on Dark Matter

Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

13/07/2021, 15:15

Education and Outreach

talk

We created an extremely successful planetarium show called: Phantom of the Universe - The Hunt for Dark Matter, which has been seen in more than 600 planetariums in 67 countries and 42 US states. It has been translated into 22 languages. We were motivated in part by envisioning several scenes that could only work in a planetarium. Our target audiences were the public and students. We found...

143. Particle Physics Course-based Research Experience During Remote-Learning

Muge Karagoz (University of Maryland (US))

13/07/2021, 15:30

Education and Outreach

talk

Simulating Particle Detection (SPD) stream is a research program within UMD's FIRE, a gen-ed sequential course-based undergraduate research experience program. SPD introduces undergraduate students to experimental high energy particle physics. It concentrates on computing, data analysis and visualization, specifically using simulations of the upgrade calorimeters (HGCAL) of the CMS experiment...

6. THE ITALIAN SUMMER STUDENTS PROGRAM AT THE FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY

Simone Donati (University of Pisa and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

13/07/2021, 15:45

Other Topics

talk

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...

346. Accessibility in Virtual Conferences: Captioning

Amber Roepe (University of Oklahoma (US))

Diversity and Inclusion

talk

With the incursion of the pandemic, there has been a rise in the number of virtual conferences we all have attended. Among the hardships of moving to an online platform, we have seen an increased awareness of the importance of accessibility. The access I will be focusing on is captioning. Not only is captioning necessary for the Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing community, but it is very useful for all...