Conveners
Education and Outreach: E&O 3H
- Mateus F. Carneiro (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
- Sarah Marie Demers Konezny (Yale University (US))
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
