28 August 2023 to 1 September 2023
University of Vienna
Europe/Vienna timezone

The Italian Summer Students Program at Fermilab: 40 years of education in particle physics and technology

31 Aug 2023, 16:00
15m
Hörsaal 2 lecture hall (University of Vienna)

Hörsaal 2 lecture hall

University of Vienna

Universitätsring 1 A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Parallel talk Outreach and Education Outreach and Education

Speaker

Prof. Simone Donati (University of Pisa and Infn Pisa)

Description

Since 1983 the Italian groups collaborating with Fermilab (US) have been running a 2-month summer training program for Master students. While in the first year the program involved only 4 physics students, in the following years it was extended to engineering students. Many students have extended their collaboration with Fermilab with their Master Thesis and PhD.
The program has involved almost 600 Italian students from more than 20 Italian universities. Each intern is supervised by a Fermilab Mentor responsible for the training program. Training programs spanned from Tevatron, CMS, Muon (g-2), Mu2e and SBN and DUNE design and data analysis, development of particle detectors, design of electronic and accelerator components, development of infrastructures and software for tera-data handling, research on superconductive elements and accelerating cavities.
In 2015 the University of Pisa included the program within its own educational programs. Summer Students are enrolled at the University of Pisa for the duration of the internship and at the end of the internship they are write summary reports on their achievements. After positive evaluation by a University Examining Board, interns are acknowledged 6 ECTS credits for their Diploma Supplement. In the years 2020 and 2021 the program was canceled due to the sanitary emergency but in 2022 it was restarted and allowed a cohort of 21 students to be trained for nine weeks at Fermilab. We are now organizing the 2023 program.

Submitted on behalf of a Collaboration? No

Authors

Prof. Emanuela Barzi (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Prof. Giorgio Bellettini (University of Pisa and Infn Pisa) Prof. Simone Donati (University of Pisa and Infn Pisa)

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