Discover the COSMOS - 1st meeting

1 Sept 2011, 09:00 → 2 Sept 2011, 17:30 Europe/Zurich

61/1-009 - Room C (CERN)

Christine Kourkoumelis (University of Athens)

Kick off meeting of the FP7-Infrastructure project "Discover the Cosmos" (from telescopes to Accelerators). The project is coordinated by the IASA, Greece. It has two years duration and 15 partners. It aims to select and integrate educational resourses from both astronomy and HEP into e-Science tools for students, teachers, teachers' instructors, public etc.

Thursday 1 September

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome from CERN

Speakers: Fabiola Gianotti (ATLAS-TBC), G. Tonelli (CMS), S. Bertolucci (Director of Research, CERN)

09:30 → 09:50 Presentation of the project scope and objectives

Speaker: Christine Kourkoumelis (IASA)

Slides cosmos_presentation.pdf

09:50 → 10:30 Introduction from the partners

Short presentation of each participating institution and their role (2-3 minutes per partner).

Speakers: All, Steven Goldfarb (University of Michigan (US))

Slides GoldfarbOutreach-1.pdf GoldfarbOutreach-1.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 19:15 WP2: Pedagogical Framework and Implementation Scenarios

11:00 Scope, Objectives and Scenarios of Use

Presentation of WP’s Scope and Objectives Presentation of the 3 areas of applications: Telescopes, CERN, GAIA Scenarios of Use (Introduction)

Speakers: Chris Leigh (LJMU), R. Ferlet (IAP), Rolf Landua (CERN), Simon Hodgkin (UCAM), Uta Bilow (Inst. fuer Kern- und Teilchenphysik (IKTP)-Technische Universita)

Slides

• COSMOS_CERN_1.pdf
• Faulkes_Telescope_Glamorgan.pdf
• Faulkes_Telescope_Glamorgan.ppt
• hodgkintalkdiscovercosmos_GAIA_Cambridge.pdf
• kick-off-9-2011.pdf
• Kickoff_meeting_presentation_Dresden.pdf
• NSO_Presentation_Liverpool_.pdf
• NSO_Presentation_Liverpool_.ppt

12:00 Discussion on the Scenarios of Use

Short presentations from each partner concerning the existence of astronomy and high energy physics lessons in the curricula of each country
Representatives of each participating country (10-15’ each)

Speakers: Elisabeth Zistler (Austria), Gesche Pospiech (Germany), Roger Ferlet (France), Sofoklis Sotiriou (Greece)

Slides

• curriculum_reference_DiscoverCosmos_Austria.doc
• curriculum_reference_DiscoverCosmos_Austria.pdf
• pres_scenarios_of_use_BMUKK.pdf
• pres_scenarios_of_use_BMUKK.ppt
• Situation_Germany_Dresden.pdf

13:00 Lunch break

14:00 Visit to CERN experiment

15:30 Discussion on the Scenarios of Use (continue)

Short presentations from each partner concerning the existence of astronomy and high energy physics lessons in the curricula of each country (Continue)

Speakers: Ana Gomez de Castro (Spain), CERN (Switzerland), Carl Pennypacker (USA), Lynne, LEIGH Chris Long (UK), Rosa Doran (Portugal)

Slides

• HEP_in_UK_Schools_Curricula_LL_-_UK_Birmingham.pdf
• HEP_in_UK_Schools_Curricula_LL_-_UK_Birmingham.ppt
• Kickoff_Bham.pdf
• Kickoff_Bham.pptx
• UK_Astronomy_in_Schools_Liverpool.pdf
• UK_Astronomy_in_Schools_Liverpool.ppt

16:30 Presentation of e-science applications

(10’ per application) HYPATIA, SalsaJ, Sun for all, Learning with ATLAS@CERN

Speakers: Joao Fernandes (FCTUC), Rosa Doran (NUCLIO), Stelios Vourakis (IASA)

Slides Hypatia_cosmos_presentation_2011_eng_IASA.pdf LA@CERN_presentation_IASA.pdf

17:10 Coffee break

17:30 Discover the COSMOS Demonstrators

Speaker: Sofoklis Sotiriou (EA)

18:00 Presentation of project’s administrative issues (WP1)

Speaker: Menelaos Sotiriou (SV)

18:30 Exploring new calls

Speaker: Sofoklis Sotiriou (EA)

18:45 Conclusions

Friday 2 September

09:00 → 10:30 WP3: Developing the Discover the COSMOS Users Community

09:00 Presentation of WP’s Scope and Objectives

Speaker: Christine Kourkoumelis (IASA)

Slides WP3-kick-off.pdf WP3-kick-off.ppt

09:20 Presentation of the Masterclasses as a best practice

Speaker: Michael Kobel (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))

Slides masterclasses_MK_kickoff_cosmos.pdf masterclasses_MK_kickoff_cosmos.ppt

09:40 Presentation of how will be created the Discover the COSMOS Tool Kit

(Guidelines and Supporting Materials for Teachers and Outreach Groups)

Speaker: Sofoklis Sotiriou (EA)

10:00 Presentation of examples of developing communities of practice

Speaker: Sofoklis Sotiriou (EA)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 WP4: Implementation

11:00 Presentation of WP’s Scope and Objectives

Speaker: Sofoklis sotiriou (EA)

11:20 Presentation of the methodology to realize Activities at Local Level

Speaker: Sofoklis sotiriou (EA)

11:40 Presentation of the methodology to realize Activities at National Level

Speaker: Rosa Doran (NUCLIO)

12:05 Presentation of the methodology to realize Large Scale International Implementation Activities

Speakers: Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN), Rolf Landua (CERN)

Slides COSMOS_CERN_2.pdf COSMOS_CERN_2.ppt

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:00 WP5: Validation

Convener: Elisabeth Zistler (BMUKK)

13:30 Presentation of WP’s Scope and Objectives

Slides Discover_the_COSMOS_kick-off_Presentation_version3-1_WP5_Validation_BMUKK.pdf Discover_the_COSMOS_kick-off_Presentation_version3-1_WP5_Validation_BMUKK.ppt

13:50 Presentation and explanation of the Validation Methodology

(The VALNET validation framework)

14:10 Presentation on how to realize the Validation activities

(Local and International Validation Workshops)

14:30 Discussion on the Validation issues and plans

Speaker: ALL

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 16:30 WP6: Raising Awareness and Expoitation

15:30 Presentation of WP's Scope and Objectives

Speaker: Menelaos Sotiriou (SV)

15:50 Presentation of the first plan for the dissemination and exploitation

Speaker: Menelaos Sotiriou (SV)

16:10 "Effective ways of introducing eScience in Schools" roadmap document

Speaker: Sofoklis Sotiriou (EA)

16:30 → 17:00 Wrap-up, Conclusions

Conveners: Christine Kourkoumelis, Sofoklis Sotiriou

slides 6_months.pdf 6_months.ppt