LOG Meeting

Thursday 10 Nov 2011, 10:30 → 12:30 Europe/Zurich

1/1-025 (CERN)

LOG minutes – Thursday 10^th November – 1-1-25
Present: Beatrice Bressan, Marzena Lapka, Lucas Taylor, Thomas Mc Cauley, Sophie Tesauri, Despina Hatzifotiadou, Lisa Mc Carthy, James Gillies, Emma Sanders, Rolf Landua, Amy Dusto, Kathryn Grim, Claudia Marcelloni, Joao Pequenao, Polly Ann Bennett, Emmanuelle Carrier, Bolek Pietrzyk  Excused: Mirko Pojer
 
 

1. IPPOG (Lisa)

The group is expanding and becoming more international. Totem has been invited to join. Masterclasses are growing and their content evolving (inc roadshows to schools in the UK). IPPOG is playing a more active role with networking, bringing activities to new publics. Their new website includes the database and possibility to rate the material
 
 
2. News from the press office (Sophie + James)
To help prepare for future discovery announcements, the press office requests a list of interviewees from experiments on a variety of subjects. Preparations are underway for fast set-up of a media centre and stand up interview slots in the case of a discovery seminar.   Expected attendance : of the order of 100 journalists.
Action press office :  email resumé of all their requirements to the experiments.
 
Action experiments : Request from the press office: Please tell members of your experiment that the press office should be involved when press visit the site. Refer them to link on press office website “for CERN people.” (https://press.web.cern.ch/press/internal/ForCERNPeople.html)
 
--CERN Google earth content is currently blocked by a Swiss law that does not allow surface capture in CH. Google is a possible channel for using material filmed by Liz Mermin.
--CERN has had 2 approaches from Imax film-makers, neither is likely to give rise to a film in the near future.
--ICHEPP – Discussion for improved media strategy is underway with Geoff Taylor along the lines of AAAS – building media programme into the conference.
 
 
EPPCN report (James)
There will be an event linked to the special meeting of the CERN council in Brussels Spring 2013. It should be member state driven. There will also be a brochure and a press conference to launch the updated European Strategy for Particle Physics and a round table discussion with an intentionally provocative title “can we afford big science?”
 
 

3. Update on animations (Rolf)

part 1 -status of animations – the library of elementary particles is almost complete.
part 2 –working group on 3D animations for a variety of publics– CERN visits film / Animations for visit points / press / games..   Topics listed in powerpoint on the LOG indico page.
timescale (optimistic) – 1 topic per month
 
 
 

4. Camelia (Joao)

see webpage : http://pdgusers.lbl.gov/~pequenao/camelia/
Joao drew our attention to the Dive capability that allows sequences to be personalised.
Plans for the future include a possible root interface based on Camellia.
 
 

5. Update on plans for London Science Museum exhibition 2013 (Emma)

The exhibition is scheduled for Sept – Dec 2013 in London, possibly travelling to the Deutches Museum, Musee des Arts et Metiers and Ciencia Viva afterwards. It could also come to Geneva if CERN is interested. Development work starts in earnest in January and the museum requests that information flow from CERN come via Emma to Jo Quinton Tulloch.
Action experiments : complete object list complied last summer and firm up availability. Send info to Emma by January.
 
 

6. Local Famelab in the Globe next year (James)

The original famelab took place in Cheltenham – a competition for the best 3 minute presentation, the winner got to appear on TV. Now 21 countries are involved (+ a possible 12 more joining soon).
The Swiss competition is coordinated by the British council, with  2 heats in Zurich and 1 at CERN in the globe on 4^th or 11^th Feb. Swiss heats are in German, French or English, but final takes place in English in Cheltenham.  Link to Tom Whyntie’s presentation (the winner of the 1^st famelab) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP3wSSHYdG8
 
 

7. Round the table

 
LHCb (Bolek) – There has been some TV interest in the LHCb film (via the Japanese film festival)
Plans are ongoing for a new LHCb control room w/ glass windows (which would free up space at pt 8 for improved exhibitions)
 
ALICE has a new writer for ALICEmatters : Polly Bennett
 
ATLAS (Claudia) – communication plan ongoing – move towards general public from scientifically aware public. More focus on media and social media. teaching vs engagement.
An adhoc 3D film group has been meeting – coordination to be decided off-line between DG-CO & PH-EDU.
 
CMS (Lucas) - new Drupal site to come out by the end of the year with single web handling of all the info coming out of CMS. Small room to be added to CMS centre in Meyrin. Plans for point 5 are advancing, as are calendar, Xmas card, filming of potential discovery meetings and google earth animations showing global collaboration and detector layers / data flow to the GRID.
CMS data analysis will be part of a hack event in San Francisco!,  
 
US/LHC (Katie) – reminder request for ppts for the USLHC website.
 
8.              Date for next meeting – 8^th December 10.30-12.00  -   1-1-25

10:30 → 10:45 Report on IPPOG meeting

Convener: Lisa Mccarthy

slides forLOG_10_Nov'11v1.pdf forLOG_10_Nov'11v1.pptx

10:45 → 11:00 News from the press office and EPPCN meetin

Convener: James Gillies

slides Brussels_event_for_IPPOG_4Nov11.ppt

11:00 → 11:10 Update on animations

Convener: Rolf Landua

slides IPPOG_TALK.pdf IPPOG_TALK.ppt

11:10 → 11:20 Camelia

Convener: Joao Pequenao

11:20 → 11:30 Update on plans for London Science Museum exhibition 2013

Convener: Emma Sanders

slides Sci_Museum.pdf Sci_Museum.pptx

11:30 → 11:40 Local Famelab in the Globe next year

Convener: James Gillies

11:40 → 12:10 Round the table, news from CCC + experiments