Description
Presenting complex physics results in a manner that is both understandable and entertaining is a considerable challenge. Doing this in just 3 minutes, with a maximum of 3 slides, is even more challenging but is extremely beneficial to everyone involved.
Young physicists at the EPS HEP 2015 conference have risen to the challenge and will present a variety of topics, from the status of HEP experiments to searches for CP-violation!
Following the short presentations the audience will decide their favourite presenter.
David Kaplan
25/07/2015, 09:00
Education and Outreach
talk
I will talk about my experience giving public lectures and making the 2014 documentary, Particle Fever, in the context of how it affected me, my research, my perspective on our field and our responsibility. Then I'll show a video clip - let's call it an outtake from the film.
Ms
Silke Zollinger
(Science & Technology Facilities Council)
25/07/2015, 09:20
Education and Outreach
talk
In particle physics researchers work at small scales within projects, but are also part of a larger scale within a collaboration. In the same way, researchers can be part of both small scale Public Engagement activities and large scale programs. No matter the scale, the principles of successful Public Engagement are the same: a work cycle that includes strategy, planning, implementation, and...
Carlos Lacasta Llacer
(IFIC-Valencia)
25/07/2015, 09:35
Education and Outreach
talk
The Educational ALIBAVA System (EASY) is a compact and portable system for lecturing sensor instrumentation at university teaching laboratories. EASY tests and readouts a silicon micro-strip sensor. The front-end electronics is based on a low noise ASIC with 128 input channels.
Semiconductor devices are widely used as radiation sensors in many scientific and industrial applications. They are...
Clara Nellist
(LAL-Orsay (FR))
25/07/2015, 09:50
Education and Outreach
talk
The ATLAS collaboration has recently setup three projects targeting citizen science or specific communities :
The goal of the HiggsML project was to bring particle physicists and data scientist together by a “challenge”: compete online to obtain the best Higgs to tau tau signal significance on a set of ATLAS fully simulated signal and background. The challenge ran from May to September...
Marzena Lapka
(CERN)
25/07/2015, 10:05
Education and Outreach
talk
Advances in information and communications technologies (ICTs) has given rise to innovative use of web-based video tools for global communication, enhancing the impact of large research facilities and their Outreach and Education programmes. One such example involves videoconferences to schools and remote events around the globe, known as Virtual Visits, conducted by the ATLAS and CMS...
Katharine Leney
(University College London (UK))
25/07/2015, 10:20
Education and Outreach
talk
Masterclasses are an excellent platform to inspire, motivate and educate students about High Energy Physics (HEP). They typically entail lectures on a chosen topic followed by a hands-on session where students get to experience being a researcher for the day. A number of HEP masterclasses have been developed, including the International Particle Physics Masterclasses, supported by IPPOG. ...
Kate Shaw
(INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine and ICTP Trieste)
25/07/2015, 10:35
Education and Outreach
talk
There is a huge untapped potential of physicists that come from countries without a strong tradition in the field. Strong young students may lack exposure to physics and physics research, they may not be aware of opportunities for further study, and governments and institutions may not fully recognise the importance of investing into the fundamental sciences. Outreaching particle physics to...
Dr
Benoit Blossier
(CNRS)
25/07/2015, 10:50
Education and Outreach
talk
Building an inclusive society is an active field nowadays. Of course
education is a key entry for people with disabilities to fulfill
their citizenship. We propose to present a couple of initiatives
recently taken in France in that direction, by letting the pupils with
disabilities discover and share science: in particular the operation
"La Main à la Päte" promoted by Académie des...
Farid Ould-Saada
(Oslo University, Norway)
25/07/2015, 11:30
Education and Outreach
talk
LHC data are successfully deployed in International Masterclasses where young students explore the Higgs discovery and other measurements. Promises of new discoveries in the 13 TeV era and opportunites offered by CERN open data have triggered new educational materials. After a few success stories, we describe new features and future plans. We identify four levels of high school engagement. The...
Hans-Peter Bretz
(DESY)
25/07/2015, 11:45
Education and Outreach
talk
What are cosmic particles and where do they come from? These are questions which are not only fascinating for scientists. The German education and outreach organization 'Netzwerk Teilchenwelt' offers a large variety of projects and activities to bring the methods and newest results of high energy and astroparticle physics to high school students and teachers. Several experiments with a focus...
Camila Jose Rangel Smith
(Uppsala University (SE))
25/07/2015, 12:00
Education and Outreach
talk
A virtual research and learning community can be a powerful tool for educational purposes. It has a wide range of possibilities for multi-institution participation; such as synchronous and asynchronous online engagement, decentralized student discussions and academic networking, as well as being cost effective. In this context, the CEVALE2VE virtual community (Centro de Altos Estudios de Altas...
Ivan Melo
(University of Zilina (SK))
25/07/2015, 12:10
Education and Outreach
talk
International Particle Physics Masterclasses are successful in motivating high school students. However, it is a one day event and some of the students are ready to go deeper into the realm of particle physics. In the Cascade competition (developed at University of Birmingham) teams of 3 - 6 high school students work for several weeks on projects on projects of their choice with the help of...
Christine Kourkoumelis
(National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR))
25/07/2015, 12:20
Education and Outreach
talk
The Inspiring Science Education and Go-lab outreach projects (approved by the European Commission) have been running for about two years. Their goal is the promotion of science education in schools though new methods built on the inquiry based education techniques and involving large consortia of European partners who test them with large scale pilots in thousands of European schools.
Both...
Claire Adam Bourdarios
(Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))
25/07/2015, 12:30
Education and Outreach
talk
To support the outreach activities of Atlas institutes and to grab people's attention in science exhibitions and during public events, we have created both a very detailed model of the experiment built entirely out of Lego bricks as well as an outreach programme using Lego bricks to get people to think about particle detectors and involve them in a conversation about particle physics in...
Michael Kobel
(Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))
25/07/2015, 12:40
Education and Outreach
talk
IPPOG (the International Particle Physics Outreach Group) is a network of particle physicists and communicators with contacts all across Europe and beyond. In the last 10 years members of IPPOG have developed a wealth of tools which enable the public and especially young high school students from an age of 16 years onwards to perform own data analysis on real scientific data from the LHC. In...
Angelos Alexopoulos
(CERN)
25/07/2015, 12:50
Education and Outreach
talk
Although significant investments have been made over the last two decades to introduce innovative approaches to science education, recent studies demonstrate that approaches based solely on inquiry and problem solving methods have a relatively low degree of adoption in school settings. In response to this, recent years have seen the emergence of a movement that seeks to encourage the public...
