Conveners
Outreach, Education, and Diversity
- Arantza Oyanguren (IFIC - Valencia)
- Maria Catarina Espirito Santo (LIP)
Outreach, Education, and Diversity
- Arantza Oyanguren (IFIC - Valencia)
- Maria Catarina Espirito Santo (LIP)
The European Particle Physics Strategy Update 2020 discusses what Europe, taking into account the worldwide particle physics landscape, sees as the highest priorities for particle physics research in the coming decades. A wide spectrum of proposals and opportunities are examined to explore the basic building blocks of matter, the structure of time and space, and with it the origins of our...
Over the past 10 years, a new type of live-action team-based game became extremely popular all over the world, so-called escape (or adventure) games. Escape games are fun and engaging activities that require teamwork, communication and delegation skills, as well as critical thinking while fully absorbing players in a different reality. However, if adapted to specific learning content, the...
International Masterclasses (IMC) have grown in a number of ways. World Wide Data Day (W2D2) and special masterclasses for International Day of Women and Girls in Science (IDWGS) are innovations that began two years ago and have taken root. W2D2 establishes new ways for high school students and teachers to engage in masterclass activities from their own classrooms. For IDWGS, a new pathway has...
The HL-LHC will see ATLAS and CMS see proton bunch collisions reaching track multiplicity up to 10.000 charged tracks per event. Algorithms need to be developed to harness the increased combinatorial complexity. To engage the Computer Science community to contribute new ideas, we have organized a Tracking Machine Learning challenge (TrackML), running first on Kaggle platform, then on Codalab...
Communicating the status and achievements of the ATLAS Experiment has been a core objective of the ATLAS Collaboration since its founding. To match an ever-changing media landscape, ATLAS has tailored its communication strategy to produce content that effectively targets key audiences. The comprehensive approach of ATLAS communications is explored, with a focus on strategic themes, effective...
Named after the 2015 Nobel Laureate in physics, the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute is a new initiative to create a network of Canadian astroparticle physics research talent through its home base at Queen's University, 7 partner institutions, and 5 research facilities. Following the success of Art McDonald and the SNO collaboration, Canada recognized the...
The status of outreach activities of the LHCb experiment at LHC is presented, covering both continuing outreach efforts as well as new projects specific to LHCb. These include the work towards preservation of the subdetectors that that are being replaced during the upgrade of the LHCb detector in the Long Shutdown 2, and updates to the surface exhibition above the LHCb interaction point. The...
Science and art define the culture of a society, through intention to understand the world around us. Both, art and science develop the ability of abstract thinking, the most powerful tool of knowledge, and the strongest force in the universe. Creativity is common to both science and art, science teaches us to think in a new way, and art teaches us to observe and perceive the world...
ORIGIN is a network founded in January 2018 by several high energy & astrophysics collaborations and research centres. It builds on the art@CMS methodology to create and support events, exhibits and workshops where public engagement and education are enhanced by both art and science.
The exhibit setup in Puebla, Mexico, in parallel with the LHCP conference, will be used to illustrate how the...
“Cultural Collisions” is an interdisciplinary science/art engagement and networking programme. It is designed to trigger curiosity, creativity, and foster critical thinking in school students to help them overcome the scientific and technological challenges of the 21st century.
It was developed and evaluated within the EU funded project CREATIONS and supported by the international particle...
As a laboratory for unconventional scientific communication, the experimentation of different ways to communicating science have led the INFN Communications Office to carry out, in the last decade, innovative formats for public events, in which performing arts intertwine with the narrative of science. Since the structure of the story is intrinsically connected with the process of knowledge...
Creativity is something common to many disciplines and is certainly involved in artistic and scientific thought and work. Scientists and artists are asked to see and think beyond the perceivable reality. They can imagine aspects of things and phenomena, which can only be seen from an unusual perspective: they possess vision and creativity. We found it interesting to explore similarities and...
Particle physicists are sometimes described as Platonists, referring to their belief that the ultimate explanation of the Universe must possess beauty. Since scientists in other fields are more sceptical about the role of beauty in science, HEP physicists are in a unique position: we know there is beauty in the fundamental laws that we discovered and this is a great message that we could share...
This session will present European Research Council (ERC) funding opportunities, available for both early career researchers and senior research leaders. The ERC operates according to a «bottom-up», approach, allowing researchers to identify new opportunities in any field of research. It encourages competition for funding between the very best, creative researchers of any nationality and age....
The ICTP Physics Without Frontiers (PWF) programme works with volunteer physicists to inspire, train and motivate physics and mathematics university students worldwide with some focus on science and technology lagging countries. The aim is to promote physics research and help build the next generation of scientists. Each project is unique, developed with the country's specific needs in mind....
The ATLAS Collaboration consists of more than 5000 members, from about 100 different countries. This study presents data showing aspects of the regional, age and gender demographics of the collaboration, including the time evolution over the lifetime of the experiment. In particular the relative fraction of women is discussed, including their share of contributions, recognition and positions...
Ten years ago, the CERN Portuguese Teachers Program was extended to include also teachers from the other Portuguese speaking countries. This has allowed large numbers of teachers from Portugal and Brazil to come together with teachers from several African nations, and from East Timor in Asia. In addition to enlarging the reach of the CERN programms to other non-member countries, in developing...
Perform data analysis and visualisation on your own computer? Yes, you can! Commodity computers are now very powerful in comparison to only a few years ago. On top of that, the performance of today's software and data development techniques facilitates complex computation with fewer resources. Cloud computing is not always the solution, and reliability or even privacy is regularly a concern....
To enable high school students to participate in the fascinating research in HEP physics, 30 universities in Germany have joined forces to form [Netzwerk Teilchenwelt][1]. About 150 researchers are active in the outreach program and bring cutting edge physics research into the classroom, for example with Masterclasses. They inform high school students about current findings, open questions and...
Coincidence measurements between cosmic ray detectors placed some distance apart are the standard way to detect extensive air showers created in the Earth atmosphere. While the detection of the highest energy cosmic rays requires distances in the order of km, compact arrays would probe the low energy region of the energy spectrum of primary particles. In this Project we exploited the potential...
In the context of a national general public event on antimatter (called Nuit de l'antimatière, https://www.sfpnet.fr/nuit-de-l-antimatiere) that has been organized under the aegis of CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), SFP (French Physical Society) and CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), we initiated a pedagogical project to visit high schools...
Teaching instrumentation to students & early-stage scientists is not an easy task, when one considers the inherent difficulties to both gathering specialists and accessing latest-generation equipment on a unique site. However this was the challenge we decided to take up in 2014, when we initiated ESIPAP in Archamps next to CERN, one of the very few places in the world where such an initiative...
The mandate of the Early Career, Gender & Diversity (ECGD) office is to oversee the well being and working environment of all LHCb members. The ECGD office was created by the LHCb management in 2014. Since March 2019, the role of the ECGD office is defined in the LHCb constitution and one ECGD officer is invited to attend the LHCb Collaboration Board as a non-voting member. The ECGD officers...
