Conveners
Education and Outreach: 1
- Kang Young Lee (GNU, Korea)
Education and Outreach: 2
- Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech)
Education and Outreach: 3
- Hang Bae Kim
A small Belle II data sample will be available to the general public through an interactive graphical application which includes basic particle selection tools for reconstructed particles. The application is using an open source library Blockly running in an HTML5 capable browser. In the application, different particle decays can be described by selecting and combining particles from the data...
I describe a novel interactive virtual reality visualization of particle physics, designed as an educational tool for learning about and exploring the electron-positron collision events in the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB colliding-beam facility at KEK in Japan. The visualization is designed for untethered, locomotive virtual reality, allowing multiple simultaneous users to walk...
Phase 2 of the Belle II experiment is about to begin. A new super-B factory facility, utilizing the SuperKEKB accelerator and the Belle II detector, is designed to search for as yet unknown "New Physics".
The outreach teams of KEK and the Belle II collaboration worked together for more than a year to make the Belle II/SuperKEKB project better known in Japan as well as in the...
Exploring the many ways that public High Energy Physics resources are employed to teach and outreach particle physics and computer science.
The current ATLAS model of Open Access to recorded and simulated data offers the opportunity to access datasets with a focus on education, training and outreach. This mandate supports the creation of platforms, projects, software, and educational products...
Social media is an essential tool for communicating particle physics results to a wide audience. This presentation will explore how the nature of social media platforms has impacted the content being shared across them, and the subsequent effect this has had on the user experience. The ATLAS Experiment has adapted its communication strategy to match this social media evolution, producing...
Status of outreach activities at the LHCb experiment at LHC is presented. LHCb is visible on the web with the public page news, Instagram, Facebook and online event display. Masterclasses activities for school boys and girls cover the whole planet. The surface exhibition above the LHCb proton-proton collision point is being constantly developed. Cameras in the control room allow Virtual Visits...
The CERN educational programme aims for a broad spectrum of educational opportunities from high-school students to professional and well experienced science teachers.
In 2017 three new projects have been launched to complement these efforts. The High-School Students Internship Programme (HSSIP) offers a two weeks national internship experience for students aged 16 to 19, enabling them to...
Masterclasses are a proven tool to engage high school students with particle physics. In a Masterclass, participants learn about high energy physics in a day-long course. Moreover, they can actively take part in cutting-edge research and experience methods and tools used in research by performing a tailor-made physics analysis involving real LHC data under the supervision of physicists. During...
"Voyages de l'infiniment grand à l'infiniment petit" ("Journeys from the infinitely large to the infinitely small") is a French Massive Online Open Course aimed at promoting nuclear and particle physics as well as astrophysics and cosmology to high-school teachers and pupils. Designed by an editorial team of physicists from CNRS and CEA and edited with the pedagogical and technical support...
This paper presents early results from a research into the impact of Particle Physics Masterclasses on the Understanding of Science and the Attitudes towards science of higher school students. The author has found that science communication efforts in plain science are criticized for being “deficit – style” approaches or ones that seek to educate rather than engage. The literature is lacking...
Over the past several years, a team based around the ATLAS Experiment at CERN in Geneva has organised public engagement and education activities at a variety of non-scientific venues. These have included the Montreux Jazz Festival (Montreux, Switzerland), the Bluedot Festival (Jodrell Bank, UK), the WOMAD Festival (Charlton Park, UK), Moogfest (Durham, NC, USA), and the Sofia Music Weeks in...
In Africa particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, and cosmology have been grabbing our attention, and that of our students for years. In the last decade, the field of a diverse research programme joining nuclear and particle physics with astrophysics, astronomy, cosmology and the enticing 'new worlds' imagined in theoretical physics has become particularly exciting due to the...
Phantom of the Universe is a planetarium show that showcases an exciting exploration of dark matter, from the Big Bang to the Large Hadron Collider. The show reveals the first hints of its existence through the eyes of Fritz Zwicky. Viewers see the astral choreography witnessed by Vera Rubin in the Andromeda galaxy. They plummet deep underground to see a very sensitive dark matter...
Since 1984 the Italian groups of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), collaborating with the DOE laboratory of Fermilab (US) have been running a two-month summer training program for Italian university students. While in the first year the program involved only four physics students of the University of Pisa, in the following years it was extended to engineering students. This...
Most of the newer emerging technologies have their origin well rooted in the Basic Sciences driven R&D; and therefore requires specialized skills for their adaptations. Engineering Physics is the area that addresses to this gap.
A post-M.Sc. program has been designed, implemented to bridge the gap between research in Basic Sciences, in particular, with physics and mathematics with the latest...
