Conveners
Diversity & Inclusion
- Corrinne Mills (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))
- Brian Beckford (University of Michigan)
Diversity & Inclusion
- Brian Beckford (University of Michigan)
- Corrinne Mills (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))
Description
parallel sessions
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.
One ECGD officer is invited to attend the LHCb Collaboration Board as a
non-voting member.
The ECGD officers...
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...
The CMS collaboration board created a diversity committee in 2017. In this presentation we will discuss the mandate, the experiences of this committee. We will include a statistical analysis of the CMS demographics, as well as that of the US CMS collaboration. We will also discuss some of the activities of the CMS Women’s forum, a self-formed group within CMS.
The American education system has historically assumed that physics students can speak and hear, and has historically excluded signed languages and their users. Consequently, there is a dearth of conceptually accurate and linguistically appropriate signs for even basic technical concepts. This talk will provide a brief history of my (lack of) access to education and being the first Deaf in the...
The number of bachelor's and doctoral degrees in physics and astronomy earned each year continues on an upward trend. Despite that, degrees earned by underrepresented minority (URM) groups still accounts for a small percentage of those degrees, with an overall downward trend for Black$/$African-American students. National societies such as the American Physical Society (APS) and the American...
