Title: Education and Outreach Activities in the EFI HEP Group
1Education and Outreach Activities in the EFI HEP
Group
- Public outreach
- Activities with K-12 schools
- HEP education at the college level
- Faculty leadership at the University
- Activities in the wider Physics community
- Associations with specific HEP projects
- Etc.
Message we have had longtime individual and
programatic EO we are have recently established
more group-wide programs with schools
2Public Outreach
- Lectures to general public
- Compton Lectures at University of Chicago
- Adler Planetarium
- Hyde Park Community
- Media
- Local newspapers
- Radio
- Websites
- TV, film and theater
- Museums
- Program to develop better demos/displays for
museums
3Lectures
(Kim, Oreglia, Pilcher,Shochet)
- Compton Lectures (9 lectures in Autumn Spring)
- Tradition for many years 1 HEP lecture almost
every year - Pilcher has organized 7 of them
- Reaches about 100 people from greater Chicago
- Ambreesh Gupta just finished his series on
Origins of Mass - previously Winstein, Hill, Oreglia, Wah, Amidei,
Yamamoto, Milliken, Barker, Cheu, Solomey,
Roodman, Fortson, Kessler, Spiropulu - Adler Planetarium Lectures
- Another popular series recently Kessler on
Matter-antimater Asymmetry
4More Lectures
- Young-Kee Kim
- APS/DPF Women in Physics Lecture (August 2004)
- Christmas Science Concert (December 2004)
- 2000 students and adults televised
- Snowmass 2005 will give public lectures in
Aspen, Carbondale - Kenwood Academy (and possibly other local
schools) - Hyde Park Community lectures to colleagues and
neighbors - At homes, dorms, Quadrangle Club, organizations
- temples, humanities faculty groups, clubs
- Influences influential people, esp. in this
community - Reaches minorities, esp. in this community
5Media Contacts
(Blucher, Kim, Oreglia,Shochet)
- Newspaper articles
- We have been resources for local journalists and
quoted in numerous issues of the Chicago Tribune
and Chicago Sun-Times on K and neutrino physics
(Blucher), Higgs (Oreglia), CDF (Shochet, Kim) - Radio interviews
- We have described HEP programs on NPR and local
radio programming (Blucher, Oreglia, Shochet) - TV
- Fermi Fellow Maria Spiropulu has been featured
twice on NOVA - Kim featured recently on Korean TV
- Etc
- Primary consultant to 137 Films for new
documentary on how particle physics
collaborations work (Oreglia) - Have been a resource to local theater on Fermi,
nuclear, etc
6Activities with K-12 schools
(Blucher, Frisch, Kim, Merritt, Oreglia,
Pilcher,Shochet)
- Activity with teachers
- (QuarkNet)
- Teachers Academy for Math and Science
- Consulting to Chicago Public Schools Director of
Science - Curriculum at Kenwood Academy
- Development of web-based teaching aids for CPS
- Activity with students
- Sponsored research with Illinois Math/Science
Academy - Summer research learning program for Kenwood
7th graders - Lecture/demos to Kenwood academy students
- Science fair mentoring and judging (public and
private) - Yerkes Summer Institute lead discussions and
summer classes - Space Explorers Program lectures to K-12
minority students
7QuarkNet
- We had a longtime participation in the Quarknet
program, coordinated locally by Frank Merritt - lectured high-school teachers on our experiments
- Helped develop physics training tools
- Worked with teachers to teach them better ways to
think about modern science and HEP - Not currently active, but possibly in the near
future
8Partnership with Kenwood Academy
(Oreglia, Pilcher,Shochet so far eventually
everyone)
- A new partnership has been forged with the local
high school - Kenwood Academy has grades 6-7 and 8-12
- Over 90 African-american
- We have begun a long-term program with support
from the University - support their physics demos
- Consult on curriculum
- Target 7th-graders with special lecture-demos on
HEP - In the classroom
- Special Christmas Lecture here at UoC
- Created a summer program of research lectures
- Mentor 7th-grade science projects (they have 100
participation!) - Provide judging for science fair
- 3 faculty, 2 senior people and 1 grad student
last December
9Teachers Academy for Math and Science
(Frisch)
- Frisch has been instrumental in the creation and
development of this program to change the way
science is taught in Chicago schools - Frisch is on Board and Program Committee
- Many meetings sponsored here at HEP
- Affects 2500 teachers in 65 schools
10Illinois Math and Science Academy
(Frisch, Kim, Merritt)
- We sponsor independent research projects by IMSA
students - They are mentored by faculty and research group
mentors - They come here one day/week
- Receive training to work on a current project
- Use our facilities
- They do remarkable work
- This year, Tim Credo was sent to the Rome IEEE
and presented a paper on picosecond timing for a
TOF - Peter Onyisi was another went on to be UoC
undergrad, Cornell grad, Apker award
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12Consulting to CPS Directorate
(Frisch, Oreglia, Shochet)
- Another of our new programs is a serious effort
to create change in the science program of the
Chicago Public Schools by working directly with
the top official Michael Lach, Director for
Science - Lach was very receptive of our approach and we
have met with him at length to discuss - Curriculum (ie, revision, modernization)
- Examinations. What do they think they are testing
for? We cant pass them! - Equipment and use of computers
- This is a tactful (less obvious than TAMS) way to
deal with difficult internal matters
13 HEP education at the college level
(Blucher, Frisch, Kim, Merritt, Oreglia,
Pilcher,Shochet)
- Research experience for undergrads
- Our own
- Wider program
- CERN summer students
- Development of courses on/including modern HEP
- We all get good marks on our teaching 4
Quantrell awards - We have been major players in curricular reform
(Merritt, Oreglia, Shochet) - All of us have been elected to College/University
decision-making groups and many of us have
chaired them
14Mentoring of Undergraduate Research
(Blucher, Frisch, Kim, Merritt, Oreglia,
Pilcher,Shochet)
- Our own undergrads
- Very strong tradition here in HEP
- Every HEP faculty member involves undergrads in
reseach, both during the academic year and in
summer - Their work usual results in publications or
senior theses - They go to conferences, CERN, FNAL, etc
- Others Summer REU program for minorities and
women - Sponsors research of ? 2-3 students/year in our
groups - Currently Kim is co-director of the program
- CERN/Michigan REU summer students
- We often mentor a student from one of these
programs
15 Faculty leadership at the University
(Blucher, Frisch, Merritt, Oreglia,
Pilcher,Shochet)
- Promoting awareness of HEP via University
machinery - Physics chair Merritt
- EFI Director Pilcher
- outreach to prominent members of community
(notably the Pritzker family) results in
appreciation for what we do by influential people - Outreach to Illinois industry via Illinois
Consortium for Accelerator Research (ICAR,
Oreglia) - Motorolas CEO (Bob Galvin) brought our msg to DC
- University liason to Springfield carries
awareness of UoC HEP and our connection to ANL,
FNAL - Frisch/Shochet spokesman for Senate
- Blucher/Oreglia on College Council
16 Activities in the wider Physics community
(Blucher, Frisch, Kim, Merritt, Oreglia,
Pilcher,Shochet)
- Membership on AAAS, APS, HEPAP panels
- Blucher, Kim, Merritt, Shochet
- Reports convey importance of HEP HEP needs
- Inform physics community of HEP connections
- Influence national science policy
- Leadership roles on experiments and LC
- FNAL BOO Shochet
- CDF co-spokesperson Kim
- KTeV and Braidwood spokesman/co-spokesman
Blucher - ATLAS
- Chair of ATLAS Collaboration board Pilcher
- US Institutional Board convenor Pilcher, Shochet
- Computing Merritt, Gardner
- APS Neutrino Study Blucher
- LC Oreglia co-chair of ALCPG Blucher, Kim on
Exec Ctte, US SG - ICAR Pilcher on Board
17 Associations with specific HEP projects
(Blucher, Kim, Oreglia)
- CDF Kim as co-spokeperson in charge of outreach
- LC outreach program
- Oreglia involved in USLCSG outreach and ALCPG
- Special workshop on this being set up for
Snowmass - Oreglia on FNAL Outreach committee
- Nationwide LC awareness
- Illinois business affiliate program
- Outreach to local community for education and
support - Braidwood proposed program
- Bluchers proposal will set up a novel program of
undergraduate research - centered at UoC
- Summer lectures and research for 16 undergrads
- Outreach to local communities (with Exelon)
18Etc Individual Faculty Outreach
- Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
- Frisch is Vice-chair gets to change the clock
- Tours/lectures at FNAL
- Many of us guide tours or lectures
- Local Schools
- A number of us work independently with Lab
School,Science Academy of Chicago, Ray School - Science fair judging, special lecture/demo
- Center for Elementary Math and Science
- Teacher training program established by the
University - Frisch chairs advisory committee