Education and Outreach Activities in the EFI HEP Group

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Education 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
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Public 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

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Lectures
(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

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More 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

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Media 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

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Activities 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

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QuarkNet

• 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

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Partnership 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

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Teachers 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

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Illinois 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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Consulting 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

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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

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Mentoring 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

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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

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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

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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)

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Etc 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