YPP Activities

1
YPP Activities

• Strong interest in social activities
• Some of your suggestions
• BBQ, something like Summie Cocktail
• Getting to know area together, some forum for
  info exchange

• Happy that some of you would like to help
  organizing them! ?

2
Integration into the Geneva/CERN Area

• Most of you are quite well aware of whats going
  on in the area ?
• Maybe to be shared with newbies?

3
Future of HEP

• Larger interest in global information of HEP
  rather than specifics of the experiments you work
  in

4
Career/Work Issues of YPP

• Biggest concern
• Availability of academic jobs
• Industry jobs career fair smaller importance
• Alumni Association not deemed so important

5
Mentoring/Networking etc

• Mentoring system not so important
• Advisor/Advisee Relation not a very big concern
• Networking (more so for post-docs) and role in
  big experiments deemed important
• Information on Award Scholarship possibilities
  is a concern

6
Discussions/social issues

• Interest in Discussion Fora/Communication
  channels
• Help for moving onsite specially interesting to
  students
• Interest in social issues like childcare/healthcar
  e minimal

7
YPP Priorities

• Post-doc YPPs most interested in activities
  regarding their own issues (most comments on YPP
  issues concerned JOB SECURITY), second comes the
  current and future state of HEP
• Student YPPs equally interested in YPP issues,
  social activities and academic training

8
Your biggest concerns

• A few selections (all of your comments were very
  interesting!)
• Many are concerned with permanent positions, HEP
  career structure
• difficulties to find fast permanent job with
  reasonable salary and conditions
• My mayor concern is how difficult it is for young
  people to get permanent positions.
• Big concern about size and time-scale of
  experiments/collaborations
• Loosing interest. Projects become so vast open
  questions so remote that itis hard to keep
  interested - even for myself what about the
  general public?
• Due to the extreme size of ongoing experiments
  and activities small sometimes even more
  interesting projects can not any more be
  followed. On the long term this will have two
  major consequences one loosing a lot of
  interesting figures the other becoming more and
  more anonymous.
• 1)Future experiments and long-term planning of
  the field 2)Postdoc positions 3)The kind of
  career High Energy Physicists are expected to
  follow4)Opportunities in the near future for
  tenure potions at university both in Europe and
  the US for HEPhysicists 5)Opportunity in the near
  future for non-academic research jobs 6)
  Opportunity in the near future for
  industry-related jobs
• Funding of HEP, the future of the field, support
  from general public
• 1. the budget situation at CERN and at the
  institutes.2. the lack of perspective
• Getting out information about the importance of
  fundamental physics research in society to
  increase the interest among young students and
  among decision makers. A change in attitude will
  have positive repercussion on many other
  secondary worries.
• The ratio gain/prize seems to be low compared to
  other sciencies.
• That it gets too big and too political too many
  people making decisions and noone there to do the
  work
• Future funding support/endorsement from general
  public
• no more money
• )difficult to write about it in a few words.
  everybody knows about increasing of lack money
  which can be IMHO cured only through more and
  propper propaganda - outreach
• Is there a future?

9
Survey Conclusions (preliminary)

• Most important categories are YPP issues and the
  HEP field state
• AT category
• Possible interest in ypp for ypp seminars
• Outreach
• Dont repeat what CERNs already doing, but
  increase awareness for outreach
• Social activities
• Most of you interested, plan to propose some
  activities here (and accept your offer to help!
  ?)
• HEP field
• Discussion fora, propagate HEP decision infos
• YPP issues
• Your biggest interest
• Maybe improve academic job info, discussion fora,
  seminars on job-related skills? Your input and
  suggested activities wanted!