Description
Conveners:
Alessia Bruni (INFN Bologna)
Marie-Lena Dieckmann (Universität Hamburg)
Gwenhaël Wilberts Dewasseige (UC Louvain)
Contact: eps23-conveners-t14@desy.de
Communicating science through mobile smartphone and tablet applications is one of the most efficient ways to reach general public of diverse background and age coverage. The Higgsy project was created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN in 2022. This project introduces a mobile game to search for the Higgs boson production in a generic particle physics...
This talk describes an outreach exposition centered around a replica of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Payload Operation Control Room (AMS POCC) as a means to help people comprehend the continuous monitoring and control of space mission payloads by various control rooms on Earth. The exposition's added value stems from the AMS collaboration's monitoring software development, enabling...
Promoting and sharing the audio-visual heritage of the history of Italian physics are the two main goals of [La Mediateca INFN: the history of physics through videos][1], the new cultural project of INFN, a website dedicated to a general audience, but in particular aimed at students of Italian schools and university researchers and students. Today, it includes almost 200 videos totaling more...
ScienzaPerTutti(*), literally ScienceForAll, is the web portal dedicated to Physics education and popularization of science curated by INFN Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics’ researchers. The contents are mainly addressed to High School students and teachers and are designed to engage the audience with the main topics of modern research in particle and nuclear physics, theoretical...
The graphical program FeynGame is introduced, which allows didactic access to Feynman diagrams in a playful way. It offers didactic approaches for different levels of experience: from games involving simple clicking and drawing, to practicing the theory of fundamental interactions, to the mathematical representation of scattering amplitudes.
For the specialist, FeynGame may also represent a...
Since 1983 the Italian groups collaborating with Fermilab (US) have been running a 2-month summer training program for Master students. While in the first year the program involved only 4 physics students, in the following years it was extended to engineering students. Many students have extended their collaboration with Fermilab with their Master Thesis and PhD.
The program has involved...
The REINFORCE EU (Research Infrastructures FOR Citizens in Europe) was a three- year long SwafS project which engaged citizens in active collaboration with the scientists working in large research infrastructures across Europe. The overall aim was to bridge the gap between them and reinforce society’s science capital. The citizen scientists had at their disposal data from four different...
The International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) is a network of scientists, science educators and communication specialists working across the globe in informal science education and public engagement for particle physics. The primary methodology adopted by IPPOG includes the direct participation of scientists active in current research with education and communication specialists,...
The war on Ukraine has affected significantly scientific cooperation and communication in particle physics and also in many other fields of scientific, cultural and educational exchange. Immediately after the war in Feb 2022, many scientific institutions paused or banned scientific cooperation and exchange with Russian and Belorusian institutes and their scientists. Publications were out on...
The communities of astrophysics, astronomers and high energy physicists have been pioneers in establishing Virtual Research and Learning Networks (VRLCs)[1] generating international productive consortiums in virtual research environments and forming the new generation of scientists. These environments are key to improve accessibility and inclusion for students and researchers in developing...
The ATLAS Collaboration has developed a number of highly successful programmes featuring educational content for schools and universities, as well as communication strategies to engage the broader public. The ATLAS Open Data project has successfully delivered open-access data, simulations, documentation and related resources for education and outreach use in High Energy Physics and related...
The “Congrès des deux infinis” (“Congress of the two infinities”) was a huge education and outreach festival, organized last Fall in Réunion island, parallel to the international conference EDSU2022 – “Fourth World Summit on Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe”. During two weeks, tens of events – public lectures, conferences in schools, university seminars, school contests, teacher...
INFN Kids (*) is a science education project of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics addressed to young people of Primary and Middle schools age. The initiative aims at raising children’s curiosity towards science with a focus on Physics, inspiring them with science by illustrating the different research fields that INFN is pursuing, the development in technologies along with the...
The climate crisis and the degradation of the world's ecosystems require humanity to take immediate action. The international scientific community has a responsibility to limit the negative environmental impacts of basic research. The HECAP+ communities (High Energy Physics, Cosmology, Astroparticle Physics, and Hadron and Nuclear Physics) make use of common and similar experimental...
As members of the Virgo Collaboration – co-authoring observational results together with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the KAGRA Collaboration – we became aware of biased citation practices that exclude Virgo (and KAGRA) from achievements that collectively belong to the wider LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Collaboration. Here we frame these practices in the context of Merton’s “Matthew effect”...
Engaging young children in physics research is particularly challenging but offers unique educational potential. Outreach and engagement at an early age has been demonstrated to be key to increasing awareness of physics and to increasing diversity in the field in later years. We present a variety of activities and resources developed by the ATLAS Collaboration targeting this demographic,...
Interest of youth in STEM, and especially physics and engineering studies, is declining,even though new generation of specialists is needed to ensure the continuation of cutting-edge research, primordial for innovation, economic progress and sustainable development. New
pathways are to be found to inspire more young talents to become physicists and STEM specialists. Putting these branches to...
The citizens of the future were extended a unique invitation to witness High Energy Physics firsthand. A group of 130 individuals, aged between 16 and 30, eagerly embarked on a journey to explore 17 INFN sites and engage in conversations with our esteemed scientists across Italy. As they delved into our laboratories, collaborations, and day-to-day operations, a talented director meticulously...
With several thousand members from more than 200 institutes and over 50 countries, the CMS Collaboration is inherently a diverse and unique scientific environment. The CMS Diversity & Inclusion Office aims to foster further diversity among our collaboration, create an inclusive environment, and ensure equitable access to opportunities, resources, and recognition for all members. The goal,...
The ATLAS Collaboration consists of more than 5000 members, from over 100 different countries. Regional, age and gender demographics of the collaboration are presented, 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 of responsibility, including...
Introduction to GENERA
