SG meeting - 14.11.2013, CERN

International Masterclasses 2014

Status Central CoordinationUta Bilow, Ken Cecire

International Masterclasses 2014

37 countries, 160 institutes

•40 video conferences with CERN (36)

•108 institutes registered for CERN-VC (129)

•132 Masterclasses with CERN-VC (158)

– ALICE: 11 (10)

– ATLAS W: 39 (50)

– ATLAS Z: 51 (58)

– CMS: 32 (40)

•LHCb: separate orga for 2014 Vava

Organisation Central Coordination

• Coordination Fermilab-based: Ken

• Coordination CERN-based: Uta

• joint Internet presence

Working Group Video Conference

• Kate Shaw, Marzena Lapka, Michael

Hauschild, UB

• Tasks:

• evaluate feedback

• work on further improvement of material for CERN-VC

• Training for moderators

• Update quiz

• Prepare evaluation with institutes

Steering group

Nicolas Arnaud (consultant)

Ralf Averbeck (ALICE R_AA)

Uta Bilow (coord.)

Ken Cecire (coord. and CMS)

Yiota Foka (ALICE)

Vladimir Gligorov (LHCb)

Despina Hatzifotiadou (ALICE S.P.)

Michael Kobel (project leader and

ATLAS W)

Farid Ould-Saada (ATLAS Z)

Pete Watkins (consultant)

NEW

NEW

Expansion initiative for 2014Australian Masterclass, 3rd Oct 2013

• Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and Medford MA

• ATLAS Z path• 14:30 in Australia• Midnight in U.S.• Thanks Ben Auerbach!

Americas & beyond• more in U.S.• more in Europe• ~ 5 outside • More in Asia?• workshops?

New idea to promote discussion between institutes• Each institute assigned to question one other• Based on comments from Vancouver• Tried with Australian masterclass – positive feedback• What do you think?

New Masterclass Library project http://tinyurl.com/mc14lib …. still in progress.

Fermilab Videoconferences

Webpage for educators

• For teacher-facilitated Masterclasses in schools

• Still in progress

Vidyo improvements (Joao)

• New Vidyo-client, end of Nov 2013– Chat integrated (1 to 1, group)– Visual indication of speaker (?)– Recording

LHCb

Measurement presented to SG and formally approved

Planning for 2014:–17 institutes from 7 countries–6 video conferences–Webpage

Todo list:–Finish improvements–Translations

ALICE – Looking for strange particles• Development of JAVA version of measurement ..in order to

be independent of ROOT and Operating System (not ready for 2014)

• Virtual Machine for Windowsan ubuntu virtual machine was developed, now under test, might be ready for 2014

• Polish and Greek will be added, Swedish proposed

ALICE – R_AA• package is “stable” since a while• only “cosmetic” changes, mostly in large-scale analysis

macro• package available for download in various formats,

including a bootable DVD image!• documentation currently available in English and

German (Czech & Italian for 2014)

CMS• W/Z Measurement WZH:

– Add 10 x [H – Each set of 100 will have 3 Higgs candidates

• one ZZ • two

• Editgrid – seeking to replace

W+/W- ratio

• Runs low ~ 1.2 average• CMS:

– We hard to distinguish at high

• ATLAS:– Undercounting of WW

ATLAS W path

Master thesis by Julia Woithe (Dresden)

• on average only 44% of WW candidates found by students

• large variability between different institutes

• Solution new selection criteria (reduce cut by 5-10 GeV)

• Misidentification biased W+/W- ratio

• More: too much lecture and not enough time for exercise and analysis gave worse results

ATLAS Translation Tool

• Straightforward

• Traffic light system shows progress

• Translations recommended, but optional for W path 2014 (no change of physics content)

ATLAS Z path

• Website migration to Oslo

• Stable, minor updates

– Difficult di-photons and 4-leptons being sorted out

• Web-based Hypatia?

• Looping over full statistics for 201x

Discussion points

• Is there interest in looping/automated analysis?• Websites: how do you use them and what would

you like to see?• Guides for tutors: Do you find them useful?• Should we seek more publicity for IMC?• How?• Should IMC expand into other countries /

developing countries? How?• What can we offer the most motivated and

interest students? Follow-up of IMC?