YPP @ CERN

Veronique Boisvert

CERN EP-ATR/TA1

Introductory meeting

October 22nd 2002

http://ypp.hep.net

Outline

What is Young Particle Physicists (YPP)? YPP Local Chapters YPP@CERN

Young = Non-tenured!

What is YPP? It all started… Snowmass 2001:

YPP (Young Physicists Panel) started at FNAL in May 2000 in preparation for Snowmass

Decided to do survey: Survey on the Future of HEP (hep-ex/0108040)

Received 1500 responses over 2 weeks, results shown at Snowmass

Ntuples of data available Some conclusions:

Young and tenured physicists tend to agree on issues Disagreement on site of future machine correlated to respondant’s

location

What is YPP? It all started… Snowmass 2001:

YPF (Young Physicists Forum) at Snowmass: Steering group formed before the conference:

Decided on a plan: have a “town meeting” to discuss basic issues, perform live votes, come up with conclusions to be presented at the Forum in front of all participants

Formed working groups for the different issues and produced document to steer the Town meeting

Outreach/Building the field Globalization Balancing a program of physics

Presented results at the Forum and at Closing Plenary session See: http://home.fnal.gov/~bfleming/snowmassYPF.html and proceedings

hep-ex/0110027 A lot of excitement generated from young and not-so young!

What is YPP? OrganizationLocal

ChapterLocal

ChapterLocal

ChapterLocal

Chapter

Representative Body

Executive CommitteeWorking Groups

• Elects Executives• Approves budget• Amends bylaws• Admits new chapters/WG

• Ensures communication between local chapters•Proposes budget•Administers funds

Chapters: Labs: BNL, CESR, DESY, FNAL, SLACUniversities:Boston U., U. Chicago, Florida State, U. Pittsburgh, U. Washington

Working Groups: Outreach to GovernmentOutreach to the PublicGlobalizationYoung Physicists Issues

Charter and Bylaws

YPP membership:~150

Ambassadors

What is YPP? Funding Funding of local activities is left to local Chapters Funding for YPP wide activities is sought by

YPP treasurer NSF grant submitted (~10,000US$)

Will be used for holding a 1 day workshop on Outreach activities at the end of the APS/DPF conference

Will also be used for paying for extra hotel night for young physicists interested in attending (US and non-US)

Local Chapters: SLAC YPP@SLAC: ~80 members

SLAC core group: 7 members Outreach:

February 2002: “HEP funding 101” given by J. Dorfan March 2002: met with H. Quinn about Outreach at SLAC April 2002: “How to Get the Press your Physics deserve”

given by N. Calder Started 3 questions Project with local high school

Physics related: May 2002: 4 lectures on “Physics at an e+e- Linear Collider”

by M. Peskin November 2002: 3 lectures on Astrophysics Started YPP Journal Club

http://www-project.slac.stanford.edu/ypp/

Local Chapters: FNAL Working in collaboration with GSA and UEC Anybody trying to access young physicists Young Physicists Issues:

Health care for students, day care Outreach:

Started collaboration with Chicago Museum of Science and Industry for a HEP display

Get more young physicists involved in lab tours, etc. Physics related:

Lepton/Photon 2003 in Chicago Encourage young physicists participation with poster session Etc.

http://ypp.hep.net/fnal.html

Local Chapters: DESY Started recently Young physicists issues:

July 2002: Minister of Research went to Hamburg to discuss the new law 'Hochschulrahmengesetz’

December 6th: Podium discussion: Ministry rep., DESY rep., Hamburg U. rep., etc. For YPP and moderated by YPP CERN German YPP members interested? Video

conference could be arranged

http://www.desy.de/ypp/

Working Groups Outreach to Government:

August 2002: letter to Congress sent by young physicists in view of budget considerations

Every year: FNAL UEC and SLAC SLUO go to Washington, YPP is planning to be part of future trips

Outreach to public: NSF grant: Workshop at APS/DPF A lot of activities in local chapters

Working Groups Globalization:

June 2002: talk at FNAL by R. St-Denis on “New Visa Class or You Want a Law, You Write It”

DØ control from remote location Project DESY controlled Tevatron in November 2001

Young Physicists issues: Snowmass survey found that main reason for young

physicists leaving the field: lack of permanent positions New survey is planned to study in more detail the reasons for

leaving the field

Ambassadors YPP is asked to send representants in national

committees 2 in a national committee on how to attract more

students into HEP 2 in 2 national committees sponsored by DPF on

outreach to the public and to the government Job: to represent YPP views

YPP@CERN Main Goal: Information

Information TO the young physicists at CERN What is the future of the field? Do you know enough about your experiment? How are other young physicists doing outreach? Etc.

Information FROM the young physicists at CERN With activities we will show we ARE excited about the LHC And that we ARE interested in keeping the field attractive

2 types of activities Local activities YPP wide activities

YPP@CERN: Organization Steering group:

Suggest activities and lead them through Poll local young physicists for activities and concerns Find funding Connection to YPP wide Web page

Email lists

YPP@CERN: Possible Activities Outreach to Government:

“CERN funding 101”? Other ideas?

Outreach to public: CERN is very active in outreach Talk about all the different activities, so that young physicists

get involved? CERN young physicists could go to the APS/DPF YPP

workshop and share experiences Organize similar workshop at EPS? Other ideas?

YPP@CERN: Possible Activities Globalization:

Participate in the DØ operation from CERN? ICFA held one of their meeting here recently Structure of a future international lab

Physics related: Series of lectures on future colliders? e+e- Linear

Collider, CLIC, VLHC, muon storage ring Other lectures Participate in the YPP wide project of increasing

young physicists participation at lepton/photon 2003

YPP@CERN: Possible Activities Young Physicists issues:

CERN doesn’t have a grad student association The ACCU doesn’t have a young physicist rep. CERN can be a big place:

We could have YPP subgroups according to groups: Theory Accelerator Atlas, CMS, LHC-B, Alice, LEP experiments, …

Subgroups could discuss issues related to their group Atmosphere issues Young physicists Journal Clubs/Seminars?

Conclusion YPP is a world wide organization (progress toward a

KEK chapter!) of young particle physicists CERN is a crucial place for the field: for its

young physicists to be part of YPP would be a big asset!

YPP@CERN will do what YOU are interested in Contact me to be part of Steering group I’ll contact you about email list

Conclusion The physics that WE will do is being decided on

now… we should take part in the discussion!

Young Particle Physicists