YPP @ CERN

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YPP _at_ CERN

• Veronique Boisvert
• CERN EP-ATR/TA1

Introductory meeting October 22nd 2002
http//ypp.hep.net
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Outline

• What is Young Particle Physicists (YPP)?
• YPP Local Chapters
• YPP_at_CERN

Young Non-tenured!
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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 respondants location

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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.ht
  ml and proceedings hep-ex/0110027
• A lot of excitement generated from young and
  not-so young!

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What is YPP? Organization
Local Chapter
Local Chapter
Local Chapter
Local Chapter

• Chapters
• Labs BNL, CESR, DESY, FNAL, SLAC
• UniversitiesBoston U., U. Chicago,
  Florida State, U. Pittsburgh, U. Washington

Representative Body

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

YPP membership150

• Working Groups
• Outreach to Government
• Outreach to the Public
• Globalization
• Young Physicists Issues

Executive Committee

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

Working Groups
Ambassadors
Charter and Bylaws
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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)

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Local Chapters SLAC
http//www-project.slac.stanford.edu/ypp/

• YPP_at_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 ee-
  Linear Collider by M. Peskin
• November 2002 3 lectures on Astrophysics
• Started YPP Journal Club

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Local Chapters FNAL
http//ypp.hep.net/fnal.html

• 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.

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Local Chapters DESY
http//www.desy.de/ypp/

• 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

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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

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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

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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

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YPP_at_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

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YPP_at_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

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YPP_at_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?

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YPP_at_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? ee-
  Linear Collider, CLIC, VLHC, muon storage ring
• Other lectures
• Participate in the YPP wide project of increasing
  young physicists participation at lepton/photon
  2003

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YPP_at_CERN Possible Activities

• Young Physicists issues
• CERN doesnt have a grad student association
• The ACCU doesnt 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?

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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_at_CERN will do what YOU are interested in
• Contact me to be part of Steering group
• Ill contact you about email list

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Conclusion

• The physics that WE will do is being decided on
  now we should take part in the discussion!

Young Particle Physicists