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SULI Welcome

SULI Welcome. 2012. Introductions. SLAC Science Education Director Apurva Mehta SLAC Program Manager - Eric Shupert SULI Program Director - Steve Rock SULI Program Manager - Maria Mastrokyriakos Resident Assistant (Dorm)

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SULI Welcome

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  1. SULI Welcome 2012

  2. Introductions • SLAC Science Education Director • Apurva Mehta • SLAC Program Manager - Eric Shupert • SULI Program Director - Steve Rock • SULI Program Manager - Maria Mastrokyriakos • Resident Assistant (Dorm) - Juan Santiago-Gonzalez, Salem Cheneret • Web Page -http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/suli/2012 Schedules, Computing, lists, etc. • Fewer of us than you!

  3. SLAC OPERATIONS • DOE has many Research Labs • Military: (LLL) Livermore, Sandia, Oak Ridge, Hanford • Open (no classified research): SLAC, LBL (Berkeley), Fermilab, Jefferson Lab • Contractors manage the Labs. • Mostly Universities or consortiums of Universities • Increasing number of for-profit contractors • Designed to isolate Labs from political control of science • Many scientific advisory panels • But DOE (and Congress) control the money. • Stanford Manages SLAC • Staff are Stanford Employees.

  4. Who is at SLAC • Scientists (primarily interested in the science) • Faculty • Staff • Postdocs • Grad Students • Visiting Scientists (Profs, Postdocs, students) • Most of You • Technical Support (Creating the equipment) • Programmers (including my wife, so very important) • Technicians • Engineers • Administration • Safety • Communications • Human Resources (us)

  5. HOW SLAC WORKS • PROJECTSAT SLAC (SSRL,LCLS, LUSI, PULSE, FACET,NLCTA) • PROJECTS AWAY: (FGST, EXO, ATLAS, ILC, LSST) • INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS • SLAC scientists and technicians • Visiting scientists and technicians • Equipment built at SLAC • Equipment built at other institutions • Babar (last HEP experiment at SLAC) • 600 physicists and engineers • 75 institutions • 10 countries

  6. SLAC PROJECTS • LCLS:Linac Coherent Light Source • LUSI:LCLS Ultrafast Science Instruments • PULSE: Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering • SSRL: Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource • ARD: Accelerator Research Division • FACET: Facilities for Accelerator Science & Experimental Test Beams • ATLAS: A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS at the LHC at CERN • BaBar: B and B-bar • HEP Theory • ILC: International Linear Collider • EXO: The Enriched Xenon Observatory • FGST: Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope • LSST: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope • SNAP:SuperNova Acceleration Probe SLAC SPEAK DICTIONARY

  7. INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE • High Energy Physics • All results published • Mostly for richer counties • CERN: International European Lab (1954) • LHC financed by CERN and many other countries • Collaboration with USSR & China during Cold War • Now, Visa Problems for entering U.S. • Many Projects too expensive for 1 country • ILC includes Americas, Europe, Asia • LHC

  8. HOW (most of) YOU FIT IN • Part of a larger project • Learn about ‘big picture’ and how you fit in. • A small, but important contribution • Large projects have failed or been delayed because of small design problems on single parts (e.g. LHC) or miscalculations • Real RESEARCH Project • Result is not known in advance • Cannot check your work against Answer sheet • No Test to see if you have memorized things • You will make a meaningful contribution to the bigger project.

  9. HOW YOU FIT IN • Mistakes • You will probably make many errors, do things the wrong way, have equipment which fails, coding problems, … • Learn to notice when things look inconsistent or are nonsense. e.g. Is the computer output the right order of magnitude? • Keep a Logbook of your work so you can remember what you did! We all forget or think we remember things that did not happen • Check with your mentor. Experienced people know about common problems and the approximate results. Logbook! • If you do not understand, ASK !!!!!

  10. Overall Schedule • First Week: • Safety • Science Lectures • Start Research • Second Week • Research, Tour • Third Week • 1 Page Summary of Project due 7/9 • Meet with Director Individually

  11. Schedule (Week 1) • Begin at 9:00 ROOM WILL VARY (CHECK WEB SITE) • Mon, June 20   INTRODUCTION & SAFETY (all day) • Pick up SLAC ID and radiation badge. • Get Computer accounts • Tues, June 21morning ACCELERATORS (Kavli) • (complete getting ID and computer accounts) • 12:30   Lunch with Mentors • Afternoon with Mentors Wed, June 22  morning ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY (Kavli) Thurs, June 23 morning:  PHOTON SCIENCE (Bldg 48 ROB Redwoods C/D • 3-4 PM PersisDrell (Lab director) Fri, June 26 morn PARTICLE PHYSICS & COMPUTING (ROB Redwoods C/D

  12. End Of First Week • SLAC SURVEY • Comments on Each Talk • “Difficulty of Content”, “Presentation”, “Interest” • Rate 1 to 5 • Please keep notes so you remember • DOE SURVEY • SAFETY CHECKLIST

  13. ‘MON & WED’  ”LECTURE SERIES” 4PM . • July 2   TOUR of SLAC - John Fox  9 AM    • July 9 :LSST ? • July 11    Neutrino Physics – Steve Herrin • July 16:  Uwe Bergmann  • July 18:  TOUR OF SSRL & LCLS  ??   Apurva + • July 23 Cosmology  -Rachel Reddick • July 25:  "Using ultrafast pulses of soft x-rays to observe dynamics in materials and chemistry" -Bill Schlotter • July 30   Arms Control ? • Aug 1New Accelerator Techniques? • Aug 6:   Structual Biology at LCLS -Marvin Seibert •  Aug 8     Grad Student Forum  (

  14. TUES DINING HALL EVENTS A chance to talk to some interesting people at SLAC The Catch: you provide dinner! (many of you volunteered to cook already) . July 3:   Helen Quinn July 10:    Pat Burchat July 17: Herman Winick July 24:  Daniel Ratner

  15. SULI Program Requirements from DOE and SLAC • DOE REQUIREMENTS • Submit the DOE pre-survey on or beforeJune 30 • This can be found on your educationLink account • Write an abstract of your research for general Audience (300 words) • Peer Review of another students Oral Presentation (1 page) • Oral Presentation • Research paper (1500 -3000 wrds)+figs & tables Get started early • Submit the DOE post-survey • SLAC REQUIREMENTS (Good Research) • To help you get oriented make sure your paper gets done • Consultations with Director • Attend Talks • Peer Review of Paper • Intermediate stages of paper. • Have fun

  16. TRANSPORTATION • BICYCLE • Free Stanford Shuttle (Marguerite) around campus and to SLAC (weekdays) • CALTRAIN: to San Francisco and San Jose (station at Eastern edge of Campus on Palm Dr.) • County Buses (Sam Trans, VTA) • www.511.org to Plan Trip

  17. SULI 2011 STUDENT SUGGESTIONS • Get a bike • Go explore the area; Pt. Lobos, Yosemite, Fires on Ocean Beach in SF, Muir Woods, Pt. Reyes. • Always be working on paper

  18. SUMMARY • You have the opportunity to learn a lot and have a good time. • Working with your mentor and his/her colleagues is the primaryactivity. • Have Fun: Explore the area. • The SULI web page has lots of information (please make suggestions) • Contact me if you have any ‘program’ issues to discuss. (e.g. Problem with Mentor) or anything else • Contact Maria have ‘admin’ or other needs (like paycheck). She is a training expert.

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