Outreach, Education and Service

1. Outreach, Education and Service 2/3*25 minutes for 20 slides will be very tight Outreach, Education and Service R.L. McCarthy – Nov. 20, 2009

2. The privilege of receiving public funding for our research brings an obligation to engage with the wider community and explain the importance of what we do, to provide service to scientific and governmental bodies, and to expand the opportunities for education in schools and universities. Each of us has different capabilities and strengths, so the way we fulfill this responsibility varies from one person to another. • In this talk, I will group our activities into four general categories (though substantial overlaps occur): • Outreach to the public schools • Creating new educational opportunities at the University • Public talks of general interest • Service to the broader scientific community and government Outreach, Education and Service

3. Outreach to the public schools - Quarknet Quarknet was started with NSF/DOE support in 1999. It sought to bring cutting edge research experience to high school teachers and to help them find ways to expand understanding of science in the classroom. We were Quarknet sponsors in its first year. We identified two master teachers to serve as liaison to the Long Island physics teachers. We mentored these master teachers in a summer-long research program at Fermilab, helping to build detectors. We organized two 2-week summer workshops in Stony Brook and BNL for teachers where we outlined current topics in particle physics that could be used in the classroom, and held working sessions on building simple detectors for classroom experiments. Our Quarknet program combined with BNL in 2001, continued through 2003, and largely morphed into MARIACHI. Outreach, Education and Service

4. Outreach to public schools - Teacher Training Largely as a result of Quarknet and other programs Bob McCarthy became the Director of the Physics Education Program at Stony Brook: • first contact for teachers in the community with the department • adviser to all students in the physics teaching programs • answer inquiries from the general public about preparing to teach physics • requested and obtained approval of Helio Takai (BNL) as an Adjunct Professor of Physics, to improve the outreach connection of the Physics Education Program. Helio led Quarknet at BNL and founded the MARIACHI experiment. • advised MAT students to work on MARIACHI for research credits • requested and obtained approval of Robert Spira, a high school teacher, as Adjunct Professor of Physics, to bring real high school teaching expertise into our education programs. • requested and obtained approval of a new outreach course: PHY579 “Special Topics for Teachers”, requested by teachers, to explain new physics to teachers – taught by Michael Rijssenbeek and Helio Takai, typical enrollment 8/semester. Outreach, Education and Service

5. Outreach to the public schools - MARIACHI Outreach, Education and Service

6. Outreach to the public schools - MARIACHI _ Proposed to NSF by Helio Takai, David Bynum (CESAME) and Mike Marx. The scientific premise is the simultaneous detection of large air showers using scintillation counters installed in school classrooms and reception of strong commercial FM radio signals from below the horizon, reflected from ionization trails left by ultra-high-energy cosmic ray showers in the upper atmosphere. Measurements from schools and the central radio receiver are collected by connection to the Open Science Grid and brought to a node at Stony Brook to be combined and give estimates of cosmic ray energy and directions. Outreach, Education and Service

7. Outreach to the public schools - MARIACHI Stony Brook received funding to set up a center for education, school field trips, demonstrations, and detector building and characterization. A postdoc was hired to oversee these activities, housed in the decommissioned and renovated SB van de Graaf/LINAC control room in the NSL (Nuclear Structure Lab). The scintillator, HV supplies and light tight gun cases for schools were designed and built at Stony Brook (Takai, Schamberger, Steffens, Manzella (EE), and Vavilov) and were made available to teachers/students. A MARIACHI scintillator in its gun case Outreach, Education and Service

8. Outreach to the public schools - MARIACHI Students acquire and share data that gives them a taste of real research. Example results from MARIACHI observations http://www-mariachi.physics.sunysb.edu/wiki/index.php/Ground_Array NSF funding for MARIACHI has now terminated but we continue to build new detectors and to add new schools on Long Island, with prospects for expanding to neighboring states. Outreach, Education and Service

9. Outreach to public schools – Physics Teaching Lab Michael Marx and Harry Stuckey (high school teacher) As part of CESAME (Center for Science and Mathematics Education) following the very successful outreach of our Department of Biochemistry, high school classes are brought to the NSL to perform experiments that require equipment not available in most high schools: cosmic rays (a la MARIACHI) e/m of the electron Mike Marx – help needed here Outreach, Education and Service

10. Creating new educational opportunities Teaching is of course the primary obligation for the academic faculty. We have enhanced these responsibilities through the creation of new techniques for teaching and development of new courses and programs. • Modernization of Physics for the Life Sciences (class of 600) – Rod Engelmann • Delivery of course material automated: students download notes and videos • Web quizzes for credit automated • Lectures become workshops with frequent automated quizzes students answer with RF remotes, get immediate feedback • No recitations – students get individual email and blog help from instructors • Labs and exams are graded automatically • Received a grant for course redesign from the State University of NY Outreach, Education and Service

11. Creating new educational opportunities Physics Education Program – Bob McCarthy • Introduced a new BS/MAT program – Students can graduate in a total of 5 years with both a BS and an MAT degree. (A physics major is required in all programs.) • Number of graduates in the last 5 academic years: 4, 1, 1, 3, 4 • Numbers are small but one teacher who knows physics can teach 100 students/year. Currently 6 students in the program. • Introduced 6 new courses (5 of which did not require significant new resources), Robert Spira teaches our seminar on teaching methods with an enrollment of 10 pre-service and in-service teachers in the spring of 2009 What does ‘physics major required in all programs’ mean? Outreach, Education and Service

12. Creating new educational opportunities Physics for Poets – Chang Kee Jung successful new courses for non-science majors Light, Color and Vision Physics of Sport (with lab) summer school lectures on particle physics - Escolo Swieca for Brazilian students and postdocs courses for WISE – Michael Rijssenbeek teach students to use scintillation counters Hands on Science with Cosmic Rays – Michael Marx MARIACHI style work with non-physics majors Probability & Statistics for Experimental Physics – John Hobbs requested by students School (escolo) named in honor of J. A. Swieca, a Brazilian math-physicist who died in the early 80's. Who’s She??? Outreach, Education and Service

13. Creating new educational opportunities School Plus Weekend Enrichment program School Plus presents K-12th students with an alternative refreshing perspective on Math, Physics, Art and Language. The program seeks to supplement the diet of the basic school curriculum and thereby enhance the students' performance in the classroom and give them confidence and desire to explore beyond the normal curriculum. School Plus operates in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Washington, Manhattan and Long Island. The Long Island branch was founded by a member of our department. Students are introduced to non routine, mind-stimulating problems, which can't be solved without original insight. Dmitri Tsybychev teaches physics to 12 -14 year olds Outreach, Education and Service

14. Creating new educational opportunities ACCELERATOR USE WORLDWIDE Particle/nuclear ~120 Synchroton light sources ~50 Medical radioisotopes ~200 Radiotherapy ~7500 Biomedical research ~1000 Industrial processing/R&D >1500 Ion implantation etc. >7000 TOTAL ~17,500 Center for Accelerator Science and Education CASE Accelerators, originally invented for subnuclear research, are expanding as tools for research and industry in a broad range of fields. There is a strong need for more accelerator physicists, but accelerator physics education is restricted to a very few universities. Stony Brook is relatively unique as a research university, situated close to a national accelerator laboratory. This led us (Grannis, Marx, with nuclear colleagues Hemmick, Deshpande) to join with BNL scientists and SBU adjunct professors (Litvinenko, Ben Zvi, Peggs), to establish CASE in 2008 to develop a curriculum for training accelerator scientists with courses at Stony Brook and research opportunities at Brookhaven. CASE is interdisciplinary – Physics, Applied Math, Bioengineering etc. at SBU and Collider-Accelerator, NSLS and Physics departments at BNL. Outreach, Education and Service

15. Creating new educational opportunities Center for Accelerator Science and Education A curriculum has been proposed. Instructors would include some new hires plus faculty from participating SB and BNL departments. Sample research projects have been identified at BNL: ATF, NSLS, RHIC. CASE will use the MARIACHI-NSL center in our building for accelerator-based student experiments such as mass spectrometry, carbon dating, Rutherford scattering based on the Stony Brook Tandem van de Graaf accelerator. This facility offers opportunities for undergraduate students to conduct accelerator-based research projects and to make innovations in accelerator software and control systems. CASE has been approved by the University as a Type 1 Center, with co-directors Tom Hemmick (NSF NP support) and adjunct Vladimir Litvinenko (BNL). We aim for matching support from NSF and DOE to sustain this educational component of their mission to support accelerator-based science. Outreach, Education and Service

16. A Few Key Members of CASE Michael Marx:Associate Vice President for Brookhaven Affairs Oversees all SB/BNL joint centers Tom Hemmick and Vladimir Litvinenko:Directors of CASE Abhay Deshpande:Electron-Ion Collider Collaboration Ilan Ben-Zvi: Deputy Director for Research Linwood Lee:Founder of SB Nuclear Structure Lab Axel Drees: SB Assoc. Dean for Operations Outreach, Education and Service

17. Facilities and Resources at BNL • Research Tools Available: • Free Electron Lasers, Picosecond Terawatt Lasers, Photo-Injector Lepton Sources, Inverse Compton Gamma Source, State-of-the-art Diagnostics (e.g. tomographic phase space measurement) • Testing Advanced Concepts: • First tests of IFEL, ICA and double laser accelerator staging, multi-bunch plasma wakefield, cyclo-resonant acceleration. • Education: • Small scale facility offers hands-on experience from state of the art photo injector, high brightness beam transport, compression and diagnosticsto many different advanced accelerator concepts. • In the last dozen years between one and two PhD’s per year were based on ATF experiments. Outreach, Education and Service

18. Attracting Younger Students(We need to start young.) • WISE 187 Class: • Spring 2009: Cockroft-Walton Experiment as part of a “Physics History” Session. • Spring 2010: Dedicated Accelerator Science Session planned (taught by CASE). • Accelerator Summer Camp (2009) • High School and Undergrad Students • What is a Nucleus?: Nuclear decay, Accelerator Mass Spectrometry • How do energetic particles affect matter?:stopping gamma rays, stopping charged particles, hadron-beam therapy • How do you accelerate charged particles?Electric forces for pushing, Magnetic forces for turning, Magnetic forces for focusing, Types of accelerators: Van de Graaf, Tandem, Cyclotron, Synchrotron. • Perform Nuclear Transmutation Experiment!27Al(p,n)27Si • USPAS (US Particle Accelerator Schol): • CASE plans to write and teach a curriculum for undergraduates and sponsor a Scholarship Program to attract the best undergrad students to USPAS. • Master’s degree program: • Growth in accelerator applications make a Master’s Degree program a vital component in our future. Accelerator Camp -- July2009 HS Students Steering beam: 27Al(p,n)27Si Experiment Women in Science and Engineering Undergraduate Student w/ her data Cockroft-Walton Experiment Outreach, Education and Service

19. Public talks of general interest Explaining the excitement of new ideas and techniques in science to the general public is a challenging, but rewarding activity. We have given general interest outreach talks in many local and national settings. “Worlds of Physics” is a monthly evening lecture series that typically draws ~100 attendees. Rijssenbeek, Hobbs, Jung, Grannis, Takai have given several of these lectures on aspects of particle physics, detectors, accelerators and science policy. Other recent public talks: “Particle Accelerators: Herding and hurrying cats” American Nuclear Society “Breaking the paradigm of particle physics” SBU Emeritus Association “Applications of ILC Technology” US House of Representatives reception “The rise of large collaborations” APS spring meeting plenary talk “Experiments at Fermilab: Understanding matter at the smallest scale" Evening public lecture at Fermilab “International cooperation on large science projects” AAAS meeting on Scientific Freedom and National Security "Particle Physics at the Crossroads", Thomas J. Watson IBM Research Center “The Standard Model” APS centenary talk at 4 year colleges Need to get Chang Kee’s efforts in this sector as well Outreach, Education and Service

20. Service to the broader community • We recognize a responsibility to take service and leadership positions at the national level to advance our field and science in general. Among the positions we have held: • APSDivision of Particles and Fields chair • HEPAP and Long Range Planning subpanels • DOE Program manager for ILC • ILC international steering committee, co-chair Americas steering group, ITRP technology choice panel, GDE director selection, ILC parameters specification committee, IDAG advisory group to validate detectors for TDR • Fermilab URA Board of Overseers • SLAC Scientific Policy Committee chair • Funding Agencies for Large Colliders – Resource Group, principal author of “Technological Benefits Deriving from the ILC” • APS review of Rev. Modern Physics; PRD editorial board • Many Lab and university visiting committees Need to get Chang Kee’s efforts in this sector as well Outreach, Education and Service