Education and Outreach Activities in the EFI HEP Group

1. Education and Outreach Activities in the EFI HEP Group Public outreach Activities with K-12 schools HEP education at the college level Faculty leadership at the University Activities in the wider Physics community Associations with specific HEP projects Etc. Message: we have had longtime individual and programatic E&O; we are have recently established more group-wide programs with schools M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

2. Public Outreach • Lectures to general public • Compton Lectures at University of Chicago • Adler Planetarium • Hyde Park Community • Media • Local newspapers • Radio • Websites • TV, film and theater • Museums • Program to develop better demos/displays for museums M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

3. Lectures (Kim, Oreglia, Pilcher,Shochet) • Compton Lectures (9 lectures in Autumn & Spring) • Tradition for many years; 1 HEP lecture almost every year • Pilcher has organized 7 of them • Reaches about 100 people from greater Chicago • Ambreesh Gupta just finished his series on Origins ofMass • previously: Winstein, Hill, Oreglia, Wah, Amidei, Yamamoto, Milliken, Barker, Cheu, Solomey, Roodman, Fortson, Kessler, Spiropulu • Adler Planetarium Lectures • Another popular series … recently Kessler on Matter-antimater Asymmetry M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

4. More Lectures • Young-Kee Kim: • APS/DPF Women in Physics Lecture (August 2004) • Christmas Science Concert (December 2004) • 2000 students and adults … televised • Snowmass 2005: will give public lectures in Aspen, Carbondale • Kenwood Academy (and possibly other local schools) • Hyde Park Community: lectures to colleagues and neighbors • At homes, dorms, Quadrangle Club, organizations • temples, humanities faculty groups, clubs • Influences influential people, esp. in this community • Reaches minorities, esp. in this community M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

5. Media Contacts (Blucher, Kim, Oreglia,Shochet) • Newspaper articles • We have been resources for local journalists and quoted in numerous issues of the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times on K and neutrino physics (Blucher), Higgs (Oreglia), CDF (Shochet, Kim)… • Radio interviews • We have described HEP programs on NPR and local radio programming (Blucher, Oreglia, Shochet) • TV • Fermi Fellow Maria Spiropulu has been featured twice on NOVA • Kim featured recently on Korean TV • Etc • Primary consultant to 137 Films for new documentary on how particle physics collaborations work (Oreglia) • Have been a resource to local theater on Fermi, nuclear, etc M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

6. Activities with K-12 schools (Blucher, Frisch, Kim, Merritt, Oreglia, Pilcher,Shochet) • Activity with teachers: • (QuarkNet) • Teachers Academy for Math and Science • Consulting to Chicago Public Schools Director of Science • Curriculum at Kenwood Academy • Development of web-based teaching aids for CPS • Activity with students • Sponsored research with Illinois Math/Science Academy • Summer research & learning program for Kenwood 7th graders • Lecture/demos to Kenwood academy students • Science fair mentoring and judging (public and private) • Yerkes Summer Institute: lead discussions and summer classes • Space Explorers Program: lectures to K-12 minority students M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

7. QuarkNet • We had a longtime participation in the Quarknet program, coordinated locally by Frank Merritt • lectured high-school teachers on our experiments • Helped develop physics training tools • Worked with teachers to teach them better ways to think about modern science and HEP • Not currently active, but possibly in the near future M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

8. Partnership with Kenwood Academy (Oreglia, Pilcher,Shochet … so far; eventually everyone) • A new partnership has been forged with the local high school • Kenwood Academy has grades 6-7 and 8-12 • Over 90% African-american • We have begun a long-term program with support from the University • support their physics demos • Consult on curriculum • Target 7th-graders with special lecture-demos on HEP • In the classroom • Special “Christmas Lecture” here at UoC • Created a summer program of research + lectures • Mentor 7th-grade science projects (they have 100% participation!) • Provide judging for science fair • 3 faculty, 2 senior people and 1 grad student last December M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

9. Teacher’s Academy for Math and Science (Frisch) • Frisch has been instrumental in the creation and development of this program to change the way science is taught in Chicago schools • Frisch is on Board and Program Committee • Many meetings sponsored here at HEP • Affects 2500 teachers in 65 schools M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

10. Illinois Math and Science Academy (Frisch, Kim, Merritt) • We sponsor independent research projects by IMSA students • They are mentored by faculty and research group mentors • They come here one day/week • Receive training to work on a current project • Use our facilities • They do remarkable work • This year, Tim Credo was sent to the Rome IEEE and presented a paper on picosecond timing for a TOF • Peter Onyisi was another; went on to be UoC undergrad, Cornell grad, Apker award M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

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12. Consulting to CPS Directorate (Frisch, Oreglia, Shochet) • Another of our new programs is a serious effort to create change in the science program of the Chicago Public Schools by working directly with the top official – Michael Lach, Director for Science • Lach was very receptive of our approach and we have met with him at length to discuss: • Curriculum (ie, revision, modernization) • Examinations. What do they think they are testing for? We can’t pass them! • Equipment and use of computers • This is a tactful (less obvious than TAMS) way to deal with difficult internal matters M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

13. HEP education at the college level (Blucher, Frisch, Kim, Merritt, Oreglia, Pilcher,Shochet) • Research experience for undergrads • Our own • Wider program • CERN summer students • Development of courses on/including modern HEP • We all get good marks on our teaching; 4 Quantrell awards • We have been major players in curricular reform (Merritt, Oreglia, Shochet) • All of us have been elected to College/University decision-making groups and many of us have chaired them M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

14. Mentoring of Undergraduate Research (Blucher, Frisch, Kim, Merritt, Oreglia, Pilcher,Shochet) • Our own undergrads: • Very strong tradition here in HEP • Every HEP faculty member involves undergrads in reseach, both during the academic year and in summer • Their work usual results in publications or senior theses • They go to conferences, CERN, FNAL, etc • Others: Summer REU program for minorities and women • Sponsors research of  2-3 students/year in our groups • Currently Kim is co-director of the program • CERN/Michigan REU summer students • We often mentor a student from one of these programs M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

15. Faculty leadership at the University (Blucher, Frisch, Merritt, Oreglia, Pilcher,Shochet) • Promoting awareness of HEP via University machinery • Physics chair: Merritt • EFI Director: Pilcher • outreach to prominent members of community (notably the Pritzker family) … results in appreciation for what we do by influential people • Outreach to Illinois industry via Illinois Consortium for Accelerator Research (ICAR, Oreglia) • Motorola’s CEO (Bob Galvin) brought our msg to DC • University liason to Springfield carries awareness of UoC HEP and our connection to ANL, FNAL • Frisch/Shochet spokesman for Senate • Blucher/Oreglia on College Council M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

16. Activities in the wider Physics community (Blucher, Frisch, Kim, Merritt, Oreglia, Pilcher,Shochet) • Membership on AAAS, APS, HEPAP panels • Blucher, Kim, Merritt, Shochet • Reports convey importance of HEP; HEP needs • Inform physics community of HEP connections • Influence national science policy • Leadership roles on experiments and LC • FNAL BOO: Shochet • CDF co-spokesperson: Kim • KTeV and Braidwood spokesman/co-spokesman: Blucher • ATLAS: • Chair of ATLAS Collaboration board: Pilcher • US Institutional Board convenor: Pilcher, Shochet • Computing: Merritt, Gardner • APS Neutrino Study: Blucher • LC: Oreglia co-chair of ALCPG; Blucher, Kim on Exec Ctte, US SG • ICAR: Pilcher on Board M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

17. Associations with specific HEP projects (Blucher, Kim, Oreglia) • CDF: Kim as co-spokeperson in charge of outreach • LC outreach program • Oreglia involved in USLCSG outreach and ALCPG • Special workshop on this being set up for Snowmass • Oreglia on FNAL Outreach committee • Nationwide LC awareness • Illinois business affiliate program • Outreach to local community for education and support • Braidwood proposed program • Blucher’s proposal will set up a novel program of undergraduate research • centered at UoC • Summer lectures and research for 16 undergrads • Outreach to local communities (with Exelon) M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit

18. Etc: Individual Faculty Outreach • Bulletin of Atomic Scientists • Frisch is Vice-chair; gets to change the clock • Tours/lectures at FNAL • Many of us guide tours or lectures • Local Schools • A number of us work independently with Lab School,Science Academy of Chicago, Ray School • Science fair judging, special lecture/demo • Center for Elementary Math and Science • Teacher training program established by the University • Frisch chairs advisory committee M. Oreglia/NSF Site Visit