1 6. International Masterclasses “Hands on Particle Physics“ 25th EPPOG meeting, CERN, Uta Bilow

2 Status Period: –  Many boundary conditions:  semester break  school holidays  conferences, meetings, ATLAS/CMS week …  overlap of daylight saving time period EU / U.S.  Some want it even earlier, some later  Fix period very early  Doodle? National responsibles? Each site?

3 Participation 2010 (2009)  17 (17) days, 3 weeks  86 (82) students masterclasses (29.10.)  80 (79) institutes (29.10.)  9 new institutes  France: Marseille, Strasbourg, Grenoble  Spain: CIEMAT Madrid, IFT Madrid  Portugal: Minho, Vila Real  Italy: Rome La Sapienza  Germany: Tübingen + U.S. subprogram

4 Participation nations USA Brazil

5 Participation 2010  80 institutes scheduled  max. 5 (6) institutes per day  11 days with Z0  6 days with Z0 + alpha_s  „Intercontinental“ days: video linkup with Fermilab  8 local masterclasses:  Frascati: 1. – 4.2.  Paris:  Zürich:  Innsbruck:  Napoli:  Louvain-la-Neuve: 9.3.  Manchester  Grenoble

6 Participation 2010 Teachers days planned in:  Vienna  Innsbruck  Louvain-la-Neuve  Sao Paulo  Copenhagen  Berlin  Göttingen  Dresden  Athens  Roma  Frascati  Madrid

7 Exercises  LEP  measure Z0 or Z0 + alpha_s  mandatory  combined in video conference  probably for the last time  LHC  recommended in addition  Z0  results can be checked by students  no combination of results  Masterclasses 2011  LHC  new concept

8 Video session  new EVO features  better quality  moderators can mute  strict admission procedure  previous EVO-tests in January  comprehensive tutorial on website

9 Video session  short (60 min) and crisp  no „song contest“, loosing students‘ attention  transmission of results: spreadsheet / google docs  less statistics  local/ global combination and discussion  quiz with new questions  prizes ? local / global ? incentive for students nice unequal size of groups (> 300 vs. < 20) evaluation time consuming /students become fidgety

10 Support  IT:  Marek Domaracky, CALTECH (CERN)  Philippe Galvez, EVO Project Manager (CERN IT)  Moderators:  Peter Steinbach  Michael Hauschild  Kate Shaw  Kate Kahle  Silvia Schuh  Benedikt Hegner  Johannes Albrecht  Marco Gersabeck  Johanna Fleckner  Matthew Rose

11 Funding and in kind contributions  Helmholtz-Alliance: Project manager (1/2 time; for next 2 years)  Wolfgang-Gentner studentship for Konrad Jende (PhD thesis, 3 years)  BMBF: upgrade for LHC (development, technical needs, test, translation, CD, student assistants; for next 3 years)  EPS (production and shipping of CD)  CERN IT  CERN outreach (prizes)  BMBF (brochures)

12 Website  relaunch in progress  looking for new webmaster

13 CD  content  production  distribution

14 Evaluation  Konrad Jende, PhD student at CERN  new concept for LHC era  Frank Meier, PhD student from Zürich  2010 masterclasses  Dirk Stumpe, student teacher at Dresden  local masterclasses at school (Dresden, 2009)

15  Central organisation at Dresden  Michael Kobel  Uta Bilow  Tatjana Sereda (secretary)  Steering Committee  Central Organisation: Michael Kobel, Uta Bilow  US-Organisation: Ken Cecire  EPPOG: Dave Barney  Moderators: Kate Shaw  EVO Team: Marek Domaracky  National Organisation  Contact persons in each country  Local responsibles for each institute Organisation Team

16 Participation 2010 U.S. subprogram