Quality of Life for US youth at CERN Usha Mallik On behalf of Committee on Quality of Life US-LUA Annual Users’ Association Meeting Argonne National Lab, IL Nov 13, 2014

To help them find some support system for Mental and Social well-being Help toward their future goals Major concerns : Talented young people, away from familiar surrounding under stress can suffer serious self-doubts special circumstances can be challenging some have language difficulties other integration issues

Helps them get to know each other from other areas Provide relaxation without any burden For General Recreation and Overall Socialization Get-togethers at CERN, in evenings for drinks and food with US LUA support Summer 2013 Winter 2013 Summer 2014 Winter 2014 (to come) Popular, between 120 and 250 attendees Many eager and kind volunteers Secretaries also eager to help (Notified via USLUO.org, ask your group to sign up)

Concerns for a few isolated ones, special cases Need an extra helping hand Hard to get to know them Find out through friends, concerned colleagues Recent News: Visit by Nick Repak, Executive Director of Grad Resources Met with a few concerned youth, started a small support group Recently, connection to WHO, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, specifically, suicide prevention Through correspondence with Nick Opened correspondence

Names of medical and psychological help available list of LHC/CERN people to go to for example: Head of CERN medical service: Dr Veronique Fassnacht CERN psychologist (new appointment) Christiane Reis people with experience and sufficient maturity this would all be informal Information obtained from Nick Repak: 24-hour help hotline National Grad Crisis-Line (800-GRAD-HLP ) available from Eurodoc Newsletter

A set of knowhow upon arrival exists at From the pagehttps:// For ATLAS people Useful link to CMS website Some visa information is also helpful to the U.S. students and postdocs since many are not U.S. citizens and have to keep it in mind. USLUA (Harvey Newman) has already kept us current with the visa issue, needs vigilance, and regular updates Other Useful Information

Future Career Paths: HEP trained physicists are a very qualified work force to serve the society 1) Opportunities in the field 2) Opportunities outside the field We need to provide a link to both ! Now about future career !!!

Opportunities in the field (CERN related) 1)US-ATLAS (ATLAS Analysis Support Center) fellowships for postdocs and young Assistant Professors, each year at the labs 2)LPC (CMS) fellowships for postdocs at FNAL (by DOE, NSF, FNAL) 3)General ATLAS job-list page (includes non-ATLAS jobs) 4) CMS job page 5)ALICE jobs at the bottomhttp://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ 6) LHCb job list

Opportunities (continued) 7) CMS FPS: to support young scientists (for Masters or Ph.D. students and postdocs (set up with support from Incandela) young-scientists 8) 9) 9) Graduate students support in ATLAS (established by Gianotti/Jenni) 10) Inspire list

Other possibilities: CERN fellowships COFUND Fellowships at CERN - Careers at CERNCOFUND Fellowships at CERN - Careers at CERN (in several fields) Complements CERN fellowships (with Marie Curie), open to all Several countries offer fellowships for one or two years in France (labs), Italy (INFN)……. Young scientists fellowship (DESY) ships/index_eng.html We can post jobs near CERN outside HEP Also can post similar jobs in the U.S.

A new and critically important topic: Issue of Time management! Many a careers have risen and fallen from the difference of knowing how to manage ones time or not Increasingly critical in highly competitive areas Intend to start, obvious place is the web But, more organized effort !

Other social aspects: Learning a bit of rudimentary French to get by is useful: list places or opportunities or groups to learn

Urgent A proper USLUO updated current database A good web page with a bulletin where information can be posted

Conclusion: Many thanks to Sarah who stared this committee ! Please send us your ideas and comments to help ! It takes a village ! Especially if and when you know something that would be helpful to the young folks, like a web page, a new area of expansion ….