EPS-HEP2019 Conference: Outreach Plans Michael Tytgat

Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8 June 22, 2017 Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8

M. Tytgat - EPS-HEPP Board Meeting Belgium & Ghent Belgium: 30,528km2 big; 11 million inhabitants; official languages are Dutch (Flemish), French & German Best known for its beer, chocolate & French fries  Ghent: capital city of the East Flanders province, in Flemish part of Belgium; ~250k inhabitants 2nd biggest city in Europe during 11th century (after Paris) Leading city in the middle ages for cloth Oct. 7, 2016 M. Tytgat - EPS-HEPP Board Meeting

EPS-HEP2019 Outreach Program Initial brainstorming and discussions ongoing; preliminary ideas for events: Science comedy night Public lectures Exhibition on renowned physicists from UGent/Belgium Physics Cinema: movie afternoon/evening Physics demo / children’s university art@CMS initiated locally in Ghent … June 22, 2017 Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8

Science Comedy Evening Science Comedy Night with Lieven Scheire, Belgian physicist (from UGent) and quite popular TV-personality (appeared also in 2013 comedy show at CERN) Stand-up Comedy in the past by CMS physicists June 22, 2017 Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8

Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8 Exhibition Exhibition for general public on Famous Belgian/UGent physicists/scientists CMS/LHC: Any ideas here ? Any material that we can use from previous events ? Francois Englert Leo Baekeland George Lemaitre Joseph Plateau June 22, 2017 Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8

Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8 CERNLand CERNLand educational game for children … and adults  Translation in Dutch/Flemish underway … (more volunteers to help ?) To be included in our exhibition http://www.cernland.net/ June 22, 2017 Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8

Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8 Physics Movie Event Organize a physics movie afternoon/evening combination of already existing movies, e.g. Particle Fever (any other?), with film-based physics seminars “Einstein @ the Movies” UGent - 2015 Karel Van Acoleyen (UGent): InScience – Dutch International Film Festival Film Fest Gent 2015 & 2016 Seminars & other public events “Captain Einstein” Virtual Reality experience - 2017 “Dr Film: or how I learned to love the photon” Film Fest Gent - 2016 June 22, 2017 Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8

Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8 art@CMS in Ghent Cooperation within the art@CMS program between UGent (Particle/other) Physics group(s) + KASK - School of Arts of University College Ghent http://schoolofartsgent.be/en/ graphical arts, media, drama, music, film … + S.M.A.K. – Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art Ghent http://smak.be/en + perhaps a few individual artists First introductory/working meeting held on May 31, including Michael Hoch Initial ideas for a few art projects Discussions/enthusiasm to establish science in art project weeks and maybe even official Master Classes Probably several visits from art students and teachers to CERN June 22, 2017 Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8

Children’s University & Physics Show Children’s University in Belgium is part of a national initiative to organize 1-day university classes in STEM for children Had a several (astro)particle physics sessions in the past at UGent → Organize an afternoon session on CMS/particle physics for children Physics show/demo on the same day for general public Did already such a show @ UGent in 2005 (UNESCO World Year of Physics) Possible collaboration with Science on Stage Belgium http://www.kinderuniversiteit.be/ June 22, 2017 Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8

Involving Popular Science Magazines Cooperation with popular science magazines New Scientist (via Jorgen D’Hondt) EOS (via Pierre Van Mechelen, EOS Advisory Board) Various possibilities under discussion: Interviews during conference Special editions Feature articles General advertisement … New Scientist readers visiting CERN - 2014 New Scientist CERN Festival - 2015 BICEP2 results in EOS - 2014 June 22, 2017 Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8

Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8 Summary EPS-HEP2019 will be hosted by Ghent University, Belgium, 10-17 July, 2019 Ongoing brainstorming on a rich outreach program during/around the week of the conference More ideas/hints, especially on CMS outreach material & possiblities, are most welcome Volunteers to help with the organization/implementation of the outreach events are also very welcome  Please get in touch … michael.tytgat@cern.ch June 22, 2017 Michael Tytgat - CMS Communications Session #8