Bringing the World to ATLAS Virtual Visits Bringing the World to ATLAS What is an ATLAS Virtual Visit? Conversation between physicists in the ATLAS Control Room with the public via video conference Remote tour of the Control Room with explanations of the operational controls and screen content Candid discussion of current events in ATLAS, the LHC, CERN, particle physics and science, in general Public webcast of the event to interested classmates, parents, teachers and the public, at large Recording of the event for future reference in the classroom and at home New tool to improve our ability to converse with the public, regardless of geographical location Number of Annual Visits increased from 6 in 2011 to 65 in 2013 The ATLAS Virtual Visit Portal Local Technical Set-Up Recent Remote Participants Instituto de Física Corpuscular in Valencia, Spain Masterclass, University of Birmingham, UK The State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Schools Fontes Pereira de Melo in Porto, Portugal. The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester Kathmandu University in Dhulikhel, Nepal Pedagogical University of Mozambique Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India High Schools in Chalkida and Chania, Greece Al-Quds University, Palestine Science Festival in Chicago, US National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, US ATLAS Physicist IP IP IP Camera Webcast Servers Monitor Headset Microphone Public Cisco Tandberg C40 Audio Transmitter & Receiver Encoding PC Recording IP Operator Audio Mixer Vidyo PC Sony Anycast Students http://cern.ch/atlas-virtual-visit