News from IPPOG, April 16 th 2015 Hans Peter Beck, Marjorie Bardeen: IPPOG Co-chairs IPPOG Meeting #9, Paris, April 2015News from IPPOG1

2 IPPOG Meeting #9, Paris, April 2015 News from IPPOG A big Thank You to Nicolas and his team to make this 9 th IPPOG meeting possible In Paris ! We are looking forward to three interesting and stimulating days in a wonderful place.

IPPOG New members - ATLAS Steve Goldfarb’s mandate as ATLAS outreach coordinator came to end in Spring 2015, and therefore, Steve is no longer an IPPOG delegate. Kate Shaw is taking over from Steve as new ATLAS IPPOG delegate. Steve Goldfarb’s mandate as ATLAS outreach coordinator came to end in Spring 2015, and therefore, Steve is no longer an IPPOG delegate. Kate Shaw is taking over from Steve as new ATLAS IPPOG delegate. IPPOG Meeting #9, Paris, April 2015News from IPPOG3 Kate Shaw ATLAS Outreach Coordinator ICTP Ambassador for promoting physics International Centre for Theoretical Physics

IPPOG New Strong Help Barbora Gulejova started as a Fellow in CERN’s education unit and is our new supportive help in IPPOG. Barbora Gulejova started as a Fellow in CERN’s education unit and is our new supportive help in IPPOG. IPPOG Meeting #9, Paris, April 2015News from IPPOG4 Barbora Gulejova IPPOG Support Officer

Panel Discussions Country Educational Websites: An opportunity to present a new feature on a website from your country. It could be a new site for a particular activity or product or a something new on an existing website. LHC as a Discovery Machine: Now that the Higgs discovery is history, how should we prepare for/approach the next discoveries? What challenges will we face? How can we collaborate? Educational Games: Games either online or hands-on that are new to IPPOG. Exhibits/Exhibitions: What’s happening in the world of exhibits. Country Educational Websites: An opportunity to present a new feature on a website from your country. It could be a new site for a particular activity or product or a something new on an existing website. LHC as a Discovery Machine: Now that the Higgs discovery is history, how should we prepare for/approach the next discoveries? What challenges will we face? How can we collaborate? Educational Games: Games either online or hands-on that are new to IPPOG. Exhibits/Exhibitions: What’s happening in the world of exhibits. IPPOG Meeting #9, Paris, April 2015News from IPPOG5

Panel Discussions IPPOG Meeting #9, Paris, April 2015News from IPPOG6 During the panel preparations; an intense exchange of ideas and experiences made can be made among those active/interested in a given topic. At the panel presentation; An overview of activities/items/topics can be given to the IPPOG plenary, and conclusions/recommendations/suggestions coming out of the panel preparation can be disseminated.

Agenda IPPOG Meeting #9, Paris, April 2015News from IPPOG7

Agenda IPPOG Meeting #9, Paris, April 2015News from IPPOG8

Dinner tonight IPPOG Meeting #9, Paris, April 2015News from IPPOG9 Restaurant La Baleine

Organizational Issues IPPOG is moving ahead in becoming a collaboration. Discussions with the CERN DG, CERN Council, and with RECFA were taking place in – Discussing purpose, structure and funding – Need to define our structures Two types of documents – Collaboration agreement – MoU with CERN (and other labs) 10News from IPPOGIPPOG Meeting #9, Paris, April 2015

RECFA recommendation 11News from IPPOGIPPOG Meeting #9, Paris, April 2015 From the minutes of the 20 November 2015 RECFA meeting at CERN In his brief report, H. P. Beck stressed that the European Strategy for Particle Physics supports outreach, and that this important component of the scientific activity should receive adequate funding. He further presented efforts, needs and current support of IPPOG and proposed that to professionalize IPPOG it should be supported through membership fees by national, experiments and laboratory delegates. … R. Heuer pointed out that an IPPOG sustainable structure has to exist and that the person power is very important. He also said that IPPOG should address the request for funding to the large experiments and laboratories. In conclusion, M. Krammer said that the Committee recommendation is to start the negotiations with the experiments and laboratories and to improve the organization and structure of the IPPOG.

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Cosmic Ray Panel Cosmic ray educational/outreach programs offer a huge opportunity for IPPOG Many programs do exist in a number of countries No need to re-invent the wheel Profit from being a network – Bring existing programs together – Exchange of ideas and experiences made Create an umbrella for cosmic ray educational programs – Allow teachers / schools across the globe to participate and engage in cosmic ray educational programs Discussions with APPEC have started and expressed mutual interest and possible funds to be released. 13News from IPPOGIPPOG Meeting #9, Paris, April 2015

Cosmic Ray Panel HISPARK: S Caron COSMIX: N Arnaud QuarkNet: M Bardeen Teilchenwelt: M Kobel Fermi Satellite Masterclass Benoit Lott (Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG)) 14News from IPPOGIPPOG Meeting #9, Paris, April 2015