1. Ereignisrekonstruktion in C++ bei BELLE
Ereignisrekonstruktion in C++ bei BELLE PDA Seminar 11/ Laurenz Widhalm

2. Austrian Outreach Activities
Conception of a webpage for the general public
Scope
Realization
Presentation
Statistics
Conclusion & Outlook

3. the Idea: Boundary Conditions:
FAKT (Experts Committee for Nuclear and Particle Physics)
of ÖPG (Austrian Physical Society)
Member institutes:
the Idea:
the FAKT wants to establish a webpage for the general public
Boundary Conditions:
limited funding (DoI by FAKT, no other sponsors)
limited manpower (one webmaster with a small allowance, rest of team are volunteers)

4. Particle Physics for the
the Scope:
Scientific Web News
e.g. science.orf.at
Particle Physics for the
General Public
(many examples)
no sense to copy something that already exists in high quality
but we can provide a carefully selected collection of links
emphasize Austria‘s role
no sense trying to compete with a professional news agency
but we can provide expert‘s comments on „hot topics“
cooperation
emphasize the persons behind the science
offer direct contact to experts via
a catchy URL

5. the Realization: Short History:
first initiative 1998 by Christian Gottfried
Intermedia commissioned to produce first version of web page
in 2000, Daniel Grumiller was appointed webmaster
in 2001, the webpage was completely revised by Richard Nagy (design) and Daniel Grumiller (implementation)
Status:
monthly meetings of the editorial team
editorial team still growing (currently 10 members) – goal: one of each member institute of the FAKT
each member can submit news articles with an easy user interface

6. Presentation: title page index
random selection of 3 current news articles
„Kopf des Monats“ („Head of the Month“):
Featuring a (young) Austrian scientist, which gets the opportunity to present himself and his work
(monthly new)

7. Presentation:
archive
All news in historical order

8. Presentation: contacts Editorial team
Can be contacted directly via at

9. Presentation:
links
Selection of links

10. Presentation:
Scientific part – Human & Environment

11. Presentation:
Scientific part – Molecules

12. Presentation:
Scientific part – Atoms

13. Presentation:
Scientific part – Atomic Nucleus

14. Presentation:
Scientific part – Nucleons

15. Presentation:
Scientific part – Elementary Particles

16. Presentation:
Scientific part – Beyond Space & Time

17. Presentation:
Scientific part – Universe

18. Presentation:
Scientific part – Galaxies & Stars

19. Presentation:
Scientific part – Earth

20. Presentation:
Scientific part – Human & Environment

21. Statistics: Top 5 days: average daily hit rate: 40 hits 836 hits
science.orf.at news
Nobel Prize news
average daily hit rate:
40 hits
Top 5 days:
836 hits
346 hits
205 hits
191 hits
179 hits
summer
we count unique hits, excluding webmaster activities and robots

22. Conclusion & Outlook: our webpage is well established since 5 years
sustained, and slowly increasing number of visitors
constant editorial team of volunteers, still growing
within our possibilities, we are very content
despite the perpetual problem of funding, we are looking confidently into the future

23. Ereignisrekonstruktion in C++ bei BELLE
Ereignisrekonstruktion in C++ bei BELLE PDA Seminar 11/ Laurenz Widhalm