1. Outreach, Education and Service1 P. Grannis – Nov. 20, 2009

2. Outreach, Education and Service2 The privilege of receiving public funding for our research brings an obligation to engage with the wider community and explain the importance of what we do, to provide service to scientific and governmental bodies, and to expand the opportunities for education in schools and universities. Each of us has different capabilities and strengths, so the way we fulfill this responsibility varies from one person to another. In this talk, I will group our activities into four general categories:  Outreach to the public schools  Creating new educational opportunities at the University  Public talks of general interest  Service to the broader scientific community and government

3. Outreach, Education and Service3 Outreach to the public schools Quarknet Help from Michael?? Quarknet was started with NSF/DOE support in 199x. It sought to bring cutting edge research experience to high school teachers and to help them find ways to expand understanding of science in the classroom. We were Quarknet sponsors in its first year. We identified two master teachers to serve as liaison to the Long Island physics teachers. We mentored these master teachers in a summer-long research program at Fermilab, helping to build detectors. We organized XX workshops in Stony Brook for teachers where we outlined current topics in particle physics that could be used in the classroom, and held working sessions on building simple detectors for classroom experiments. Our Quarknet program continued through 20xx, and our informal contacts with teachers continues.

4. Outreach, Education and Service4 Outreach to the public schools Mariachi Help from Mike?? Mariachi was proposed by Adjunct Prof. Helio Takai (BNL) and Mike Marx. The scientific premise was the simultaneous detection of large air showers using scintillation counters installed in school classrooms and reception of strong commercial FM radio signals from below the horizon, reflected from ionization trails left by ultra-high cosmic ray showers in the upper atmosphere. A computer grid was instituted to allow measurements from schools and the central radio receiver to be combined and give estimates of cosmic ray energy and directions. Stony Brook received funding to set up a center for education, school field trips, demonstrations, and detector building and characterization. A postdoc was hired to oversee these activities, housed in the decommissioned SB van de Graaf/LINAC control room.

5. Outreach, Education and Service5 Outreach to the public schools Help from Mike, Dean?? Mariachi The scintillator, HV supplies and light tight enclosures for schools were designed and prototyped in Stony Brook (Schamberger, Steffens, Manzella (EE), and Marx. Kits were made available for teachers/students to replicate these. Picture of a scintillator box NSF funding for Mariachi has now terminated, but we continue to build new detectors and to add new schools on Long Island, with prospects for expanding to neighboring states. Students acquire and share data that gives them a taste of real research. Example result from Mariachi observations

6. Outreach, Education and Service6 Creating new educational opportunities Teaching is of course the primary obligation for the academic faculty. We have enhanced these responsibilities through the creation of new techniques for teaching and development of new courses and programs. 1.New ways to engage life science students in physics courses. (web tools, lecture hall feedback, etc. 2.New programs for high school teachers. We have expanded the output of qualified physics teachers on LI by XX over the past YY years. We have instituted a new 5 year BA/MA program for teachers that now enrolls XX students. 3.We have devised new courses that bring an understanding of physics through its application to other fields. These include the Physics of Vision, and the Physics of Sport, now a regular course offering in the department. 4.Escolo Swieca summer school lectures on particle physics at the energy frontier for Brazilian students and postdocs. Help from Rod?? Help from Bob?? Help from Chang Kee?? This material will expand to more pages

7. Outreach, Education and Service7 Creating new educational opportunities Center for Accelerator Science and Education Accelerators, originally invented for subnuclear research, are expanding as tools for research and industry in a broad range of fields. There is a strong need for more accelerator physicists, but accelerator physics education is restricted to a very few universities. ACCELERATOR USE WORLDWIDE Particle/nuclear~120 Synchroton light sources ~50 Medical radioisotopes ~200 Radiotherapy~7500 Biomedical research~1000 Industrial processing/R&D >1500 Ion implantation etc.>7000 TOTAL ~17,500 Stony Brook is relatively unique as a research university situated close to a national accelerator laboratory. This led us (Grannis, Marx, with nuclear colleagues Hemmick, Deshpande) to join with BNL scientists and SBU adjunct professors (Litvinenko, Ben Zvi, Peggs), to establish CASE in 2008 to develop a curriculum for training accelerator scientists with courses at Stony Brook and research opportunities at Brookhaven. CASE is interdisciplinary – Physics, Applied Math, Bioengineering etc. at SBU and Collider-Accelerator, NSLS and Physics departments at BNL. Help from Mike??

8. Outreach, Education and Service8 Creating new educational opportunities Help from Mike?? Center for Accelerator Science and Education A curriculum has been proposed. Instructors would include some new hires plus faculty from participating SB and BNL departments. Sample research projects have been identified at BNL ATF, NSLS, RHIC. CASE will use the Mariachi center in our building for accelerator-based student experiments such as mass spectrometry, carbon dating, Rutherford scattering based on the Stony Brook Tandem van de Graaf accelerator. This facility offers opportunities for undergraduate students to conduct accelerator-based research projects and to make innovations in accelerator software and control systems. CASE has been approved by the University as a Type 1 Center, with co- directors Tom Hemmick (NSF NP support) and Vladimir Litvinenko. We aim for matching support from NSF and DOE to sustain this educational component of their mission to support accelerator-based science.

9. Outreach, Education and Service9 Public talks of general interest Explaining the excitement of new ideas and techniques in science to the general public is a challenging, but rewarding activity. We have given general interest outreach talks in many local and national settings. “Worlds of Physics” is a monthly evening lecture series that typically draws ~100 attendees. Rijssenbeek, Hobbs, Jung, Grannis … have given several of these lectures on aspects of particle physics, detectors, accelerators and science policy. Other recent public talks: “Particle Accelerators: Herding and hurrying cats” American Nuclear Society “Breaking the paradigm of particle physics” SBU Emeritus Association “Applications of ILC Technology” US House of Representatives reception “The rise of large collaborations” APS spring meeting plenary talk “Experiments at Fermilab: Understanding matter at the smallest scale" Evening public lecture at Fermilab “International cooperation on large science projects” AAAS meeting on Scientific Freedom and National Security "Particle Physics at the Crossroads", Thomas J. Watson IBM Research Center “The Standard Model” APS centenary talk at 4 year colleges Help from ALL?? These are some of mine; please add yours

10. Outreach, Education and Service10 Service to the broader community We recognize a responsibility to take service and leadership positions at the national level to advance our field and science in general. Among the positions we have held:  APS Division of Particles and Fields chair  HEPAP and Long Range Planning subpanels  DOE Program manager for ILC  ILC international steering committee, co-chair Americas steering group, ITRP technology choice panel, GDE director selection, ILC parameters specification committee, IDAG advisory group to validate detectors for TDR  Fermilab URA Board of Overseers  SLAC Scientific Policy Committee chair  Funding Agencies for Large Colliders – Resource Group, principal author of “Technological Benefits Deriving from the ILC”  APS review of Rev. Modern Physics; PRD editorial board  Many Lab and university visiting committees Help from ALL?? Need others lists

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