US-ATLAS Education and Outreach

Wednesday 23 Feb 2022, 14:00 → 17:15 US/Eastern

Abebe Kebede Bahiru (North Carolina A&T), Ashot Gasparian (North Carolina A&T), Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (BNL), Sarah Demers (Yale U.)

The ATLAS Experiment is a worldwide effort with over 3000 physicists and engineers - with a strong participation from 45 US universities and national labs (US-ATLAS) - at the CERN international laboratory located in Geneva, Switzerland. The project aims to improve our understanding of the Universe - its birth, evolution, current state, and future. The research offers a wide range of practical applications and educational opportunities. This event will serve as an informal introduction to ATLAS research and discuss US-ATLAS programs that new students and university groups can get involved in.

Although the primary target is Under Represented Minority (URM) students, this workshop is also of interest to a broader audience, from URM undergraduate students, to potential graduate student/postdoc/faculty mentors, and anyone interested in providing further inputs to a coordinated plan for attracting URMs.

Students with a minimum of 3 year university education may apply for 8-week summer research program a US-ATLAS institute, here https://indico.bnl.gov/event/14122/

14:00 → 14:10 Introduction

Speaker: Prof. Abebe Kebede (North Carolina A&T)

14:10 → 14:25 Interdisciplinary Consortium for Research and Educational Access in Science and Engineering — InCREASE

https://www.increaseonline.org/

Speaker: Prof. Sekazi Mtingwa (North Carolina A&T - Retired)

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14:30 → 15:00 ATLAS, US-ATLAS DEI and Outreach and opportunities for students

Speaker: Prof. Sarah Demers (Yale U.)

USATLAS_EPOFeb23.pdf

15:05 → 15:15 Student and post-doc experience on ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Chilufya Mwewa (BNL)

Student_Experience.pdf

15:20 → 15:40 SUPER program and expectations

Speakers: Prof. Joe Haley (Oklahoma State University), Prof. Mike Hance (UCSC/SCIPP), Prof. Verena Martinez Outschoorn (University of Massachusetts (US))

MartinezOutschoorn_SUPERProgram_Feb2022.pdf

15:40 → 15:50 Questions / Answers

15:50 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 16:45 Colloquium — Using the Higgs boson to search for dark sector particles

Abstract:

The discovery of the Higgs boson has enabled a new and rich experimental program that includes using the Higgs boson to search for new particles. In this talk, I will discuss searches for dark sector particles in the decays of the Higgs Boson and the prospects for future LHC runs.

Speaker: Dr Kétévi Adiklè Assamagan (BNL)

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