US-ATLAS Education and Outreach

Name: US-ATLAS Education and Outreach
Start: 2022-02-23T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-02-23T17:15:00-05:00
Location: No location set

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.)

Description

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/

Registration

US-ATLAS Outreach

Participants

Abebe Kebede
Alexiea Feaster
Blake Burghgrave
Caitlyn Pepper
Canhao Wang
Chilufya Mwewa
Emmanuel Romero
Fanuel Mendez
Georgies Alene Asres
Haleh Hadavand
Jervani Thompson
Jyotsna Das
Kaizmyl Morales Villafañe
Mark Ddamulira
Rachel Nyirongo
ROBERT PURDY
Ryann Douglas
Sara Sylla
Sarah Demers
Savena Soidara
Sekazi Mtingwa
Stephanie Robles

Dr. Kétévi A. Assamagan Prof. Sarah Demers

ketevi@bnl.gov

sarah.demers@yale.edu

- 14:00 → 14:10
  
  Introduction 10m
  
  Speaker: Prof. Abebe Kebede (North Carolina A&T)
- 14:10 → 14:25
  
  Interdisciplinary Consortium for Research and Educational Access in Science and Engineering — InCREASE 15m
  
  https://www.increaseonline.org/
  
  Speaker: Prof. Sekazi Mtingwa (North Carolina A&T - Retired)
  
  slides
- 14:30 → 15:00
  
  ATLAS, US-ATLAS DEI and Outreach and opportunities for students 30m
  
  Speaker: Prof. Sarah Demers (Yale U.)
  
  USATLAS_EPOFeb23.pdf
- 15:05 → 15:15
  
  Student and post-doc experience on ATLAS 10m
  
  Speaker: Dr Chilufya Mwewa (BNL)
  
  Student_Experience.pdf
- 15:20 → 15:40
  
  SUPER program and expectations 20m
  
  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 10m
- 15:50 → 16:00
  
  Break 10m
- 16:00 → 16:45
  
  Colloquium — Using the Higgs boson to search for dark sector particles 45m
  
  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)
  
  Slides