Community Engagement Frontier (CEF)

July 17, 2022

Kétévi A. Assamagan

Community Engagement Frontier

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FRONTIER CONVENERS

35 Contributed Papers

Community

Engagement

in HEP

Applications

& Industry

Career pipeline

& Development

Diversity

Equity

& Inclusion

Physics

Education

Public Education

& Outreach

Public Policy &

Government Engagement

Environmental &

Societal Impacts

CEF Contributed Papers

Frontier Report

Breese Quinn

CEF01 — Applications & Industry�

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• Develop and strengthen HEP/Industry relationships in both directions: form more partnerships to draw on industry expertise to further HEP goals, and build on programs to facilitate transfer of HEP technologies/techniques for use in the broader society.

8 Contributed Papers

CEF01 Contributed Papers

Topical Group Report

CEF02 — Career Pipeline & Development�

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Julie Hogan

(Bethel University)

Sudhir Malik

University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez (UPRM)

Aneliya Karadzhinova-Ferrer

(Ruđer Bošković Institute)

• Not simply making young scientists aware of different opportunities, but also changing culture of HEP career paths

2 Contributed Papers

CEF02 Contributed Papers

Topical Group Report

CEF03 — Diversity, Equity & Inclusion�

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Yi-Hsuan C. Lin

(SNOLAB)

Mu-Chun Chen

(UC Irvine)

Carla Bonifazi

(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ)

Johan S. Bonilla

(UC Davis)

• Improve diversity, equity and inclusion in our field to drive scientific advancement and achieve intellectual excellence.

11 Contributed Papers

CEF03 Contributed Papers

Topical Group Report

CEF04 — Physics Education�

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• Broader than simply how we teach physics courses. It is about what education and training our field needs to produce the physicists required for the HEP program to be successful (e.g. computational, beams, instrumentation; workshops, univ./lab/collaboration-level courses, etc.)

4 Contributed Papers

CEF04 Contributed Papers

Topical Group Report

University of Puerto

Rico Mayagüez (UPRM)

CEF05 — Public Education & Outreach�

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• Work to see public education and engagement acknowledged as important work within our field, rewarded in the career paths of researchers, and integrated into our research practices such that it is a recognized component of what it means to be a physicist.

2 Contributed Papers

CEF05 Contributed Papers

Topical Group Report

CEF06 — Public Policy �& Government Engagement�

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• Discuss all aspects of how the HEP community is impacted by public policy, and all aspects of how the community engages in advocacy.

3 Contributed Papers

CEF06 Contributed Papers

Topical Group Report

Rob Fine

Los Alamos

National Lab, LANL

Louise Suter

Fermilab

CEF07 — Environmental & Societal Impacts�

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Veronique Boisvert

(Royal Holloway, University of London, RHUL)

Mike Headley

(SDSTA/SURF)

• We cannot ignore the impacts of our research efforts on the broader world, as the broader world will decide if we are allowed to do this research.
• Particle physics can have an outsized impact on the earth’s climate and on the communities that host our research infrastructure.

5 Contributed Papers

CEF07 Contributed Papers

Topical Group Report

Ken Bloom

(University of Nebraska)

Mike Headley

(South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, SDSTA / Sanford Underground Research Facility, SURF)

CEF liaisons to other frontiers

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Work plan during CSS

1. CEF Events
1. July 18, 8:00-12:00. Parallel Session. CEF + representatives of other frontiers to exchange feedback
2. July 19, 8:00-12:00. Parallel Session. CEF topical group discussions; internal feedback
3. July 19, 5:30-7:00. CEF Plenary Session. A slice through CEF recommendations; discussion of implementation & low participation in CEF activities
4. July 24, 3:30-5:00. CEF half plenary, “Communicating science to everyone”

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Work plan during CSS

1. Related events
1. July 18, 5:30-7:00. Plenary session, “In search of Excellence and Equity in Physics”
2. July 19, 2:00-3:30. Plenary Session, “Careers and Training the next Generation”
3. July 23, 12:30-2:00, “Communicating HEP to the public and the government”
4. July 25 & 26, Frontier Summaries

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Acknowledgements

• We appreciate the assistance of Daria Wang (ORISE) in the planning and management of CEF efforts
• We thank Alan Stone (DOE Office of Science) for support
• We express our appreciation for all of the people that contributed to CEF efforts
• the DPF chair line for support
• the authors of contributed papers
• the experts that shared their thoughts and experiences
• the liaisons that helped maintain channels of communications with the other frontiers
• the topical group and frontier conveners who carried the heavy loads so diligently and efficiently

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