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Nordic accelerator school MOOC ��Nordic Particle Accelerator Project (NPAP) and beyond

christine.darve@ess.eu

2022-12-20

https://cdarve.web.cern.ch/

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Diplome d’ingenieur UTBM, Institut Polytechnique de Sevenans (FR), ”Thermomechanical of System and Materials”

PhD Northwestern University (USA), "Phenomenological and Numerical Studies of Helium II Dynamics in the Two-Fluid Model”

20 years as Engineering Scientist at CERN, FNAL, and ESS
From design to operation of particle accelerators in large scale collaborations (incl. Large Hadron Collider, Cryogenic Magnets and Cavities, LH₂ absorber, ESS Superconducting LINAC)

Short biography – Christine Darve

FNAL

CERN

ESS

Main volunteering organisations:

Forum on International Physics (FIP), Chair-elected, American Physical Society (APS)
Nordic Particle Accelerator Program (NPAP) (schools, MOOC) co-founder, organiser and lecturer

🡪 African School of Physics and Applications (ASP) co-founder, organiser and lecturer

🡪 Physique-sans-frontieres (1998 Sc. Secretary) ”WWW: A Windows on Science and Technology”, Sarajevo

https://cdarve.web.cern.ch/

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IDEAL: Influence and Transform communities to reach technological paradigms, applicable to societal challenges

Topics of interest: Fundamental Physics and Applications based on Accelerator Science

Education as a vector for development !

Outline

NPAP: From Summer Schools to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Beyond NPAP: Accelerating Teaching and more educational platforms

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Science Transcending Boundaries !

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The European Accelerator Landscapes

Nordic Particle Accelerator Project (NPAP)

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Existing educative platforms and programs:

Accelerator schools: JUAS, CAS, HASCO, USPAS, ACAS, ASP, etc
University programs (e.g. Aarhus, LU)
EU-TIARA market surveys
EU-ARIES and I.FAST

Why do we need new Pedagogical tools for Accelerator science?

School levels are typically advanced
Domains/Field complementarity; User communities
To provide sustainable and “users-friendly” tools

Develop capacity in Northern Europe with emphasize on MAXIV and ESS

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Useful links

Innovation Fostering in Accelerator Science and Technology (I.FAST )
JUAS – European Scientific Institute
CERN Accelerator School (CAS ) , e.g. Introduction to Accelerator Physics 2016
US Particle Accelerator School: USPAS
MOOC ARIES : Accelerator Research and Innovation for European Science and Society
HERCULES European courses via ESRF
FASEM: Joint French-Swedish school on X-rays and Neutrons techniques and Indico Link
At CERN and at Diamond at Fermilab (Lederman Science center); SciTech Hands On Museum
Science and engineering videos of Veritasium
Science Communications: LightSources.org and Accelerating News
Brochures: LAAAMP and APS brochures: Acc. and Beams and Advanced Light Sources

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Nordic Particle Accelerator Schools

Team building

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Three Summer Schools
90 students

Education in accelerator technology
Visit of MAXIV and ESS

Nordic Particle Accelerator School 2015 🡪 The proof of Concept

The first part of NPAP was to create a Summer School.

In three Summer Schools we have given 90 students an education in accelerator technology. The first Summer School was held in 2015. This was before the Program had started, but all partners were involved already then. The Summer Schools were held during two weeks in August.

AK: NPAP Coordinator Prof. at the Dep. of Electromagnetic Theory at Lund University

Deana Ekberg Nannskog: Project Manager & Educational Concept Designer at the Department of Commissioned Education at Lund University

CD Engineering Scientist at ESS

SV: Prof. at the Dep. of Accelerator Physics at MAX IV Laboratory

Søren Pape Møller (AU): Centre Director at the Dep. of Physics and Astronomy – Institute for Storage Ring Facilities at Aarhus University

EA: Associate Professor at the The Department of Physics at University of Oslo

Pauli Heikkinen

Chief Engineer at the Department of Physics at University of Jyväskyläpauli.heikkinen@jyu.fi

Francesca Curbis

Associate Professor at Department of Accelerator Physics at MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University

Maja Olvegård

Researcher at Department of Physics and Astronomy, FREIA at Uppsala University

Pedro Fernandes Tavares

Accelerator physicist at Department of Accelerator Physics at the The MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University

JK: Julius Kvissberg

Producer of Digital Resources at the Department of Commissioned Education at Lund University

Karima Kandi

Project administrator at the Department of Commissioned Education at Lund U

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NPAP - Team building

Nordic Particle Accelerator School 2015 🡪 The proof of Concept

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Grant for the Nordic Particle Accelerator Program

Main deliverables: 2 summer schools and 3 MOOCs

Strategic partnership and building cross-sectoral bridges

Support innovative practices from international to regional to organisational and individual levels

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434 kE 🡪 327 725 euro 3 years

The intellectual outputs of the program have been disseminated through campus-based Summer Schools in Lund. Further, the outputs is also widely disseminated through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) at Coursera– accessible to various audiences within the public and private sectors in Europe, in due course.

NPAP aims to broaden the opportunities for education in accelerator physics and technology with the purpose of encouraging students to conduct their master’s / Ph.D. project in accelerator physics as well as encouraging professionals (e.g. medical physicists, radiologists or engineers) to move into the world of accelerator technology. Ultimately, we strive to enhance interest and support future professionals in the field as well as establishing a broader use of the intellectual and technological outputs that particle accelerator research provides.

This program is an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships for higher education project and a Key Action 2 Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices. Funded by the European Union.

Based on the observations listed earlier, we built a team to create the NPAS2015:

The objective is to teach the basics of accelerator physics and technology, and to demonstrate for the students that this is an interesting and broad subject, carried out in an international environment. The initiative shall encourage students to pursue a career in accelerator physics and technology.

Limited cost by institutional support.

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Strategic partnership and building cross sectoral bridges: Ultimately, we believe that inviting more people to creatively take part in the knowledge of the area, will enhance engagement and at length expand the field with more creative and innovative minds. But not only that! By bringing more people in from other fields, we have seen that cross sectoral work increases and bridges are being built! As a result, we see innovation opening up and the impact as well as use of accelerator technology increase, benefiting society in a whole other way which would otherwise be impossible if knowledge is left isolated.

The interconnectivity between different fields and sectors, both nationally and transnationally is an important step for us. In fact, our three year transnational project is specifically an Erasmus + programme for strategic partnership and networking (KA2) (have a pic of the funding from EU in PP) This type of programme aims to support the development, transfer and implementation of innovative practices at everything from international, European, national and regional to organisational and individual levels.

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Nordic Particle Accelerator Project MOOC

Nordic Particle Accelerator Project (NPAP) - MOOC

PRESENTATION TITLE/FOOTER

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MOOC2: Fundamentals of accelerator technology

🡪 Launched in March ’19

3918 learners enrolled

MOOC3: Medical Applications of Particle Accelerators

Launched in Nov. ’18
5988 learners enrolled

MOOC1: Particle Accelerators introduction

🡪 Launched in August ’19

🡪 5110 learners enrolled

Accelerators for Synchrotron Light Light and Light Sources Accelerator to make light The development of accelerators for synchrotron light Photon light sources and MAXIV Synchrotron radiation Bending magnets, wigglers and undulators Free Electron Lasers Spallation source and ESS Introduction and neutron science European Spallation Source Particles Colliders Introduction to Particles Colliders The LHC and its experiments Linear Colliders Future Circular Colliders Plasma Wakefield (to be completed)	RF-System Introduction to RF-systems RF cavities Waveguides RF Amplifiers More about cavities Magnets technology for accelerators Magnets part1/2/3 Beam Diagnostics An overview Beam intensity and position Transverse Beam Profile Longitudinal Beam Profile Beam Loss Monitoring Basics of Vacuum techniques An overview and motivation Residual gases and vacuum regions Vacuum equipment Other vacuum components	Introduction to the course and radiotherapy Introduction Biological rational for radiotherapy Intro. to the electron linac for radiation therapy Electron Linacs for radiation therapy The multi-energy electron Linac structure Dose delivery to the patient Proton therapy 1 Rationale of proton therapy Accelerators for proton therapy Treatment delivery of proton therapy Proton therapy II and production of medical radionuclides Heavy ion therapy Challenges in pr. th. and heavy ion th. Introduction to medical radionuclides Production of medical radionuclides

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Nordic Particle Accelerator Project MOOC

Example: MOOC2: Fundamentals of accelerator technology

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https://www.coursera.org/learn/fundamentals-particle-accelerator-technology

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Coursera Architecture

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Example of Lecture

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https://www.coursera.org/lecture/fundamentals-particle-accelerator-technology/general-introduction-wf3CB

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Few statistics

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We have reached out 100 Countries worldwide !

In December 2022

15,000 NPAP students

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Next MOOC… Accelerating Teaching

New ERASMUS+ grant

ERASMUS+ grant for a project called “Accelerating Teaching – approaching particle accelerators and new scientific research through online professional development” (article)

The primary aspect of the project will be to construct the online resource, but it will also evaluate and explore teachers’ experiences from the course, as well as from their use in classroom and non-classroom settings. The project builds on an existing set of summer schools and MOOC, also funded by an ERASMUS funding back in 2015, called Nordic Particle Accelerator Program (NPAP)

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EU SchoolsNet, Malmö University, Copenhagen University, Lund University including MAX IV and Vattenhallen, Experimentarium science centre in Copenhagen.

CERN and many others as observers

250.000 Euro over 2 years

so that the project benefits from the expert knowledge found at particle accelerators, within science education research, teacher practice in classrooms, and science and technology centres, as well as online professional development courses.

he primary aspect of the project will be to construct the online resource, but it will also evaluate and explore teachers’ experiences from the course, as well as from their use in classroom and non-classroom settings. The project builds on an existing set of summer schools and MOOC, also funded by an ERASMUS funding back in 2015, called Nordic Particle Accelerator Program (NPAP).

The project will select the most relevant parts of the MOOC and repackage it to make it accessible and suitable for teachers of secondary science across Europe, by:

Incorporating the most relevant content into a new MOOC hosted on the EU School Net platform for European Science teachers (see an example here)
Collating high quality classroom materials that those teachers can use to gain up-to-date knowledge of particle accelerators, in order to provide context to teaching in key curriculum areas
Developing at least one new activity that can be used in classrooms or science centre settings by educators to inspire young people regarding Europe’s big science facilities

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Complement: Next MOOC and I.FAST

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“Accelerate your Innovative EcoSystem”

Ref: NPAP and Accelerating News

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Particle Accelerators for User Communities

Technology and knowledge transfer are the pillars of the development of this innovative ecosystem, using scientific communication, education and collaboration as their vectors !

Two examples to learn more about particles accelerators and foster science in developing communities:

African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications (ASP)

In-person & online courses, conferences for students, teachers and learners since 2010 (intro)

e.g. Synchrotron and Neutron based diffraction and spectroscopic techniques

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Transfer of Knowledge

African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications (ASP) - as a start-up

A non-profit organization created by a small group of worldwide scientists to stimulate and include more African talented physics students in the world scientific community

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SEVEN editions completed since 2010 !

ASP2022 in Port Elisabeth / Gqeberha (SA)

To contribute to a world w/ equal access to knowledge

To establish a biennial educative program to be hosted across Africa

To provide high quality classes by international re-known Scientists

To support financially up to 90 (+97virtual) African students for 2 to 3-week classes

The aim of the school is to build capacity in African countries, to harvest, interpret, and exploit the results from physics experiments with particle accelerators, and to increase proficiency in related applications and technologies.

Based on the experience of few European and American scientists, we have created a network, an organization, to stimulate and include more African talented physics students in the world scientific community.

Our mission is to help increase the number of African students acquiring higher education.

We have felt that American and European big science programs, have a lot to share in order to improve the world condition, hence science transcending boundaries…

“Everything “ pass by knowledge, and education is the pillar of well-being, and a peaceful world. Our goal was also to contribute to limiting the brain drain, by increasing capacity within African universities and promote spin-off for large scale activities IN Africa (see SKA, Af LS)

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This is achieved through an outreach effort, an increased awareness of the potential of high quality training offered by large scale experiments in context in various scientic disciplines, and a system of networking on the international scale.

There is a strong alignment between the mission and the vision of African governments and policy makers on education and capacity building and their programs with the goals of the ASP.

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Transfer of Knowledge

African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications (ASP)

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TOPICS OF INTEREST – Broad range of Physics Teaching

Which topics are we covering ?

Beyond our core topics of interested, based on our own background (th. Exp. App), we have continuously adapted the program, to reflect the African students level and preferences. E.g we have added more computing hands-on Linux Boot Camp).

- Th: describe the standard Model and quantum field theory.

- Exp: deals with detectors , data analysis and statistical treatment to give participants an introduction to how raw data is transformed into final measurements

- Appl: . The scientific disciplines are thr basics of particle accelerator technology, applied physics , medical physics and material science.

- The two-day sessions are dedicated to GRID computing session supported by the DOSAR Distributed Organization for Scientic and Academic Research (DOSAR) and the Open Science Grid (OS-Grid).

Medical applications , nuclear physics and astrophysics are systematically topics of interest in Africa.

We systematically include local lecturers to cover their topics.

Depending on the host country, different categories can be enhanced.

Timetable of African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications:

ASP2010: https://indico.cern.ch/event/78565/timetable/?view=standard

ASP2012: https://indico.cern.ch/event/145296/timetable/?view=standard

ASP2014: https://indico.cern.ch/event/276481/timetable/?view=standard

ASP2016: https://indico.cern.ch/event/528094/timetable/?view=standard

ASP2018: https://indico.cern.ch/event/656460/timetable/?view=standard

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Transfer of Knowledge

From: ASP2010 to ONLINE ASP2020and ASP2022 (Nov 28 – Dec 9, 2022)

ASP in a nutschell - Educating developing communities

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https://www.africanschoolofphysics.org

In-person and online !

94 students from 40 African countries in-person engagements,
an additional up to 97 for online participation80 in-person SA high school teachers
450 in-person high school pupils (Dec 5-9) from the region around Gqeberha.

@ African Light Source – ASFAP 🡪 African Accelerator School ?

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APS and FIP principle

The openness of the FIP agenda reflects the grassroots origin of this Forum.

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Advancing the knowledge of physics and its diffusion by fostering cooperation and communication among physicists of all countries.

Further synergies with the program of the African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications

and IUPAP

4288 FIP members in 2022

Year	FIP members
2018	4186
2019	4179
2020	3794
2021	4067
2022	4288

* APS Free Trial Student Membership

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PHYSICS MATTERS

Monthly colloquia series “Physics for Development”

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LIVE on-line colloquia that will primarily target and involve some test centers, selected from within the partner countries of the SESAME project supported by the APS.

Visit our 27 Past colloquia and forums recordings

and

Attend our next event

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More International Synergies

21 May 2021 - Physics, Peace, Human Rights: Sakharov-100

SCIENCE FOR DEVELOPMENT & SCIENCE FOR PEACE – FIP

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28 July 2022 – PHYSICS MATTERS

The Origin of SESAME (YouTube)

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IUPAP and Accelerator at APS Meetings, 2023

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Tuesday, March 7	FIP/DCMP	IUPAP@100: International Science in Changing Societal and Geopolitical Landscapes
IUPAP		Monica Pepe-Altarelli : 100 Years of Existence of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, IUPAP
		Silvina Ponce Dawson : The role of IUPAP to Increase the Inclusion of Women and Underrepresented Groups
		Chandralekha SINGH : Challenges and Opportunities in Physics Education for the 21st Century
		Laura Greene : Science Policy Advising and Diplomacy
		Steward Prager : Perspectives on Nuclear Threat and Global Security

April 15-18	FIP/ DPB	Accelerate solving energy crisis : From Fission to Fusion
		Ait Abderrahim Hamid, MYRRHA, “ The perspectives of MYRRHA in solving the energy crisis”
		Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny, CERN, “A novel, Gamma-Factory-driven energy source — exploratory studies”
		Ahmed Diall, PPPL, “Perspective of ARPAE in fusion, in particular R&D and market potential for fusion”
		Ali Haghigat, Nuclear engineering program at Virginia Tech, “ Status and outlook of ADS at US”

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From Regional, European to International Educational transfer of knowledge

MOOC to support the use and construction of Particle Accelerators

Synergies between Education, Research Infrastructures, and Industry as leitmotif

Innovation is based on a collective and multidisciplinary approach.

Building together tomorrow world !

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Conclusion:

Science for Society to transcend Boundaries

See more links at "Accelerate your Innovative EcoSystem”