Masterclasses to New Countries Working Group Report

Meeting 18 May 2021, 16:00 UTC

Present:

Pedro Abreu

Uta Bilow

Ken Cecire

Steve Goldfarb

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Nicolas Arnaud

Despina Hatzifotiadou

Krzysztof Wozniak

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Agenda

Lessons from the pandemic: online masterclasses

Sample Experiences

• Germany - ATLAS - 2 students/breakout room - max~40
• Angola, Brazil, Germany - successful ALICE masterclasses
• U.S. - ATLAS&CMS - similar to 2019 but with support videos
• Poland - cMS - had double the usual number of students, greater reach, lectures on doing measurement very precise - students had success, see contribution from Krzysztof yesterday

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Lessons from the pandemic: online masterclasses

Some Conclusions

• Reaches new, different groups of people
• Can accommodate more students in diverse locations
• Students per data file:
• Synchronous: 2
• Asynchronous: 1-2
• Teachers can act as tutors if properly prepared
• Speakers more inclined to think of needs of students
• Include surveys, polls, more Q&A in lectures
• Result: more questions after lectures

Lessons from the pandemic: online masterclasses

Looking ahead

• Big Analysis of Muons next week
• Over 400 participants
• Continue in 2022+ ?
• Webinar videocons work - incorporate in IMC 2022?
• Have a single interval for virtual masterclasses, e.g. one week?

New Countries ahead

• Ukraine
• CONDENSED MATTER & LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS 2021, Kharkov
• massive hybrid masterclass 10 June
• 100 students, 100 teachers participate, 50 at B. Verkin Institute
• CMS physicists involved
• UAE - was interested before pandemic, may join 2022

New Countries ahead

• Baltic States
• Lithuania - already strong IMC participant
• Estonia & Latvia: joining CERN
• Armenia
• Already doing CR outreach
• Strong physics tradition (like Georgia, now firmly in IMC)
• Zambia - BNL post-doc, ASP alum, interested in returning home

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New challenges

• New South Wales - use lessons of pandemic to help build masterclasses, engage teachers
• New countries, new projects - Open to ideas!