…an improved route for U.S. experimental manpower pipeline?

The Boston Junior Physics Semester at ATLAS, CMS, & University of Geneva

½ of BU juniors abroad (12% of all students); cf. 17% int’l students

physics curriculum most demanding…did not allow jr semester abroad

internship in a major lab for most undergrad physics majors: an unmet goal here, and everywhere else

every summer since 2005 BU ugrads in CMS test beam at CERN pix ATLAS & CMS ugrads hands-on work, senior theses in Boston

experiencing infectious thrill of real science, transformative: e.g. some of my summer undergrad alums:

George Gollin, Mike Levi, Rene Ong, Wesley Smith…

now: pilot program starts January 18, thru the summer partnering w/UniGE for classes, mentoring by BU physicists at CERN

BU summer 2008 HF team

above the HF- detector

Undergrads Matt Carleton and Stijn Blyweert (no pix), graduate students Andrew Clough and Phil Lawson

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…how to satisfy course requirements while at CERN? now have

courses at UniGe by collaborators, verified equivalent by BU physics

E&M II Prof. Martin Pohl (Chair) ATLASQM I Prof. Alain Blondel T2K and ATLAS

(lectures must be in FR, questions, TAs, problem sessions, exams in EN)

internships mentored by BU researchers, monitored by Heister

C++/Root for LHC Experimentalists Heister & CarreraDirected Research: CERN on Atlas or CMS with 11 BU residents

UniGe on T2K with Fanny Dufour, BU SK PhD

BU’s Geneva Satellite Campus… housing, offices, non-Physics classes 1 block from the Jet d’Eau

Intensive Physics French during orientation month, and after

Maison BU (ap’ts) 66 BU interns at UN, WHO, now CERN pix “House Master” Phil Lawson, BU PhD candidate on CMS

…a few potential LHC & neutrino physics projects + mentors:

ATLASHarrington/Yan

muon chamber data quality monitoring and endcap alignment

CMSBose/Carrera trigger validation & new menus for higher L with collision dataHerring

SiPM evaluation and developmentHeister/Lawson/

maintenance and DQM of DCC II (practiced last 2 summers)Lazic

Shifters at P5 (practiced this summer w/Steve Olsen’s student) T2K

Dufour/BlondelAnalysis of near detector events

Ashley Testing SiPMs

at MGH Irradiation Facility

…schedule, time allocation?

Month 1 Months 2-5 Summer Months* 6&7

¼ CERN orientation ½ Directed Research Directed Research

¼ Physics Computation ¼ E&M CERN Summer School Lectures

½ Intensive French ¼ QM

*NSF/CERN Program ($0), UROP ($2k each), or research group funds ($4k each) …they may need DOE supplemental summer funding

…upon return to BU next fall?senior theses/work for distinction on BU DOE projects

…funding ~0 additional cost for students, except 3 who lose ~$2k work-study financial aid! BU physics mentors: enlightened self-interest of multiplying their hands

…prep now?

intro to their research group here Ashley pixATLAS: MDT test chamber (Ahlen, Nation), work on alignment (Harrington)

advanced Lab: muon telescope, fast electronics, sourcesweekly tutorial in PY French + 1st semester French (Prof. Dan Weiner)

Pilot Program started:

14 applicants qualified (>3.0 grade average, stable, etc.) 7 unanticipated scheduling conflicts: FR & PY/AS electives

7 on their way January 17th…let me introduce some members of the inaugural BU junior

team, present today…

pic of Carleton in front of CMS, 2006

…an improved route for U.S. experimental manpower pipeline?

With funding for sciences cut in U.S., and with much moving to centralized national labs, fewer opportunities for hands-on

training of young researchers in universities

BU is helping to fill the void left by the emigration of high energy experiments to other countries by creating programs to train

and inspire young scientists who will someday become America’s leading researchers

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