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21.09.2007 Partikeldagarna 2007 Alexandru Dobrin
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LUND-HEP ESTStudents´ Point of View
Alexandru Dobrin
Lund University
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Overview
• HEP-EST school• Who are we• Courses• Problem Based Learning • Supervised research• Conclusions
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HEP-EST School
Official start mid-August 2006, student arrival 1st of October 2006
Integrate theory and experiment Step 1: courses October 2006-end 2007
Use PBL as a learning tool at the graduate level
Step 2: supervised research 2007-2010 Program finished mid-August 2010 http://www.hep.lu.se/Lund-HEP/
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Who are we
Nele Boelaert (BE) Lisa Carloni (IT) Richard Corke (UK) Alexandru Dobrin (RO) Christoffer Flensburg (SE)
(faculty LU TP) Jacob Groth-Jensen (DK) Wei-Na Ji (CN) Jie Lu (CN)
HEP-EST EU school on LHC physics (joint theory-experiment)
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Courses
Introduction 1.5 ECTS [Johan Bijnens]
Relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory (QFT) 7.5 ECTS [Johan Bijnens]
A non-interacting scalar field A non-interacting fermion field Interaction and Feynman Rules QED and applications Divergences and how do we treat them
Numerical methods in physics (NUM) 7.5 ECTS [Leif Lönnblad] Numeric integration Monte Carlo Optimization and minimization Ordinary differential equations Partial differential equations
Problem Based Learning:
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Courses
Phenomenology and experiment of particle physics (PEPP) 15 ECTS [Leif Lönnblad/Johan Bijnens/Paula Eerola/Anders Oskarsson/Evert Stenlund]
Matrix element description of hard processes QCD cascades Multi-particle production Hadronic collisions Minimum bias Event properties Basics of heavy ion physics Flavour physics at the LHC An experiment from start to end Higgs detection from beginning to end
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Courses
The standard model and extensions (SME) 7.5 ECTS [Johan Bijnens] Parameters of the Standard Model Symmetries of the Standard Model Non-perturbative methods Extensions of the Standard Model I Extensions of the Standard Model II
Experimental techniques in particle physics (EXP) 7.5 ECTS [Anders Oskarsson/Torsten Åkesson]
Interaction by particles in matter creates detector signal Tracking for momentum and particle identification Calorimetry and lepton identification Analog and digital processing of detector signals Accelerator techniques
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Courses
Statistics and error analysis and data analysis for particle and nuclear physics (SED) 7.5 ECTS [Oxana Smirnova/Evert Stenlund]
Principles of data correction Experimental errors Distributions Event reconstruction Understanding a sampling calorimeter
6 ECTS complementary training: communication & presentation techniques, entrepreneurship, leadership & management
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Problem Based Learning
Group based It is not a group project (see below) Basic idea: get prepared for life-long learning Provides better motivation then traditional
lectures It does not save time w.r.t. traditional lectures
We tried a new (for us) methodology
Problem Based Learning
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Problem Based Learning
Have a short story for a start Use this to discuss and determine what should be
learned Go out and learn it Not a group project: everyone should learn
everything Find out what everyone has learned and evaluate Repeat with new subject/story
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Problem Based Learning
1. Clarify terms and concepts not readily comprehensible.2. Define the problem.3. Analyse the problem.4. Draw a systematic inventory of the explanations inferred from step 3.5. Formulate learning objectives, followed by a few days of studies and work6. Collect additional information outside the group and second meeting.7. Synthesize and test the newly acquired information. A report is produced. The group evaluates how the work has gone and the meeting ends.
Formalize into 7 steps after obtaining scenario/story:
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Supervised Research
LHC Experiments ATLAS ALICE
e-p collisions Heavy ion collisions @ BNL
Theoretical Physics Strong interaction Electroweak
interaction Large extra
dimensions R&D
ILC Non-EPP
applications
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Conclusions
Good for small topics, doesn’t fit for building entire theories step by step
Insures that everybody understands the topics Learn to deal with a problem and work in a goal-oriented way Things learned tend to stick longer in the memory Due to every group member’s contribution, PBL can also enrich
the information about the topics PBLs are time consuming comparing with the normal courses Also requires a lot of work from the supervisor Doesn’t work well for theoretical courses
Find something in the middle between PBL and normal lectures
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Conclusions
The idea of making a strongly interacting group of theory + experiment people is interesting
Got a chance to learn useful skills for following research work
Need to ensure that group interaction continues into research stages (we are already splitting off to our separate research areas)
Keep up with science coffees and soccer games!