Introduction, April 5 th 2013 Hans Peter Beck, Marjorie Bardeen: IPPOG Co-chairs IPPOG Meeting #5, FNAL, 4-6 April 2013Introduction, Hans Peter Beck1

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Introduction, April 5th 2013

Hans Peter Beck, Marjorie Bardeen: IPPOG Co-chairsIPPOG Meeting #5, FNAL, 4-6 April 2013


Introduction

• Many thanks to Greg Bock and Fermilab for hosting this IPPOG 2013 Spring Meeting the first time outside Europe.

• Many thanks to Marge and her local team for taking care of all the nitty gritty in organizing this event.

IPPOG Meeting #5, FNAL, 4-6 April 2013


Handover of the IPPOG co-Chairs

Thanks a lot to Michael Kobel and to Dave Barney for having led IPPOG in the past few years. Especially for making the transition from EPPOG to IPPOG and for having built up IPPOG so efficiently.



Welcome to our Guests

• Fabiola Vazquez and Salvador Carilloboth thefrom Universidad Iberoamericano in Mexico



IPPOG Expansion

• IPPOG expansion will continue and discussions with new country delegates or simply with interested individuals, who can initiate further discussions and links back in their respective home countries, are ongoing:

India, Israel, Turkey…and today including Mexico



Sad News

• Laurenz WidhalmIPPOG Member for Austriapassed away after long endured Illness.

Michael Kobel will saya few words in memory of our dear colleague.

(1973–2012)



IPPOG Membership

• Welcome to Natascha Hörmann, as new IPPOG Member for Austria



Aims of this MeetingThursday morning is reserved for parallel working group discussions, where among other issues also the mandate and scope of every working group will be discussed and that upon further input from all IPPOG members will become formal documents in IPPOG.

Friday morning will be used to summarize the working group discussions and to open up for plenary input from all.

Friday afternoon, instead of country reports, we will have a set of panel discussions on various topics.Please do not forget to subscribe with Marge to select an activity/resource from your country/experimentto feature. Each panelist will have 5 minutes (3-slide maximum) to present the activity/resource. A general discussion will follow including questions or contributions to the topic.



Aims of this MeetingSaturday morning will be used for discussing how

technology and knowledge transfer shall be entering IPPOG;

how outreach activities are perceived by our fellow colleagues;

how the IPPOG website shall be further improved,

mainly by adding content for internal usage in IPPOG;

and, surely, how to explain the Higgs mechansim

- now the Higgs has been confirmed

in a press-release!

CERN 14 March 2013 - New results indicate that particle

discovered at CERN is a

Higgs bosonIPPOG Meeting #5, FNAL, 4-6 April 2013


TEDxCERN – 3 May 2013Claudia Marcelloni

could not join us today here at Fermilab for family reasons.Congratulations to you and your husband!

Claudia wished to be here with IPPOG and tell us about TEDxCERN:

The full TEDxCERN programme is online on http://tedxcern.web.cern.ch/programme

TEDxCERN is an excellent opportunity for labs, universities and TEDx organizers to engage with their community about science and STEM subjects. You can build your own event around the live feed from CERN, which will include exclusive material only available to participants in the webcast.

For more information about on how to host a TEDxCERN simulcast http://tedxcern.web.cern.ch/simulcast


http://tedxcern.web.cern.ch/programme



http://tedxcern.web.cern.ch/simulcast


TEDxCERN – 3 May 2013







George Church, who will talk about the recent breakthroughs using DNA; HiranyaPeiris, on the Early Universe; Lee Cronin on Networking Chemistry; Chris

Lintott on Citizen Science; Marc Abrahams on Improbable Research; Ian Foster, on Big Data; LondaSchiebinger, on Gendered Innovation; Maya Tolstoy, on

Ocean Floor/Tidal Triggering; John Searle, on Consciousness; EliezerRabinovici and Zehra Sayers, on SESAME and Collaboration; and Brittany Wenger, 2012

Google Science Fair Grand Prize Winner on Research and Inspiration.

The full TEDxCERN programme is online on our website http://tedxcern.web.cern.ch/programme in which you can also find all information about our speakers http://tedxcern.web.cern.ch/speakers.TEDxCERN is an excellent opportunity for labs, universities and TEDx organizers to engage with their community about science and STEM subjects. You can build your own event around the live feed from CERN, which will include exclusive material only available to participants in the webcast.For more information about on how to host a TEDxCERN simulcast http://tedxcern.web.cern.ch/simulcast If you have done yet, we would really appreciate if you could spread the word to those who might be interested in joining several institutes that have already confirmed their participation: University of Oslo, Bucharest, Belgrade, Granada, Chicago, Brunel, Leeds, Johannesburg, INFN, TRIUMPH among others.

Thank you very much in advance,

Best Regard,Claudia



http://tedxcern.web.cern.ch/speakers

http://tedxcern.web.cern.ch/simulcast


Dinner Tonight

• Chez Leonhttp://bss.fnal.gov/chezleon

Users Center, 2 Che Pinqua Street, Fermilab Village, Fermilab


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Introduction, April 5 th 2013 Hans Peter Beck, Marjorie Bardeen: IPPOG Co-chairs IPPOG Meeting #5, FNAL, 4-6 April 2013Introduction, Hans Peter Beck1