Symposium organisation meeting Nov 12

Open SymposiumLAL Orsay presentation and a

few questionsGuy Wormser

12 Novembre 2005

Symposium organisation meeting Nov 12

Local Committee Composition• Nicole Mathieu (Chair)• Christian Helft (Head of Computing department)• J.E. Campagne• F. Richard• Z. Zhang• G. Wormser• C. Eguren (Web master)• Hélène Kerec (Communication and outreach)

Symposium organisation meeting Nov 12

LAL at a glance

As of Oct 1, 2005

98 Physicists,218 ITA

Representing 12/15 % of IN2P3

LAL mission :

Particle physics and cosmology

Design, build, operate large high tech devices in the framework of international collaborations

Symposium organisation meeting Nov 12

Symposium organisation meeting Nov 12

The auditorium

Symposium organisation meeting Nov 12

Around the auditorium

Symposium organisation meeting Nov 12

The cafeteria

Symposium organisation meeting Nov 12

A few questions• Do you want a banquest to be organized?• Fees policy: definition? who decides for exemption? Travel help?• Do you want a Symposium poster? If yes, who is in charge of designing it?

Who will distribute it? Who is paying for it?• Poster sessions: when, how, who is in charge?• Do you need rooms for private meetings, parallel sessions?• Should we organize a political opening? President University? Ministry

level? Who will be there? • Lunch buffet : cost is higher than normal lunch. Can we raise the fees?

Should we provide lunch on Wednesday?• Material for attendees : brochures? Backpack? Bag?• Should we include a lab visit?• Test webcast? When? How?• Proactive for information about the meeting: who should we contact?• Dates and deadline: Registration, poster , documentation deadlines, next

meeting?

Symposium organisation meeting Nov 12

Symposium organisation meeting Nov 12

A great success in France and abroad

• This poster, an initiative born in LAL and supported by LAL, has been officially delivered to all physics classes of all French high schools (20000 posters). Very positive feedback so far

• 500,000 pupils will admire it almost every day during 3 years. The hope is of course to disseminate basic knowledge of the subatomic world, to raise their scientific curiosity and to generate a few vocations!

• Very large success abroad as well– Canada has already deployed it in the same way (5000 english posters, 1000

French ones)– A version has been made for Michigan State University– CERN has ordered a thousand– NIKHEF has decided to deploy it in the Netherlands– A Romanian, Dutch and German translations now avalaible– Spanish, Polish translations are on their way– India is contemplating large scale diffusion– Contacts in Indonesia, Philippines, Bahrein, Greece, England