Selected Outreach Activities in Norway

24th EPPOG Meeting, Milan, 2.-3. June 2009

Farid Ould-Saada, Maiken Pedersen,

on behalf of Norwegian Particle Physics Outreach Group

Outreach group

• Outreach “committee” – Ingvil Bjørnes, Research Council Norway

• EPPCN Norwegian representative

– Bjørn Samset (UiO), Heidi Sandaker (UiB),

• post-docs, HEPP project

– Hilde Lynnebakken (UiO), Arve Aksnes (UiB)

• outreach expertise more practical work like translations of press releases from CERN, maintain contact lists, etc...

• EPPOG– Farid Ould-Saada

• Norwegian EPPOG representative and HEPP project leader

– Maiken Pedersen (UiO), Katarina Pajchel (UiO), Therese Sjursen (UiB)

• PhD students Master classes and much more

• And more occasional contributors– Eirik Gramstad (PhD, UiO), Lars Bugge, … (UiO), Anna Lipniacka (UiB), …

Science Fairs• A yearly national science festival• Aimed towards elementary school

and general public• 2008 participation with the following

activities:– Science market in Oslo – Physicists

explained the worlds mysteries and LHC – Research project in Bergen with School (~12

year), they studied particles and forces between them

• The mini Big Bang

– Stand-up scientist in Oslo (evening show):

• LHC, does it create doomsday? And if not what is the point?

http://www.forskningsdagene.no/

Fair in Oslo

The EPF group in Oslo was responsible for the Physics Department booth during Oslo Science Fair, 19 – 20 Sept. 2008

Oslo Science Fair - part of the National Science Week in Norway

Title: What are you made of?

The booth was dedicated to LHC and ATLAS

Activity: we generated weight certificates telling what one is made of down to the most fundamental particles

Science market in Oslo

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Astrofestival

• Yearly since 1999, November, project leader M.Baziljevich

– Aimed primarily at children– Learn about the planets and stars

• and all sorts of other exciting science • Physics, chemistry,

biology– Roughly 6000 participants

• Astrofestival 2008 – Departement of physics, UiO, presented the LHC experiment

– LHC show– Particle Physics stand

2009 planned activities

• Science market in Oslo– More about LHC and the worlds mysteries

• Science market in Bergen – new– to be defined

• Research project in Bergen– The Big Bang & CERN

• Stand-up scientist

Fair in Bergen

A&D event in Oslo

A&D event in the media

Articles written by journalists• “Antimaterie – i virkiligheten” , I. Spilde , http://www.forskning.no/artikler/2009/mai/220820• “Engler, demoner og partikkelfysiker” , A.R. Graven,

http://www.forskning.no/artikler/2009/mai/220599• “Antimaterie mot kreft”, M. Nordahl, http://www.forskning.no/artikler/2009/mai/220769• "Her tar Dan Brown feil", http://www.side2.no/film/article2621146.ece , side2.no/nettavisen.no 

Articles written by physicists / students• “Fysikk og religion: Søken etter det grunnleggende”,

http://www.forskning.no/artikler/2009/mai/220637 , Katarina. Pajchel, PhD student in particle physics, Oslo

• “Vitenskapelig skinn”, Morgenbladet, Bjørn Samset, Postdoc, particle physics, Oslo http://morgenbladet.no/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090515/OKULTUR/974392341

• “Engler, demoner og vitenskapsmenn”, kronikk in VG 26/05-09, Eirik Gramstad, PhD student in particle physics, Oslo

TV• Katarina explains antimatter in the real world , "IKveld" at NRK2 http://www1.nrk.no/nett-

tv/indeks/170624• Bjørn explains CERN and antimatter on the morning news, "MorgenNytt", NRK1, 07.05.2009

“CERN er et laboratorium som er multi-nasjonaltmulti-kulturelt ... og multi-religiøst”, Katarina Pajchel

Slides of presentations http://www.fys.uio.no/~bjornhs/atlas/EnglerOgDemoner_Pressevisning.pdf

• Norwegian Museum of Science & Technology:– Seeing the invisible

• Third level

– Fourth level

» Fifth level

Muon chamber project in Bergen