sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[Christine Nattrass <saccharomyces.cerevisae AT gmail.com>]

Hi all

The final URL is
https://www.bnl.gov/sundays/RHIC.php
The panel is 3:30 Sunday.  Please consider advertising among 
undergraduates - perhaps a good way to get them excited about research!

Greetings,
Dr. Christine Nattrass
--
she, her, hers
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Program Director
Physics Department
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Office Hours:  10:15-11:15 Mon. & 3-4 Wed.
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On 8/18/20 10:00 AM, David Morrison wrote:
> Dear collaborators,
>
> Everybody is familiar with BNL Summer Sundays, the annual
> open-to-the-public tours of research at the Lab.
>
> For obvious reasons, this year's event will be conducted differently.
> For one thing – pandemic.  For another – RHIC is currently running and
> posted as a controlled area.  Not exactly ideal conditions for public
> tours.  Instead BNL is planning a fully online event with a video
> followed by a live question and answer panel.  It sounds a bit like an
> online version of the very popular BNL PubSci events.  Could be fun.
>
> We were contacted by BNL's Summer Sunday organizer, Kahille Dorsinvil,
> to identify someone to represent sPHENIX on the panel.
>
> I'd be happy to do this myself – consider that the default option – but
> I'd also be happy to hand this over to an interested volunteer from the
> collaboration.  I've included more information below from Kahille about
> the plans for the event and what they're looking for in a panelist.
>
> Drop me an email if you'd be interested.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
> ========
>
> We plan to host a live question and answer discussion type of panel to
> give people a chance to meet BNL scientists (DPN: clarified with Kahille
> that it doesn't have to be BNL scientists specifically). The Q&A will be
> a bluejeans meeting livestreamed to BNL social media channels
> immediately after a short (approx. 15 min) video tour of RHIC is shown.
> It is scheduled for Sunday, Aug 30th from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm.
>
> The video tour and the corresponding Q&A will cover topics that a basic
> tour would and includes the sPHENIX detector.
>
> We are looking for panel volunteers who are comfortable with the
> communication medium (i.e. video meeting livestreamed to social media
> channels), are available and willing to participate, and can talk about
> the topic in common language.
>
> Additional details about the Q&A:
>
> This is supposed to be an enjoyable live Q&A session with five panelists
> and a moderator.
>
> The video it follows is aimed at early high school level.
>
> The moderator will introduce the participants and ask scripted questions.
>
> The scripted questions are in True/False format and the viewing audience
> will have a chance to answer in chat.
>
> There will be another person who will prescreen questions from the live
> audience and send them to the moderator to ask the panel as appropriate.
>
> The moderator will be able to interact with the panel for example to
> clarify questions.
>
> Participants don’t need to be at BNL, just need to be able to join a
> bluejeans meeting with a webcam.
>
> There will be two planning meetings– a short one to review the flow of
> the Q&A  and a brief dry run on the previous Friday to test the
> technical setup and resolve any issues.