Young Physicists Panel
Closing Report for Survey Project
John Krane
Iowa State UniversityDPF Executive Committee Meeting 5/24/02
John Krane -- Iowa State University 2
The Birth of YPP
Contribute to long-term HEP planning
Write a document?– We had divergent opinions– Fairly homogenous demographics
Global Survey– Reach more labs, more people
Snowmass– Perform survey there?– Present results there?– How about both!
“How do you know youdon’t live in a pocket oflike-minded people?”
May 2000 YPP formed by Bonnie Fleming, John Krane, Geralyn “Sam” Zeller ~ 15 members in original group
“Young” = non-tenured
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Survey Design
Cast net widely All labs, all career stages
Focus on helping HEPAP US-centric by design
Statistician from U. Maryland School of Medicine Dr. Deborah Medoff specializes in creation and review of surveys for psychiatric studies.
Release the data ntuples available!
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Thanks for supporting YPP!
DPF provided
Web link on the front page
Fellowships that allowed travel to Snowmass01
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At Snowmass: YPP and YPF
In our early discussions with Ken Bloom (YPF chair) we suggested a three-part format:
Week 1: Intro and outline Week 2: Town Meeting
(not pre-prepared talks, actual information-gathering) Week 3: Forum
(delivery of results from TM and Survey)
“YP’s are highly organized” “contagious collegial attitude” “Doing a great thing” “Never seen this happen before”
YPP Survey
Philosophy: don’t just listen to the loud and the eloquent.
Overheard at Snowmass and elsewhere…
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Survey Release
We did what we said we would, and had fun doing it…
Survey writeup went to HEPAP subpanel in time for their Santa Fe meeting (Sept. 2001) Timely!
A great deal of interest outside of HEPAP
Invited talks at FNAL (webcast archived at http://ypp.hep.net )SLAC CERNDESY BNLLNS Princeton, Rutgers
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Original Project Ends
The original organizershave stepped aside.
The friendships forgedat Snowmass propel the new YPP.
New Projects Begin…
“Young Particle Physicists”