Young Physicists Panel

Closing Report for Survey Project

John Krane

Iowa State UniversityDPF Executive Committee Meeting 5/24/02

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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”