Report from InterAction

Aug. 22, 2004

Y. Morita (KEK)

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One year passed ...

• ... since the web site launch ceremony at the LP2003 at Fermilab ...

Aug. 12, 2003Lepton Photon 2003Fermilab, Batavia, IL

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Our Aim ...

• is to serve as a central resource for communicators of particle physics

• is to communicate with people such as:– Funding Agencies

– Journalists

– Tax Payers (including your mom and dad...)

– Younger Generations

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Interactions.org offers ...

• daily news and news archive• images, graphics, video and animations from labs/institutes worl

d wide• information about science policy and funding• links to education and outreach programs• links to universities• press information from collaborating labs/institutes• a conference calendar• particle physics, astrophysics glossary

and list of acronyms• hot topics• future projects

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Some Statistics ...

• Number of news wire subscribers: 1151 (as of today),from 50 countries (increasing daily)

• Monthly number of unique web visitors: March 9,935

April 9,565 May 10,873 June 15,303 (because of Quantum Universe report) July 11,212

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MembersArgonne National Laboratory (ANL)Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)DAPNIA CEA-Saclay laboratoryCouncil for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) / Rutherford Appleton Labor

atoryDeutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3)Institute for High-Energy Physics, Beijing (IHEP)Institute for High-Energy Physics, Protvino (IHEP)Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)

LNF: Laboratori Nazionali di FrascatiLNGS: Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

Jefferson LaboratoryJoint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (JINR)Laboratory for Elementary -Particle Physics at Cornell University (LEPP)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL)Nationaal Instituut voor Kernfysica en Hoge-Energiefysica (NIKHEF)Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC)Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)TRIUMF

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ILC web site

• A new Int’l Linear Collider web site is born! (Aug. 18)

http://www.interactions.org/linearcollider/

• to publicize the truly international endeavor in HEP !

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New magazine: “Symmetry”

• Jointly published and edited by the Fermilab and SLAC Communications offices.

• Other national and international laboratories actively encouraged to contribute

• Content not exclusively HEP-based

• Editorial priority to publish writers of stature on the subjects of HEP and other branches of science and science policy

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World Year of Physics

• CERN Cartoon Book on history of physics• 2005: A year in the life of particle physics

– Real-life stories of particle physicists, as they unfold

– Presented in publications, web sites, press releases, posters, blogs, videos, “Symmetry”

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HEPAP Report: “Quantum Universe”

• To discover what the universe is made of and how it works is the challenge of particle physics. Quantum Universe presents the quest to explain the universe in terms of quantum physics, which governs the behavior of the microscopic, subatomic world. It describes a revolution in particle physics and a quantum leap in our understanding of the mystery and beauty of the universe.

http://interactions.org/cms/?pid=1012346

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LC technology choice• Made a press release draft with

a close contact with ICFA• Publicized the press release with

web pages and news wireon Aug. 20

• Set up a press conference (with a help of IHEP)

• First truly global press release!(would have been impossible without InterAction)

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Memorandum of Understanding

• Coming up with a final version of MoU• Two-tier structure of membership

– Group One: Five labs - CERN, DESY, Fermilab, KEK, SLAC– Group Two: rest of the membership institutes

• To be reviewed by participating institutions

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Subcommittee ideas ...

• InterAction members meet twice a year• there are some real issues need to be resolved• how to address and handle them?

• example– in multi-national collaborations how can each country/institut

e publicize their specific contribution without duplication– make sure important persons have subscribed to the news w

ire– performance measure, impact factor, news coverage

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