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Education and Outreach

Education and Outreach. Jordan A. Goodman University of Maryland. People Who Have Worked on Milagro. Postdocs: 14 10 stationed at Los Alamos Graduate students: 24 (all spent time at LANL) PhDs granted: 14 UG students: 74 31 spent some time at Los Alamos High School students: 4

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Education and Outreach

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  1. Education and Outreach Jordan A. Goodman University of Maryland Jordan Goodman HAWC Review - December 2007

  2. People Who Have Worked on Milagro • Postdocs: 14 10 stationed at Los Alamos • Graduate students: 24 (all spent time at LANL) • PhDs granted: 14 • UG students: 74 31 spent some time at Los Alamos • High School students: 4 • High School teachers: 3 Jordan Goodman HAWC Review - December 2007

  3. Milagro Students & Post-doc go to: VERITAS HESS GLAST Swift Auger IceCube HiRes CELESTE LIGO HEP/NP experiments We get Post-docs from: Super-K Whipple/VERITAS HEGRA HEP/NP experiments Amanda Tibet CGRO Haleakala HiRes Where do our people go to/come from? Jordan Goodman HAWC Review - December 2007

  4. Milagro Outreach Activities • Quarknet • Earthwatch • US Physics Olympics • High School Programs • Summer Girls • Question of the week Jordan Goodman HAWC Review - December 2007

  5. Quarknet • Milagro was the first Particle Astrophysics experiment • Help set up cosmic raytelescopes • Cloud Chambers • Mentor-physicists • Jordan Goodman • Kara Hoffman • Lead Teachers • Yuri Achille • Kevin Martz They spent time at Milagro Jordan Goodman HAWC Review - December 2007

  6. %US POP. 80% 4% 14.4% 13% Notes: US percentage does not add to 100% because Hispanics are an ethnic group. Approx 60% of US Hispanics are of Mexican origin. Jordan Goodman HAWC Review - December 2007

  7. HAWC Outreach • HAWC will continue Milagro outreach activities • HAWC will work to reach Hispanic students in the US and Mexico • We will develop materials in Spanish (Magda has already started) • We will provide bilingual websites • We will provide summer programs for student • We will target schools in New Mexico • We will work with the LMT outreach program to reach local schools in Mexico • Mexico is going to participate in the international year of the astronomy in 2009. The Mexican organizer is Deborah Dultz - a HAWC collaborator. • The UNAM Astronomy Institute has a lot of activities for high school students that HAWC can join. They have talks every Friday and visits to the optical telescopes. Jordan Goodman HAWC Review - December 2007

  8. Summer Outreach • Working with Luis Orozco at Maryland we have joined the Mexican Division of Particles and Fields summer program run by Heriberto Castilla (CINVESTAV, FNAL) • A competition for students, undergraduate of the last two year or graduate students of the first year. They select the best according to academic capacity and interest in the field • HAWC is planning to have one or two students this year. Jordan Goodman HAWC Review - December 2007

  9. Summary • Milagro pioneered the water-Cherenkov technique for wide field TeV gamma ray astronomy • It has made numerous discoveries, showing the importance and complementarity of a wide field instrument to the ACTs, satellites and other instruments • HAWC is an obvious next step • For a modest cost, HAWC can do important and timely physics • We have the capability, we have the site, we have the people (we even have the PMTs) • We need your approval (and the money) Jordan Goodman HAWC Review - December 2007

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