Selected Outreach Activities in Norway 24 th EPPOG Meeting, Milan, June 2009 Farid Ould-Saada, Maiken Pedersen, on behalf of Norwegian Particle Physics Outreach Group

Outreach group •Outreach “committee” –Ingvil Bjørnes, Research Council Norway •EPPCN Norwegian representative –Bjørn Samset (UiO), Heidi Sandaker (UiB), •post-docs, HEPP project –Hilde Lynnebakken (UiO), Arve Aksnes (UiB) •outreach expertise  more practical work like translations of press releases from CERN, maintain contact lists, etc... •EPPOG –Farid Ould-Saada •Norwegian EPPOG representative and HEPP project leader – Maiken Pedersen (UiO), Katarina Pajchel (UiO), Therese Sjursen (UiB) •PhD students  Master classes and much more •And more occasional contributors –Eirik Gramstad (PhD, UiO), Lars Bugge, … (UiO), Anna Lipniacka (UiB), …

Science Fairs •A yearly national science festival •Aimed towards elementary school and general public •2008 participation with the following activities: –Science market in Oslo – Physicists explained the worlds mysteries and LHC  –Research project in Bergen with School (~12 year), they studied particles and forces between them •The mini Big Bang –Stand-up scientist in Oslo (evening show): •LHC, does it create doomsday? And if not what is the point? Fair in Oslo

 The EPF group in Oslo was responsible for the Physics Department booth during Oslo Science Fair, 19 – 20 Sept  Oslo Science Fair - part of the National Science Week in Norway  Title: What are you made of?  The booth was dedicated to LHC and ATLAS  Activity: we generated weight certificates telling what one is made of down to the most fundamental particles Science market in Oslo

5 Astrofestival • Yearly since 1999, November, project leader M.Baziljevich – Aimed primarily at children – Learn about the planets and stars • and all sorts of other exciting science • Physics, chemistry, biology – Roughly 6000 participants • Astrofestival 2008 – Departement of physics, UiO, presented the LHC experiment – LHC show – Particle Physics stand

2009 planned activities •Science market in Oslo –More about LHC and the worlds mysteries •Science market in Bergen – new –to be defined •Research project in Bergen –The Big Bang & CERN •Stand-up scientist Fair in Bergen

A&D event in Oslo

A&D event in the media Articles written by journalists •“Antimaterie – i virkiligheten”, I. Spilde, •“Engler, demoner og partikkelfysiker”, A.R. Graven, •“Antimaterie mot kreft”, M. Nordahl, •"Her tar Dan Brown feil", side2.no/nettavisen.no Articles written by physicists / students •“Fysikk og religion: Søken etter det grunnleggende”, Katarina. Pajchel, PhD student in particle physics, Oslo •“Vitenskapelig skinn”, Morgenbladet, Bjørn Samset, Postdoc, particle physics, Oslo •“Engler, demoner og vitenskapsmenn”, kronikk in VG 26/05-09, Eirik Gramstad, PhD student in particle physics, Oslo TV •Katarina explains antimatter in the real world, "IKveld" at NRK2 •Bjørn explains CERN and antimatter on the morning news, "MorgenNytt", NRK1, “CERN er et laboratorium som er multi-nasjonalt multi-kulturelt... og multi-religiøst”, Katarina Pajchel Slides of presentations

•Norwegian Museum of Science & Technology: –Seeing the invisible •Third level –Fourth level »Fifth level Muon chamber project in Bergen