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Meetings, Training, etc

Outreach:

Occasional activities:

Guide to ATLAS during the LHC 2008 Open Day, 6th April 2008;
ATLAS guide for the public visitor centre since May 2009;
Guide to ATLAS during CERN event and exhibitionto coincide with the launch of the film "Angels and Demons" 16th May 2009; (CERN Angels and Demons site)
Guide to the ATLAS visitor centre during a journalists tour of cern following the 6th World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ 2009) on July 5th 2009.
Guide in the CERN stand at the "La Nuit de la Science" science outreach festival organised by the Culture Department of the City of Geneva and the Musee d'Histoire des Sciences (link) on July 10th 2010.
Helped to otganize and guided RHUL students in a RHUL visit to CERN December 8th 2010 within course PH2520.
Co-creation of the exhibition Particulas about the future challenges of Particle Physics, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of LIP.
Participated in the European Researchers Night 2016 in the Gulbenkian Planetarium, Lisbon.

Articles sent to the CienciaHoje online outreach journal (in Portuguese):

19/1/2008 - Text on Nanotecnology; direct link.
10/3/2008 - Text on CERN Open Day 2008; direct link.
22/10/2008 - Text on 19th September cryo failure and LHC Fest 2008; direct link.
6/11/2008 - Faits divers on Cambridge Lucasian professorship advertisement, currently held by Stephen Hawkings; direct link
12/2/2009 - Preview of some scenes of Angels & Demons at CERN; direct link
19/5/2009 - Interview with Ciencia Hoje about the Angels & Demons premiere by Filinto Melo
20/8/2009 - Small article about LHC startup plans ; direct link
19/11/2009 - Article about LHC first beams after shutdown ; direct link
14/12/2009 - Article about PS 50th anniversary symposium ; direct link

Interviews:

January 2012 - episode 9 of the Colliding Particles short film series by Mike Paterson
5/9/2012 - Email interview on big science collaborations by journalist Sarah Kellogg for Nature Jobs - local copy.
7/10/2009 - Interview during the 6th World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ 2009) by journalist Cecilia Farre for Newsweek Argentina - local copy. Special mention in Science Outreach prize offered by Argentine government.
19/5/2009 - Interview with Ciencia Hoje about the Angels & Demons premiere by Filinto Melo

Other... Conferences, Workshops, and other meetings: See conference abstracts here

ATLAS Software workshop, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York, May 2004, link
Physics at the LHC conference, Vienna, 13-17 July 2004, link
YETI05 - Young Experimentalists and Theorists Workshop, Durham, January 2005, link
ATLAS Physics Workshop, Rome, 6-11 June 2005, link
IoP half-day meeting on "Recent Results from the Tevatron", 21 September 2005: link, talks.
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Puerto Rico, 22-28 October 2005, link

Presented talk: Overview of the high-level trigger electron and photon selection at the ATLAS experiment at the LHC

Led tutorial on the new trigger analysis framework (with Mark Sutton), ATLAS TDAQ Workshop, Mainz, October 2005
ATLAS Calorimeter Trigger Workshop, 30 Jan - 1 Feb 2006, link.

Talk on e/gamma hypothesis algorithms and tutorial on e/gamma analysis framework, with Mark Sutton

IoP HEPP Group meeting: "Tevatron for LHC", Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, January 31 2007, talks.
Institute of Physics Nuclear and Particle Physics Divisional Conference, 3-5 April 2007, University of Surrey, Guildford Campus.
Led part of the tutorial on Trigger-Aware Analysis, organised by Monika Wielers at CERN on 23 March 2007: link to the agenda.
European Physical Society HEP 2007 Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom, 19-25 July 2007. Link to the agenda.

Presented talk: The ATLAS Trigger: High-Level Trigger Commissioning and Operation during Early Data Taking

BNL Analysis Jamboree, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York, 6-10 August 2007. Link to the agenda.
Organised a half-day Trigger Validation Workshop, CERN, 26 September 2007

Courses:

C++ for physicists" course at CERN, by Dr. Paul Kunz, 16-17 November 2004, link.
Advanced C++ - Traps and Pitfalls" course at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 22-25 January 2005.
First-Aid training course at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for people working out-of-hours underground at CERN, 9 October 2006
Royal Society Communication skills course, 8 November 2006, given by Judith Hahn and John Appleby, link,programme (MSWord).
Royal Society Media Training course, 6 December 2006, given by Judith Hahn and John Appleby, link, programme (MSWord).
ATLAS Distributed Analysis Tutorial, eScience Institute, 1-2 February 2007, Edinburgh.

Demonstrating:

2005/06, 1st term - Mathematical Methods course (PH2130) taught by Dr. James Nicholls
2005/06, 2nd term, Stellar Astrophysics course (PH2910) taught by Dr. Antonella De Santo

Organisation:

Royal Holloway Particle Physics Group seminars: jointly with Dr. Fabrizio Salvatore, since 2003/04, link, 2005, 2004, 2003.
Particle Physics Masterclass: led the "Identifying events at LEP", activity , by Dr. Terry Wyatt in the 2003/04 and 2004/5 session and the "BaBar Masterclass Exercise - Measuring the B lifetime", by Dr. Tim Adye, activity in 2005/06 together with Dr. Stefania Ricciardi.

Etc...