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SULI Welcome

SULI Welcome. 2009. Introductions. Program Manager and Education Officer - SueVon Gee Program Director - Steve Rock Program Admin - Vivian Lee, Elizabeth Smith Resident Assistant (Dorm) - Howard Young Web Page

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SULI Welcome

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  1. SULI Welcome 2009

  2. Introductions • Program Manager and Education Officer - SueVon Gee • Program Director - Steve Rock • Program Admin - Vivian Lee, Elizabeth Smith • Resident Assistant (Dorm) - Howard Young • Web Page -http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/suli/2009 Schedules, Computing, lists, etc.

  3. SLAC • Operated by Stanford University • Paid for by U.S. Dept. of Energy • Mission • Photon Science Discoveries To make discoveries in photon science at the frontiers of the ultra-small and ultra-fast in a wide spectrum of physical and life sciences • Particle and Particle Astrophysics Discoveries To make discoveries in particle and astro-particle physics to redefine humanity’s understanding of what the universe is made of and the forces that control it • Operate Safely; Train the Best To operate a safe laboratory that employs andTRAINS the best and brightest, helping to ensure the future economic strength and security of the nation

  4. SLAC OPERATIONS • DOE has many Research Labs • Military: (LLL) Livermore, Sandia, Oak Ridge, Hanford • Open (no classified research): SLAC, LBL (Berkeley), Fermilab, Jefferson Lab • Contractors manage the Labs. • Mostly Universities or consortiums of Universities • Increasing number of for-profit contractors • Designed to isolate Labs from political control of science • But DOE (and Congress) control the money for big projects. • Stanford Manages SLAC • Staff are Stanford Employees.

  5. Who is at SLAC • Scientists (primarily interested in the science) • Faculty • Staff • Postdocs • Grad Students • Visiting Scientists (Profs, Postdocs, students) • Most of You • Technical Support (Creating the equipment) • Programmers (including my wife, so very important) • Technicians • Engineers • Administration • Safety • Communications • Human Resources (us)

  6. HOW SLAC WORKS • PROJECTSAT SLAC (BaBar, SSRL,LCLS, LUSI) PROJECTS AWAY: (FGST, EXO, ATLAS, ILC) • INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS • SLAC scientists and technicians • Visiting scientists and technicians • Equipment built at SLAC • Equipment built at other institutions • Babar • 600 physicists and engineers • 75 institutions • 10 countries

  7. SLAC PROJECTS • LCLS:Linac Coherent Light Source • LUSI:LCLS Ultrafast Science Instruments • PULSE: Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering • SSRL: Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource • ARD: Accelerator Research Division • FACET: Facilities for Accelerator Science & Experimental Test Beams • ATLAS: A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS at the LHC at CERN • BaBar: B and B-bar • HEP Theory • ILC: International Linear Collider • EXO: The Enriched Xenon Observatory • FGST: Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope • LSST: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope • SNAP: SuperNova Acceleration Probe SLAC SPEAK DICTIONARY

  8. INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE • High Energy Physics • All results published • Mostly for richer counties • CERN: International European Lab (1954) • LHC financed by CERN and many other countries • Collaboration with USSR & China during Cold War • Now, Visa Problems for entering U.S. • Many Projects too expensive for 1 country • ILC includes Americas, Europe, Asia

  9. FGST nee GLAST(Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope) • Put Together at SLAC • Parts from many Places • Test Beams at SLAC • In US: DOE and NASA • 7 Countries (US, Japan & Europe) • 32 Institutions • Several Hundred Scientists & Students

  10. HOW (most of) YOU FIT IN • Part of a larger project • Learn about ‘big picture’ and how you fit in. • A small, but important contribution • Large projects have failed or been delayed because of small design problems on single parts (e.g. LHC) or miscalculations • Real RESEARCH Project • Result is not known in advance • Cannot check your work against Answer sheet • No Test to see if you have memorized things • You will make a meaningful contribution to the bigger project.

  11. HOW YOU FIT IN • Mistakes • You will probably make many errors, do things the wrong way, have equipment which fails, coding problems, … • Learn to notice when things look inconsistent or are nonsense. e.g. Is the computer output the right order of magnitude? • Keep a Logbook of your work so you can remember what you did! We all forget or think we remember things that did not happen • Check with your mentor. Experienced people know about common problems and the approximate results. Logbook! • If you do not understand, ASK.

  12. Overall Schedule • First Week: • Safety • Physics Lectures • Start Research • Second Week • Research • Safety Training • Third Week • 1 Page Summary of Project due 7/6 • Meet with Director Individually

  13. Schedule (Week 1) Mon, June 22   INTRODUCTION & SAFETY 9:00                    Greetings- Persis Drell, Director  9:15                    Introduction to SLAC physics- Helen Quinn 10:15                  Introduction to SULI  - Steve Rock 11:00 SLAC students Association - Josh Lande 11:05                  Break 11:15                   Paper Work 12:00 - 13:00      Lunch  13:00 -17:00       Safety  Training -Jim Allan & Clay Corvin Tues, June 24    COMPUTERS AND ACCELERATORS  8:00 -10:00     Pick up Badges (SLAC ID) Bldg 207  (map) and Get Computer Account Bldg 50 Rm 108 (map) (need photo ID) 10:00 -12:00  Tutorial on SLAC Computing     Adeyemi Adesanya 13:00 -14:00  History of SLAC ??             ACCELERATOR PHYSICS 14:00 Introduction to Accelerations  - John Fox               break 15:15 Plasma Acceleration and FACET -Neil Kirby 16:15  Introduction to free electron lasers and LCLS   -Yuantao Ding

  14. Schedule (cont) Wed, June 24  ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY 9:00    Intro to Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology at SLAC - Roger Blandford 9:30   Introduction to GLAST -Gregg Thayer  Cosmology   - Doug Applegate            First Stars  - Matt Turk            Demo of Computer Simulation - Fen Zhau 12:15: Lunch and  Meet your mentors. AFTERNOON:  WORK WITH MENTORS Thurs, June 25  PARTICLE PHYSICS & ENGINEERING 9:00  Introduction to Experimental Particle Physics -  Wells Wulsin 10:00 Introduction to Theoretical Particle Physics - Tom Rizzo 11.00BREAK ENGINEERING 11:15 Sofware Controls Systems - Dayle Kotturi 11:45LUSI   -J. Langton 12:15     EXO - Kurt Skarpaas AFTERNOON:  WORK WITH MENTORS

  15. SCHEDULE (Cont) Fri, June 26 PHOTON SCIENCE 9Introduction to synchrotrons & SSRL-Apurva Mehta 10 LCLS -Aaron Lindenberg   BREAK  11:15Coherence  -John Arthur WORK WITH MENTOR

  16. End Of First Week • SLAC SURVEY • Comments on Each Talk • “Difficulty of Content”, “Presentation”, “Interest” • Rate 1 to 5 • Please keep notes so you remember • DOE SURVEY • SAFETY FIRST CHECKLIST

  17. ‘TUES’LECTURE SERIES(4 PM in Redwood Room (A&B) Unless noted) June 30: Michael Peskin  ”Physics at The CERN Large Hadron Collider”  July 7 :Martin Perl,  "Developing Creativity in Science, Engineering, and Medicine" July 14:Uwe Bergmann,  Rapid-scan X-ray Fluorescence Imaging - The Archimedes Project and Beyond'  July ??Peter Rowson: EXO. July ?? John Fox: SLAC TOUR July 23:Chao-Lin Kuo  “Cosmic Microwave Background Studies”  July 26: Chris Nantista:   International Linear Collider Aug 6:   Sid DrellNuclear Weapons in the 21st Century Aug 8:Panel of grad students:  Grad school and life at SLAC.

  18. SLAC Requirements • 6/26 –SLAC SURVEY (keep notes) & Safety Checklist • 7/6 – One page project description • 7/8-7/9 Meet with Program Director • 7/21 – draft of paper Introduction & Method Sections • 8/7 Peer Review and Full Paper Draft • 8/11-8/12 Meet with Director to Discuss Revisions • 8/13 Oral Presentations • 8/14 SULI CEREMONIAL BBQ LUNCH (Provided by SLAC) • 8/15 Final Report Due • All students will give a 12 minute presentation on their research the last week of the program. • There will also be a SLAC survey to be completed during your last week at SLAC. • Attendance will be taken at Lectures (due to past problems)

  19. SULI Program Requirements from the U.S. Department of Energy • The receipt of a full stipend is dependent on the completion of the following • Submit the DOE pre-survey on or beforeJune 26 • This can be found on your educationLink account • Write an abstract of your research for submission to the Journal of Undergraduate Research and upload the abstract via your educationLink account. • Submit a written research paper via your educationLink account. Results not very useful if only in your head or scraps of paper or computer files that no one else can find. • Submit the post-survey during the last week on your educationLink account.

  20. Stanford

  21. SLAC

  22. TRANSPORTATION • BICYCLE • Free Stanford Shuttle (Marguerite) around campus and to SLAC (weekdays) • CALTRAIN: to San Francisco and San Jose (station at Eastern edge of Campus on Palm Dr.) • County Buses (Sam Trans, VTA) • www.511.org to Plan Trip

  23. HOUSEKEEPING • DORM: Howard Young will Help you. • Computer Hookups in Dorm Cost Money • Restaurants on Campus (see Web pages). Several around Tressider • Big Stores: • Safeway and Longs in Sharon Heights Shopping Center on Sand Hill Rd. (Bus stop) • Smaller Stores: • JJF Market on College Ave. • Whole Foods on Homer (Downtown PA) • Medical: SLAC Infirmary, Stanford Hospital ER • Money: Several Banks on Campus including Wells Fargo. BofA and WF on Sand Hill Rd.

  24. FUN ACTIVITIES • PHYSICAL • Use of Stanford Gyms and Pool (free) • Running/Walking Along Linac (4 miles round trip) • Hiking in Stanford Hills (the Dish) [via Alpine Gate] and nearby Parks • Biking: road and Mountain. Many steep and flat routes • Soccer at SLAC at noon (Wed?) • SPECTATOR SPORTS • San Francisco Giants (baseball) • CULTURE • LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade (June 27-28) • Stanford Jazz Festival (Campus) • Stanford Summer Theater: Electra Festival • Jazz Festival at Stanford Mall (Thursdays, 6-7:30PM, Free) • Twilight Concert Series (Tues at 6:30 in various Palo Alto Parks) • San Francisco Opera (Thru July 5) • Stern Grove Concerts (free, 2 PM Sundays in SF) • Shoreline Amphitheatre (large Rock and Roll outdoor theater) • San Jose Jazz Festival (8/7-8/8/2008) • San Francisco Mime Troupe (free at Mitchell Park on 8/5 at 6:30) • GARDENS • Cactus Garden (Campus) • Filoli (Biking Distance) • Golden Gate Park, SF (Arboretum, Rose, Tea)

  25. More Fun Things • MUSEUMS • Cantor Arts Center (On Campus) - Rodan • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (near Cal Train Station in SF) • de Young Museum (American and African Art, in Golden Gate Park) • San Francisco Asian Art Museum (world class, in Civic Center) • Palace of Legion of Honor (European Art, overlooking Golden Gate) • Exploratorium (SF's Interactive Science Museum, world class) • Computer Museum in Mountain View • Museum of the African Diaspora (SF) • Tech Museum (SJ) • Sculpture around Campus (Rodin, New Guinea, all around) • NEED CAR TO GET TO • Yosemite National Park (4 hours) I can tell you where to crash for the night outside the park • Point Reyes National Seashore (1 3/4 hrs) Many hiking trails to and along the cliffs) • Muir Woods National Monument (1 1/2 hrs) Big Redwood Trees and lots of people • Big Basin State Park (3/4 hr) Big Redwood Trees, hiking • Beaches (Can get to Santa Cruz via Train and Bus)

  26. SUMMARY • You have the opportunity to learn a lot and have a good time. • Working with your mentor and his/her colleagues is the primaryactivity. • The SULI web page has lots of information (please make suggestions) • Contact me if you have any ‘program’ issues to discuss. (e.g. Problem with Mentor) or anything else • Contact Vivian if you have ‘admin’ needs. • Contact SueVon to discuss anything

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