California State University (CSU) is the largest university system in the US with 23 campuses and total student population of ~450,000. Among all the 23 CSU campuses, Fresno State is the only one participating in ATLAS or CMS, the two flagship LHC experiments designed to search for new physics. To provide the outstanding ATLAS/LHC research opportunities to a wider CSU community, we have been building up a CSU Nuclear and Particle Physics Consortium (NUPAC). 13 other CSU campuses (Bakersfield, Channel Islands, Chico, Dominguez Hills, Humboldt, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Pomona, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, and Stanislaus) have joined the consortium. The 13 other CSU NUPAC campuses and the liaison faculty at these campuses are listed below.

     

    To help the CSU students prepare for their ATLAS research work at CERN, the CSU NUPAC has started to offer online courses in High Energy Physics (HEP) and computing among the CSU NUPAC campuses. The first of these courses was offered in Spring 2011 at the Physics Department of Cal. Poly. Pomona by Prof. Peter Siegel with students enrolled from Humboldt State, Fresno State, and Cal. Poly. Pomona. Detailed informaiton (syllabus, lecture notes, video, sample computer programs, instruction to install ROOT, etc.) about this course (Phys 404 (High Energy Physics)) can be found at Prof. Peter Siegel's homepage . Phys 404 is being offered again at Cal Poly Pomona in Spring 2012 by Prof. Peter Siegel . Detailed information about this course can be found at Prof. Peter Siegel's homepage .

     

    To prepare students for working on ATLAS projects at CERN during summer of 2013, an online Phys 175T (Introduction to Particle Physics and ATLAS Experiment at the LHC of CERN) will be offered at Fresno State by Prof. Yongsheng Gao. This course is open to students from CSU NUPAC campuses. If you are interested in working on ATLAS projects at CERN during summer of 2013, you are required to take this course. Here is the detailed information about this course. Future online HEP and computing courses will be offered across the CSU ATLAS Consortium campuses in Spring 2013 to prepare students to work at CERN during summer of 2013. Please contact the liaison faculty on your campus (or Prof. Yongsheng Gao if you are a Fresno State student) for more information if you are interested to take these courses to prepare for ATLAS research work at CERN.