California State University (CSU) is the largest public university system in the US with 23 campuses and ~460,000 students with very large minority and first generation college student populations. Among all the 23 CSU campuses, Fresno State joined ATLAS in 2007 as the only CSU campus on 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 the CSU Nuclear and Particle Physics Consortium (NUPAC) since 2008. 19 other CSU campuses (Bakersfield, Channel Islands, Chico, Dominguez Hills, East Bay, Humboldt, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Northridge, Pomona, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, San Marcos, Sonoma, and Stanislaus) have joined the consortium. The 19 other CSU NUPAC campuses and the liaison faculty at these campuses are listed below.

     

    To prepare students for working on ATLAS experiment during summer, an online Phys 163 (Introduction to Particle Physics) has been offered at Fresno State since fall of 2012 by Prof. Yongsheng Gao. This online course is open to students from CSU NUPAC campuses and offered on regular basis every fall semester to CSU NUPAC. If you are interested in working on ATLAS experiment at CERN during summer, you are required to take this online course. Please contact the liaison faculty on your campus (or Prof. Yongsheng Gao if you are a Fresno State student) for more information.