2024

Rick Dower gave a presentation about Fermat's Least Time Principle for optics. With one rule it accounts for straight-line travel, mirror reflection, and refraction of light. Then we watched a Veritasium video "The Strange Physics Principle That Shapes Reality" by Derek Muller that started with the…

The University of Cincinnati QuarkNet Center 2024 activities included a 3-day teacher workshop, attendance at the Lead Teacher Camp by co-lead teacher Martin Wells, and a coding camp hosted by co-lead teacher Emily Rosen. The University of Cincinnati QuarkNet Center hosted a 3-day teacher…

In 2024 we continued outreach from the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics to regional high schools in central California and to students online. The QuarkNet Center programs were coordinated by faculty mentor Jason Nielsen and SCIPP Outreach Coordinator Laura Bakken, assisted by…

2024 Annual Report Overview:  Our group met approximately monthly on video conference (Zoom).  We held Sunday evening meetings as summarized below.  Our biannual in person meeting was held in Albuquerque, where we discussed quantum mechanics, small detectors (cosmic watches as the Accel Kitchen…

2024 QuarkNet workshop group photo in front of Lego ATLAS detector at OSU.Once again, Oklahoma State University (OSU) and the University of Oklahoma (OU) joined forces for a lively summer QuarkNet Teacher Workshop. This year’s workshop was hosted at OSU from July 29 to July 31 (https://quarknet.org…

Rice/UH QuarkNet Center Annual Report 2024   The RIce/UH QuarkNet center is happy to report again a great interest from the local high schools in the two main events we organize yearly.  Before we review the details of these two events, we will also highlight another QuarkNet event we hosted in…