2022 JHU Workshop Agenda & List of Talks
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We will meet in Bloomberg 462 from 9:00-12:30 and 478 from 1:30-4:30 M-F. See you then!
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Tech Stuff
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Agenda
Mon 25 July
9:00-10:00 - Jeremy Smith, Hereford HS
Welcome, schedule for week, brief summary of afternoon work (slides or PDF)
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10:00-10:10 - Breakfast/coffee break
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10:15-11:15 - Dr. Andrei Gritsan, JHU
"Powers of Ten Anniversaries: 101 for Higgs Boson ,102 for Stern-Gerlach Experiment!" (PDF)
Bonus stuff:
1. Cool visualizer for different orbital shapes
2. Hyperphysics has some great things to say about radioactive decay!
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11:15-11:25 - Breakfast/coffee break
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11:30-12:30 - Dr. Morris Swartz, JHU
"How Do Detectors Even Work, Really? [Part 1]"
Slides (PDF)
What the heck is an inverse femtobarn, anyway? LHC is always talking about it. Here's an article from Symmetry magazine that uses billiard balls as a nice analogy.
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Lunch 12:30-1:30
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Monday Afternoon, 1:30 pm-4:30pm
Topic: The ISLE classroom - What's it like?
Activities: Various information and activities related to motion/force, using ISLE framework
Link to files on Google Drive
Moderators: Danielle Bugge, Elana Resnick, Marianne Vanier
Agenda:
1:30 I. Welcome and introductions.
1:30 – 2:00 II. Qualitative ISLE cycle: Glass of cold water.
2:00 – 2:15 III. Mapping this activity onto the ISLE cycle elements.
2:15 – 2:30 IV. The elements of a physics process in a text & reflection.
2:30 – 3:10 V. Describing motion (Dot diagrams and motion diagrams)
3:10 – 3:40 VI. Inventing an index
3:40 – 4:10 VII. Developing a model for constant motion
4:10 – 4:30 VIII. Reflection and wrap-up Day 1
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Tue 26 July
9:00-10:00 - Chris DiMenna
"My Quarknet Junket to CERN - The Summer HST Programme"
Here's what she and her colleagues did for two weeks!! Every HST group has an agenda page on CERN's Indico site.
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10:00-10:10 - Breakfast/coffee break
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11:30-12:30 - Dr. Morris Swartz, JHU
"How Do Detectors Even Work, Really? [Part 2]"
Slides (PDF)
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11:15-11:25 - Breakfast/coffee break
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10:15-11:15 - Dr. Marc Kamionkowski
"First discovery of a free-floating black hole from OGLE/HST"
Here is a link to the ArXiV article (PDF) that Marc referenced in his talk
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12:30-1:30 Lunch
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Tuesday Afternoon, 1:30pm-4:30pm
Topic: The ISLE Classroom, Part 2
Moderators: Danielle Bugge, Elana Resnick, Marianne Vanier
Agenda
1:30 – 2:10 I. Constant motion testing experiment
2:10 – 2:20 II. Hook revisited (Ledecky swim video)
2:20 – 3:05 III. Introduction to forces
3:05 – 3:50 IV. Design experiment
3:50 – 4:20 V. Implementation, resources, assessment, questions
4:20 – 4:30 VI. Reflection and wrap-up Day 2
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Wed 27 July
9:00-10:00 - Dr. Bill Blair, JHU
"Exciting and Beautiful First Results from JWST"
Slides here! (This is too big to upload to Quarknet.org, so the file lives in my Google Drive)
NASA hosts all the first-release JWST images on one site in incredibly high resolution - check it out!
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10:00-10:10 - Breakfast/coffee break
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10:15-11:15 - Dr. Rebekka Klausen, JHU
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11:15-11:25 - Breakfast/coffee break
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11:30-12:30 - Dr. Ibrahima Bah, JHU
"Black Holes: Why they're inevitable, how nature prevents them, singularities, and entropy"
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12:30-1:30 Lunch
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Wednesday Afternoon, 1:30pm-4:30pm
Topic: Spacetime Diagrams
Activity: Learn how to draw spacetime diagrams; try some student-friendly examples; extend to Quarknet / cosmology topics
Moderator: Matt Jacobs
(slides here in PDF)
Mechanical Universe Videos from Tim Durkin (Excel sheet)
Veritasium's interesting take on measuring c
MinutePhysics + Mark Rober - visualizing Lorentz transformations, part 3 of a 5-part series on relativity!
Activity: Write spacetime diagrams for interactions between particles, AKA Feynman diagrams
Moderators: Everyone, really
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Thu 28 July
9:00-10:00 - Dr. Brian Camley, JHU
"Biological physics and cell migration"
Slides here! (PPT) (PDF - smaller file, but movies / animations won't work)
Brian sent a link to another workshop in computational physics. Here's a description, the Twitter post, and the registration link.
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10:00-10:10 - Breakfast/coffee break
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10:15 - ? (new record: 3:15PM!!) Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study
"The Inevitability of Physical Laws"
Here's Jeremy's best attempt at taking notes during the talk. He broke with about 30 minutes remaining. If he ever understands what he wrote, he'll try uploading a better version.
Nima has done variants of this talk before. Here is one from the Institute for Advanced Study, where he works, that is more focused on Higgs, since it was 4 months after the Higgs discovery. This one was two years later, also at IAS, with a fair bit of overlap but also includes some of that cool "natural units" stuff that he did the first time he visited in 2018.
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Lunch 12:30-1:30
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Thursday Afternoon, 3:30pm-4:30pm
Topic: Music, Spectra, Physics, CMB, Noise
Moderators: Kevin Martz, Jeremy Smith
Here's Jeremy's poorly-organized workshop planning doc with a bunch of the video links. You have to scroll down a bit.
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Fri 29 July
9:00-10:00 - Elana Resnick, GSFC
"What does Goddard have for high school teachers?"
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10:00-10:10 - Breakfast/coffee break
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10:15-11:15 - Dr. Surjeet Rajendran, JHU
"New Physics in the Nuclear Physics Field"
Slides (PDF)
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11:15-11:25 - Breakfast/coffee break
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11:30-12:30 - Dr. Sarah Marie Bruno, JHU
"Microwave telescopes: Just how do you get a camera to work at 0.1 Kelvin??"
Slides (PDF)
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Lunch 12:30-1:30
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Friday Afternoon, 1:30pm-4:30pm
Quarknet Paperwork and updates
- Workshop registration (Google Form)
- Update Quarknet account if needed - log into quarknet.org to do this
- Jeremy can look up usernames or reset passwords if needed
- The annual Quarknet survey (SurveyMonkey)
- Click here to determine whether you should take long or short version
- Long version
- Short version
- Implementation Plans - 1 page maximum
- Simple instructions here, but nothing surprising
- Format is flexible - Doc, slides, Fligrid, Video, etc.
- Send file or link to Jeremy at merryjman@gmail.com or jsmith10@bcps.org
Topic: Another experience in experiment-first lessons - the e/m apparatus
Activity: Investigate relationships using the e/m apparatus
Moderator: Jeremy Smith