Astrophysics Research Program
The primary goal of the SMU Summer QuarkNet Astrophysics program is to utilize data from the ROTSE-1 and ROTSE-3 telescopes to search for and identify short period variable stars. The variations may be intrinsic, as in pulsating stars, or extrinsic, as with eclipsing binary stars. …
NOvA Tour 2016
University of Minnesota QuarkNet - NOvA Tour Workshop 3-4 August 2016 Wednesday, 3 August, 2016 Meet in PAN Room 120 9:00 Sign-in, QuarkNet Updates (Shane) 9:20 2016 Data Camp @ Fermilab (Jay D. and Michael P.) 9:40 2016 Inspiring Science Education @ Greece (Mike C.) 10:00 NOvA Talk &…
Johns Hopkins QuarkNet annual report 2016
Friday Flyer - September 16, 2016
Spotlight on the Colorado State University QuarkNet Center: This QuarkNet center located in Fort Collins is now in its fifth year. Lead teachers Cherie Bornhorst and Adam Pearlstein along with mentor Bob Wilson organized the 2016 teacher workshop that was held on June 13-17. That week coincided…
Images and Files, Sep-Dec 2016
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Particle Physics Developments
This article is adopted from an e-mail by mentor Steve Schnetzer to teachers and students in the Rutgers QuarkNet summer program. There have been some interesting physics developments over the summer. They are mostly negative developments (things not found), but that doesn't mean they are bad. What…
Friday Flyer - September 9, 2016
First Friday Flyer of the 2016–2017 Academic Year! Spotlight on Summer 2016: It has been an exciting summer for QuarkNet! Interest has been, understandably, up on LIGO and gravitational waves, and QuarkNet had LIGO e-Lab workshops at 10 centers. There were also four CMS e-Lab workshops, nine…
UIC QUarkNet high school detector locations
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2016 LIGO e-Lab Implementation
Below are the poster on which topics were recorded as a result of implementation discussions at the Buffalo LIGO e-Lab in 2016.