Friday Flyer - February 20, 2015
Spotlight on the University of Oregon Center: The center in Eugene, Oregon is near the Laser Interfermoter Gravitational Observatory (LIGO). In previous years, teachers have gone to visit the laboratory. This year, the laboratory came to them! Dale Ingram visited from the observatory. He…
Useful places
https://cms-docdb.cern.ch/cgi-bin/PublicDocDB//ShowDocument?docid=12190 http://rodshome.com/IMW/index.html http://events.lal.in2p3.fr/IPPOG-France-2015/ https://www.i2u2.org/elab/cms/graphics/CMS_Slice_elab.swf
Friday Flyer - February 13, 2015
Spotlight on the University of California at Santa Cruz Center: The premier project of the Santa Cruz center over the past several years has been summer research with cosmic ray detectors. (Check out a cool abstract from this past summer here.) Stu Briber, a long-time QuarkNet member and Vicki…
QuarkNet an der Elbe: Tales of 2 Weeks and 2 Cities
The past two weeks have been more full than a(n) [insert something that eats] in a nest full of [what it eats]. Congratulations, you've made a metaphor. Tom McCauley, our QN-ND-CMS-IT guy at CERN, came to TU Dresden last Thursday to give the final weekly seminar of the…
Friday Flyer - February 6, 2015
Spotlight on Florida State University: The FSU QuarkNet Center was in QuarkNet's inaugural class; they've been active since 1999. Horst Wahl is the mentor. The group started by sending two teachers to Fermilab to work on DØ. They now receive support from USCMS and send teachers to work at CMS…
Edits CMS Data Express
Unfortunately, I am not sure how to get two edited documents in the sandbox. I am going to try to choose and upload files. They are attached rather than here and here. That did not work for me.
Images and files, Jan-May 2015
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QuarkNet an der Elbe: Actually, I've been to New York (but not Cologne)
First QuarkNet an der Elbe of the year! I know, it has been awhile, but, in my defense, I think I've been using the time well. And a busy, exciting time it has been. We are now chin-deep into preparations for International Masterclasses, scheduling and facilitating orientations and…
Friday Flyer - January 30, 2015
Spotlight on the University of Cincinnati: Interested in cosmic ray studies? Interested in research at CERN? Don't want to decide between them? Then you'd feel at home in the UC center, where they "do it all" and pretty well at that. Last year, UC lead teacher Jeff Rodriguez advised a group of…