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This week I crossed off the last item on my Laufzettel, the routing slip for new staff. That item was for me to be introduced in the Institute. It was taken care of by our All Hands Meeting of the ATLAS and Outreach groups this past Monday. Michael Kobel, who is the Director of IKTP and the…

Spotlight on Anne Zakas:   You may have never met Anne Zakas, but you probably rely on her. Anne is the QuarkNet administrator at Notre Dame. She gets bills paid, stipends sent, and travel arranged for much of QuarkNet. Anne has been at the Notre Dame QuarkNet Center since 2007 from a humanities…

  Here are all of the posts: Fertig, 27 Feb 2015 Tales of 2 Weeks and 2 Cities, 12 Feb 2015  Actually, I've been to New York, 30 Jan 2015 But really, 19 Dec 2014 Eventful, 12 Dec 2014 A lot of water under Augustusbrücke, 5 Dec 2014 Prepping and Testing, 20 Nov 2014…

I did not travel anyplace exciting this week, unless you count a hike in nearby Sächsische Schweiz or dinner at the nice restaurant on the top floor of the Karstadt department store in Dresden. And CERN 60 is all wrapped up here. However, life is indeed exciting because the International…

Spotlight on Black Hills State University: BHSU QuarkNet Center had a busy summer. For six years they have focused on using the cosmic ray muon detector and e-Lab. This year seven teachers and three students gathered all six of the detectors including equipment from several teachers who could…

CERN is 60 years old and we have been celebrating this week at TU Dresden. Last night there was a special showing of Particle Fever with voice-over in German followed by a rather special in-person Q&A with CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. It all went over rather well and the only reason it…

Spotlight on LBNL: Particle physics? Check. Cosmology and astrophysics? Check. Awesome view of San Francisco Bay? Check again. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory QuarkNet Center does things a little differently. This summer they had a one-week workshop with 13 teachers and 41 students…

Spotlight on Florida State: Florida State University is one of 12 centers that has been involved in QuarkNet since the very beginning: 1999. The teachers have worked each summer with Horst Wahl (FSU physicist on CMS), Brian McClain and Adam LaMee (high school teachers) and others. There were…

The latter half of this week saw your old humble correspondent visiting two rather different European labs. I arranged to work with QuarkNet and CMS physicist Tom McCauley at CERN and decided to visit Arne Schoenwald, Michael Walter, and Ulrike Behrens at DESY Zeuthen, just outside Berlin: it was …