QuarkNet an der Elbe: Hi there!
Hi folks, This is the first of series of occasional posts on the QuarkNet site about what I see and learn about particle physics, education, and plain interesting stuff during my time in Dresden, a historic city which sits on both sides of a nice stretch of the Elbe River. Thus the main…
Friday Flyer - September 19, 2014
Spotlight on the Vanderbilt University Center: The center has always been very active in the cosmic ray program. This was a year of adjustment in three areas: Bill Gabela took over as lead mentor with Med Webster still active but stepping more into the background; a general need for updating…
UW-Madison QuarkNet Center 2013-14 Annual Report
The QuarkNet efforts at UW–Madison are led by the Wisconsin IceCube Astrophysics Center (WIPAC). Prof. Justin Vandenbroucke is the PI, and the team includes Prof. Jim Madsen, IceCube Associate Director for Education and Outreach, and Dr. Silvia Bravo, Outreach Specialist at WIPAC. The QuarkNet…
U of I Quarknet 2014: Scintillation Deposition
John Guhin (Bettendorf High School), Lindsay Matthews (Bettendorf High School), Nathaniel Perk (Bettendorf High School), Peter Bruecken (Bettendorf High School), Moira Truesdell (Bettendorf High School), Yasar Onel (University of Iowa) Purpose: The calorimeters at The Compact Muon…
Friday Flyer - September 12, 2014
Spotlight on the Idaho State University Center: Seven teachers attended the June Idaho State QuarkNet workshop guided by fellow Robert Franckowiak. They jointly calibrated 36 detector counters. That’s quite a stack of counters! First, they used the Cosmic Ray e-Lab plateauing instructions…
Friday Flyer - September 5, 2014
Spotlight on the Johns Hopkins Center: The QuarkNet Center at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) had a very full summer 2014. They hosted a workshop for teachers and brought on summer research students. One of the teachers (Kevin Martz) attended a three-week teacher workshop at CERN and brought…
CSU CMS Workshop T2K Neutrino Research Presentation by Walter Toki
Friday Flyer - August 29, 2014
Welcome back to the Friday Flyer! Hope you had a good summer and good times with your QuarkNet colleagues. Starting next week, we will have a new spotlight and a new location. This year we will focus on a center a week. It will take the whole year to get through all of them. We invite you to…