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  First-Ever Special Dark Matter Issue   Spotlight on Dark Matter What do we know? Not much. We cannot detect dark matter directly—so far—but we have a pretty good idea that it exists from astrophysics. In 1933, Fritz Zwicky found a gravitational anomaly in the Coma cluster of galaxies; he…

Spotlight on the Syracuse University QuarkNet CenterSteven Blusk and Matthew Rudolph worked with staff to organize a Zoom CMS data workshop held on August 20–21. Mike Fetsko helped facilitate this workshop that focused on ways to engage participants virtually in Data Portfolio activities from …

Spotlight on Adam LaMee There is a good chance you already know Adam. He was a lead teacher in the Florida State center for many years and, now based at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, is very involved in physics education across that state. If you've been to Data Camp in the past…

Saturday November 14, 202008:00 - 11:30 U.S. Central TimeZoom Connection: https://notredame.zoom.us/j/96672737553?pwd=OEFTU2JtRHJzM3A1MWhsVXJxQS9DQT09 Full Zoom information belowShort URL: http://tiny.cc/qnab20Agenda:Time(CT)TopicRecording(watch in advance)SlidesPresenter(s)…

SUBMIT AN ACTIVITY FOR THE DATA ACTIVITIES PORTFOLIO.   Review several activities from the DAP. Pay close attention to the definition of Levels and Strands. Complete the Preliminary Evaluation of Criteria Worksheet. (Page 2 of this document.) Schedule a Zoom meeting with Deborah…

World Wide Data Day 2019: Wednesday, 16 October, 00:00-23:59 UTC         Small URL for this page: http://tiny.cc/w2d2.   Registration is closed for 2019.  To request further information, please send an e-mail.   LHC World Wide Data Day is a 24-hour span, midnight-to…

Spotlight on the Florida State University QuarkNet Center Leads Ted Kolberg, Jasun Burdick and Jacob Breman worked with QuarkNet staff to organize a virtual workshop on July 22–24 that primarily focused on remote student activities. The workshop began with modified QuarkNet classics like Rolling…

World Wide Data Day (W2D2) is a way for students to make reasonably simple, meaningful measurements from the ATLAS and CMS experiments of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.     What are the measurements? Students select dimuon events from ATLAS or CMS data and focus on the direction angle…

Spotlight on the Notre Dame QuarkNet Center The Notre Dame center has a unique place in QuarkNet. The university helps the center offer research opportunities for students and teachers each summer in addition to the QuarkNet workshop the center holds every year. This year, of course, the…