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  Spotlight on the NOvA Experiment NOvA is an acronym that contains an acronym: NuMI Off-axis ve Appearance experiment. The NuMI (Neutrinos at the Main Injector) beam of neutrinos starts out 150 feet below the surface at Fermilab and is aimed downward at a 3.3-degree angle.…

  Spotlight on the Virginia QuarkNet Center . . . . . . which is not to be confused with the Virginia Tech QuarkNet Center. The latter is based at Virginia Tech while the former, the subject of our Spotlight, is based at the College of William and Mary and George Mason University…

There will be no Friday Flyer this coming Friday (November 27), as we'll be on Thanksgiving break. We'll pick it up again on December 4. Have a great Thanksgiving!   Spotlight on the University of Illinois at Chicago/Chicago State University QuarkNet Center Mark Adams is the staff member…

Spotlight on the Oklahoma State University QuarkNet Center Oklahoma's two QuarkNet centers—University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University—take turns hosting summer teacher workshops each year. Summer 2020 was Oklahoma State's turn, which normally means hosting teachers from across the…

    AGENDA  November 21, 2020     9 – 9:15 social time 9:15 – 10:15 Josh talk 10:15 – 10:30  BREAK 10:30 – 12:00 Activity time Making Tracks I, Making Tracks II and Particle Transformations 12:00 – 12:15 BREAK (if needed) 12:15 – 1:00  Talk time about…

Spotlight on World Wide Data Day As October and November roll around each year, here at Notre Dame we enjoy the autumn colors, apples from local orchards, and, of course, the ramp-up to World Wide Data Day (W2D2), which will happen this year next Thursday, November 12. W2D2 is a chance for…

  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…

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…

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…