Friday Flyer on Monday - October 14, 2019
Spotlight on the Fermilab/University of Chicago QuarkNet Center This center based at Fermilab is led by lead teacher George Dzuricsko and mentors Angela Fava and Tom Carter. In April of this year, the Fermilab center hosted a neutrino masterclass during which students from several area high…
Friday Flyer - October 4, 2019
Spotlight on the Boston QuarkNet Center First off, congratulations are in order. The "Boston Group" has been a part of QuarkNet for 20 years with the same lead teacher and the original mentors (plus a few more). This year, the group met on three different evenings during the academic year,…
Using an XBee wireless transmitter and receiver system to send GPS timing data to an Arduino Mega
Friday Flyer - September 27, 2019
Spotlight on the Florida International University QuarkNet Center Based at the FIU campus in Miami, this center began in 2004 and is led byJorge Rodriguez. It's been a few years since they had a QuarkNet workshop; Summer 2019 provided a restart in the form of a three-day CMS data…
Geometry of a Collider Detector
The detector for a collider should be able to wrap around and enclose the collision point as much as possible. So, here is what we need to know: The shape of the detector is roughly cylindrical The beam goes through the cylinder axis with collisions at the center of the detector. The beam axis…
Friday Flyer - September 20, 2019
Spotlight on World Wide Data Day The new school year has started. We can start right away to excite students' interest in forefront physics and data analysis with World Wide Data Day (W2D2), which takes place this year on October 16, in about three-and-a-half weeks. W2D2 is…
World Wide Data Day Archive
Memos W2D2-2018: Memo 1, 17 October 2018 Memo 2, 24 October 2018 Memo 3, 31 October 2018 Memo 4, 7 November 2018 Memo 5, 14 November 2018 Materials W2D2-2018: Flyer for students Press release Intro slides (previous to 2018 are similar) Spreadsheets…
Notre Dame - Masterclasses Across the Pacific Work Document
This documeent is to track the latest plans for the Notre Dame - Masterclasses Across the Pacific (ND-MAP) proposal to Notre Dame International (NDI). Resources: Draft proposal text, subject to revision and rewrite NDI solicitation Global Insights April 2019 article International…