Friday Flyer - April 22, 2016

Spotlight on Joel Griffith:  You may not know Joel Griffith yet, but sooner or later you will. A graduate of Notre Dame with a PhD in Atomic Physics, Joel joined the QuarkNet IT team late last year. He has been managing the move of QuarkNet servers from Argonne to Notre Dame and has taken on various projects to improve our computing infrastructure. Joel is a native of Tennessee who did his undergraduate work at the University of the South and got his master's degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He likes Thai food and good movies, including science fiction. Asked the perennial Star Wars vs. Star Trek question, Joel jumped on Star Wars with no hesitation.

 

News from QuarkNet Central: Mentors and center leaders: We are still collecting information on summer activities, particularly dates of your meetings and possible QuarkNet Data and e-Lab workshops you might want to bring in; check out the possibilities. Send your information and queries to your QuarkNet contact or to any staff member.

 

Mystified??? (Aside from the face on Mars and CP violation?) What would you like to know about using the QuarkNet website? We have a "How to..." section with some helpful articles. There is room for more. What would you like to be able to do on the website? Send Ken your query, and maybe he can make a "How to..." article about it.

Physics Experiment Roundup: Want to learn more about the neutrino frontier at Fermilab and down the beamline to Sanford Lab? Then read up on these Five Fascinating Facts about DUNE; the neutrinos must flow.

Resources: Speaking of CP violation, learn a bit about the odds and evens of it in this Fermilab article about the old Theta and Tau question. To help you answer your own questions about particle physics, CMS has just released a large new cache of data.

Just for Fun: Know physics, know baseball: Three Baseball Myths Debunked by Physics. Have an idea of what the next 100 years of physics will be like? Write it up for this Essay Contest. Both items come from Physics Today.

QuarkNet Staff:
Mark Adams: adams@fnal.gov
Ken Cecire: kcecire@nd.edu
Shane Wood: swood5@nd.edu