Friday Flyer - October 21, 2016

Spotlight on the University of Notre Dame: Notre Dame is not only a very active QuarkNet center but also an administrative hub for the whole QuarkNet program. With support from the university, the Notre Dame center has extensive summer research, runs 2-4 international masterclasses each year, has teachers doing outreach in local science exhibitions, and has brought QuarkNet activities to South America in partnership with particle physicists and the physics teacher group at Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile. The Notre Dame iSPI program for international students is an outgrowth of QuarkNet.

Two of the principal investigators, a staff member, an IT specialist, and an administrator for the QuarkNet national program are all at Notre Dame and QuarkNet has its own office-and-lab facility south of campus. (Contact Ken about coming to visit!) The PI's and others in the program are active in CMS research. 

News from QuarkNet Central: Registration for International Masterclasses 2017 begins today! Masterclass leaders can register their groups on this Google form for Fermilab or the Doodle polls for CERN. Get all the information from the registration notice. Online registrations close on November 18. Grab your spot early!

Physics Experiment Roundup: We love our cosmic ray detectors . . . they do at Mu2e as well, but for a different reason. We also love accelerators. To learn more about them, chat with Mattia. On the astro front, symmetry reports on how a side project led to a big new discovery.

Resources: Like music? Like physics? And differential equations? Well, A Capella Science has a rap for that. And Physics Girl has come up with some nice resources for masterclasses and more with her videos What are Quarks? Sugar Edition! and Seeing the Smallest Thing in the Universe. 

Just for Fun: As Halloween is near, we have a special—and by special we mean fictional—guest writer of Just for Fun this week:

It is I, the Physics Count, ah ha ha, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, ah ha ha*...have you seen my favorite scary movie posters? Well, look at them in symmetry, ah ha ha!

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

*If you've raised children in the U.S. and are a geek, you will get this. (If you're unfamiliar, this may help.)