Friday Flyer - October 5, 2018
Nobel laureate, trail-blazing researcher, and former director of Fermilab passed away on Wednesday at the age of 96. Lederman was passionate about science education and a great friend to QuarkNet. Read more from FNAL and the New York Times, and be sure to check out next week's Friday Flyer, where we'll spotlight Dr. Lederman and feature some stories and quotes from QuarkNetters who interacted with him.
Spotlight on the Kansas State University QuarkNet Center
Located in "The Little Apple" of Manhattan, Kansas, this center specializes in serving small, rural high schools throughout Kansas, and in its fifteenth year remains very active. They held a particle physics masterclass on April 6 that was attended by 14 teachers and 94 students onsite, in addition to one teacher and 23 students who participated remotely from their high school. In addition to the masterclass data activities, students who were onsite participated in a program of demos and hands-on physics activities and were also able to tour the KSU nuclear reactor. Teachers attended the summer meeting on campus June 4–8 participaring in a LIGO e-Lab workshop and a cosmic ray workshop. Teachers used several detectors to measure the speed of muons.
News from QuarkNet Central
Mentors and other center leaders: Please submit your annual report by the middle of October. Reports should be submitted in your center group on the QuarkNet website. Not sure how to submit? We have how-to instructions.
Reminder of events coming up this autumn: World Wide Data Day on November 15 and International Cosmic Day on November 29. And masterclass registration is not far behind. (By the way, the Library for LHC masterclasses 2019 is now posted. On this site, choose the MASTERCLASSES button near the top and then choose LHC PROJECT MAP from the drop-down.)
Physics Experiment Roundup
Size matters in the case of this 3-ton ruler used at SLAC to make micron-scale precision measurements used for the upgrade of CERN's ATLAS detector. What does a football, rugby ball, and an exotic isotope of mercury have in common? Find out from this recent result from ISOLDE, a nuclear physics facility at CERN.
Resources
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced this week. Among the winners who will share the award is Donna Stickland, the first woman to win this prize in 55 years. And check out the expanded search for dark matter from Phys.org.
Just for Fun
Check to see if the photos you voted for were winners in this year's Global Photowalk Contest!
QuarkNet Staff:
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Ken Cecire: kcecire@nd.edu
Shane Wood: swood5@nd.edu