Friday Flyer/News

  Spotlight on QuarkNet at AAPT Winter Meeting 2020 As many of you know, AAPT holds two national conferences each year: one in the winter and one in the summer. At each of these meetings, there…

Each QuarkNet Center has a Staff member assigned to be the main point of contact with QuarkNet Central. The assignments are: Center Staff Black Hills State University Shane…

  Spotlight on Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame QuarkNet Center had an active 2019 and is not slowing down for 2020. ND was active in International Masterclasses 2019 and will have…

Happy New Year from all of us at QuarkNet!   Spotlight on 2020 The spotlight in our last Flyer focused on a look back at 2019. In this edition, we look ahead to 2020 to sketch out some of what…

This is the last Friday Flyer of 2019. We will resume on January 3, 2020. Happy Holidays!   Spotlight on 2019 A lot happened in physics in 2019. Our astrophysics friends took the world by storm…

There will be no Friday Flyer next week (Thanksgiving break), nor the following week due to a QuarkNet staff meeting followed by our annual advisory board meeting. We'll pick it up again on December…

Spotlight on the Vanderbilt University QuarkNet Center The Vanderbilt center has been very active in the past year. Mentor Bill Gabella and the teachers are active in maintaining and using cosmic…

Spotlight on the University of Kansas QuarkNet Center Phil Baringer worked with Jim Deane to organize a three-day workshop in June on computing in the physics classroom. During the workshop,…

Spotlight on International Masterclasses, Part 1 What? International Masterclasses now? Aren't they around March? Yes, they are, but registration opens today for IMC 2020 videoconferences. We use…

Spotlight on the Southern Methodist University QuarkNet Center The SMU QuarkNet teachers met on campus for their annual workshop on July 29-31. The first two days featured a neutrino data workshop…