Rice Workshop 2021 - CMS, Cosmic & STEP UP

June 14-18, 2021

Main meeting room: Herman Brown Hall 227
Break-out room available: Herman Brown Hall 223
Cosmic Ray Detector Room: Brockman 120

Short URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/qn21rice

Agenda:

MON - 6/14 TUE - 6/15 WED - 6/16 THU - 6/17 FRI - 6/18

8:00 Welcome
Registration and Sign-in

Discussion:
Online learning

Opening Acivity:
Particle Cards

Video(s) (choose):
--Science of FNAL (83')
--Muon g-2 (~8')
--g-2 explained (~9')

11:00 Talk
MediPix (Larry Pinsky)

8:00 Morning Discussion
Recap yesterday;
Q&A

8:15 Begin cosmic (Nate)

  • Counting Studies
  • Form groups
  • Upload/view data from overnight
  • Work time - Aim to build a poster (paper or online) by Friday.

11:00 Talk
Medical Physics (Qianxia Wang)

8:00 Morning Discussion
Recap yesterday;
Q&A

Video (~30')-H/W:
A Day with Particles

CMS Masterclass (Mike/Shane)
Classroom Prep

Additional Activities:

11:00 Talk
CMS (Karl Ecklund)

 

8:00 Morning Discussion
Recap yesterday;
Q&A

Cosmic Work Session (Nate)

11:00 Talk
Dark Matter (Andrew Long)
slides--PDF

8:00 Morning Discussion
Recap yesterday;
Q&A

Cosmic:
Poster Presentations on Studies
Options - Nate
"Tricks of the Trade" - Nate

11:00 Talk
Hot Matter (Frank Geurts)

12:00 Lunch 12:00 Lunch 12:00 Lunch 12:00 Lunch 12:00 Lunch

13:00 CMS Tutorial
Group work & present 

14:00 CRMD set-up - take data overnight (Nate)

15:00 End of day 

13:00 STEP UP - session 1 (Mike/Shane)

15:00 End of day - Wed Morning Option

13:00 STEP UP - session 2 (Mike/Shane)

  • Reminder: Student Discussion poster
  • Women in Physics, WIP tasks
  • Finish Changing the Culture
  • STEP UP Website,
    DAP

15:00 End of day

13:00 Back to CMS! 

15:00 End of day

13:00 Share-A-Thon
Link to doc (Mary)

Implementation (Shane) discussion & plans

Survey 


 

15:00 End of day

 

Contacts

Frank Geurts, Mentor
Mary Yarbray, Lead Teacher
Shane Wood, QuarkNet National Staff
Nate Unterman, QuarkNet Cosmic Fellow
Michael Wadness, QuarkNet LHC Fellow and STEP UP Lead

 

Resources

STEP UP website
STEP UP - Mike/Shane's Details
IPPOG - Girls Do Physics site
Radiation Dose Chart (bananas!)
Shared Folder - of 2021 shared resources (maintained by Mary)