SMU Virtual Summer Workshop 2021
Short URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/smuqn2021
July 12-14, 2021 (09:00-16:00 CT daily)
Zoom details: https://notredame.zoom.us/j/
Objectives
Participants will
- Update their QuarkNet membership and activity
- Develop ideas and questions based on physics activities and presentations
- Write or edit Python scripts in Google Colaboratory
- Analyze neutrino and other data in Google Colaboratory
- Develop an implementation plan
Agenda (at-a-glance) -- Scroll down for a detailed agenda
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Agenda (detailed) - All times listed in Central Time zone.
Monday, July 12
09:00 Welcome & Introductions (Wood)
- Registration
- Introductions (whip around)
- Update profile in quarknet.org (how to)
- Norms, APS STEP UP poster
- Data Activities Portfolio (DAP); Wednesday - Implementation plan
- Objectives and overview
- QuarkNet update & news
10:00 Break
10:15 Revisit some classic DAP activities, virtually (Wood)
- Shuffling the Particle Deck (Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 4)
- Quark Workbench (HTML 5 version, thanks to Joel Klammer)
- Rolling with Rutherford (simulation, thanks to Jeremy Wegner)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Coding Session 1, Intro to Coding (Wegner)
- Short video: Why programming is important
- Create/login to Google account:
- (preferred) Google Colaboratory for Python/Jupyter notebooks
- (alternative) Conda/Anaconda3 install on your own computer
- Introduction to Jupyter
- Skills: run, edit, & save a notebook
- Probability (Break-out rooms ~20')
14:30 Break
14:45 Practical Code for Physics Class (Coke, Wegner) - Break-out rooms
- Position graphs
- Task: analyze Position graphs
- Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot, add a grid
- Velocity graphs
- Task: Analyze Velocity graphs
- Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
- Projectile in Air (enough time?)
- Task: Model the motion of a projectile in air
- Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
15:50 Large group - End of day discussion
16:00 End of day
Tuesday, July 13
9:00 Talk: Primordial Gravitational waves and Q&A
Dr. Joel Meyers (SMU) - Link to recording of talk
10:15 Break
10:30 Intro to MINERvA Masterclass (Wood)
- Intro slides
- Video: How do you make a neutrino beam?
- Try analysis: Data, spreadsheet
- Results, discussion
- Understanding MINERvA Masterclass results
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Coding Session 2 (Scales, Wegner, Coke)
- Complete Projectile in Air (Scales) - Break-out rooms
- Task: Model the motion of a projectile in air
- Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
- Wegner - ...and there's more!!
- Break
- Coding with MINERvA data (Wegner, Scales, Coke) - utilze break-out rooms
15:45 End of day discussion/reflection
16:00 End of day
Wednesday, July 14
9:00 Talk: Galactic Supermassive Black Holes and Q&A
Dr. Krista Lynne Smith (SMU) - Link to recording of talk
10:15 Break
10:30 World Wide Data Day (Wood)
- Video: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Don Lincoln
- Intro slides
- Analysis
- Access data: iSpy-w2d2
- Record results: tally sheet <--use this first! (make your own personal copy to edit), or print a pdf
- Share results: spreadhseet <--use this second!
- Discussion
12:00 Lunch
13:00 After lunch discussion & instructions
- Beers Law (pun fully intended!)
- Instructions for afternoon
13:15 Coding Session 3 - Rotations
- CERN Open data (Wegner)
- Star catalogue data (Coke)
- Tectonic plates data (Scales)
14:50 Workshop wrap-up (Wood)
- Implementation discussion
- Implementation plans - Make an editable copy for yourself
- Implementation plans - present
- Survey
- Survey Update or
- Full Survey (if you did not complete full survey in 2019 or 2020)
16:00 End of Workshop
Contacts
Simon Dalley, mentor
Tiffany Coke, QuarkNet fellow
Joy Scales, QuarkNet fellow
Jeremy Wegner, QuarkNet fellow
Shane Wood, QuarkNet staff
Resources
- Coding
- Neutrino Physics and MINERvA
- More data for notebooks