UB QuarkNet Summer 2022

Department of Physics, University at Buffalo

August 22-24, 2022

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Agenda

Still tentative; all times in EDT.

Monday August 22 - Higgs@10 Tuesday August 23 - Coding Wednesday August 24 - Coding
09:00 Welcome & Introductions

09:30 Warm-up Data Activity

10:00 Tutorial

10:45 Break

11:00 Higgs and CMS, 2012-present (Kharchilava)

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Data Activity

14:00 Search for Higgs in CMS data

16:00 End-of-day

 

 

09:00 Coffee and chat

09:15 Intro videos

09:30 Tools

10:00 Data Activity

10:30  Break

10:45 More notebooks

  • Probability
    • Task: Simulate flipping a coin and make a histogram of the number of heads for each trial.
    • Skills: generate random numbers, create and format a histogram
  • Position graphs
    • Task: analyze Position graphs
    • Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
  • Discussion: where are we now? 

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Try more coding activities

  • Velocity graphs
    • Task: Analyze Velocity graphs
    • Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
  • Projectile in Air
    • Task: Model the motion of a projectile in air
    • Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
  • Quakes
    • Task: Identify patterns in global seismic activity
    • Skills: read in a large data set from the web, visualize complex data
  • Global Temperature
    • Task: Describe the differences between land and water on temperature
    • Skills: read in a large data set from the web, visualize complex data
  • Tides
    • Task: Identify patterns in tidal height over time
    • Skills: read in a large data set from the web, visualize complex data, manipulate time series data

14:45 Break

15;00 Relativistic Kinematics (Kharchilava) (slides)

15:30 Introduction to Muon Mass Notebook 

  • Short introduction to Muon Mass notebook
  • Muon mass
    • Task: measure the invariant mass of a muon
    • Skills: calculate invariant mass given its 4-vector (energy and x/y/z-momentum), make a mass plot

16:00 End-of-day

09:00 Coffee and chat

09:15 All hands meeting

  • Share observations, challenges
  • How do you think your students would handle these tasks?

09:30 Start coding projects:

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Finish projects; present results

14:30 Implementation plans

15:30 Survey Update OR Full Survey (if you did not complete full survey 2019-2021)

16:00 End-of-Workshop