Virginia Center Summer 2022 Meeting August 1 - August 3

August 1-3 2022

Small Hall, Room 122

THEME: What's New

 

Agenda, Monday, August 1, 2022 (Featuring Josh - day 1)

Time (local) Activity
09:30

Coffee & Conversation

10:00
10:45

Discussion - Deborah

How has teaching changed?

Pre/Post Covid

Physics with Phones

11:45

Lunch

13:00

Josh Talk

See slides in the Files section below

 

Josh Demos

String Loop Lasso

 

 

15:00

Josh

Careers in Physics

16:00

Break

16:15

Deborah

TOTEM activities

16:30

Reflection

17:00

Depart for the day

    

Agenda, Tuesday, August 2, 2022 (NOvA - day 2)

Link : Agenda with Links:

Time (local) Activity

08:30

Coffee & Conversation

 

 

09:00

Neutrino & NOvA Introduction
● Workshop Overview
Setting the Stage (From Big to Small)
● Video: How to Make a Beam of Neutrinos
● Neutrino Tutorial: Link to Neutrino Tutorial

● Video: NOvA Experiment Time Lapse

Video: Standard Model Explained by Alex the JPEG

10:00

Break

 

10:15

NOvA Masterclass Measurement - Theory & Far
Detector CC Events
● Visit from Patricia Vahle NOvA spokesperson

Theory & Far Event Introduction Talk
Charged Current (NuMu) Event Images

11:15

Lunch

 

12:30

Did this before lunch

NOvA Masterclass Measurement - Far Detector NC
Events
Neutral Current Event Images

● Results Discussion - Charged vs Neutral Events

 

13:30

Near Detector Analysis Introduction
● # Events Analysis - Near vs Far Detector

Near Detector Intro Analysis Talk

14:30

Break

 

14:45

Started this block at 13:30

Near Detector Event Analysis - Python Coding

PICUP Trinket info
Python Near Event Analysis - Participant Version

16:15

Break

16:30

Closing discussion
●  Even Bananas Video

Q&A, Closing Reflections

Finished at 4:30

17:00

Depart for the day

Agenda, Wednesday, August 3, 2022 (Higgs @ 10 - day 3)

Time (local) Activity
08:30

Coffee & Conversation

09:00

Shuffling the Particle Deck

09:30

Where's Higgs?

Marc Sher

Renown Higgs expert answered our questions about Higgs field and boson. Helped us find language to accurately describe these ideas to our students.

10:15

Break

10:30

The Higgs: What have we learned?

CERN Higgs episode 2/3

CERN Higgs episode 3/3

E = mc2

 

11:30

Lunch

12:30

Search for Higgs in CMS data

Analysis using coding

Higgs @ 10 Python Analysis

Teacher Answer Key Higgs @ 10 Analysis

14:00

Implementation plans and Reflections

15:00

Depart for the day

 

 

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