2026 SMU QuarkNet Workshop

Submitted by ShaneWood

Published: Wed, 07/15/2026 - 18:12 | Group(s):

Southern Methodist University QuarkNet Center

9:00 am (Heroy 153): Matthew Klein (Assistant Professor of Physics): The search for new physics at the LHC

10:30 am (Heroy 153): Patrick Breysse (Assistant Professor of Physics): A Brief History of Everything

12:00 pm: Lunch

1:00 pm (Fondren Science 32): Demo with Toys (Kuei Sun, Heidi Wu)

2:30 pm (Heroy 153): John E. Thompson (Plano East Senior High School): Some Creative Ways to Use Claude-Gemini-NotebookLM-ChatGPT (examples)

3:55 pm: Group photo

4:00 pm: Adjourn

9:00 am (Heroy 153): Rebekah Napier-Jameson (Postdoctoral researcher in The Wylie Lab, SMU Department of Biological Sciences):

Guardians of the Genome: p53 and the SMC5/6 Complex

10:30-10:45 am (Heroy 153): Shane Wood (QuarkNet National Staff): Updates from QuarkNet Central

10:45 am (Heroy 153): Kuei Sun (Lecture of Physics): Everyday Physics

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm (FOSC 322) David Son (Professor and Chair of Chemistry): Chemistry Lab Tour

1:30 pm (Heroy 153) Peng Tao (Professor of Chemistry): Chemistry Lab Tour

2:30 pm (Heroy 153) Cruise Le Blanc: Teaching Cosmology in High Schools Slides

4:00 pm: Adjourn

9:00 am (Heroy 153): Heidi Wu (Assistant Professor of Physics): Galaxy clusters: The Giants in our Universe

10:30 am (Heroy 153): Sapta Bhattacharya (Assistant Professor of Physics): Higgs boson and the unification of forces

12:00 pm: Lunch

1:00 pm (Fondren Science 32): Quantitative Lab (Kuei Sun)

2:30 pm (Fondren Science 32): Physics Tournament (Heidi Wu)

3:45 pm: Survey and Sign-out

4:00 pm: Adjourn