Boston Area QuarkNet Center
Welcome to the Boston Area QuarkNet center. We meet on the campus of Roxbury Latin School and serve teachers in the surrounding area.
Contacts:
- Darien Wood, Mentor, Northeastern University
- Ulrich Heintz, Mentor, Brown University
- Rick Dower, Lead Teacher
- Mike Wadness, Lead Teacher
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2024 Fall Meeting on the Least Time Principle
Rick Dower gave a presentation about Fermat's Least Time Principle for optics. With one rule it accounts for straight-line travel, mirror reflection, and refraction of light. Then we watched a…
2023-2024 Boston QuarkNet Center Annual Report
With a meeting in December 2023, a Masterclass at Northeastern in March 2024, a meeting in June 2024, and our summer Workshop in August 2024, we had another good year at the Boston Center. At the…
2024 August Relativity Workshop
Day 1 of Relativity Workshop focused on the historical development of the idea of relativity from Galileo to Einstein, the development of Lorentz transformations (following Taylor and Wheeler), and…
Boston QuarkNet Fall Meeting (December 12, 2023)
Darien Wood, our Mentor from Northeastern University, brought a new colleague from Northeastern to join ten teachers in person and two teachers on Zoom for our fall meeting. Rick Dower presented a…
Boston QuarkNet Center 2023 Annual Report
Boston Summer 2023 Workshop
Boston QuarkNet Workshop: Questions and Clues in Particle Physics August 9-10, 2023 Roxbury Latin School, 101 St. Theresa Avenue, West Roxbury, MA Small URL for this page: https://cern.ch/boston-…
June 8, 2023 Meeting on Supermassive Black Holes
Rick Dower gave a presentation with the accompanying Power Point slide set and invited the participants in person and on Zoom to work through calculations on the accompanying Word document …
Boston Particle Physics Masterclass 2024
Just the Facts QuarkNet Homepage What: QuarkNet's U.S. Particle Physics Masterclass!!!! A chance for you to experience first hand particle physics data directly from CERN!!! Funded in part by the…
Boston QuarkNet Shared Google Folder
In the linked folder below place documents that you wish to share. MAKE SURE YOU ARE PLACING A COPY OF YOUR DOCUMENT. If you are using files in the folder MAKE A COPY OF THEM FIRST TO…