Special Projects

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on Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - 16:18

When QuarkNet does a workshop or other project that falls outside the current parameters, it can have a QuarkNet home here.

Description

QuarkNet projects outside of center or data portfolio groups.

ICERI2016 info

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Submitted by kcecire on Thu, 12/15/2016 - 09:35

Pictures: http://iated.org/iceri/pictures

ICERI2016 Aftermovie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUCbAz_xjm0

Keynote speeches: http://iated.org/talks/

You can have access to all contributions details in IATED digital library at: http://library.iated.org/publications/ICERI2016

QuarkNet at ICHEP 2016

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Submitted by kcecire on Wed, 07/27/2016 - 17:32

Compact URL for this page: http://tiny.cc/qn16nu0.

  

Agenda Other Information
10:00   QuarkNet Neutrino Physics Workshop (Illinois Boardroom)
  • Arrival, Greetings, Coffee
  • Introduction to the Fermilab Neutrino Program (Asaadi; slides)
  • Introduction to MINERvA (Martinez; slides)
  • MINERvA Data Express alpha version
  • Neutrino Q&A

12:00    Tevatron Reunuion (Riverwalk A/B)

13:00     Lunch together

15:00     Windy City Physics Slam (Chicago Ballroom)

16:40     program ends

 Venue:
Sheraton Grand Chicago
301 East North Water Street
Chicago IL 60611
(Parking at the hotel can be up to $38.)
 
Speakers:
  • David Martinez (IIT, Fermilab)
  • Jonathan Asaadi (UT Arlington, Fermilab)
Contact:
 


 

Taking Research into Your Classroom 2016

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Submitted by kcecire on Tue, 07/05/2016 - 11:52

Compact URL for this page: http://tiny.cc/cms2016wcc.

Taking Research into Your Classroom

July 14-15, 2016
Maximum of 20 participants
Stipend of $100 per day for full attendance
Held at Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove Campus
ISBE recertification: 12.0 PDHs

Engage with physicists from Fermilab and the CMS Experiment in a 2-day workshop to analyze data taken at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Teachers will learn and experience first hand the practices of scientists in the context of Particle Physics through activities taken and adapted from the Quarknet data portfolio. Teachers will look at actual data from the CMS experiment to re-discover some of the elementary particles: J/psi, W, Z, and the recently discovered Higgs boson. Teachers will gain an insight into the research process by seeing how the decisions they make when categorizing and analyzing the data can affect the end results, and how statistics come into play. They will gain a better appreciation of the numerous choices that need to be made in the research process and how innovation plays an important part in making discoveries.
 
The Quarknet activities have been developed by teachers and tested in classrooms to bring out some of the concepts covered during the workshop, like model building, analyzing and interpreting data, constructing explanations, and statistics. The activities description includes a discussion of the various NGSS science and engineering practices that are built into them. Teachers will reflect on the concepts learned and will discuss how best to adapt the material to their classrooms.
 
We will also have presentations from CMS physicists, and a special presentation on the first observations of gravitational waves by a LIGO physicist. A teacher from the Quarknet Program will help you bring the experience to students in your classroom.
 
Please send email to cheung@fnal.gov or pjindal@waubonsee.edu for more information. The 2016 workshop is now full, so we cannot take more registrations.

   

Objectives

Participating teachers:

  • Apply introductory physics to successfully complete data investigations
  • Create, interpret and explain the meaning of data plots or representations from CMS
  • Select an activity and develop a plan to implement it with students.

Agenda

Thursday 14 July 2016

08:45     Registration and coffee

09:00     Introduction: Objectives - Dr. Harry Cheung (Fermilab/CMS)

10:00     Warm-up activities: 

11:00     Particle Physics and CMS - Dr. Ben Kreis (Fermilab/CMS)

12:15     Lunch (provided)

13:00     Special Talk: Observation of Gravitiational Waves - Prof. Shane Larson (Northwestern Univ/LIGO)

14:00    J/Psi path masterclass measurement

16:15    Discussion of combined results and Wrap-up/Reflection; Bringing this to your classroom

17:00    End of Day (Homework: study Particle Adventure and About CMS, write up 3 questions on CMS or particle physics in general) 

Friday 15 July 2016

09:00   CMS WZH Measurement

11:00     Discussion of combined results and Wrap-up/Reflection; Bringing this to your classroom

12:15     Lunch (provided)

13:00     Discussion of homework

14:30     Resources and Implementation plans - Jeremy Wegner (Winnamac community High School/QuarkNet)

16:30     Evaluation and summary for NSF report

17:00     End of workshop

 

 

Workshop Location

The workshop will be in WGL201/202. The talks at 11 am and 1 pm on Thursday will be in SCI234 (1-2 min walk from WGL202). See this campus map.

Resources

Contacts

Harry Cheung

Pratima Jindal

Jeremy Wegner

Beamline for Schools - a special opportunity for your students!

 

CMS-at-SJHS 2016

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Submitted by kcecire on Tue, 05/03/2016 - 11:18

9-12 May 2016

Small URL for this page: http://tiny.cc/cms-sjhs16.

 

Agenda

We will:

  • Learn about what the Large Hadron Collider and the CMS experiment are up to at CERN
  • Explore some basic particle physics
  • Analyze actual data from the CMS experiment
  • Draw conclusions

Schedule:

Period Mon 09 May Tue 10 May Wed 11 May Thu 12 May
1 08:15-09:15 Intro activities 08:15-09:15  CMS physics presentation   08:15-09:55 Data analysis and discussion
2 09:20-10:10 Intro activities 09:20-10:10  CMS physics presentation 09:00-10:40 Data analysis and discussion  
4 11:40-12:30 Intro activities 11:40-12:30  CMS physics presentation 10:45-12:30 Data analysis and discussion  
6 13:30-14:20 Intro activities 13:30-14:20  CMS physics presentation 12:55-14:25 Data analysis and discussion  

 

Tools:

Resources:

Contact:

 

 

International Masterclass at Taos High School

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Submitted by kcecire on Fri, 02/26/2016 - 12:13

March 18-19, 2016

Small URL for this page: http://tiny.cc/imc2016taos.

   

Agenda

Times are in U.S. Mountain Time in a 24-hour format.

Friday March 18 Saturday March 19

15:00    Registration and after-school snack

15:15    Introductory Remarks (Chavez, Wadness)

15:30    Activiites

  • Rolling with Rutherford
  • Quark Puzzle
  • Mass Calc Z

17:15   Discussion

17:30   End

   

09:00    Greetings and warm-up

09:15   ATLAS Presentation, Q&A (Seidel)

10:15    Break

10:30    Introduction to ATLAS Masterclass (Wadness)

11:00    Data Analysis 

12:00    Lunch, talk about particle physics and art

12:45    Art-to-science intro (Chavez)

13:15    Discussion of ATLAS results 

13:45    Set-up for videoconference

14:00    Videoconference

14:45    finished for day    
Tuesday March 22 and Wednesday March 23 Thursday March 24

15:00-18:00   Projecting Particles workshop. Students create projection art to explore physics concepts.

15:00-18:00   Projecting Particles workshop. Students create projection art to explore physics concepts.

18:00-20:30   Students coordinate and document their physics-inspired projection on to a building in Taos.                      
Friday March 25 Saturday March 26
18:00-20:30    Students coordinate and document their physics-inspired projection on to a building in Taos. 14:00-16:00    Students deliver a powerpoint presentation of their experience for the Artist Talk at The Harwood Museum

 

Talleres MICA III en los Colegios

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Submitted by kcecire on Mon, 01/18/2016 - 16:32

Santiago, Chile

 

Marzo 2016

 

Agenda del taller de la manana Agenda del taller del la tarde

08:30     Bienvenidos y actividades por empazar

09:00     Actividad "Rolling with Rutherford"

09:30     Introduccion a Fisica de las Particulas en ND y Catolica

10:00     Descanso

10:15      Mini-clase magistral de fisica

11:30     Presentacion and discusion de los resultados

12:00     Conclusion del taller

14:00     Bienvenidos y actividades por empazar

14:30     Actiovidad "Rolling with Rutherford"

15:00     Introduccion a Fisica de las Particulas en ND y Catolica

15:30     Descanso

15:45     Mini-clase magistral de fisica

17:00     Presentacion and discusion de los resultados

17:30     Conclusion del taller

 

 

QuarkNet-ILC Student Workshops 2015

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Submitted by kcecire on Mon, 08/24/2015 - 14:54

QuarkNet-ILC Student Workshops are to give students a chance to learn about cosmic rays, particle physics, and the ILC. These workshops are at thei high schools.

Menu

  1. Gakugei-dai High School, Tokyo, ９月２１日
  2. Shizuoka-kita High School, Shizuoka, ９月２２日
  3. Kaijo High School, Tokyo, ９月２８日
  6. QN-ILC2015
The description and agenda of each workshop follows.
 
 

Workshop at Gakugei Dai High School

東京, ９月２１日
 
This is a workshop for advancing use of the QuarkNet cosmic ray detector and for learning from simulation of the International Linear Collider.
 
Draft Agenda
Time, JST Activity Comments

12:00

12:15

12:45

 

 

14:00

14:30

15:30

16:00

Greetings and introductions

Introduction to ILC

ILC simulation mini-masterclass 

Introduction to EQUIP and blessing plots

Group experiment(s)

student presentations and dicussion

finished!

 

Teacher presentation

Students at computers 

 

 

Need: CRMD, computer with EQUIP and internet

 

 

We can stay a little late if needed
 
 

Workshop at Shizuoka-kita High School

静岡, ９月２２日
 
This is a workshop for advancing use of the QuarkNet cosmic ray detector and for learning from simulation of the International Linear Collider.
 
Draft Agenda
Time, JST Activity Comments

14:00

14:15

14:45

 

 

16:00

16:30

17:30

18:00

Greetings and introductions

Introduction to ILC

ILC simulation mini-masterclass 

Introduction to EQUIP and blessing plots

Group experiment(s)

student presentations and dicussion

finished!

 

Teacher presentation

Students at computers 

 

 

Need: CRMD, computer with EQUIP and internet

 

 

We can stay a little late if needed
 
 

Workshop at Kaijo High School

東京, ９月２８日
 
This workshop is for students working with the newly arrived cosmic ray detector. We will focus on how to operate the detector and make it work, simple experiments, and uploading data to the QuarkNet Cosmic Ray e-Lab.
 
Draft Agenda
Time, JST Activity Comments

16:25

16:30

17:00

17:30

18:00

18:15

18:30

Greetings and introductions

Set-up cosmic ray detector: assemble, measure geometry, check operation

Set operating voltages and counter rates

Start taking data, introduction to e-Lab

Upload data

Discussion, Q&A

finished!

 

Need: meter stick, computer with EQUIP

Need: digital voltmeter

Students on internet, e-Lab

 

We can stay a little late if needed
 
 

Workshop at Sendai Dai-ichi high School

仙台, ９月２９日
 
This is a workshop for advancing use of the QuarkNet cosmic ray detector and for learning from simulation of the International Linear Collider.
 
Draft Agenda
Time, JST Activity Comments

12:00

12:50

13:00

13:30

 

 

15:00

15:15

15:45

17:00

18:00

Grade 1&2 "Pre-workshop" Intro to Cosmic Ray Detector

Grade 3 students arrive: Greetings and Introductions

Introduction to ILC

ILC simulation mini-masterclass 

break

Using EQUIP, uploading data, blessing data

Group experiment(s)

student presentations on experiment and current work; dicussion

finished!

 

 

Teacher presentation

Students at computers 

 

 

 

 

Need: CRMD, computer with EQUIP and internet

 

 

 
 
 

More information for teachers and students

 

 

QN-ILC Teacher Workshop the University of Tokyo, September 19-20, 2015

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Submitted by kcecire on Fri, 08/21/2015 - 16:12

Tiny URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/qnilc-toudai2015.

QN-ILC2015

Teacher Workshop

９月１９～２０日２０１５年、　東大で

This workshop is presented in memory of Tom Jordan, QuarkNet Coordinator until 2015.

Ken Cecire--University of Notre Dame - kcecire@nd.edu

Martin Shaffer--Cowley College - shafferm@cowley.edu

Tomohiko Tanabe--University of Tokyo - tomohiko@icepp.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

 

Goals:

  • Each teacher is able to use the cosmic ray detector or the cosmic ray e-Lab in a simple activity with students.
  • Teachers are introduced to the International Linear Collider (ILC) 
  • Each teacher is able to present ILC physics to students using simulated events.

 

Agenda

Saturday September 19 Sunday September 20

10:00     Welcome and Registration

10:15      Introduction to Cosmic Rays (T. Tanabe)

10:45      Brief introduction to the Cosmic Ray e-Lab

11:00      Muons and their lifetimes (dice) (plots)

11:45     LHC Physics (K. Hanawa)

12:30     Lunch

13:30     Detector construction and commisioning

16:00     Discussion; a look at student work from Sendai

16:30     Set up detector for special overnight data-taking

       

10:00       Detector performance check

  • look at rates and time-over-threshold in EQUIP
  • adjust voltages
  • start new data run

10:15       Upload and analyze data

  • Performance and rates
  • Flux
  • Lifetime analysis

11:00       Time-of-flight experiment (Shaffer)

11:30        ILC Physics (T. Tanabe)

12:30        Lunch

13:30        Special Relativity in Cosmic Rays, LHC, and ILC

14:30       ILC simulation mini-masterclass 

16:00        Discussion and Evaluation

16:30        Final data uploads, pack up detectors

 

QuarkNet-ILC Workshops in Japan, September 2015

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Tiny URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/qnilcnihon15.

 

        

Workshop Calendar

  Sat 9月19日 Sun 9月20日 Mon 9月21日 Tue 9月22日   Mon 9月28日 Tue 9月29日
Tokyo 東京

Teacher workshop

University of Tokyo 

10:00-18:00

Teacher workshop 

University of Tokyo

10:00-18:00

Student workshop

Gakugei-dai HS

14:00-18:00

    

Student workshop

Kaijo HS

16:25-18:30

  

Shizuoka 静岡

 
      

Student workshop

Shizuoka-kita HS

14:00-18:00

      
Sendai 仙台
 
            

Student workshop

Sendai Dai Ichi HS

10:00-18:00

 

Resources

QuarkNet program for AAPT Summer Meeting 2015

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Submitted by kcecire on Wed, 07/22/2015 - 21:56

Suggested activities for Monday July 27:

Time Activity Location

10:00

10:30

12:00

14:00

15:30

16:30

18:15

19:30

On your own (see HS Teacher Day agenda)

Zitzewitz Award - Gillian Winters, Brookhaven-Stony Brook QuarkNet center

lunch (if first time, you can go to AAPT special lunch)

Session: LHC in the Classroom (several speakers from QuarkNet)

Afternoon break

QuarkNet pizza and chat

Meeting of Committee on Physics in High Schools

Plenary Talk - Jim Gates, Is SUSY the Guardian of our Reality from Oblivion?

Watch this video for a little prep.

 

SSU - Hoff Theater

 

SSU - Atrium

SSU - Charles Carroll A

Physical Sceinces Lobby (see map)

SSU - Atrium

SSU - Hoff Theatre

 

QuarkNet member presentations:

  • Session AD, Mechanics Modeling meets the new AP Physics 1, organized by Jon Anderson, Monday 08:30 
  • Talk BE01, LHC Masterclass: A Culminating Activity for Teaching Particle Physics, by Jeremy Smith, Monday 14:00
  • Talk BE02, Teaching Particle Physics with LHC Data in AP Physics, by Mike Fetsko, Monday 14:30
  • Talk BE03, A Classroom Look at the LHC, by Marla Glover, Monday 15:00
  • Talk BE05, Particle Physics: An Engaging Part of the High School Program, by Carol Polen, Monday 15:20
  • Session CB, Adapting the Teacher-in-Residence (TIR) Role to Different Contexts organized by Jon Anderson, Monday 16:00
  • Talk EL03, Extremophiles and Astrobiology: A Science-focused IB Group 4 Project, by Janet Kahn, Tuesday 13:50
  • Talk FB09, Classical Physics Learning from Analysis of Modern Physics Data, by Ken Cecire and Deborah Roudebush, Wednesday 09:50
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