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.

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QuarkNet projects outside of center or data portfolio groups.

LIGO and Interferometers, AAPT WM19

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Submitted by kcecire on Sat, 01/12/2019 - 08:18

University of Houston

January 12, 2019, 8:00 am - noon CT

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Agenda:

08:00   Greetings and start

08:10   Intro to LIGO (Amber Strunk)

08:30   LIGO activities (Amber Strunk)

09:15   Gravitational Waves (Ken Cecire)

Introductory Particle Physics Workshop at KIPP Northeast College Preparatory

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Submitted by ShaneWood on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 12:34

Friday 11 January 2019, 12:30 - 15:00 CT

KIPP Northeast College Preparatory (Houston, TX)

 

Small URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/KIPPparticles19.

 

 

Introductory Particle Physics Workshop at Bellaire High School

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Submitted by ShaneWood on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 12:06

Friday 11 January 2019, 08:40 - 11:25 CT

Bellaire High School (Houston, TX)

 

Small URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/bellaire2019.

 

 

Neutrino Masterclass Workshop at AAPT WM19

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Submitted by kcecire on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 09:33

Saturday 12 January 2019, 13:00-17:00 CT

University of Houston, Fleming 231

 

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LIGO Interferometer Workshop at AAPT

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Submitted by kcecire on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 13:58

George Washington University

July 28, 2018, 1:00-5:00 pm EDT

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Agenda:

1:00   Greetings and start

1:10   Intro to LIGO (Matt Abernathy)

1:30   LIGO activity (Matt Abernathy)

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

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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

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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

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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  

 

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International Masterclass at Taos High School

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

March 18-19, 2016

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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

 

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