Special Projects
Submitted by kcecire
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.
International Masterclass at Taos High School
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 |
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15:00 Registration and after-school snack 15:15 Introductory Remarks (Chavez, Wadness) 15:30 Activiites
17:15 Discussion 17:30 End
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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 |
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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 |
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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
Santiago, Chile
Marzo 2016
Agenda del taller de la manana | Agenda del taller del la tarde |
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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
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.
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- Gakugei-dai High School, Tokyo, 9月21日
- Shizuoka-kita High School, Shizuoka, 9月22日
- Kaijo High School, Tokyo, 9月28日
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Sendai Dai-ichi High School, 9月29日
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QN-ILC2015
Workshop at Gakugei Dai High School
Time, JST | Activity | Comments |
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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
Time, JST | Activity | Comments |
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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
Time, JST | Activity | Comments |
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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
Time, JST | Activity | Comments |
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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 breakUsing 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
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More information for teachers and students
QN-ILC Teacher Workshop the University of Tokyo, September 19-20, 2015
Tiny URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/qnilc-toudai2015.
Teacher Workshop
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 |
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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
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10:00 Detector performance check
10:15 Upload and analyze data
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
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 | ||
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Tokyo 東京 |
University of Tokyo 10:00-18:00 |
University of Tokyo 10:00-18:00 |
Gakugei-dai HS 14:00-18:00 |
Kaijo HS 16:25-18:30 |
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Shizuoka 静岡 |
Shizuoka-kita HS 14:00-18:00 |
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Sendai 仙台
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Sendai Dai Ichi HS 10:00-18:00 |
Resources
QuarkNet program for AAPT Summer Meeting 2015
Suggested activities for Monday July 27:
Time | Activity | Location |
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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? |
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
Masterclass Workshop at ASIJ
Tiny URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/mcasij15.
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Description
The Masterclass Workshop at ASIJ give physics teachers the information and background to start a particle physics masterclass. We will work together on aspects of the physics involved, how to effectively convey this to students, and the mechanics of running an International Masterclass. The challenges and opportunities of doing a masterclass in an international school environment will be given special attention.
The workshop will be facilitated by Kenneth Cecire of the University of Notre Dame in the U.S. and Joel Klammer of Concordia International School in Shanghai, China. Ken is a National Staff Teacher for the U.S. QuarkNet program and co-coordinator of International Masterclasses along with Uta Bilow of the Technical University of Dresden in Germany. Joel teaches physics and is a QuarkNet fellow. Joel has organized International Masterclasses in Shaghai fro four years, first at his school and then reaching out to other nearby international schools.
The language of discourse of the workshop will be English.
Objectives
Participating teachers will:
- Identify and describe ways students use and learn both classical and particle physics in masterclasses.
- Create, organize and interpret data plots in masterclasses; make claims based on evidence and provide explanations; identify data limitations.
- Develop a plan for application of masterclasses and use of particle physics investigations to help their students.
Agenda
Times and specific activities vary.
Where marked, sessions are accessible remotely via internet videoconference. Connections are made through a CERN Vidyo link found on the online meeting Indico page. Times there may be set to your local time. (Read up on the basics of using Vidyo.)
Sat 26 Sep 201509:00 Coffee and Sign-in 09:30 Introduction to Particle Physics Masterclasses (Cecire) Available via online videconference 10;00 Masterclasses in an International School (Klammer) Available via online videconference 10:30 Break 10:45 Discussion Particpants form small groups; discuss IB Physics or other requirements and report. 11:15 Masterclass Preparation Activities Groups rotate through these activities: 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Masterclass Preparation Activity 13:45 Reflection on Activities 14:15 Break 14:50 Introduction to the LHC Available via online videconference 15:30 ATLAS Virtual Visit Connect to ATLAS videoconference 16:00 End of Day
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Sun 27 Sep 201509:00 Coffee and Sign-in/Recap of Yesterday/Plan for Today 09:30 Intro to CMS Available via online videconference 10:00 Try it: CMS masterclass measurement Available via online videconference 10:45 Break 11:00 Reflection and Discussion Available via online videconference 11:30 Quick survey of other masterclasses
12:00 Lunch 13:00 Exploration of Masterclass-related websites Small groups choose from these websites and report what they have learned: 13:30 Exploration beyond the masterclass 14:00 Break 14:30 Online Masterclass at AISR (Schellenbeger via Vidyo) Available via online videconference 14:50 Discussion and Planning Available via online videconference 15:30 Wrap-up and evaluation Available via online videconference 16:00 End of workshop
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Resources
Attending the Workshop
Registration: Workshop Registration is now OPEN! Please go to this Google form to register!
Location: The American School in Japan (Chofu campus), 1-1-1 Nomizu, Chofu-shi, Tokyo, 182-0031, Japan
- directions and map
- Tokyo metro information
- Nearby hotels:
Tokyo is served by Narita International Airport and Haneda Airport with extensive domestic and international flights and excellent rail and bus links.
Contact
Insights into Research Workshop
Tiny URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/riw2015.
Insights into Research
July 9-10, 2015
Maximum of 20 participants
Stipend of $100 per day
Held at Waubonsee Community College
Join 2 CMS scientists and 2 QuarkNet teacher fellows to experience first hand the research and discovery process. You will see it’s not straight forward. It’s not just that the answer is not known, but the process to get there is sometimes not known, usually ill defined, and often messy.
You will use actual data from the CMS detector at CERN’s LHC to re-discover elementary particles W, Z, and the newly discovered Higgs boson. Activities from the QuarkNet Data portfolio, developed by teachers and tested in classrooms, bring out concepts covered in the data activities. After this workshop, you will be ready to provide a similar experience for your students.
This workshop is jointly run by Dr. Harry Cheung (Fermilab) and Dr. Pratima Jindal (Waubonsee). It is funded by an NSF outreach and education grant awarded to USCMS. We are working together with the Fermilab Education Office and QuarkNet Program to benefit from their experience in similar workshops and in developing educational material.
Please send email to cheung@fnal.gov for more information. The 2015 workshop is now full, 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.
Draft Agenda
Thursday 9 July 201509:15 Registration and coffee 09:45 Introduction: Objectives and Introduction to Designing an Experiment 10:45 Classroom Activities (each group chooses two):
12:00 Reflection on Activities 12:15 Lunch 13:15 Particle Physics and CMS 14:15 J/Psi path masterclass measurement 16:15 Discussion of combined results and Wrap-up/Reflection 17:00 End of Day (Homework: study Particle Adventure, make 5 questions) |
Friday 10 July 201509:30 Introduction for day; address homework 10:00 CMS WZH Measurement 11:15 Discuss homework 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Discussion of combined results and Wrap-up/Reflection 14:00 Resources and Implementation plans 16:00 Evaluation 17:00 End of workshop
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Resources
Contacts
MICA II Workshop in Santiago
Tiny URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/mica2puc.
Objectives
Participating teachers:
- gain knowledge and skills to successfully complete investigations using LHC data;
- interpret event displays from ATLAS and explain their meaning;
- conduct LHC investigations with students and successfully prepare them for masterclass; and
- assist mentors in organizing and facilitating a masterclass.
Participating scientists:
- exchange knowledge and skills in particle physics research.
- deepen the working relationship between Catolica and Notre Dame.
- are enabled to facilitate particle physics education and outreach activities.
- assist teachers in international collaboration.
Agenda
Thursday 26 February 201516:30 Particle Physics Research Mini-Workshop (Indico page) Speakers:
Friday 27 February 201509:30 Registration and greetings 10:00 Intro presentation (Marco Aurelio Diaz) 10:30 QuarkNet classroom activities: 12:30 Lunch 14:00 Cloud chamber construction and use 15:30 Organizational time 16:00 finished for day |
Saturday 28 February 201510:00 LHC/ATLAS presentation (E. Carquin) 10:30 Particle Adventure (J. P. Ochoa) 11:00 All-hands examination of ATLAS events (slides) 11:30 ATLAS virtual visit 12:30 Lunch 13:30 ATLAS Z-path measurement
14:30 Discussion of results 15:00 Organizational time and evaluation 15:30 Cookies! |
Resources |
Contact |
CMS masterclass challenge - Riyadh
This page is relocated to: http://leptoquark.hep.nd.edu/~kcecire/rmc/cms_mc_riyadh.html.