University of Minnesota QuarkNet Center
Submitted by kcecire
on Wednesday, July 24, 2013 - 16:20
The Minnesota QuarkNet group works on all aspects of data from QuarkNet with mentor Greg Pawloski and lead teachers Jon Anderson and Karin Foss.
Description
Minnesota teachers and physicists bringing cosmic and particle data to classrooms.
Minnesota - Fall 2017 Workshop Day
QuarkNet Workshop 2017 - University of Minnesota
November 4, 2017
2017 Exploring Gravitational Wave Resources
Agenda
Times and specific activities are subject to adjustment.
Thursday 15 June09:00 Coffee and Plan for the Day 09:15 Update on Research 10:15 Break 10:30 Data Portfolio Presentation > Enduring Understandings*> Objectives-writing: 5 steps* > Data Portfolio Matrix* 11:00 Explore Gravitational 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Lesson Planning
16:00 End of Day |
Friday 16 June09:00 Coffee and Plan for the Day 09:30 Presentations - 11:30 Minnesota QuarkNet: 12:00 Lunch 13:30 QN Teacher 14:00 End of Day |
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2017 LIGO e-Lab Workshop at U of Mn
June 13-14, 2017
Physics and Nanotechnology Building, Room 120
Objectives
Participating teachers will be able to:
- Plot and interpret data recorded by LIGO seismic instruments; address limitations in the data.
- Make claims based on evidence from LIGO data and provide reasoning.
- Describe the connections between LIGO seismic data and classical physics wave concepts.
- Explain the importance of LIGO seismic data in a gravitiational wave search.
- Develop a plan to implement material from the workshop in an educational setting.
Agenda
Times and specific activities are subject to adjustment.
Tuesday 13 June09:00 Coffee, Registration, Sign-in
10:00 Videos: 10:30 Break 10:45 Exploration of LIGO e-Lab:
12:00 Lunch 13:00 Seismology and Interferometer Review
14:00 Break 14:15 Search and analyze in e-Lab data:
15:00 Begin research
16:00 Review day
16:30 End of Day |
Wednesday 14 June09:00 Coffee, Sign-in and Reflection
09:30 Gravitational Waves presentation 10:30 Break 10:45 Continue research
12:00 Working Lunch 13:00 LIGO Hanford Virtual Visit 13:30 Finish posters 14:00 Present posters 14:30 Implementation discussion 15:00 Reflection: write/discuss
15:30 Evaluation 16:00 End of LIGO e-Lab workshop We'll meet again tomorrow & Friday to
7:30pm Webcast: The Truth in in |
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University of Minnesota - 2016 Annual Report
This year (2016), the University of Minnesota held its 13th annual QuarkNet teacher workshops. Mentors Daniel Cronin-Hennessy, Satish Desai and Ken Heller worked with lead teachers Jon Anderson and Shane Wood to organize this year's content. Minnesota HEP administrator Andrea Stronghart organized rooms, lunches, and paperwork. Eleven total teachers took part in at least a portion of the five workshop days this year. During the first three days (13-15 June), QuarkNet cosmic fellow Martin Shaffer led a cosmic workshop; the final two workshop days (3-4 August) consisted of talks about and tours of the NOvA far detector near Ash River, Minnesota.
The 2016 cosmic workshop was hosted by Minnesota QuarkNet teacher Karen Phillips at the Blake School in Minneapolis where she is a physics teacher. On day one of this workshop, participating teachers assembled a new cosmic ray muon detector (CRMD), heard a lunch talk by U of M researcher Gwynne Crowder on the recent gravitational wave discoveries at LIGO, pleateaued and set up a total of 4 CRMDs for overnight data collection. On day two, teachers worked with Equip and the cosmic e-Lab, conducted performance studies of the data, and worked in small groups in order to conduct a more in-depth investigation with the CRMDs. Data continued to be collected overnight on the second night, then on the third day, groups finished analysis and presented to each other their results during a poster session. The cosmic workshop concluded with a discussion around classroom implementation.
Teachers met again in August for a 2-day workshop centered around PER (physics education research), and the neutrino experiment NOvA. Day one of this workshop (3 August) started at the U of M where teachers heard from three teachers and their summer QuarkNet travels/experiences: Mike Cartwright (ISE in Greece) and from Jay Dornfeld and Michael Plucinski who both attended Data Camp at Fermilab. Ken Heller gave a talk that described the NOvA experiment and prepared teachers for the tour. Ken also gave a talk about problem solving in physics; something on which his PER group has been working for years. Teachers spent the second portion the first day traveling to near Ash River, MN. On day two (4 August) teachers met at the NOvA far detector where Ken Heller gave a tour of the facility while teachers asked many questions. Teachers then traveled back to Minneapolis during the final portion of these two days.
NOvA Tour 2016
University of Minnesota
QuarkNet - NOvA Tour Workshop
3-4 August 2016
Wednesday, 3 August, 2016
Meet in PAN Room 120
9:00 Sign-in, QuarkNet Updates (Shane)
9:20 2016 Data Camp @ Fermilab (Jay D. and Michael P.)
9:40 2016 Inspiring Science Education @ Greece (Mike C.)
10:00 NOvA Talk & Control Room Tour (Ken Heller)
11:30 Break & get lunch (lunch provided)
12:00 P.E.R. (Physics Education Research) Talk (Ken Heller and Emily Smith)
1:00p Depart to park/meet U of M vans
1:30p U of M vans depart for Frontier Resort
En Route - Stop @ grocery store for dinner/breakfast food (provided?)
Feel free to BYOB for evening at resort. We have kitchens, etc.
There is a restaurant and bar on site, but I’m not sure the quality.
6:30p Arrive @ Frontier Resort - Dinner/Evening Activities
Thursday, 4 August, 2016
8:00 Breakfast @ Resort
9:30 Depart Resort
10:00 NOvA Far Detector Tour (Ken Heller)
12:00p Vans depart NOvA far detector
En route - stop for lunch (not provided)
~5:00/5:30p Arrive back in Minneapolis
Implemetation of Cosmic Ray Detectors - Minnesota Quarknet Group June 15, 2016
Implementation Strategies
- Time of Flight Study during modern physics and relativity
- Allow students or groups of students to perform experiments on campus - provide research opportunities
- Tie together with University of Minnesota masterclass
- More students can be involved now that plateauing is so much easier
- Use plateauing with all classes to discuss precision and accuracy
- Create t-shirts for muon week
- Getting students from different schools together to present posters and defend research
- November 2nd is International Cosmic Day with DESY
- Watch for Muon Week
2016 Minnesota Cosmic Workshop
Objectives
Participating teachers will be able to:
- Organize data using the cosmic ray muon e-Lab.
- Specify limitations and assumptions of a propsed experiment.
- Manipulate apparatus using appropriate data acquisition equipment for calibration, characterization, and analysis of measurements.
- Generalize from data possible sources and scale of experimental error.
- Summarize and communicate claims, evidence and results to demonstrate the nature of scientific research.
- Implement plans to use the cosmic ray e-Lab with the classroom community.
Agenda
Times and specific activities are subject to adjustment.
Location is The Blake School, 511 Kenwood Pkwy, Minneapolis, MN
Monday June 1309:00 Coffee, Intros, Learning Objectives, 09:30 QuarkNet updates 10:00 Build/set up CRMDs
12:00 Lunch (provided) & Lunch Talk: 13:00 Break & Tour of Blake School Science 13:30 Finish CRMD build/setup
15:30 Reflection & discussion of day 16:00 End of day |
Tuesday June 1409:00 Coffee and reflection on previous day 09:15 Cosmic Ray e-Lab Overview
10:30 Upload Data (from overnight)
12:00 Lunch (provided: D'amico boxed lunches) 13:00 Team CR Investigation; Posters
15:30 Reflection & discussion of day 16:00 End of day |
Wednesday June 1509:00 Coffee and reflection on previous day 09:15 Team work time 10:15 Poster Presentations: 11:15 Implementation Plans: 12:15 LIGO Webcast 12:45 Reflection and evaluation 13:30 Lunch (NOT provided...Offsite...Lake Calhoun?) 14:30 Thinking Ahead
16:00 End of workshop |
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2015 Annual Report - University of Minnesota
QuarkNet activity at the University of Minnesota's QuarkNet Center in 2015 included participation in the International Masterclass, and a summer workshop for teachers centered around both LHC/CMS data and cosmic ray muon detector data analyses.
A total of 18 students and 3 local teachers participated in the Masterclass on March 28th, 2015. The students analyzed data from the CMS detector (WZH), heard talks from Minnesota HEP researcher Dr. Satish Desai and HEP graduate students, and toured the Univesity's Nano Fabrication Center. After analyzing the CMS data, students discussed results locally with Dr. Desai and Dr. Cronin-Hennessy. Throughout the day, several HEP graduate students helped out as well, sharing demos (cloud chambers, etc.) answering student questions, and sharing "life as a grad student" experiences at lunch with the high school students.
The 3-day summer workshop for teachers was divided into two parts. First was a 1-day workshop in June at the University of Minnesota during which teachers heard two talks (one on consmology (Marco Peloso) and one on dark matter (Mark Pepin)), worked through an activity from the Data Portfolio, and perfromed a data analysis on CMS data (J/Psi). In August, teachers met again - this time for 2 days at nearby Irondale High School - in order to work through plateuing cosmic ray muon detectors, then uploading and analyzing data from the detectors. Teachers will meet for an additoinal day in December into order to follow up on cosmic ray detector questions and to share ideas regarding implementation.
As of 2015, there are 12 active Minnesota QuarkNet teachers; eight of whom have cosmic ray muon detectors. Professor Dan Cronin-Hennessy continues to serve as the group's mentor, planning the workshop days with the assistance of lead teacher Jon Anderson and QN staff Shane Wood. Minnesota HEP administrator Andrea Stronghart organizes logistics for the group, including rooms, lunches and paperwork.
Images below: (1) Masterclass students on tour (2) QuarkNet teachers discussing the use of cosmic ray muon detectors (3) One teacher group's CRMD set-up varying the angle of the counters.
Minnesota QuarkNet Teacher Workshop Agenda 2015
Tuesday, 16 June, 2015 - Physics & Nanotechnology Building (PAN), Room 120
9:00 Introductions, overview of day and summer
9:30 Classroom Activities (Found in Data Portfolio)
- Review "Calculate the Z Mass" Activity
- J/Psi - Data Preview, Mass Calculation
10:00 Speaker: Marco Peloso (Cosmology)
11:00 Set Criteria for J/Psi
- How are muons detected in LHC detectors? (Click here for interactive detector animation)
- What are criteria for rating each J/Psi candidate? (Click here for info on CMS J/Psi measurement)
12:00 Lunch Talk: Mark Pepin (Dark Matter)
1:15 Analysis of J/Psi Data (done in pairs; 100 events/group)
- Click Here for iSpy Online (be sure to open correct group of data)
- Click Here for spreadsheet to record results (be sure line corresponds to proper event)
2:00 View/Discuss Results of J/Psi Analysis
2:30 Share-A-Thon
3:30 Future meetings this summer: CRMD? Elab? Location? Roles/Responsibilities?
4:00 Workshop concludes for day - as long as you can answer "yes" to:
1) Do you know your drupal account info? Is your account info updated including CRMD #?
2) Do you have your CMS and/or CRMD e-Lab account info?
3) Before end of workshop - complete "Teacher Implementation Survey" only.
Thursday, 13 August, 2015 - Irondale High School (Room 336), 2425 Long Lake Rd., New Brighton, MN 55112
9:00-4:00 (1 hour lunch) Cosmic Ray Detector Workshop
- Cosmic Ray Workshop Presentation
- Cosmic Ray Detector Resources (From Cosmic Ray E-Lab "Library")
- Any detector to build? (See resources for instructions)
- Plateu Detectors
- Decide on study...collect data
- Upload and Data Analysis
- Collect Data overnight
Friday, 14 August, 2015 - Irondale High School (Room 336), 2425 Long Lake Rd., New Brighton, MN 55112
- Upload Data - Analyze in e-Lab
- Implementation discussion
- "Must Do" items - Do "Implementation Survey" and "Update QuarkNet Website"
2014 Annual Report - University of Minnesota
Photo 1: QN Teachers exploring how to control coupling of oscillators. They measured the period for the normal modes to recycle the original “flavor” of oscillation as a function of the coupling.
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View PDF of this report: http://leptoquark.hep.nd.edu/~kcecire/drupal_lib/files2014/QNReport2014umn.pdf.