Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Oklahoma, July 24-26, 2023

Small URL for this page: http://cern.ch/ouqn2023.

Tentative Agenda - Under Construction!

Before you come:

After a hiatus in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, Masterclasses were back in 2022.  This spring OSU held two ATLAS Masterclasses, March 24 and April 30, with participants from three schools.  (And we have four events planned for 2023!).

The University of Oklahoma (OU) and Oklahoma State University (OSU) QuarkNet groups again joined forces for a lively summer QuarkNet Teacher Workshop.  This year's workshop was hosted at OU from July 20-22.  After a virtual workshop in 2020, it was great to see some familiar faces IN PERSON, and to meet some new QuarkNet participants!  We were joined by 5 teachers, 3 of whom were new to QuarkNet, providing a nice balance of experience and enthusiasm.  The teachers represented 5 different area high schools, including urban and rural, pub

July 20-22, 2021

University of Oklahoma, Building: Lin Hall, Room: 225

Tiny URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/okqn2021

Objectives

Participating teachers will:

July 29-31, 2020

Small URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/qn2020

Meet Online - Zoom Link:

 https://notredame.zoom.us/j/99539152824?pwd=S3Q5T2J1emNaWTJ1d2JjTGN4OFA4Zz09

The University of Oklahoma (OU) and Oklahoma State University (OSU) held a joint 3 day Quarknet workshop at OU on July 17-19, 2019 with eight teachers attending. All teachers had attended at least one previous workshop. The agenda was billed as 

1) Day 1, The Past: We discussed subjects from previous workshops including the use of cosmic ray detectors, Quarknet material in the classroom, and an update on new developments in particle physics. Mike Strauss from OU ran the session.

July 12-14, 2017
Nielsen Hall Room 203

Objectives

Participating teaches will be able to:

• Identify particles colliding and emerging from collisions at the LHC from CMS data.
• Interpret the physical meaning of plots created from CMS data in light of conservation rules (energy, momentum, charge).
• Ask and answer questions about the physics of high energy collisions using CMS data. 

We will also provide opportunities to engage in critical dialogue among teaching colleagues about what they learn in the workshop.

Agenda

Resources

• CMS

• ATLAS detector animation

• CMS detector overview

• Geometry of a collider detector

• Large Hadron rap

• LHC in 10 min

Contacts:

• Michael Strauss, OU Mentor
• Shane Wood, QuarkNet National Staff

• an overview of the experimental high energy physics program
• an introduction to the Higgs boson and how it was discovered
• an introduction to Symmersymmetry
• neutrinos and their crazy ways.

Tiny URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/qnatlas-ok14.

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.

Agenda

Resources

• Preflight checklist for center leaders
• International Masterclasses
• Masterclass Library
• Symphony of Science
• ATLAS Boogie

Contact

• Ken Cecire