University of Washington QuarkNet Center
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on Friday, May 31, 2013 - 16:01
Description
Teachers, students and physicists working together to explore high energy physics.
2017 LIGO e-Lab Workshop @ Washington
August 14-15, 2017
Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB) B248
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.
- Explain the importance of LIGO seismic data in a gravitiational wave search
- Use LIGO seismic data to demonstrate classical physics concepts
- Develop a plan to use material from the workshop in school.
Agenda
Times and specific activities are subject to adjustment.
Day 1 - Monday, 14 August09:00 Registration (if not done
09:30 Talk: LIGO, Grav. Waves 10:30 Break 10:45 Graviational Waves Review 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Videos: 13:30 Exploration of LIGO e-Lab:
14:30 Break 14:45 Search and analyze in data:
16:00 Review day
16:30 End of Day |
Day 2 - Tuesday, 15 August09:00 Morning Reflection
09:15 Begin resreach
10:30 Break 10:45 Continue research 11:30 Create posters 12:00 Lunch 13:00 LIGO Hanford Virtual Visit 13:30 Poster presentations 14:00 Break 14:15 Implementation discussion 14:45 Reflection: write/discuss
15:00 Evaluation
15:30 End of workshop |
Resources |
Contacts
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U of Washington QuarkNet Center Annual Report 2016
Notes on EQUIP
Notes on EQUIP
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ST Command
The “time interval” field for the “Status output” control determines how often the ST command is sent to the DAQ; it does NOT affect how often a dataline is written to the raw data textfile. Thus, it will not (directly) affect the analyses or graphs produced by eLab.
Essentially, the ST command is a “health check” of the DAQ; voltage, GPS (including number of satellites), temperature, and so on). The default value in EQUIP is ST 3 x
For a well-functioning card and detector array, issuing the ST command only needs to be done “occasionally” (once per hour?); for troubleshooting, more often. Keep in mind that, while the card is processing the ST command, it is not taking data.
HOWEVER: The "time interval" does affect how often the graphs in the EQUIP program get updated.
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OSX 10.11 ("El Capitan")
EQUIP does not work out of the box on OSX 10.11 "El Capitan" (and presumptively won't with future versions of OSX). Specifically: Installation of the SI Labs UART-USB drivers fails, even though the installation program claims it succeeded. The symptom is that the virtual serial ports don't appear in the "Serial port:" drop-down control.
I am pretty certain that the issue that the kernel extensions ("kexts", in OSX terminology) that SI Labs tries to install are not "signed" by Apple; a new security feature of OSX 10.11 is that unsigned kexts are not allowed to run. However, it is possible to bypass this. I am not going post the method here, since it is a security risk. However, Google is your friend...
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Cosmic Ray Workshop Details, Aug 15-17, 2016
Each participant teacher can receive a stipend of $100/day and each participant student can receive a stipend of $64/day.
Apply Here: Teacher Application.html
Instruments prepared by participants:
Each group (two people) needs one laptop (MacOS preferred/Windows is fine)
Schedule: 9am~5pm
Location:
Parking: CENTRAL PLAZA GARAGE, LEVELS C2-C5 (note: The physics building is due south of the parking garage. The closest parking will be on the lowest level, C5, and will be near the exit ramp. Tell the attendant that you are in the QuarkNet Workshop.
Participants:
School | Teacher | Student |
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Kelso High School | Rose Emanuel <astroemanuel@gmail.com> | TBC |
Meadowdale High | Jim Landon <LandonJ@edmonds.wednet.edu> | TBC |
Raisbeck Aviation High | Scott Mccomb <Scott.McComb@highlineschools.org> Nikhil Joshi <Nikhil.Joshi@highlineschools.org> |
TBC |
Interlake High | | Prana Mittal <pranaym12@gmail.com> |
| Aug 17 | Aug 18 | Aug 19 |
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Program | Cosmic Ray Muon Detector/eLab; | ||
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9am | Prof. Jeff Wilson: Welcome/Intro | Cosmic eLab | Cosmic eLab: write poster |
10am | Rose Emanuel: CRMD overview | data-taking | group reports |
11am | Prof. Jeffrey Wilkes: galactic cosmic rays (see below) | ||
1pm-5pm | CRMD assembly, plateau, calibration | data taking & analysis | More reports; future plans |
workshop done by 12pm |
Mentor: Prof. R. Jeff Wilkes, Prof. Shih-Chieh HsuUW QuarkNet Staff: Mark R Adams <adams@fnal.gov>Technical Support: Steve StrauszUW QuarkNet Fellow: David Trapp <dtrapp@mac.com>
- Workshop preparation for metors and teachers [doc]
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CRMD overview [ppt] by Bob Peterson
- Galactic and extra-galactic cosmic rays: ground based air shower experiments [pdf] by Prof. Jeff Wilkes 2013 (see other below)
- Cosmic Ray Muon Detector manual [pdf] by Chunyang Ding
- VIDEO: Ring of Truth- Phillip Morrison (PBS)- Morrison's 1987 PBS series, THE RING OF TRUTH, where in the episode "Mapping" he drives along a longitude line from border to border, demonstrating *pre-modern navigation* using Eratosthenes’ method to find latitudes, and Cassini’s tables of Jupiter’s moons to find longitude.
- Compton Cosmic Ray Studies with Electroscopes -Arthur H. Compton's organization of expeditions in the early 1930s to measure cosmic ray fluxes with uniform instrumentation (electroscopes) at many sites in the US and around the world. This article details his journeys.
UW Summer Cosmic Ray workshops
This is a three day workshop for high school teachers and students during which they receive training in the use of QuarkNet's cosmic ray muon detector (CRMD), eLab and LHC master class. The eLab provides an online environment in which students, working in a research group, experience the environment of scientific collaborations in a series of investigations into high-energy cosmic rays.
Workshop
- 2013 Aug 5 to Aug 9 - Max's blog.
- 2014 July 30 to Aug 1
- 2014 Oct 8 - International Cosmic Day
- 2015 Aug 17 ~ Aug 19
- 2016 Aug 15 ~ Aug 17
Document
- Cosmic Ray Muon Detector manual [pdf] by Chunyang Ding
Organizers/Contributors:
Mentor: Prof. Shih-Chieh Hsu <schsu@uw.edu>UW QUarkNet Lead Teacher: Rose Emanuel <astroemanuel@gmail.com>UW QuarkNet Staff: Mark Adams <adams@fnal.gov>Technical Support: Steve StrauszUW QuarkNet Fellow: David Trapp <dtrapp@mac.com>
- Galactic and Extra-Galactic Cosmic Rays: Ground Based Air Shower Experiments
- Jeff Wilkes' talk on 8-5-2013
- Studying the Universe using Gamma Rays
- Toby Burnett's talk on 8-5-2013
- VIDEO: Ring of Truth- Phillip Morrison (PBS)- Morrison's 1987 PBS series, THE RING OF TRUTH, where in the episode "Mapping" he drives along a longitude line from border to border, demonstrating *pre-modern navigation* using Eratosthenes’ method to find latitudes, and Cassini’s tables of Jupiter’s moons to find longitude.
- Compton Cosmic Ray Studies with Electroscopes -Arthur H. Compton's organization of expeditions in the early 1930s to measure cosmic ray fluxes with uniform instrumentation (electroscopes) at many sites in the US and around the world. This article details his journeys.
- Chunyang Ding's muon text book - hands-on experiments for the CRMD
Masterclass Agenda, 2016
- Nathan Hale High 10 student led by Karl Englert,
- Kelso High 4 student - Rose Emanuel
- Alex Hostiuc
- Physics and Astronomy Building B128 & B110
- Transportation: When you enter the campus at Gate 5, near 15th Ave and 40th Street, pull up to the kiosk and ask for parking close to Physics and Astoronmy building. After paying, they should direct you to lots C1 and C8, both of which are fairly close to the buildings. For complete details on UW parking, see the parking info page.
8:30am regsitration9:00am safety/introduction9:15am mentor presentation (Hsu)9:30am Analysis introduction (Alex)10:00am Analysis hands-on12:00pm pizza lunch in PAB B1141:00pm Discussion (Hsu)1:45pm Video conference (student representative)2:30pm Summary
- Each person needs to bring his/her own laptop to UW.
- Student pairs can also work in a single laptop but probably find it easier using two laptops.
UW Masterclasses
This is a one day workshop for high school teachers and students to learn about particle physics. Students will work and interact with scientists in the Fermilab via remote conference system. More stories of this workshop could be found in Prospectives Apr 2013 issue.
To registere International Masterclasses. please contact Prof. Shih-Chieh Hsu (schsu@uw.edu)
- 2013 Mar 9 9:30am~3:00pm
- 2014 Mar 15 9:30am~3:00pm
- 2015 Mar 21 9:30am~3:00pm [url]
- 2016 Mar 5 9:30am~3:00pm
2014 Annual Report - University of Washington
We continued the successful experiences from 2013 and organized two QuarkNet events--a masterclass in May and a cosmic ray workshop in July, 2014. Here are detailed descriptions of each workshop:
a. Masterclass on May 15
QuarkNet teachers/staff: Kenneth Cecire, David Trapp
School: Meadowdale High
HS Teacher: Jim Landon
HS Student: 16 students
Activities: Mon lab tour, Pixel Lab Tour, CMS masterclass, Virtual conference
Jim Landon wrote a story with detailed descriptions of the event in the attachment. The collections of photos could be found here.
b. Cosmic Ray workshop during July 30 - Aug 1
QuarkNet teacher/staff: Robert Peterson, David Trapp
Invited Seminar Talks: Toby Burnett (gamma ray experiments), Jeff Wilkes (cosmic ray from galctic center)
School: Liberty High, Inerlake High (new), Keiso High (new), Skyline High
HS Teachers: Mark Buchli (LHS), Shem Thompson (IHS, new), Rose Emanuel (KHS, new)
Students: 3 (LHS), 1 (IHS), 1(SHS)
Activities: Pixel lab tour, Cosmic ray hands-on activities, plateau counters, flux rate measurement, Cosmic Ray e-Lab, student research report
Miscellaneous comments: Two new teachers each bring a CRMD back. Mark only brings a CRMD back and left another CRMD in UW for repairment. Two teachers quit the CRMD program - David Leman from Heritage University and James Landon from Meadowdale High. Two CRMDs were mailed back to FNAL.
Collections of the event pictures could be found here.