The Virtual QuarkNet Center is a group of teachers, generally far from a geographic QuarkNet center but who work together using online tools to collaborate. Virtual QuarkNet Center teachers have monthly Sunday evening videoconferences during the school year and meet face-to-face once each summer. The teachers participate in cosmic ray studies using the cosmic ray e-Lab and in international masterclasses from their schools. The mentors, Antonio Delgado, a particle physicist at the University of Notre Dame, and Danielle McDermott, condensed matter physicist at Pacific Univerisity; emeritus mentor Dan Karmgard, another Notre Dame particle physicist; the lead teachers, Dave Trapp (dtrapp@mac.com) and Mike Wadness, are QuarkNet fellows from Washington and Massachusetts, respectively.
Virtual QuarkNet Center
VQC is a group of QuarkNet teachers who are separated geographically but collaborate online.
Contacts:
Danielle McDermott, Mentor
Dave Trapp, Lead Teacher
Mike Wadness, Lead Teacher
Virtual Center QuarkNet Annual Report
Virtual QNet Summer Workshop 2019: CMS Analysis and Step UP
Monday August 12th CMS Data Analysis Activity 11:00 AM Eastern (8am Pacific) New version CMS Masterclass: CMS Masterclass Measurement Data analysis slides iSpy WebGL-dev…
Planning VQN Summer 2019 Meeting
Hi All, After some back and forth with Ken Cecire regarding the summer meeting + stipends, we've decided that a shorter summer meeting is in order. We are going to do 1 day - 6 hours - of meeting…
2017-2018 virtual QuarkNet Annual Report
Virtual QuarkNet is a group of teachers who are generally some distance from a research facility. As a consequence, the group meets monthly by video conference (through CERN Vidyo) during the school…
Joel's Test
LIGO Tour
The LIGO center provided an interesting day.
Marteen's Document Test
Another great read is Artemis by Andy Weir, author of The Martian
Great Reads
The Three Body Problem by Qui
Virtual QNet Summer Workshop 2018: Using Gravitational Wave Data
Objectives Participating Teachers Will: Be able to use the LIGO e-lab to identify levels of seismic background noise Describe the changes that occur in gravitational waves emitted from a compact…
talk on Condensed Matter
Danielle McDermott's talk on Condense Matter to virtual QuarkNet Group Click the files below to see Powerpoint (which may take some time to download before viewing) or the smaller PDF of the slides…