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
Dark energy WIMP search by Orin Harris
Orin Harris has agreed to share with us the slides for his talk on the PICO collaboration searching for dark energy WIMPs. You can see them at http://leptoquark.hep.nd.edu/~kcecire/drupal_lib/…
particle adventure WS
particle adventure WS to help student retention and be more involved readers/viewers.
Bates Accelerator
http://mitbates.lns.mit.edu/bates/control/main
Cartoon Muon Solenoid and more
Cartoon Muon Solenoid event display created by Dan Karmgard, http://freyr.phys.nd.edu/CMS/. Don Lincoln's particle physics videos, http://www.thequantumfrontier.com/index_files/Videos.htm.…
Purdue CRMD Interface Program
You can download it here: http://www.physics.purdue.edu/outreach/quarknet/software/CosmicRayDetector_Windows.zip.
particle physics unit
http://wadness.wikispaces.com/Particle+Physics
Link to CERN HST Program
Link to CERN HST Program
Nobel Prizes in Physics
Here is a link to the list of Nobel Prizes in Physics: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/
Link to the Einstein Plus program at Perimeter Institute
EinsteinPlus is a one-week intensive workshop for Canadian and international high school teachers at the Perimeter Institute near Waterloo, Ontario that focuses on modern physics, including quantum…
CERN Beamline for School proposal
Interesting upcoming project where school propose to use a fixed target beamline at CERN for a two-week period.