QuarkNet at Lawrence Berkeley Lab 2026

Submitted by kcecire

Published: Wed, 05/20/2026 - 11:59 | Group(s):

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Center

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Building 50

Facilitators: Joel Klammer and Ken Cecire

URL for this page: quarknet.org/lbl-jun25

Student and Teacher Agenda

Session 1, Morning

PITC program

Session 2: Afternoon

Time, PDT	Activity
13:00	Physicist talk
14:30	Making Sense of the Fundamental Particles Particle Cards Quark Workbench (Group Results) The Crazy Human Particle Actviity
16:00	End of day

Session 1, Morning

Time, PDT	Activity
08:45	Physicist talk
10:15	Break
10:30	"Express" ATLAS Masterclass Events Data Form Results How we understand results: Plotting a Consensus
12:00	Break for lunch

Session 2: Afternoon

Time, PT	Teachers	Students
13:00	Data Activities Exploration Review Data Activities Portfolio Work in pairs: choose and explore an activity Make slides and present For everyone: The Case of the Missing Neutrino and Top Quark Mass	ALS Tours Detector work
14:30		Watch A Day with Particles Use AI (Chat GPT, Gemini, etc) to: Find other modern resources that came from particle physics research. (How will you ask about this? How do you evaluate the quality of the answers? As AI how particle physics research led us to machine learning which led to...the AI you are using. Pick one answer you like and ask the AI to make a 3-5 slide presentation about it.
16:00	End of day