2016 JHU Summer Workshop - Agenda / List of Talks

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Monday 25 July  

9:00-10:00 Introduction to QuarkNet (Jeremy Smith, Hereford HS)

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10:00-11:00 Special Relativity in a LIGO Context  (Dr. Bruce Barnett, JHU)

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11:00-12:00 Resonances ("Bumps") at the LHC (Dr. Andrei Gritsan, JHU) 

 

    

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Tuesday 29 July

 

9:00-10:00

General Relativity in a LIGO Context  (Dr. Bruce Barnett, JHU)

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10:00-11:00

Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter? (Dr. Marc Kamionkowski, JHU)

(link to paper on arXiv)

(link to primary author Simeon Bird's talk at STScI on 20 July 2016)

(youtube videos: laser interferometer basics; publicity video from original discovery; second discovery including "chirp" sound of the merger!)

   

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11:00-12:00 

Accelerator Physics (Dr. Morris Swartz, JHU)

Some youtube videos: the one that Morris showed; a slightly longer one with more details)

 

ATLAS Publicity Photo    

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Wednesday 30 July

9:00-10:00 Modeling the Frictional Force (Dr. Mark Robbins, JHU)

Link to online version of a 2005 talk at Kitt Peak

Webcast of a Public talk at Kitt Peak

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10:00-11:00 ISE Workshop in Greece; or, "My Quarknet Junket." (Mr. John Pisanic, Damascus HS)

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11:00-12:00 The Role of Muon Lifetime (updated) in the Standard Model Dr. Morris Swartz, JHU)

Andrei Gritsan gave a talk about Higgs stuff 2 years ago; talks more about "metastable universe" and Higgs potential stuff.

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Thursday 31 July

9:00-10:00 Summer Students: Summary of Research 

Click here for their posters (PDF) and summary abstracts.

(Hereford HS: Jack, Kyle)

(Richard Montgomery HS: Tatiana, Simon, Jason, Isabelle)

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10:00-11:00

Radio Astronomy in the classroom (Kevin Martz, Richard Montgomery HS)

Histograms in the classroom (Jeremy Smith, Hereford HS)

   

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11:00-12:00 Nanotechnology (Dr. Joan Hoffmann, APL) (link pending Dr. Hoffmann's approval)

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Miscellanea

Rick Dower provided a parts list for the interferometer he showed us yesterday. (Word Docx)

He also has an activity for showing diffraction patterns from a spring, to show similarity to DNA X-ray diffraction pattern!

Tim Durkin has a worksheet he uses with the Powers of Ten videos/animations (Word Doc)

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Friday 1 August

9:00-10:00 Status of the CLASS experiment (Dr. Joseph Eimer, JHU)

Bonus: What does the word "flat" mean in cosmology? (Physicsgirl on YouTube)

Bonuss: Watch our "map" of the cosmic microwave background improve in resolution from COBE to WMAP to Planck. (YouTube)

Planck Satellite Image of the CMB   

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10:00-11:00 Brightly Shining Black Holes (Dr. Julian Krolik, JHU)

Bonus: Watch some animations of the stars orbiting the Milky Way's center!

Bonuss: Dr. Krolik and his team's NASA -published simulation of a black hole accretion disk

   

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11:00-12:00 M83 Supernova Remnants (Dr. Bill Blair)

Bonus: Dr. Blair's 2010 talk about the survey (PPT); another by his colleague Knox Long (PDF)

Bonuss: Dr. Blair's "How Big is a Billion?" talk

Here is a link to download SAOImage DS9, a free software package for viewing telescope images that has Chandra X-ray images pre-loaded into it. And here is the Chandra Education page that explains how to use it. Main Chandra Ed page here has lots more!

   

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