2017 JHU Summer Workshop - Agenda / List of Talks

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Monday 24 July  

9:00-10:00

Jeremy Smith, Hereford HS, JHU QuarkNet Lead Teacher: "Introduction to QuarkNet"

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10:00-11:00

Dr. Morris Swartz, JHU Physics & QuarkNet  mentor: "A Crash Course in Quantum Mechanics"

Download his Lecture Notes for the chalk talk

     

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11:00-12:00

Dr. Toby Marriage, JHU Physics: "The JHU Student Radio Telescope"

Download slides in PDF, Keynote (links to Dropbox) or PowerPoint format.

 

     

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1:00-4:30

 

Choice of Activities:

--Using the Student Radio Telescope

--The Cosmic Ray e-lab

--Cosmic Ray Detector Workshop

--Classroom-ready Activities from the QuarkNet Data Portfolio

--The CMS e-lab

--Modeling Activity: The "Mystery Tube"  (moderate assembly required)

--Modeling Activity: What is the Fundamental "Widget" Mass? (mild assembly required)

--Emission Spectroscopy (Gas tubes, LEDs, Lasers, Incandescent bulbs)

 

Contacting QuarkNet to create a new elab and/or i2u2 account:

https://goo.gl/forms/8MQT7C42zHMzAhzA3

 

 

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Tuesday 25 July

 

9:00-10:00

Dr. Greg  Bowman, JHU Biophysics: "Regulation of a Nucleosome-Sliding Machine"

(link to slides in PDF)

                            

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10:00-11:00

Dr. Sabine Stanley, JHU Earth/Planetary Science: "Mars: A Magnetic History"

link to slides in PPT, PDF and here is a link to the (Quicktime) movie file she played.

     

  

 

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11:00-12:00 

 Dr. Bill Blair, JHU Physics: "How Eclipses Occur, and the Great American 2017 Solar Eclipse"

link to slides (PPT or PDF)

        

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Wednesday 26 July

9:00-10:00

Dr. Peter Gehring, NIST: "Using Neutrons to Study Quasi-particle Physics in Materials Science"

(link to slides as PDF)

     

 

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10:00-11:00 

Dr. Dave Clader, JHU APL: "Quantum Computing and Information Processing"

(slides will be available at a later date).

 

       

 

Fertilizer??  See this article about applications of quantum computing.

 

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11:00-12:00

Dr. Mark Foster, JHU Photonics Lab: "Compressive Imaging Systems for Space- and Time-Limited Applications"

​(link to slides pending)

      

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Thursday 27 July

9:00-10:00

Dr. Kevin Lewis, JHU Earth/Planetary Sciences: "Exploration of Gale Crater by the Curiosity Rover 

(slides unavailable due to unpublished content on them) 

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10:00-11:00

Dr. Elijah Roberts, JHU Biophysics: "The Physics Behind How Cells Make Decisions"

​(link to slides pending)

      

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11:00-12:00

Dr. Marc Kamionkowski, JHU Physics: "Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates"

link to slides in PPT  

Note 1: several movie files are embedded in the PPT, so click on the slide to play each one.

Note 2: for now, I had to post this on Google Drive because the file is too large to upload to quarknet.i2u2.org. If I can fix this later I will. When Google Drive gives you an error message, just click the "download" button to save it to your hard drive.

      

 

(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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Friday 28 July

9:00-10:00

Summary of Research from JHU High School Interns

  • Dietrich and Ryan:  The SRT, Rotation Curve, Analyzing Data w/ Python
  • Jon and Abby: Quantum Mechanics Basics
  • Jon: Muon Time-of-Flight
  • Graham: Dark Matter
  • Eddie: Black Holes
  • Helena: Neutrino Oscillations

Here is a link to a short description of the difference between flavor states and mass states.

 

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10:00-11:00

Dr. Andrei Gritsan, JHU Physics: "A Study of the Higgs Field"

​(link to slides in PDF)

(also, see the "Outreach" section of Dr. Gritsan's home page for a list of talks he's given in the past.)

 

Andrei mentioned the "Particle Data Group" catalog. Check it out here!

Here is a good YouTube video showing ways to visualize the Higgs Field and how particles interact with it

    

 

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11:00-12:00

Dr. Sarah Woodson, JHU Biophysics: "Non-coding RNA: The Dark Matter of the Cell"

​(link to slides pending)

 

  

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Agenda:

--Clean up mystery tube station

--Complete 2 surveys (see links below)

--Events & Opportunities to look out for, during the school year

--Discuss status of QN program

 

 

Please complete the QuarkNet annual teacher survey by following this link.

 

Also, we have a short JHU-specific survey that we'd like you to fill out, so that we can improve your experience next year.

 

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