First things first: please register for the workshop.
Complete QuarkNet national survey. There are two different surveys - please read carefully.
1. If you have NOT completed the full QN survey in 2023 or 2024, fill out the full survey.
2. If you HAVE done the full survey, you only need to do the update survey.
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We will meet in Bloomberg 462 in the mornings; 478 for the PM sessions.
Scroll to bottom for some details and files related to PM lab work.
2025 Quarknet JHU teachers
L to R: J.Schafer, E. Porch, M. Murdock, J. Ringlein, K. Hart, G. Hrinda, M. Swartz (Mentor), A. DeWeese, M. Jacobs, C. DiMenna, J. Smith
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Agenda
Mon 21 July
9:00-10:00 - Jeremy Smith, Hereford HS; Morris Swartz, JHU
Welcome, schedule for week, brief summary of afternoon work (slides on GDrive)
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10:00-10:10 coffee break
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10:15 - Dr. Dan Beller, JHU
Mesophases: The Physics of the In-Between, All Around Us
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11:15-11:25 coffee break
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11:30-12:30 Dr. Sean Carroll, JHU: Gauge Symmetry
See Sean's YouTube series called "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe" for some extra fun. (The symmetry stuff begins here)
Why are there only 8 gluons? Here's a Forbes article about it, and a very Web 1.0 page on it.
this image came from Dr. Coker at UTexas. Check out that page!
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12:30-1:30 lunch
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1:30 - introduction to “pathways” for afternoon lab work (see end of page for details on each)
- DESMOS
- Neutrinos
- CMB Temperature / Rotation Curves
- Raspberry Pi Muons
- Bauder Fund grant writing
- Plan a tour
- More new DAP activities
- 3D printing quarks
- Lab activities (mag torque, e/m, spec…)
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Tue 22 July
9:00-10:00 - Dr. Ben Fernando, JHU
Seismic Tracking of Objects in the Atmosphere (link to PDF of slides on GDrive)
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10:00-10:10 - coffee break
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10:15 - 12:15ish - Dr. Ibou Bah: “Semi-mathy GR, part 1”
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12:30-1:30 - lunch
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1:30-4: lab pathways
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Wed 23 July
9:00-"lunch" (whatever he means by that) - Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed
Part 1: Why the existence of even a single magnetic monopole would explain charge quantization
Some notes from teachers:
Part 2: Building the rules for Feynman Diagrams by thinking about perturbative solutions to polynomials
Some notes from teachers:
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12:30-1:30 - lunch
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1:30-4: lab pathways
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Thu 24 July
9:00-10:00 Dr. Alessandra Corsi, JHU
Combining Radio Observations and Gravitational Wave Observations (PDF link to GDrive)
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10:00-10:10 coffee break
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10:15-10:45 Dr. Andrei Gritsan, JHU (tetraquark announcement)
"The Secrets of Exotic Matter: Tetraquarks” (PDF on GDrive)
See Andrei's previous talks here
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11:00-12:00 Dr. Emanuele Berti, JHU
Gravitational Wave Paleontology
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12:00-1:00 - lunch
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1:00-4 - lab pathways
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Fri 25 July
9:00-12:00
Documentary: "America's Missing Collider;" or, "The 21,000,000,000 Hole in Texas"
(download)
(BobbyBroccoli YouTube Channel)
(BB on Nebula)
12:00-1:00 - Ibou II
(higher resolution image in this good article)
(Veritasium video on appearance)
1:00-3 - Paperwork, finish lab pathways, brief report-out
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Details on PM Lab Work, Links
- Cosmic Ray Detector (link to necessary software here)
- Greg Hrinda's Electrostatics writeup
- Student Radio Telescope (download specs & lab documents here)
- Galactic Rotation Curve
- CMB temperature measurement
- Cloud Chamber (here's the landing page for the project and here are the assembly instructions in PDF)
- Superconductivity (here's the device listed at PASCO for five hunnit fitty dollars!)
- Quarknet Activities (find the link to the Data Activities Portfolio at top of this site)
Things to look for during the next months
- T-shirts! Approx. ordering window 1-12 August.
- Worldwide Data Day, takes place in the fall
- International Muon Week (was in March 2025 this year)
- Masterclasses take place throughout late winter / early spring (see description page)