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 2024 or 2025, fill out the full survey.

2. If you HAVE done the full survey, you only need to do the update survey.

(click "read more" to see entire page)

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.

2026 Quarknet JHU teachers

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Agenda

Mon 20 July

8:30-9:00 - Welcome/breakfast- Jeremy Smith, Hereford HS; Morris Swartz, JHU

9:00-10:00 - Dr. Andrei Gritsan, JHU

"Counting the Building Blocks of the Universe"

(slides in PDF)

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10:00-10:10 coffee break

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10:15-11:15 -  

1. Jeremy Smith - Status update of QuarkNet, both nationally and locally'

    

2. Morris Swartz - History / Introduction to neutrinos

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11:15-11:25 coffee break

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11:30-12:30 Dr. Sabine Stanley, JHU

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"What's Hidden Inside Planets?"

Buy her book here!!

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I can name all the planets! Can you name all the planets?

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12:30-1:30 lunch

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1:30 - pm agenda.pdf

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Tue 21 July

9:00-10:00 -   Dr. Diego Venegas-Vargas, Miller postdoctoral fellow JHU

Introduction to neutrino oscillations

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Extra stuff

--Greg H pointed out that there's a nice correspondence to basic oscillation stuff we teach in classrooms. Here's a Colab notebook designed to tap into that exact correspondence!

--Diego mentioned that he hasn't come across anyone who could explain that CP violating plot very well. I uploaded the plot to Claude and asked for an explanation. I think Diego was right, but gained a bit of understanding after I asked for the ELI5 version. Here're the responses in case you want to read.

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10:00-10:10 - coffee break

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10:15 -  12:30 - Neutrino Workshop phase 1

Link to Agenda on Google Drive (until Smith figures out how to embed it here)

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12:00-1:00 - lunch

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1:00-1:30 - Brief introduction to the grad students involved in outreach - contact Annie or Andrew if you're interested!

Presenters:

Andrew Mattson (outreach co-chair)

Annie Giman (former co-chair)

Maya Skarbinski (former co-chair and current VP of the graduate student group)

Not in attendance: Natalie Gottschlich (outreach co-chair)

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4:00: Neutrino Workshop phase 2

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Wed 22 July

9:00-9:30 - recap of neutrino workshop day 1

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9:30-10:30 -   Marc Kamionkowski, JHU

New Computational Methods for Gravitational Wave Lensing

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10:30-10:40 - coffee break

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10:45 -  12:30 - Neutrino Workshop phase 3

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12:30-1:30 - lunch

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1:30-4: Neutrino Workshop phase 4

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Thu 23 July

9:00-10:00 -   Dr. Petra Maksimovic, JHU

Bro How Do We Even Detect Particles?

(slides in PDF)

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10:00-10:10 - coffee break

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10:15-11:15 -  Dr. Surjeet Rajendran, JHU

(title TBD)

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11:30-12:30 -  Dr. Bill Blair, JHU

"The Physics of Climate Change"

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12:30-1:30 - lunch

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1:30-4 - choice sessions

Dr. David Kaplan, JHU?? (reschedule status TBD) 

"Relativity & Cosmology for High School"

(possible choice sessions: Physics Olympics planning, cosmic ray detector, radio telescope, Quarknet classroom-ready activities)

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Fri 24 July

9:00-??? -   Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study

NOTE:

we will be meeting in room 361 the entire day. It is one floor down, easily reached by using the stairwell west of 462 (behind where Morris usually sits)

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10:00-10:10 - coffee break (one hopes)

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12:30-1:30 - lunch (one hopes)

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1:30 (one hopes)-3:00 - Paperwork, finish lab pathways, brief report-out

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Useful Links

1. Cosmic Ray Detector (link to necessary software here)
2. Greg Hrinda's Electrostatics writeup
3. Student Radio Telescope (download specs & lab documents here)
   1. Galactic Rotation Curve
   2. CMB temperature measurement
4. Cloud Chamber (here's the landing page for the project and here are the assembly instructions in PDF)
5. Superconductivity (here's the device listed at PASCO for five hunnit fitty dollars!)
6. Quarknet Activities (find the link to the Data Activities Portfolio at top of this site)

Things to look for during the next months

1. T-shirts! Approx. ordering window TBD.
2. Worldwide Data Day, takes place in the fall
3. International Muon Week (was in March 2025 this year)
4. Masterclasses take place throughout late winter / early spring (see description page)