QuarkNet Masterclass 2022
May 05, 2022
On Saturday April 30 we organized our first do-i-dare-to-say-it "post-pandemic" QuarkNet Masterclass.
Almost 30 students from five high schools attended a pretty full day of lectures, demos, tours, and hands-on analysis of real data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. A special thank-you goes out to the US QuarkNet leadership for their support and the Rice Physics & Astronomy department who sponsored the lunches. I also appreciate NSCI's Dean Tom Killian, and his students for allowing us to tour their lab and showing the exiting physics at temperatures of about 0.00000001 (10^-9) K when we earlier in the morning talked about temperatures of 1000000000000 (10^12)K and in between had a lot of fun of some left-over liquid nitrogen which boils at 77K!
More details on this and other QuarkNet activities in my group can be found at this link. Here I will also post some more pictures, including the by-now traditional "hold-your-favorite particle" group photos.
Almost 30 students from five high schools attended a pretty full day of lectures, demos, tours, and hands-on analysis of real data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. A special thank-you goes out to the US QuarkNet leadership for their support and the Rice Physics & Astronomy department who sponsored the lunches. I also appreciate NSCI's Dean Tom Killian, and his students for allowing us to tour their lab and showing the exiting physics at temperatures of about 0.00000001 (10^-9) K when we earlier in the morning talked about temperatures of 1000000000000 (10^12)K and in between had a lot of fun of some left-over liquid nitrogen which boils at 77K!
More details on this and other QuarkNet activities in my group can be found at this link. Here I will also post some more pictures, including the by-now traditional "hold-your-favorite particle" group photos.