QuarkNet Master Class 2019

We are excited to host you all on our campus for the upcoming Quarknet Masterclass (Saturday March 23). Below I provide a few more details on how to get to Rice, where to park, what room were are in, and what the agenda will look like. I've added a link below to a Google Map that hopefully will help find the places in a more interactive fashion.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1I1bduqMdkTsvEsYN6sE-XfJBK64lo_2E&usp=sharing

Our Masterclass will take place on Saturday March 23 from 9am until about 2h30pm. The Physics & Astronomy department has graciously offered to cover the lunch. If there are specific dietary/vegetarian restrictions then now is the time to let me know. Either way, we will make sure that there will be a mix of options, including vegetarian.

Parking

The best place to park will be the North Parking lot which can reach through Entrance #20 (for more parking options see http://geurts.rice.edu/contact/campus/). We will use the computer lab of the Ryon Engineering Labs building, room 102. This room is inside the building. You can access the building through the glass doors from the south side. Take a left to go to the west side of the building to find room 102.

Agenda

The agenda is more or less anchored to a joint videoconference that we will have with other participating masterclasses in the US and Mexico in which we will present our results! I also plan to walk the students to a nearby lab in which my undergraduate class has set up an experiment in which they determine the life time of a muon. That can be fun!

The agenda for Saturday is as follows:

9h00 - registration & gateway activity
9h15 - 10h - lecture on particle physics: what are fundamental particles and how do we measure them?
10h - 11h - let's make a real particle detector: the cloud chamber
11h - 11h45 - data analysis prep talk: how to analyze real data from the CMS detector at the LHC?
followed by an example
11h45- 1h45pm - Data analysis in groups of two (and lunch at ~12h30)
~12h30 - Lunch (kindly provided by the Physics & Astronomy Department!)
1h45pm - 2pm Data Analysis Discussion
2pm-2h30 Video Conference with Fermilab and 3 other participating institutes (Fairfax, Minnesota, and Medellin)
2h30 - end