QuarkNet Summer Workshop at Rice University 2019
The 2019 Summer Workshop will be held at Rice University from June 17 - 21, 2019. A detailed agenda with links to various resources, including presentations from UH and Rice faculty can be found below.
- CMS E-Lab: Quarknet Fellow Shane Woods will visit us again and will give a 3 day CMS Data Workshop. It's a follow-up on the workshop from last year and introduces CMS's E-Lab to you. This particle physics E-Lab forms the basis of our yearly MasterClasses that high school students can attend.
- Cosmic Ray Detectors: bring them to campus for check-ups! A couple of Rice students who have worked with me throughout the Spring semester will be there and share their experience on how to configure them for fun types of physics (how longs does a muon live?) and how to hook the setup up to a Raspberry PI
- Share-a-ton / demos: we will look at what we can learn from cloud chambers, but also you should bring your favorite activity or demo to share with others!
- Faculty Speakers: we will have a faculty speaker almost every day talking about dark matter, nuclear physics at the LHC, neutrinos, and more!
The agenda for the CMS Data Lab is online and can be found at the official link: https://quarknet.org/content/2019-updated-cms-data-workshop-rice-university
The agenda for the final two days of of the workshop is posted at this link https://quarknet.org/content/final-two-days-2019-rice-workshop
A local copy of the agenda, with links to all sorts of resources is listed below.
- Monday June 17
- 9:00 Welcome, introductions
- 9:30 QuarkNet updates
- 10:00 Opening activities
- 11:00 faculty presentation: Detectors in CMS - prof. Frank Geurts (Rice)
- 12:00 -- lunch --
- 13:00 detector tutorial
- 14:00 CMS WWDD measurement
- 16:00 -- end of day --
- Tuesday June 18
- 9:00 Opening, reflection on day 1
- 9:15 Activities: Making Round the Bend
- 11:15 -- break --
- 11:30 CERN video clip: accelerators
- update quarknet.org profile
- 11:45 -- lunch --
- 13:00 faculty presentation: Heavy Ion Physics @ LHC - prof. Anthony Timmins (UH)
- 14:00 Q&A
- -- break --
- 14:15 Mass of Z or Top Quark
- 14:30 Introduction to new CMS measurement
- 15:15 Try out measurement
- 16:00 -- end of day --
- Wednesday June 19
- 9:00 Opening, reflection on days 1-2
- 9:15 Activity: TOTEM Data Express
- 10:15 -- break --
- 10:30 Intro CMS e-lab
- 12:00 -- lunch --
- 13:00 Plot and/or Poster work time
- 14:00 faculty presentation: Dark Matter Search - prof. Chris Tunnell (Rice)
- 15:00 Q&A / -- break --
- 15:15 Poster Presentations
- 16:00 -- end of day --
- Thursday June 20
- 9:00 Opening, reflection on CMS Data E-lab
- 9:15 What happens inside a Cloud Chamber? (Video: What To Do With A Cloud Chamber)
- 10:00 -- break --
- 10:15 student presentation: What can you do with your CRMD? - Jaanita Mehrani & Bob Bao
- 12:00 -- lunch --
- 13:00 faculty presentation: Neutrinos - prof. Daniel Cherdack (UH)
- 14:00 Q&A / -- break --
- 14:15 CRMD Workshop: bring your CRMD!
- 16:00 -- end of day --
- Friday June 21
- 9:00 Opening, reflection on CRMD workshop
- 9:15 Physics Lab Tour - Ultracold Atoms and Plasmas in Prof. Killian's Lab (watch this video)
- 10:15 faculty presentation: - prof. Patricia Reiff (Rice)
- 12:00 Q&A
- 12:15 -- lunch --
- 13:15 QuarkNet survey. Use this link: 2019 QuarkNet Teacher Survey
- 13:45 Demo Share-a-Ton
- 14:45 -- break --
- 15:00 Round Table discussion: QuarkNet Masterclasses and CRMDs
- 15:30 Wrap-up
- 16:00 -- end of day --