QuarkNet 2023 Summer Workshop
Day 1: IRIS_HEP Coding Workshop with QN fellows (left to right): Tracie Schroeder, Chris Hatton, and Kayla Mitchell
Monday lecture: Prof. Bellwied (UH) explains matter under extreme conditions.
Tuesday lecture: Teachers gathered around Prof. Morosan's (Rice) who demonstrates supercondictivity
Tuesday lecture: more demos from Prof. Morosan (Rice)
Tuesday lecture: hands-on demos are the best!
IRIS-HEP group foto next to the STAR event display of a heavy-ion collisions (upper right panel)
Prof. Acosta explains in this Thursday lecture the basic parts of the Standard Model
Prof. Acosta shows the many places where Rice is involved in CMS subdetector upgrades. Pretty impressive to see our logo next to many of the subdetectors!
Thursday's demo: the Cloud Chamber with in the back our small electron accelerator (a cathode ray tube, aka. your old not-so-flat TV set)
Thursday's faculty lecture by Prof. Toffoletto (RIce) who connects Roswell to Rice ... who knew?!?
Prof. Toffoletto demonstrates a cheap PVC-based trumpet in his lecture on the Physics of Music
Friday's lecture and demos on the 2024 Solar Eclipse. Excellent presentation by Carlton Colmenares, Chloe Leibenthal, and Renum Saxena
Friday's workshop (and Thursday's) focussed on World-Wide Data Day (W2D2) and New Questions. QuarkNet fellows Shane Woods and Ken Cecire led the respective workshops
Friday's luch means GUMBO! And, lots of it :)
Friday's New Questions. What do we know about g-2?
Friday's (final) group photo ... and Prof. Geurts is showing off his new t-shirt.