QuarkNet Summer Workshop at Rice University 2025

Funded by NFS, through Notre Dame University, Quarknet is a week-long $120/day paid stipend 30-credit hour workshop that allows “teachers and physicists to work together on physics research projects exploring the hidden nature of matter, energy, space, and time.” The 2025 Summer Teacher Workshop will be held at Rice University from June 9 - 13, 2025. The agenda for this workshop is posted below (and may change a little bit). The links will give more specific details on some of workshops components. Days start at 8h30am and end at 3h30pm. There will be presentations from Rice and UH faculty right before lunch.

Registration

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Logistics (Getting there, parking there, eating there, …)

Agenda

Monday June 9 (8:30am - 3:30pm)
Morning Session (8h30 - 11am)

• IRIS-HEP

Lunch Session (11am - 1pm)

• Faculty presentation: TBA
• Lunch

Afternoon Session (1h - 3h30pm)

• IRIS-HEP

Tuesday June 10 (8:30am - 3:30pm)
Morning Session (8h30 - 11am)

• IRIS-HEP

Lunch Session

• Faculty presentation: TBA
• Lunch

Afternoon Session (1h - 3h30pm)

• IRIS-HEP

Wednesday June 11 (8:30am - 3:30pm)
Morning Session (8h30 - 11am)

• Cosmic Watch Detector

Lunch Session

• Faculty presentation: TBA
• Lunch

Afternoon Session (1h - 3h30pm)

• Cosmic Watch Detector

Thursday June 12 (8:30am - 3:30pm)
Morning Session (8h30 - 11am)

• Quantum Physics

Lunch Session

• Faculty presentation: TBA
• lunch

Afternoon Session (1h - 3h30pm)

• Quantum Physics

Friday June 13 (8:30am - 3:30pm)
Morning Session (8h30 - 10h30pm)

• TBD

Lunch Session

• Faculty presentation: TBA
• lunch

Afternoon Session (1h - 3h30pm)

• TBA

Photos

Photos will be posted after the workshop


The organizers,

Mary Yarbray (Houston QN Lead Teacher, Klein ISD)
Shane Wood (QN Fellow, Notre Dame), Ken Cecire (QN Fellow, Notre Dame)
Frank Geurts (QN Rice/UH faculty sponsor/coordinator, Rice University)
Darin Acosta (QN Rice/UH faculty mentor, Rice University)