2004 Workshop

7-11 June 2004

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SMU Faculty Participants:

Professor Ryszard Stroynowski	Professor Fred Olness	Professor Tom Coan
Professor Randall J. Scalise	Dr. Jingbo Ye	Dr. Pavel Nadolsky

Randy Scalise has a drink of liquid nitrogen. (Don't try this at home!!!)

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Lectures from the Workshop 2003:  9-13 June 2003 

The SMUon Project:

Resources provided by Jingbo Ye:

Movies and other useful resources: (Careful, some of these are big)

The Particle Adventure: The whole thing in a single zip file:  (86M Zip File)
The ATLAS Movie: (185M Zip File)
The RHIC Movie: (123M Zip File)

Lectures we borrowed from other sources:

Lectures by Luciano Maiani at CERN Summer School 2001  (2.4M PDF)
Lectures by Deborah Harris for Tevatron University 2002  (1.6M PDF)
CROP Project: Lectures by Gregory Snow   (4.6M PDF)
Fermi: Interactions: Overview of High Energy Physics  (6.8M PDF)

Other Resources from 2003:

List and Pics of Participants: 2003  
FTP File Area for misc documents and pictures: 2003

Darren Carollo takes 8 students to explore the Lewis & Clark Trail: (143K PDF)
What people are saying about QuarkNet: 2003

Lectures from the Workshop 2002:  11-14 June 2002

NSF/DOE Review (Dec. 2001

Fred Olness' presentation:  PDF  Format  (1.8 MB)   or PPT Source  (gzip format 2.0 MB)

Lectures from the Workshop 2001: Held 4-15 June 2001

Ken Taylor's Lectures on Accelerating Particles: PDF  Format  (4.9 MB)   or PPT Source  (zip format 4.5 MB)

Larry Grise's Information about Rutherford Scattering Lab (text file)

Ryszard Stroynowski's Lectures on the Goals of Particle Physics: PDF  Format  (434KB)   or PPT Source  (764KB)

Tamara Trout's Lectures on General Relativity: : PDF  Format  (2.6 MB)   or PPT Source  (gzip format 89 KB)

Chaos Circuit: How To Build Using OpAmps: : PDF  Format  (402KB)   or ps.gz  (487KB)

Sandra Lyman's report on Particle Detectors in Physics: Word.doc format (71 KB)

Richard Lines' report on the Cosmic Ray Telescope: PDF  Format  (277 KB)   or PPT Source  (251KB)

Randy Scalise's note on the cantilevered blocks demonstration: Text file (3K)

Other Resources from 2001:

List and Pics of Participants: 2001  

What people are saying about QuarkNet: 2001

Evaluations from the QuarkNet Participants: 2001

FTP File Area for misc documents and pictures: 2001

SMU Press Release about the Workshop: 2001

SMU Press Release about Nobel laureate Leon Lederman visit 

Interesting Books:

• Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions
  
  A classic--a must read.
  
  There are many editions, but Dover is $1.50 if you can still find it in print.  ISBN: 048627263X Paperback: 96 pages.
  
  There are more expensive editions, or you can download in free from Project Gutenberg  http://www.gutenberg.net/    Specifically,  http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/201
  
  
  
• The Shape of Space : How to Visualize Surfaces and Three-Dimensional Manifolds,

by Jeffrey R. Weeks; Marcel Dekker; ISBN: 082477437X.
A wonderful book that helps us visualize higher dimensional curved spaces and nontrivial topologies.
 
• Mr Tompkins in Paperback,

by George Gamow; Cambridge Univ Pr. ISBN: 0521447712.
A classic! Provides an intuitive introduction to relativity, cosmology, quantum mechanics, and more.
 
• One Two Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science

by George Gamow; Dover Pub; ISBN: 0486256642.
From the micro to the macro.
   
• The First Three Minutes : A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe.

by Steven Weinberg, Basic Books; ISBN: 0465024378.
A non-technical introduction to cosmology and the origins of the universe.
 

• The Ideas of Particle Physics

by G. D. Coughlan, J. E. Dodd, Cambridge Univ Pr (Short); ISBN: 0521386772.
Contains wonderful explanations of basic particle physics phenomena with simple, non-technical explanations.
 
• The Evolution of Physics" Einstein, Albert and Infeld, Leopold.   ISBN: 0-671-20156-5

A non-mathematical treatment of physics from classical through relativity and quantum.   Excellent intuitive insights and a great read.

Interesting CD ROM's:

The Particle Adventure: The whole thing in a single zip file:  (86M Zip File)

Interesting Videos:

• Under Construction
  
  
• In Search of the Edge
  IN SEARCH OF THE EDGE is a comprehensive documentary proving, fairly conclusively, that the earth is flat!
  An Inquiry into the Shape of the Earth and the Disappearance of Andrea Barns. Flat earth theory proved! A lesson in critical thinking & media literacy.
   
• ATLAS Experiment movie web site  or a local copy:  The ATLAS Movie: (185M Zip File)
  
  
• The RHIC Movie: (123M Zip File) 

• Powers of 10:
A fascinating tour of the universe from the astronomical to the quantum scales. (Fred's Rating: ***)
 
• Hidden by Time:
  
High-Speed Motion Events (Approximately 30 Minutes) Over 70 high-speed sequences involving impacts, collisions, and fluid behaviors. (Fred's Rating: ****)

Select videos from the NOVA video series:

Runaway Universe
Tuesday, April 8, 2003. The program follows the efforts of two rival teams of astronomers as they search for exploding stars, map out gigantic cosmic patterns of galaxies, and grapple with the ultimate question: What is the fate of the universe? Here's what you'll find online:

Vanished.
January 30, 2001. The program investigates the mysterious disappearance -- and, half a century later, reappearance -- of Stardust, a civilian aircraft that crashed in the Andes in 1947.

Einstein Revealed
Meet the young patent clerk whose ideas about light, space, and time have transformed our view of the universe.

Select videos from the American Experience:

Rescue at Sea:
 On January 23, 1909, two ships -- one carrying Italian immigrants to New York City, the other, American tourists to Europe -- collided in dense fog off Nantucket Island. In a moment, more than 1,500 lives became dependent on a new technology, wireless telegraphy, and on Jack Binns, a twenty-six-year-old wireless operator on board one of the ships.

From the Geometry Center:

The Geometry Center is a mathematics research and education center at the University of Minnesota. The Center has a unified mathematics computing environment supporting math and computer science research, mathematical visualization, software development, application development, video animation production, and K-16 math education.

• The Shape of Space:

Through computer animations and fly-throughs, The Shape of Space explores the possible shapes of our universe. It suggests the possibility of a finite but boundless shape for our space. Using objects such as spheres, cylinders, and Möbius stripsas possible shapes for a two-dimensional universe, The Shape of Space investigates corresponding three-dimensional shapes, and encourages the viewer to imagine how our universe could be formed by one of these. (Fred's Rating: ***)
 
• Not Knot:

Not Knot is a guided tour into computer-animated hyperbolic space. It proceeds from the world of knots to their complementary spaces -- what's not a knot. Profound theorems of recent mathematics show that most known complements carry the structure of hyperbolic geometry, a geometry in which the sum of three angles of a triangle always is less than 180 degrees. (Fred's Rating: **)
 
 
• Outside In:

The award-winning computer animation Outside In explains the amazing discovery, made by Steve Smale in 1957, that a sphere can be turned inside out by means of smooth motions and self intersections, without cutting or tearing. It convincingly demonstrates how valuable can be in the communication of mathematics. (Fred's Rating: ***)

From  Fermilab

• Fermilab's Pursuit of the Fundamental:  (17 Min)

Good introduction.
 (Fred's Rating: ***)
 
• A Sense of Scale:  (28 Min)

A bit longer than above
 (Fred's Rating: **)
 
• Accelerating Science:  (5 Min)

Fun for the kids.  A "rap" music tour of the accelerator.
 (Fred's Rating: *)

Interesting Teacher Resources: 

• Interesting  Resources suggested by Richard Lines:
• Interesting  Resources suggested by Sandra Lyman:
• Material Provided by Kris Whelan:
  

Interesting Links:

Fermilab Web-based Instructional Materials

Online educational resources for Physics teachers
A collection of Java applets from Italy

NTNU Virtual Physics Laboratory (Java Applets)
(seems not to work in Netscape, only Internet Explorer)

SMU Physics Home Page

Particle Data Group, LBL

The Particle Adventure

Contemporary Physics Education Project

Particle Physics Education and Information sites

LHC ATLAS Education Page

CERN Microcosom: Discover the World of Particles

Cool links: 2002

Cool links: 2003

A NEW FORM OF MATTER: Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Atom Laser Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT
Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) Homepage

Interesting Reports:

National Academy of Sciences Press webpage

Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards, National Research  Council,

Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century

Physics in a New Era: An Overview (2001)