SMU Quarknet Workshop 5-9 August
2013
Meet at 9:00am in room 155 Fondren
Science Building on the SMU campus.
Participants:
Mentors
Teachers
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Bruce
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Boehne
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Beau
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Wells
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Nathan
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Brown
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Beverly
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Cannon
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Darren Carollo
Kevin
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Carter
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Leon
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De Oliveira
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Ron
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Esman
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Nancy Jane
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Hall
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Richard
Lines
Timothy
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Graves
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Robert
Nell
Tammy
McDaniel
Reinaldo
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Medina
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Julia
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Porowski
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Evelyn
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Restivo
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Gail
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Rothstein
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Rushe Statser
Valerie
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Thomas
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SMU Physics
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Rick Guarino
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Fred Olness
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Ryszard Stroynowksi
QuarkNet
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Shane Wood
Students
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Nick Geldert
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Brittni Watkins
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7 x HPISD (Trina’s)
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Channing Tucker (Leon’s)
Approx Schedule
Lectures Room 155, Lab Room 26/32 Fondren Science
9 am (sharp) – 5pm (soft) every day.
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5 Mo Welcome | QuarkNet Special Award at Science fair| Higgs talk from CERN (Joe Izen, UTD) |LUNCH|
Cloud Chamber construction
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6 Tu Intro to the Standard Model (Leon de Oliveira) | Fermilab Boot Camp report (Valerie Thomas) | Special Relativity (Fred Olness, SMU) |
|LUNCH|
1pm -3pm Tour of radiology and crystallography at UTSW. Pool cars, return to SMU.
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7 We CMS e-lab (Shane Wood, Evelyn Restivo) LHC
and detectors (Ryszard Stroynowski,
SMU) | e-Lab first look
|LUNCH|
CMS Data Express | Z mass plot in e-Lab
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8 Th CMS e-lab (Shane Wood, Evelyn Restivo) Group work: investigations, make posters
|LUNCH|
Present posters, discussion
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9 Fr Super CDMS summer research project (Janee Hall) | ATLAS Datalink Upgrade summer research projects (Trina Cannon + 8 students) |
|LUNCH|
aerodynamics and robotics (Darren Carollo) | Physics Master Class intro (Evelyn Restivo) | Oceanography (Bruce Boehne) | QuarkNet opportunities, Close
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Refreshments
and Buffet Lunch will be provided at SMU every day.
One of the teachers asked about
the difference between a cloud chamber and a bubble chamber. As it
happens, there was a contemporaneous short film produced at CERN about the Gargamelle Bubble chamber that QuarkNetters
might enjoy to see:
http://cds.cern.ch/record/43141
Random Resources
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Contact info for senior QuarkNet SMU teachers
with a cosmic ray detector (CRD)
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Rich Lines ralines@garlandisd.net
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Ken Taylor KenTaylor@richardson.k12.tx.us
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Gail Rothstein GRothstein@Dallasisd.org
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