QuarkNet
at UCLA 2004 
QuarkNet is a program that brings high school students and teachers to the frontier of 21st century research seeking to resolve some of the mysteries about the structure of matter and the fundamental forces of nature.
The UCLA QuarkNet Associate Teacher Institute, June 21-July 2, 2004
The Associate Teacher Institute joins UCLA physicists with
about 15 high school physics teachers from the greater
The program mentors are UCLA Profs.
See pictures from the Quarknet2004-UCLA workshop.
The agenda is shown below.
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Week 1 |
Monday, June 21 |
Tuesday, June 22 |
Wednesday, June 23 |
Thursday, June 24 |
Friday, June 25 |
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Morning
8-11:30 (Talks, |
8-9:30 Introductions, logistics, and goals: *
Parking, stipends, class credit. *
Discuss and define goals of this workshop. *
What can participants present on June 28? 9:30-10:00 Coffee break 10:00-11:00 Knudsen physics lecture demos tour by
Dr. Martin Simon: 11-12:00 Demonstration show by Dr. Art Huffman |
8-9:30
Prof.
Jay Hauser: introduction to Special Relativity 9:30-10:00
Coffee break 10-11:30
Prof.
Per Kraus: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 11:30-12:00
Discussion. |
8-9:
00 Prof.
Jay Hauser: introduction to Lagrangians 9:00-9:30
Prof.
Michael Gutperle: Lagrangian
of a spring and Field Theory model 9:30-10:00
Coffee break 10:00-11:30
Dr. Theresa Lynn: Cosmic rays and their detection: the CHICOS experiment, basic detection
principles 11:30-12:00
Discussion. |
8:00-9:30
Prof.
Michael Gutperle: Standard Model 9:30-10:00
Coffee break 10:00-10:30
Al Siger – how to visualize the 8-fold
pattern of particles 10:30-12:00
Prof.
Michael Gutperle: Particle physics: the
standard model. |
8:00-9:30
Prof.
Katsushi Arisaka: Introduction to Cosmology 9:30-10:00
Coffee break 10:00-11:00
Prof.
Katsushi Arisaka: Cosmology and particle physics. 11:00-11:30
Discussion. |
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Comments: |
-Coffee and bagels or
donuts will be provided at 8 a.m. each day. -Parking passes from
information booth at corner of Hilgard and Westholme. -Meet in Knudsen 6-107. |
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Afternoon
12:30-4:30 (Activities) |
12:30-2:30
Beginning the Particle Adventure – Particle Zoo and Accelerator parts
(Bob Baker). 2:30-3:00
Coffee break 3:00-4:00
Intro. to Interactive Physics (James Warren). 4:00-4:30
Discussion. |
12:30-1:30
Particle Adventure - Detector part (Bob Baker). 1:30-2:00
Visit CHICOS web site (Bob Baker). 2:00-2:30
Coffee break 2:30-4:00
Talk about cosmic ray detectors, watch the video, and visit web site (James
Warren). Form detector construction teams. 4:00-4:30
Discussion. |
12:30-4:30
Cosmic ray detector construction: electronics (7 groups). 2:00-2:30
Coffee break |
12:30-2:00
Prof.
Jay Hauser: Discussion of electronics circuits 2:00-2:30
coffee break 2:30-3:30
Dr. Vahe Ghazikhanian: scintillators, photomultipliers and Cockroft-Walton
high voltage supplies 3:30-4:00
Discussion. |
12:30-4:00
More cosmic ray detector lab time: try to finish soldering circuit boards. 4:00-4:30
Discussion: which 5 dates to meet during following year? |
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Comments: |
PICL
lab on 1st floor Knudsen Hall has computers. |
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Week 2 |
Monday, June 28 |
Tuesday, June 29 |
Wednesday, June 30 |
Thursday, July 1 |
Friday, July 2 |
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Morning
8-11:30 (Talks, |
8:00-9:30
Participant sharing: useful activities and tools, experiences in science
teaching 9:30-10:00
Coffee break 10:00-11:00
180F laboratory experiments: show spark chamber, phototube pulses,
discriminator, logic. 11:00-11:30
Tour of 180A Nuclear lab with Dr. Vahe
Ghazikhanian. |
8:00-9:30
James Warren: Interactive Physics. 9:30-10:00
Coffee break 10:00-11:00
Prof.
Jay Hauser: CMS and the search for the Higgs particle 11:00-11:30
Discussion. |
8:00-9:30
Prof.
Michael Gutperle: Standard Model (II) 9:30-10:00
Coffee break 10:00-11:00 Prof.
David Saltzberg: Neutrino particle physics. 11:00-11:30
Discussion. |
8:00-9:30
Prof. Andrea Ghez: Black holes and Dark Matter 9:30-10:00
Coffee break 10:00-11:00
Prof.
Eric D’Hoker: General Relativity and
String Theory 11:00-11:30
Discussion. |
8:00-9:30
Prof.
Roberto Peccei: The future of particle
physics. 10:00-11:30
Wrap up lab work. |
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Afternoon
12:30-4:30 (Activities) |
12:30-2:00
QuarkNet “catching some Z’s” part
I (Bob). 2:00-2:30
Coffee break 2:30-4:30
Lab time – time to switch between electronics and mechanical
construction and/or data taking? 4:00-4:30
Discussion. |
12:30-2:00
QuarkNet “catching some Z’s” part
II (Bob). 2:00-2:30
Coffee break 2:30-4:00
Lab time 4:00-4:30
Discussion. |
12:30-2:00
Cosmic ray data taking at STRB 2:00-2:30
Walk back to Knudsen. 2:30-4:00
Final detector preparations. 4:00-4:30
Discussion. |
12:30-4:30
Field trip to |
12:30-2:00
Discussion of results. 2:00-2:30
Coffee break 2:30-3:30
The JW comedy hour. 4:00-4:30
Discussion. |
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* Other activities at * Otherwise, drive up |
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Other possible activities:
- Other Quarknet activities.
- Viewing Elegant Universe videos on Superstrings (Brian Greene).
- Using CBLs for Texas Instruments calculators to take data.
- Looking at data from the CSC detector at the STRB.
Links that came up as useful during the workshop:
· Cosmology lectures by Prof. Katsushi Arisaka
· Directory of bubble chamber photos from Scott Cameron
Potential activities for the follow-on days during the 2004-5 academic year are:
- Field trip to
- TBD
- TBD
- TBD
- Planning for the 2005 Associate Teacher Institute
Teacher perks: participants can earn up to 6 units of graduate physics credits
from the workshop through
If you are interested in participating, please fill out the
application form, and send it to our local secretary, Anchi Kao,
kao@physics.ucla.edu, 310-825-3441. Deadline for application is March 15, 2004.
Useful Links
UCLA
Particle Collider Physics
UCLA Department of Physics
and Astronomy
University of California, Los
Angeles
Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center
Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory
