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QuarkNet Summer 2002 Institute Schedule
Monday, June 10    Tuesday, June 11    Wednesday, June 12     Thursday, June 13    Friday, June 14

Monday, June 17    Tuesday, June 18    Wednesday, June 19     Thursday, June 20    Friday, June 21

Monday, June 24    Tuesday, June 25    Wednesday, June 26     Thursday, June 27 

Monday, June 10

Activity

Time

Location

Orientation

  • Parking permits

  • Paperwork  

  • Building tour

9:00 - 11:00 Malott 1072
Break 11:00 - 11:15
Phil Baringer:

A Brief History of Particle Physics

11:15 - 12:00 Malott 1072
Lunch on your own 12:00 - 1:00

Browse through The Particle Adventure

  • What is Fundamental?

  • What is the world made of?

  • What holds it together?

  • Particle decays and annihilations

1:00 - 2:45 Budig Hall Mac Lab
Break 2:45 - 3:00

CPEP Activity One 

Fundamentally Speaking

3:00 - 4:00 Malott 1072

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Tuesday, June 11

Activity

Time

Location

Questions, concerns 9:00 - 9:15 Malott 1072
Phil Baringer:
  • Continued from Monday
  • Accelerator operations
  • Detector theory
  • Breaks as needed
9:15 - 12:00 Malott 1072
Lunch on your own 12:00 - 1:00  

Day 2 of browsing through The Particle Adventure

  • Unsolved mysteries

  • How do we know any of this?

  • How do we detect what’s happening?

  • How do we experiment with tiny particles?

  • How do we interpret our data?

1:00 - 3:00 Budig Hall Mac Lab
Break 2:45 - 3:00  

CPEP Activity Two

Psyching Out the System

3:00 - 4:00 Malott 1072

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Wednesday, June 12

Activity

Time

Location

Questions, concerns 9:00 - 9:15 Malott 1072
Phil Baringer:
  • Continued from Tuesday
  • Current experiments
  • KU involvement
  • Breaks as needed
9:15 - 10:30 Malott 1072

Break

10:30 - 10:45  

CPEP Activity Three--

Rutherford's Discovery

10:45 - 12:00 Malott 1072

Lunch on your own

12:00 - 1:00  

Active Learning Activities

Breaks as needed

1:00 - 4:00 Malott 1072

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Thursday, June 13

Activity

Time

Location

Questions, concerns 9:00 - 9:15 Malott 1072
Video

The Big Crunch

9:15 - 10:00 Malott 1072
Dave Besson

Neutrinos

10:00 - 11:00 Haworth 1005
Break 11:00 - 11:15  
TIMP Activity

Indirect Measurement

11:15 - 12:00 Malott 1072
Lunch on your own 12:00 - 1:00  

The Particle Adventure Activity/assessment project

  • Work in pairs

  • Brainstorming

  • Breaks as needed

1:00 - 3:00 Budig Hall Mac Lab

CD-ROM

  • Atlas Experiment

  • Anatomy of a Detector

3:00 - 4:00 Malott 1072

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Friday, June 14

Activity

Time

Location

Questions, concerns 9:00 - 9:15 Malott 1072
TIMP Activity

Fundamental Units

915 - 10:30 Malott 1072
Break 11:30 - 10:45  
CPEP Activity Four

Tracking Unseen Particles

10:45 - 12:00 Malott 1072
Lunch on your own 12:00 - 1:00  

Day 2 of The Particle Adventure Activity/assessment project

  • Work pairs

  • Notes

  • Initial ideas

  • Breaks as needed

1:00 - 3:00 Budig Hall Mac Lab

Standard Model Overhead & Posters

3:00 - 4:00 Malott 1072

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Monday, June 17

Activity

Time

Location

Questions, concerns 9:00 - 9:15 Malott 1072
CPEP Activity Five

The Rules of the Game

9:15 - 10:00 Malott 1072
Break 10:00 - 10:15  
Video

The Creation of the Universe

10:15 - 12:00 Malott 1072
Lunch on your own 12:00 - 1:00  

Work on The Particle Adventure Activity/assessment projects--continued from Friday

1:00 - 3:00 Budig Hall Mac Lab

Discussion of Particle Adventure projects

3:00 - 4:00 Malott 1072

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Tuesday, June 18

Activity

Time

Location

Questions, concerns 9:00 - 9:15 Malott 1072
CPEP Activity Six & Seven
  • Observing Magnetic Effects on Particle Beams
  • Picturing Particles
9:15 - 10:15 Malott 1072
Break 10:15 - 10:30  
CD-ROM

Powers of Ten

10:30 - 12:00 Malott 1072
Lunch on your own 12:00 - 1:00  

Bruce Twarog

Particles and the Universe

1:00 - 2:00 Malott 1001

Break

2:00 - 2:15  
Work on projects 2:15 - 3:15 Budig Hall Computer Lab
CD-ROM

Nature of Science

3:15 - 4:00 Malott 1072

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Wednesday, June 19

Activity

Time

Location

Questions, concerns 9:00 - 9:15 Malott 1072
TIMP Activities
  • Baryon Composition
  • Meson Composition
  • Particle Reactions
  • Breaks as needed
9:15 - 12:00 Malott 1072
Lunch on your own 12:00 - 1:00  

Presentations on The Particle Adventure Activity/assessment projects

1:00 - 3:00 Malott 1072

Video

Race for the Top Quark

3:00 - 4:00 Malott 1072

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Thursday, June 20

Activity

Time

Location

Questions, concerns 9:00 - 9:15 Malott 1072
Phil Baringer

Relativity & Muon Lifetime

9:15 - 10:15 Malott 1072
Break 10:15 - 10:30  
Cloud Chamber Activity 10:30 - 12:00 TBA
Lunch on your own 12:00 - 1:00  

Open Lab & Demo

  • Muon Detector

  • E/M Demo

  • Photoelectric Effect

  • Radiation Experiments

  • Breaks as needed

1:00 - 4:00 TBA

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Friday, June 21

Activity

Time

Location

Questions, concerns 9:00 - 9:15 Malott 1072
Stephen Sanders

Brookhaven Lab Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

9:15 - 10:15 Malott 1072
Break 10:15 - 10:30  
Introduction to the Global Positioning System 10:30 - 12:00 Malott 1072
Lunch on your own 12:00 - 1:00  

GPS Activities

1:00 - 2:00 Malott 1072

Feynman Diagrams Activity

2:00 - 3:30 Malott 1072
Gather up your goodies 3:30 - 4:00 Malott 1072

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Monday, June 24

Activity

Time

Location

Depart from Lawrence for Fermilab

9:00 am TBA

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Tuesday, June 25

Activity

Time

Location

Fermilab tour

TBA  

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Wednesday, June 26

Activity

Time

Location

Chicago Activities 

   

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Thursday, June 27

Activity

Time

Location

Return home to Kansas

   

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