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Mon 26 July
9:00-9:10 - Jeremy Smith, BCPS
Welcome, schedule for week, brief summary of afternoon work
9:10-10:00 - Dr. Morris Swartz, JHU
"Neutrino Oscillations" - slides (PDF - opens in new window)
From James Rittner: a Dr. Suess-inspired explanation of neutrinos
For fans of 90s hip-hop: a YouTube video showing Chris Marshall, the winner of the ICHEP physics slam, reimagining "Regulate" by Warren G
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10:00-10:30 - Breakfast/coffee break
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10:30-11:40 - Dr. Petar Maksimovic, JHU
"How We Discover Things" slides (PDF - opens in new window))
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Lunch 11:45-12:45
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Monday Afternoon, 12:45pm-4pm
Topic: Particle Physics in the classroom
Activities: Various new activities from the quarknet "Data Activities Portfolio"
Moderators: Jeremy Smith, Kevin Martz
Agenda:
- 1pm-1:50pm - Explore at least 3 activities in "level 0" category of the Quarknet Data Activities Portfolio
- Suggested new activities as of 2019ish: Mapping the Poles, Signal & Noise I, Making Tracks I, Histograms I, Step-Up I
- 1:50pm-2:40pm - Explore at least 2 activities in "level 1" with Particle Transformations as a required activity.
- Other new activities: Signal & Noise II, Hidden Neutrino, What Heiseberg Knew, Step-Up II, Making Tracks II, and several others
- 2:40pm-3:30pm - Conduct the level 2 CMS Data Express activity in its entirety
- This is an excellent activity to conduct with students prior to a WZH masterclass event!
- 3:30pm-4pm - Discuss activities while wearing our "teacher hats"
- Where could these fit?
- What would you adapt? (Write comments on the activity web pages!!)
- Who else in your building could use these?
- What could be improved?
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Tue 27 July
9:10-10:00 - Dr. Andrei Gritsan, JHU
"Understanding the Emptiness: The Higgs Field & Beyond" (slides)
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10:00-10:30 - Breakfast/coffee break
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10:45-11:45 - Dr. Surjeet Rajendran, JHU
"Exploring Gravitational Waves at Various Scales" slides (PDF - opens in new window)
Extra, from NYTimes via Prasad Gerard: Jocelyn Bell's pulsar discovery
(another entry in the male/female and advisor/grad student credit debates!)
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Lunch
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Tuesday Afternoon, 1pm-4pm
Topic: Spectroscopy
Activity: Several demos and experiments using slits & gratings to observe and measure spectra from various light sources
Moderators: Dr. Steve Wonnell, Jeremy Smith
Here is a link to the lab instructions for the afternoon, which also includes links for most of the equipment used, to assist with pricing and purchasing.
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Wed 28 July
9:00-10:00 - Dr. Lucas Macri, Texas A&M
"The SH0ES experiment and the expanding universe"
Slides in PDF. PDF kills animations so here is the New Horizons parallax GIF of Proxima Centauri)
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10:00-10:30 - Breakfast/coffee break
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10:30-12 - Dr. Eugenia Etkina, Rutgers
"NGSS-friendly teaching frameworks"
Slides in PDF. Go to https://www.islephysics.net/index.php to learn more about the ISLE project.
Some have asked for Dr. Etkina's paper on teaching astrophysics in high school. Here is a link
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Lunch
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Wednesday Afternoon, 1pm-4pm
Topic: Expanding Universe
Activity: Developing Hubble's Law using emission spectra from young spiral galaxies
Moderator: Dr. Marianne Vanier
Updated 16 August: Here are the revised Hubble Law activity documents (student pages and teacher pages) which reflect the comments and feedback from the group.
Just for fun: QuarkNet teacher Jim Deane participated in the 2021 Coding Camp, and wrote a Jupyter Notebook (using Google Colab) that allows students to write code for plotting Hubble's Law using a much larger dataset. Take a look here!
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Thu 29 July
9:00-10:00 - Dr. Joseph Eimer
"Reintroduction to the Cosmic Microwave Background"
Extras: The PhysicsGirl YouTube channel has a great video on Inflation and cosmological flatness; the Minute Physics channel explains that the "Big Bang" is more appropriately named the "Everywhere Stretch" with some additional musings on science and religion.
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10:30-12 - Dr. Chuck Bennett
Cosmology Q&A
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Lunch
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Thursday Afternoon, 1pm-4pm
Topic: Blackbody Radiation & the CMB
Activities: Developing Wien's Law using PhET simulation; Explaining the CMB using concepts from blackbody, redshift, expansion
Moderators: Kevin Martz, Jeremy Smith
Here is the latest draft of the Blackbody/CMB activities (student pages and teacher pages). Updated 16 August based on feedback.
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Fri 30 July
9:00-9:30 - Jeremy Smith
"Energy Levels in the Bohr Model"
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9:30-10:00 - Dr. Marc Kamionkowski
TBD
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10:30-?? - Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed
"Highschool Physics of Order and Chaos, Darkness and Light"
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Lunch
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Friday Afternoon, 1pm-3pm
(also: Quarknet Paperwork and updates)
Topic: Additional Cosmology Activities for High School
Activity: Structured Brainstorming
Moderators: Dr. Toby Marriage, Jeremy Smith
Click here to see the PDF that Toby handed out during the session, asking for feedback and suggestions.
Two surveys to complete: one for Kevin and Morris and me to react to, and one that is required for the Quarknet program
1. If a teacher completed the 2019/2020 Full Teacher Survey, then complete the UPDATE: 2021 Teacher Survey (once during 2021). https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/J7DTWMR Plan for ~6 minutes here.
2. Please make comments and suggestions for planning next year's 2022 workshop - click here for the Google form (it is anonymous).