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We will meet in Bloomberg 462 in the mornings; 478 for the PM sessions.
Scroll to bottom for some details and files related to PM lab work.
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Agenda
Mon 22 July
9:00-10:00 - Jeremy Smith, Hereford HS; Morris Swartz, JHU
Welcome, schedule for week, brief summary of afternoon work; the Muon g-2 experiment
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10:00-10:10 coffee break
10:15 - Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed - Why do we live in a second-derivative universe?
Jeremy's attempt at notes
Greg's notes
1:00-2:00 lunch
2:00 - introduction to “pathways” for afternoon lab work (see end of page for details on each)
-cosmic ray detectors
-radio astronomy: galactic rotation curves
-radio astronomy: measuring the CMB temperature (AKA fun with liquid nitrogen)
-superconductivity lab
-cloud chambers for the classroom
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Tue 23 July
9:00-10:00 - Katie Bennett: Fascinating results from the JWST NIRSpec instrument (slides in PDF)
10:00-10:10 - coffee break
10:15 - 12:15ish - Dr. David Kaplan: Invariants in SR, GR, Cosmology - does dark matter have to be a particle at all??...
Jeremy's notes
Greg's notes
12:30-1:30 - lunch
1:30-4: lab pathways
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Wed 24 July
9:00-10:00 - Dr. Danielle Norcini: Searching for dark matter using silicon (slides as PDF)
10:00-10:10 coffee break
10:15-11:15 - Greg Hrinda: CERN trip; building a Linac with students; incorporating Python into the classroom
11:00-11:10 - coffee break
11:15-12:15 - Dr. Andrei Gritsan, JHU: “Tetraquarks; or, 50 years of the quark model”
12:30-1:30 - lunch
12:30-4: lab pathways
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Thu 25 July
9:00-9:30 - Student cosmic ray experiments
9:30-10:00 - Ray Hodges, Jewish Day School - the CERN antihydrogen experiments (slides as PDF)
10:00-10:10 coffee break
10:15-11:15 Dr. Keisuke Inomata, theoretical cosmology: The history of the universe, probed by gravitational waves
11:15-11:25 - coffee break
11:30-12:30 - Dr. Sean Carroll: Philosophy of quantum mechanics: The Many Worlds hypothesis
12:30-1:30 - lunch
1:30-4 - cloud chamber particle detectors
Materials list and assembly instructions available at the S'Cool page from CERN
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Fri 26 July
9:00-10:00 - Surjeet Rajendran: What happens when the microscopic becomes the macroscopic? or, "Shut up and calculate!" (slides here, and a more formal write-up here.)
10:00-10:10 - Breakfast/coffee break
10:15-11:15 - Tour of Danielle Speller's lab
11:15-11:25 - coffee break
11:30-12:30 - Dr. Chuck Bennett: experimental cosmology Q&A
12:30-1:30 - lunch
1:30-3 - finish lab pathways, brief report-out
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Details on PM Lab Work, Links
1. Cosmic Ray Detector (link to necessary software here)
2. Student Radio Telescope (download specs & lab documents here)
- Galactic Rotation Curve
- CMB temperature measurement
3. Cloud Chamber (here's the landing page for the project and here are the assembly instructions in PDF)
4. Superconductivity (here's the device listed at PASCO for five hunnit fitty dollars!)
5. Quarknet Activities (find the link to the Data Activities Portfolio at top of this site)