Conveners
Education and Outreach
- Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
- Gregory Snow (University of Nebraska)
Education and Outreach
- Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
- Snow Gregory (University of Nebraska in Lincoln)
Dr
Marco Cavaglia
(University of Mississippi)
09/08/2011, 16:00
Education and Outreach
Parallel contribution
Gravitational waves are produced by some of the most energetic and dramatic phenomena in the Universe: Black holes, neutron stars and supernovae. As powerful as they are are at their sources, gravitational waves are incredibly elusive by the time they reach the Earth. Although gravitational waves were predicted almost a century ago (as a consequence of General Relativity), they still have not...
Dr
James Madsen
(University of Wisconsin River Falls)
09/08/2011, 16:15
Education and Outreach
Parallel contribution
The combination of cutting-edge discovery science with the exotic Antarctic environment provides an ideal vehicle to excite and engage a wide audience. Examples of how the International IceCube Collaboration has brought the Universe to the classroom and the general public via the South Pole will be presented.
Margaret Norris
(Sanford Underground Laboratory)
09/08/2011, 16:30
Education and Outreach
Parallel contribution
The Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) – proposed for the site of the former Homestake Goldmine in Lead, SD – will provide the facility and infrastructure for scientists to study some of the most compelling questions about the history and fate of our universe through its major experiments searching for direct evidence of dark matter and exploring the nature of...
Prof.
Gregory Snow
(University of Nebraska)
09/08/2011, 16:45
Education and Outreach
Parallel contribution
The scale and scope of the physics studied at the Auger Observatory offer significant opportunities for original outreach work. Education, outreach and public relations of the Auger collaboration are coordinated in a separate task whose goals are to encourage and support a wide range of education and outreach efforts that link schools and the public with the Auger scientists and the science of...
Dr
Charles Timmermans
(Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
09/08/2011, 17:00
Education and Outreach
Parallel contribution
The HiSPARC project is a high school cosmic ray project that originated in the Netherlands. The aim of this project is to have high school students participate in building and running a scientific project, thereby increasing their enthusiasm for science in general. We are experimenting with different detector configurations, performing a calibration on the KASCADE site, and exploring the...
Dr
Helio Takai
(Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
09/08/2011, 17:15
Education and Outreach
Parallel contribution
The MARIACHI initiative involves a community with diverse academic backgrounds to explore forefront science. We focus on the study of cosmic rays. Our flagship theme has been the development of a new technology for the detection of cosmic rays, namely forward scattering radar. Over the years many other research subjects have been added to the list of our interests and they are now in various...
Prof.
Alice Bean
(Department of Physics and Astronomy)
09/08/2011, 17:30
Education and Outreach
Parallel contribution
Can exposure to fundamental ideas about the nature of matter help motivate children in math and science and support the development of their understanding of these ideas later? Physicists, designers, and museum educators at the University of Kansas created the Quarked!™ Adventures in the subatomic Universe project to provide an opportunity for youth to explore the subatomic world in a fun and...
Michael Barnett
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
09/08/2011, 17:45
Education and Outreach
Parallel contribution
Press releases are issued by labs when a major result
such as a discovery is announced. More commonly, we write
papers that are not worthy of a press release. Nonetheless,
many in the public are quite interested to see progress in
our experiments. Tevatron experiments have pioneered plain
English summaries of experimental papers, and the concept is
spreading to the LHC experiments. ...
Kenneth William Cecire
(University of Notre Dame)
10/08/2011, 16:30
Education and Outreach
Parallel contribution
The IPPOG and U.S. particle physics masterclasses took place worldwide in March, 2011. For the first time, all masterclasses used real LHC data. Students in the U.S. masterclasses (that included participants in several countries outside the U.S.) analyzed both ATLAS and CMS data. QuarkNet has been evaluating the U.S. effort since 2008. The design of the LHC masterclasses and the results of...
MIke Fetsko
(Goodwin High School, Virginia)
10/08/2011, 16:42
Education and Outreach
Parallel contribution
The CMS Collaboration has released more than a quarter of a million 7 TeV proton-proton events that contain pairs of muons, electrons or jets with 2-body invariant masses in the range 0 to 100 GeV for student and teacher investigations. QuarkNet and I2U2 have developed software to exploit these data in a manner similar to that of the front-line physicists: a 3-D web-based event display to...
Thomas Jordan
(University of Florida/Fermilab)
10/08/2011, 16:55
Education and Outreach
Parallel contribution
Since 1998, QuarkNet has provided over 500 cosmic ray muon detectors to teachers in the project and collaborators on similar projects. The detector relies on GPS accuracy for time-stamping PMT pulses from four scintillation counters. The DAQ is now in its third revision. Students and teachers use the detector to carry out small experiments to measure properties of cosmic ray muons. Other...
Prof.
Reinhard Schwienhorst
(Michigan State University)
10/08/2011, 17:10
Education and Outreach
Parallel contribution
An outreach effort has started at Michigan State University to bring the physics of the LHC and the ATLAS detector to the Abrams planetarium on the MSU campus. MSU graduate and undergraduate students from Physics as well as from the College of Communication Arts & Sciences are putting together planetarium content on the LHC and its connection to astronomy, the big bang, and dark matter. I will...
Marjorie Bardeen
(Fermilab)
10/08/2011, 17:25
Education and Outreach
Parallel contribution
In 1980 Leon Lederman started Saturday Morning Physics with a handful of volunteer physicists, around 300 students and all the physics teachers who tagged along. Today Fermilab offers over 30 programs annually with help from 250 staff volunteers and 50 educators, and serves around 40,000 students and 2,500 teachers. Find out why we bother. Over the years we have learned to take advantage of...
