Education and Outreach QuarkNet

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Education and Outreach QuarkNet

• Randy Ruchti
• USCMS Education Coordinator
• USCMS Annual Meeting, Florida State University
• 10-11 May 2002

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E and O Activities

• Education and Outreach Booklet for all of HEP
• Sessions on Education and Outreach at DPF2002
• QuarkNet Project, now in its fourth year
• REU/RET at CERN (Northeastern/Michigan)
• USCMS Fellows
• Visitor Gallery at SX5
• New Directions

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QuarkNet

• Partners high school teachers with particle
  physicists who act as mentors.
• Teachers get summer research experience.
• Centers are established where additional
  teachers, students and physicists are included in
  the program.
• Program is funded by US NSF/MPS, NSF/ESIE and DOE
• Preliminary program 1998 Full program 1999
• Up to 60 centers are planned over a 5-year
  period.
• The proponents for this idea and project
• M. Bardeen (Fermilab Education Office)
• R. M. Barnett (LBNL, Atlas Education Coordinator)
• O. Keith Baker (Hampton Univ)
• R. Ruchti (Notre Dame, USCMS Education
  Coordinator)

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QuarkNet Center Locations
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QuarkNet Organizational Structure
4 PIs O. K. Baker M. Bardeen M. Barnett R.
Ruchti
5 QuarkNet Staff B. Beiersdorf K. Cecire A.
Erzberger T. Jordan P. Mooney
Center 1
Center 3
Typical Center
Center 58
Center 59
Center 60
Center 2
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2 Mentors
2 Lead Teachers
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Active QuarkNet Centers
1999 Centers Boston Univ. Fermilab Florida State
Univ. Indiana Univ. Iowa State Univ. Langston
Univ. Northeastern Univ. Univ. of Notre Dame SUNY
Stony Brook Univ. of Iowa Univ. of California at
Santa Cruz Univ. of Oklahoma Univ. of
Rochester Univ. of Texas at Arlington
2000 Centers Brookhaven Natl Lab. Columbia
Univ./Nevis Labs Hampton Univ. Michigan State
Univ. Southern Methodist Univ. SUNY Albany Univ.
of California at Irvine Univ. of California at
Riverside Univ. of Chicago Univ. of Florida Univ.
of Illinois Chicago Univ. of Pennsylvania Univ.
of Washington
2001 Centers Argonne Natl Lab. Florida Institute
of Tech. Iowa State Univ. Lawrence Berkeley Natl
Lab Rutgers Univ. Texas Tech Univ. Univ. of
Iowa Univ. of Kansas Univ. of Mississippi
Affiliations CMS, ATLAS, D0, CDF
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New QuarkNet Centers for 2002
2002 Center Candidates Univ. of Cincinnati Duke
Univ. Johns Hopkins Univ. Univ. of Maryland
Univ. of Minnesota Univ. of Northern
Illinois Univ. of Oregon Univ. of
Pittsburgh Univ. of South Carolina SLAC Stanford
Univ. Vanderbilt Univ.
Affiliations CMS, ATLAS, DØ, CDF BaBar Fixed
Target Non-accelerator Astrophysics
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QuarkNet Websites
QuarkNet Homepage
http//quarknet.fnal.gov/
Notre Dame QuarkNet Center
http//www.nd.edu/quarknet
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REU, RET, REHS

• REU
• Research Experiences for Undergraduates
• Funded by NSF
• US programs
• National
• Any physics area
• US program at CERN Northeastern Univ.
• HEP specific
• US program at CERN
• Univ. of Michigan
• HEP specific

• RET
• Research Experiences for Teachers
• Funded by NSF
• US programs
• Any physics area
• US program at CERN
• Northeastern Univ.
• HEP specific
• REHS
• Research Experiences for HS Students
• Pilot program at Notre Dame
• Support from D0, CMS, ND
• Initially HEP specific
• Intend any physics area

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USCMS Fellows

• Follow on to the first year of QuarkNet to give
  HS teachers an in-depth 8-week summer research
  experience.
• Typically several teachers supported for the
  summer.
• Piloted in previous summers.

• This year 4 Fellowships
• TTU
• FIT
• Iowa
• OleMiss
• It would be good to expand this to 6 in future
  years.

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Visitor Gallery at SX5

• Effort led by Dave Barney.
• One of the most popular spots on the CERN
  laboratory tour for visitors.
• A mezzanine location at the assembly hall.
• Currently under development.

• We have provided a cosmic ray detector. Should
  have additional video camera plus display screen.
• Seeking additional detector items for display
• Megatile with WLS fibers.
• Optical decoder unit.
• Other detector components.

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New Directions

• Update USCMS Website education items.
• Post talks with sort at various levels.
• Develop a USCMS Brochure.
• Issues at CERN Project Office for USCMS.
• New ideas and suggestions welcome