Program of Boston Area Quarknet Workshop

Week 1

 
date
August 7
August 8
August 9
August 10
August 11
location
Boston University
Boston University
Boston University
Boston University
Boston University
9 am
PRB 593 
Registration, Introductions
PRB 593 
Relativity 
(Dower - Roxbury Latin)
PRB 593 
Quantum Mechanics 
(Srivastava - Northeastern/Perugia)
PRB 593 
Historical Perspective of Standard Model 
(Glashow-BU/Harvard)
PRB 593 
Neutrino Physics 
(Kearns - BU)
 
10 am
Welcome (Whitaker – BU)
Workshop Overview
 
PRB 593
Visualization of Quantum Mechanics 
(Rebbi – BU)
PRB 593 
Open Questions in Particle Physics
(Simmons - BU)
PRB 593 
Tevatron Physics 
(Narain - BU)
11 am
Introduction to Particle Physics (Heintz - BU)
 
12 
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
 
1 pm
PRB 593 
Project Assignments
PRB 593 
Relativity Problems
(Dower)
SCI B19
Photoelectric Effect 
(Heintz)
PRB 459
Counter Assembly 
Muon Lifetime 
SCI B19 
Photoelectric Effect
PRB 459
Complete 
Muon Lifetime Experiment 
Counter Assembly 
(Butler)
 
2 pm
PRB 459
Muon Lifetime Experiment 
(Butler - BU)
Counter Assembly 
(Osborne – BU)
SCI B15
Measurement of e/m of Electron 
(Heintz)
 
3 pm
 
4 pm
Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
 
Week 2

date
August 14
August 15
August 16
August 17
August 18
location
Boston University
Northeastern University
Northeastern University
Northeastern University
Roxbury Latin
9 am
PRB 593
Lecture Demos 
(Duffy – BU)
90 Snell Library 
Calorimeters
(Wood – Northeastern)
90 Snell Library
Visualization 
(Paul - Northeastern)
90 Snell Library
Introduction to Statistics
(Heintz/Dower)
(Dower)
 
10 am
Outreach (Brossman–BU)
Tour of Chandra Operations Center in Cambridge
(Dower)
On-screen Particle Physics
(Dower)
 
Tracking Detectors 
(Heintz)
11 am
 
12
Lunch
Lunch (Harvard Square)
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
 
1 pm
PRB 593 
SuperK Event Scan 
(Scholberg - BU) 
PRB 366
(Heintz/Narain)
Tour of ATLAS muon chamber facility at Harvard University 
(Ahlen - BU)
Library Time
Radioactivity Lab
(Wood)
Analysis of Bubble Chamber Photographs 
(Dower)
 
2 pm
 
3 pm
Particle Physics in High School Curriculum
(Dower)
 
4 pm
Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
 
Week 3

 
 
date
August 21
August 22
August 23
December 2
May 5
location
Boston University
Northeastern University
Northeastern University
Boston University
TBA
9 am
PRB 593
Why basic research (Sulak-BU)
90 Snell Library 
LHC Physics 
(Reucroft - Northeastern)
90 Snell Library
Funding Particle Physics 
(Reucroft)
TBA
TBA
 
10 am
 
PRB 593 
Particle Physics and Cosmology 
(Chivukula – BU)
Cosmic Ray Physics 
(Swain - Northeastern)
Project Presentations
11 am
 
12 
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch at Boston Beer Works
 
1 pm
Tour of Bates Lab
(Wood)
Project Presentations
 
Boston University 
Photonics Center room 701 
Particle-Wave Duality 
(Goldberg - BU)
2 pm
 
3 pm
 
4 pm
Discussion
Closeout Discussion
 

last update on August 4, 2000 by Ulrich Heintz