Quarknet FSU Summer Workshop
23 to 27 July 2018
QuarkNet registration information:
- to join QuarkNet
- Here is the i2u2 site where you can log into your account
- There is a new registration link
here
- A description of the two types of QuarkNet account can be found
here
- Register for a QuarkNet e-lab workshop
here.
Food
- We'll bring the coffee maker and supplies for the first day. If you'd like, feel free to bring in grounds or morning treats.
- The lunch break is typically between 11 and noon. Bring your own lunch or eat at the nearby
FSU's Seminole Cafe where you'll find a huge buffet for a wide range of preferences and needs.
Monday, 23 July
Arrival: 7:30 - 8:15
- A parking permit will be provided. Jasun Burdick will be in the small parking lot ("Lot 448")
near the Richards Building and Academic Way, holding a clipboard.
Note that due to construction work, you have to access campus from Tennessee Street via Murphree.
Woodward (between Tenn.St. and Call St.), Chieftan Way (between Academic Way and Call St.) and Academic Way
(between Woodward and Atomic Way) are closed
-
Here's a map of the parking lot.
- Here's a map of UPL/Richards building.
8:30 - 16:30 in UPL (room UPL 110)
- 8:20 Welcome, sign in, overview of workshop (Horst)
QN paperwork, log in,...
- 9:00 Planetarium show Black Holes
- 10:00 Talk: "Back Holes" (David Collins) pdf
- 11:15 Lunch
- 12:30 - 13:45 activity: energy transfer (Brian)
(instructions)
- 14:00 - 15:30 activity: Arduino (Jasun),
Arduino software
plus: acoustic levitator (Jacob)
(see here
and here ,
pictures of Jacob's levitator: 1
2)
Tuesday, 24 July
8:15 - 16:00 in UPL (room UPL 110)
- 8:15 sign in, Plan for the day
- 8:30 Group Photo
- 9:00 activity TBA
- 10:00 talk: "Instruments and Facilities" (Kevin Huffenberger)
pdf
- 11:15 lunch
- 12:30 - 13:45 activity: telescopes from Public Library (Brian)
- 14:00 - 15:30 activity: Tracker (Jasun)
Tracker software
Wednesday, 25 July
at Tall Timbers
(Tall Timbers map)
Tall Timbers agenda:
- 8:00 meet at Whole Foods on Thomasville Rd.
- 8:30 - 9:15 Orientation, Review
- 9:15 - 10:10 Telemetry, (Diana)
- 10:30 - 12:00 Fire Science, Casey
- 12:00 - 13:00 Overall Research & Mission ( Brian W.)
- 13:00 - 13:30 Size & Scale, Particles (Brian McC)
template,
key
- 13:30 - 14:30 Physics & Fire Science (Kevin H.)
- 14:30 - 15:15 Tree Height App, Physics Tool Kit (JaSun)
and classic triangulation
- 15:15 - 15:45 Paul A. M. Dirac Grave in Tallahassee
(Rose Lawn Cemetery)
Thursday, 26 July
8:15 - 16:00 in UPL (room UPL 110)
- 8:15 sign in, Plan for the day
- 8:45 talk: about neutrinos (Horst) pdf
- 10:00 activity TBA
- 11:15 lunch
- 12:30 - 13:15 Talk: "about Higgs - Top coupling" (Ted Kolberg) pdf
- 13:15 - 13:45 activity: TBA
- 14:00 Nuclear lab tour (Sergio Almaraz-Calderon)
- 15:00 activity: writing & target vocabulary (Brian)
template
solar system
Friday, 27 July
8:15 - 15:30 in UPL (room UPL 110)
- 08:15 sign in, Plan for the day, Morning discussion
- 9:00 - 10:00 talk: about neutrinos, cont'd (Horst) pdf
- 10:00 talk: "Cosmic Distance Ladder & Cosmology" (Peter Hoeflich)
pdf
- 11:15 lunch
- 12:30 discussion
- 12:45 more Arduino
- 13:45 Plans for 2018-2019, Fall agenda
- 14:45 Conclusion
- 15:00 close-out, discussion, workshop evaluation, post eval paperwork
some useful documents/links
