| Wed
June 25 |
Thu
June 26 |
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| 8:30 | gather; pastries, coffee, juice provided | 8:30 | gather, eat, drink |
| 9:00 |
Ray Frey: Welcome, introductions; Tom Jordan: about QuarkNet |
9:00 | (All) What cool projects I did last year and what I plan to do next year. "Bridges" - Art Liddle ( ppt, 13 MB) |
| 9:30 | Ray Frey: "LIGO and Gravitational Waves" ( pdf , 36 MB) | 10:00 | (All) Discussion of science high school curricula |
| 10:30 |
Dale Ingram: LIGO-related activities: - PC-based tool for signal analysis and ideas for simple experiments - An inexpensive build it/tear it down Michelson interferometer |
11:00 | Live link to Atlas (CERN) control room. (David Strom, Eric Torrence, Frank Winkelmeier at CERN) Recorded video of the visit |
| 12:00 | lunch, on your own | 12:00 | lunch, on your own |
| 1:30 | Robert Schofield in excerpt (near 11' mark) from film | 1:30 | Jim Brau: "The Hidden Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Gravitational Waves" ( pdf 4 MB) |
| 1:45 | (Dale Ingram, contd.) - Make-and-take: An interferometer simulator - Classroom activity: Searching for gravitational waves in noisy data - Classroom activity: Extracting astrophysical information from simulated signals Dale's LIGO-related links for teachers | 3:15 | Spencer Chang: BICEP2: Gravitational waves and Cosmic Inflation ( pdf, 7 MB) |
| 5:00 | adjourn | 4:30 | adjourn |