UO QuarkNet Workshop June 22, 2020, Pandemic Edition

412 Willamette Hall, University of Oregon and on Zoom


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Program, with links to talks
10:00
 Gather, set up remote participants, introductions
10:15

 		Ray Frey:  slides 39 MB pdf

1. Update on LIGO and gravitational-wave astrophysics – what can we learn from spacetime ripples from ~100 black hole collisions
    2. The great 2020 “crisis in cosmology”
11:30
 Laura Jeanty:  Update on Atlas at CERN. Contact Laura for presentation slides.
12:30 Lunch -- on your own
1:45
 Jim Brau (via Zoom): slides pdf
Planning the Future of US High Energy Physics
2:45
 Spencer Chang (via Zoom): slides 5 MB pdf
Determining the properties of the Higgs boson
3:35
 Roundtable on teacher projects – successes and failures
4:30 Robert Schofield: Tour of the Ant Lab, the UO Accelerator, and the Pioneer statue stumps


Contacts:
    Ray Frey, rayfrey (at uoregon.edu),  541-346-5873
    Anne McGinley, annem (at uoregon.edu),  541-346-4898

UO Faculty participants:
    Ray Frey, Laura Jeanty, Jim Brau, Spencer Chang, Robert Schofield

High school science teacher participants:

    Beth Churchill (Blanchet Catholic School), in person
    Karen Hunter (Physics by Discovery), remote
    Ron Crawford (Bend HS), in person
    Christopher Doscher (Churchill HS), remote
    Asher Tubman (South Eugene HS), remote
    Dani Tubman  (South Eugene HS), in person
    Dave Trapp  (QuarkNet), remote
   

Links:

Oregon QuarkNet
US QuarkNet
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