Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Annual Report 2018 July 12, 2018 Mentor: Tony Spadafora Workshop Coordinator: Laurie Kerrigan Co- Organizer: Ken Cecire (QuarkNet) The LBNL Physics Division hosted its twelfth in and Through Cosmology” workshop “Physics for QuarkNet Leadership teachers and high school students. The five-day workshop from June 18 to June 22, 2018 was held at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Fourteen science teachers participated. Six of the teachers have been active members of QuarkNet for five or more years. Five new teachers joined the group this year and three from previous years returned. There were 32 students with approximately equal number of boys and girls. The teachers & students represented public and private high schools in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The first day focused on getting all participants familiar with concepts & terms in particle physics & cosmology. This was accomplished through lectures given by returning “mini” QuarkNet teachers. This day also included a discussion by Zachary Slepian, an LBNL researcher, discussing Cosmology Basics. The LBNL 88” cyclotron was also toured. The days consisted of more tours, and morning & afternoon scientist talks. Between talks, groups worked on hands-on experiments (e.g. QuarkNet activities lead by Ken Cecire using data from ATLAS). Groups consisted of two or three students and a teacher. Groups also discussed the lectures and designed & carried out experiments with Cosmic Ray Detectors. Tours consisted of a virtual tour of the ATLAS Control Room at the CERN Large Hadron Collide, the ALS (Advanced Light Source) and Molecular Foundry or NERSC research facilities at LBNL. We also watched with Michael Barnett at the Chabot Planetarium. Phantom of the Universe Kelsey Oliver-Mallory, Alex Kim, Eric Linder
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Annual Report 2018 July 12, 2018 Mentor: Tony Spadafora Workshop Coordinator: Laurie Kerrigan Co- Organizer: Ken Cecire (QuarkNet) The LBNL Physics Division hosted its twelfth “Physics in and Through Cosmology” workshop for QuarkNet Leadership teachers and high school students. The five-day workshop from June 18 to June 22, 2018 was held at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Fourteen science teachers participated. Six of the teachers have been active members of QuarkNet for five or more years. Five new teachers joined the group this year and three from previous years returned. There were 32 students with approximately equal number of boys and girls. The teachers & students represented public and private high schools in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The first day focused on getting all participants familiar with concepts & terms in particle physics & cosmology. This was accomplished through “mini” lectures given by returning QuarkNet teachers. This day also included a discussion by Zachary Slepian, an LBNL researcher, discussing Cosmology Basics. The LBNL 88” cyclotron was also toured. The days consisted of more tours, and morning & afternoon scientist talks. Between talks, groups worked on hands-on experiments (e.g. QuarkNet activities lead by Ken Cecire using data from ATLAS). Groups consisted of two or three students and a teacher. Groups also discussed the lectures and designed & carried out experiments with Cosmic Ray Detectors. Tours consisted of a virtual tour of the ATLAS Control Room at the CERN Large Hadron Collide, the ALS (Advanced Light Source) and Molecular Foundry or NERSC research facilities at LBNL. We also watched Phantom of the Universe with Michael Barnett at the Chabot Planetarium. Kelsey Oliver-Mallory, Alex Kim, Eric Linder
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