Education and Outreach QuarkNet Randy Ruchti USCMS Education Coordinator USCMS Annual Meeting, Florida State University May 2002
R. Ruchti, Notre Dame Education and Outreach and QuarkNet USCMS Annual Meeting, FSU, May Education and Outreach Booklet for all of HEP Sessions on Education and Outreach at DPF2002 QuarkNet Project, now in its fourth year REU/RET at CERN (Northeastern/Michigan) USCMS Fellows Visitor Gallery at SX5 New Directions E and O Activities
R. Ruchti, Notre Dame Education and Outreach and QuarkNet USCMS Annual Meeting, FSU, May Partners high school teachers with particle physicists who act as mentors. Teachers get summer research experience. Centers are established where additional teachers, students and physicists are included in the program. Program is funded by US NSF/MPS, NSF/ESIE and DOE –Preliminary program 1998; Full program Up to 60 centers are planned over a 5-year period. The proponents for this idea and project: –M. Bardeen (Fermilab Education Office) –R. M. Barnett (LBNL, Atlas Education Coordinator) –O. Keith Baker (Hampton Univ) –R. Ruchti (Notre Dame, USCMS Education Coordinator) QuarkNet
R. Ruchti, Notre Dame Education and Outreach and QuarkNet USCMS Annual Meeting, FSU, May Legend Red – 4 rd year Green – 3 nd year Purple – 2 nd year Blue – 1 st year QuarkNet Center Locations
R. Ruchti, Notre Dame Education and Outreach and QuarkNet USCMS Annual Meeting, FSU, May Associate Teachers QuarkNet Organizational Structure 4 PI’s O. K. BakerM. Bardeen M. BarnettR. Ruchti 5 QuarkNet Staff B. BeiersdorfK. Cecire A. ErzbergerT. Jordan P. Mooney Center 1 Center 3 Typical Center Center 58 Center 59 Center 60 Center Mentors2 Lead Teachers
R. Ruchti, Notre Dame Education and Outreach and QuarkNet USCMS Annual Meeting, FSU, May Active QuarkNet Centers 1999 Centers Boston Univ. Fermilab Florida State Univ. Indiana Univ. Iowa State Univ. Langston Univ. Northeastern Univ. Univ. of Notre Dame SUNY Stony Brook Univ. of Iowa Univ. of California at Santa Cruz Univ. of Oklahoma Univ. of Rochester Univ. of Texas at Arlington 2000 Centers Brookhaven Nat’l Lab. Columbia Univ./Nevis Labs Hampton Univ. Michigan State Univ. Southern Methodist Univ. SUNY Albany Univ. of California at Irvine Univ. of California at Riverside Univ. of Chicago Univ. of Florida Univ. of Illinois – Chicago Univ. of Pennsylvania Univ. of Washington 2001 Centers Argonne Nat’l Lab. Florida Institute of Tech. Iowa State Univ. Lawrence Berkeley Nat’l Lab Rutgers Univ. Texas Tech Univ. Univ. of Iowa Univ. of Kansas Univ. of Mississippi Affiliations: CMS, ATLAS, D0, CDF
R. Ruchti, Notre Dame Education and Outreach and QuarkNet USCMS Annual Meeting, FSU, May New QuarkNet Centers for Center Candidates Univ. of Cincinnati Duke Univ. Johns Hopkins Univ. Univ. of Maryland Univ. of Minnesota Univ. of Northern Illinois Univ. of Oregon Univ. of Pittsburgh Univ. of South Carolina SLAC Stanford Univ. Vanderbilt Univ. Affiliations: CMS, ATLAS, DØ, CDF BaBar Fixed Target Non-accelerator Astrophysics
R. Ruchti, Notre Dame Education and Outreach and QuarkNet USCMS Annual Meeting, FSU, May QuarkNet Websites QuarkNet Homepage Notre Dame QuarkNet Center
R. Ruchti, Notre Dame Education and Outreach and QuarkNet USCMS Annual Meeting, FSU, May REU –Research Experiences for Undergraduates –Funded by NSF US programs National –Any physics area US program at CERN Northeastern Univ. –HEP specific US program at CERN Univ. of Michigan –HEP specific RET –Research Experiences for Teachers –Funded by NSF US programs –Any physics area US program at CERN Northeastern Univ. –HEP specific REHS –Research Experiences for HS Students Pilot program at Notre Dame Support from D0, CMS, ND –Initially HEP specific –Intend any physics area REU, RET, REHS
R. Ruchti, Notre Dame Education and Outreach and QuarkNet USCMS Annual Meeting, FSU, May USCMS Fellows Follow on to the first year of QuarkNet to give HS teachers an in-depth 8-week summer research experience. Typically several teachers supported for the summer. Piloted in previous summers. This year 4 Fellowships –TTU –FIT –Iowa –OleMiss It would be good to expand this to 6 in future years.
R. Ruchti, Notre Dame Education and Outreach and QuarkNet USCMS Annual Meeting, FSU, May Visitor Gallery at SX5 Effort led by Dave Barney. One of the most popular spots on the CERN laboratory tour for visitors. A mezzanine location at the assembly hall. Currently under development. We have provided a cosmic ray detector. Should have additional video camera plus display screen. Seeking additional detector items for display: –Megatile with WLS fibers. –Optical decoder unit. –Other detector components.
R. Ruchti, Notre Dame Education and Outreach and QuarkNet USCMS Annual Meeting, FSU, May New Directions Update USCMS Website education items. –Post talks – with sort at various levels. Develop a USCMS Brochure. Issues at CERN Project Office for USCMS. ………New ideas and suggestions welcome