“Associate Teacher Institute”Primer

“Instituto de Partículas Elementales

Para Profesores de Escuela Superior”

en Puerto Rico

UPRM UPRM CenterCenter

Héctor MéndezUniversity of Puerto Rico

Mayaguez, June 6, 05

What’s QuarkNet ?

QuarkNet is an Educational program whose aim is to support science education in High Schools by establishing a nationwide teacher network.

Goal: Bring high school Students, Physics Teachers and Particle Physicists to learn together frontline physics.

QuarkNet Centers provides an opportunities to establish a mentor relationship between with local Universities Professor to work together on

High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments and explore the world of Elementary Particle Physics

QuarkNet CentersQuarkNet: a nationwide Educational program.

[~60 Universities and National HEP Lab across de US]

funded by NSF and DOE

The only group in “Experimental HEP” inPuerto Rico (and probably in the Caribe)is at UPR Mayaguez. HEP Group at UPRM Post-Doc: Dr. Z. Li (Post-Doc) Professors (and QuarkNet Mentors): Dr. A. López Dr. H. Méndez Dr. E. Ramírez Graduates Students (2005): Neida Santacruz Arjuna Castrillón Osvaldo Aquines Carlos Andres Florez QuarkNet Lead Teachers: Rafael Aramis López (CROEM. Mayaguez) Luis Torres Rosas (Pedro Falú. RioGrande) System Manager (charma.uprm.edu) Hugo Hernández

Why UPRM QuarkNet Center at Mayaguez ?

Group’s Projects

FOCUS (Fermilab at Illinois)

Fixed Target Experiment on PhotoProduction of quark charm CLEOc (Cornell University at New York) Collider e-e+ experiment CMS (LHC at CERN Geneve) (in

progress) Collider experiment (2008) QuarkNet Center (since 2003)

UPRM QuarkNet Center•Two trained Lead Teacher (L. Torres & R. A. López)

•7 weeks at UPRM (Learning on Particle Physics)

• 1 week at FERMILAB (National Lead teacher Institute•Brought their experience to the

ClassRoom.

•Try to implement a physics course based on modern physics research on HEP

Associate Teacher Institute (ATI)

Hands-on experiences in Particle Physics Education techniques in a unique environment

Resources for transferring your experience to the classroom

Presentations by Particle Physicists Opportunity to visit world class HEP research

Lab and collaborate on an International experiment (MARIACHI: ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays) 10 + 2 Teachers (from around the Island) 3 weeks workshop 2 week (June 6 – June 17, 05) 1 week Follow-up (During academic year)

Schedule (two weeks)Monday – Friday [9:00 – 17:00]Lab Session: Afternoon o PhotoElectric Effect o Cosmic Rays Detector o Introduction to HTML o Particle Adventure etc, etc Talk Session: Morning o FOCUS at FERMILAB o LHC at Cern o Jefferson Lab o CLEOc at Cornell o Grid Computing o The Big Bang o Special Relativity o HEP Detectors o MC Simulations o Physics on Cancer o Standard Model etc, etc Excursions: o Radio Observatory Arecibo o Planetarium at RUM

ATI’s Stipends(pay by NSF and DOE at the end of the 2

week)

$300 per week $100 for travel (3 weeks) $150 ($15 per day) for food (2

weeks)

$250 mini-grant per year (present a mini proposal to: QuarkNet National Center)

Total for 2 weeks: $850.00

Near Future Activities

ATI summer 06 with 12 + new 10 teachers QuarkNet is a long-term program

that provide some support for: o meetting attendance o Lead teacher institute at Fermilab o don’t lost contact..

Bienvenidos al

Instituto dePartículas

Elementales

UPRM UPRM CenterCenter