“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
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