Draft Calendar of Workshop Events 2002

- Students arrive Sunday night

DATE

Monday

June 17

Tuesday

June 18

Wednesday

June 19

Thursday

June 20

Friday

June 21

8:30-9:30

Overview:

Prof. Van Kooten

Physics of Cosmic Rays

Beams, Accelerators and Detectors

 

Group report: Electronics systems--PMT electronics and data acquisition

Group report: Cosmic ray database and web interface

9:30-10:30

Introduce students from school teams and status report from each school

Web explorations:

Cosmic Rays

 

Web explorations:

Particle physics

Real Data analysis: looking for repeating patterns within our cosmic ray data

Documentation of workshop activities

10:30-11:30

Introduction to the Standard Model

Data analysis: fitting large data sets to statistical distributions with IGOR

Data analysis: detecting a repeating pattern within a set of data

Posting our findings to the web site

Cyclotron tour

 

Lunch

Wright Food Court

Wright Food Court

Wright Food Court

Wright Food Court

Wright Food Court

12:30-1:00

Swain Tour

Group instructions
Group instructions

Group instructions

Group instructions

Group instructions

1:00-4:00

Web group activities

Electronics group activities

Mechanical group activities

Web group activities

Electronics group activities

Mechanical group activities

Web group activities

Electronics group activities

Mechanical group activities

Web group activities

Electronics group activities

Mechanical group activities

Documentation of workshop activities

 

Plans for the school year

4:00-6:00

Afternoon activities:

 

 

Afternoon activities:

 

 

Afternoon activities:

 

 

Afternoon activities:

 

 

Wright Food Court

 

Depart for Fermilab

Supper

BBQ

Dorm dining hall

Dorm dining hall

Dorm dining hall

 

7:30-

Send suggestions to John T.

Send suggestions to John T.

Send suggestions to John T.

Send suggestions to John T.

 

Possible Afternoon and evening activities—Tell John Taylor what you would like to do


1.     Spelunking (caving) at Salamander cave or at Spring Mills S.P.

2.     Wall climbing at Hoosier Heights

3.     Tour of campus

4.     IU Student Union for bowling, pool, games

5.     IU Rec. Center

6.     HPER

7.     High dive pool*

8.     Kirkwood Observatory


Students will return to Bloomington/ Elkhart on Saturday night at 8:00/6:00.  A separate van is being arranged to take Elkhart students straight to Elkhart following the tour of Fermilab.  All other students will return to Bloomington.

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