Schedule  for 2004 UMSL/Pitt Quarknet Workshop

Note: group will meet at 9:00 am each morning in 225 Benton Hall
(computer classroom). afternoons will generally be spent in 
405 research hall, and at noon we have reserved 328 benton for
the group for (brown bag) lunches. some days we will have guests,
and some days we will just use the time to catch up with each other,
and share experiences and questions.

June 14-18: Group at UMSL.

Monday June 14:  
   9:00-9:15  Welcome by Chair (Prof. Bruce Wilking)
              Introductions
   9:15-10:00 Steve Grosland Project Overview
   10:00-10:15 Break, Informal Discussions
   10:15-11:30 Use of portable 2-counter array 
               (Elisabeth Langford, Rich Niemann, Debbie Gremmelsbacher,
               Gene Bender, Steve Grosland)
   11:30-1:00 (room 328)
              brown bag lunch  with Prof. Cheng, fundamental
              ideas of particle physics.

   1:00 pm-5:30 pm. lab work.
             begin gluing small 2-ctr arrays. (glue first counter)
             begin work on indiv. projects.

Tuesday, June 15:
      morning:
          first half: explore questions in MakeCtrs.txt
           (http://www.umsl.edu~thompsoj/quarknet/notes/MakeCtrs.txt)
           (particle interactions, photomultiplier functioning, etc)

      lunch: brownbag  lunch and informal group discussion
             (plans, constructive criticism?)

      afternoon: wrap, check light-tighting of small counters   
            plateau small counters
            continue individual projects

Wednesday, June 16:
      morning: 
         first half: Debbie's nuclear unit

         second half:questions from day before?
                      (probability, special relativity?)

     lunch: indiv. or group brown bag?

      afternoon: 
           coincidence counts with small counters.
           overlap curve
           comparison with predictions
           calculation of expected accidental overlap rate
           continue with indiv. projects

          
Thursday, June 17:
       morning:
          first half: topics from previous days (special relativity?)
          second half: preparation for Friday speaker:
           http://snap.lbl.gov
           http://universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/science.html (beyond einstein)
     
      lunch: preparation for Friday speaker

      afternon: 
          indiv. projects

Friday, June 18:
        first half: Prof. Larry Gladney (Univ. of Pennsylvania): SNAP
        second half: teachers describe work to Prof. Gladney
        
        lunch: science education: what works?

        afternoon: indiv. projects and discussions with Prof. Gladney. 

Monday, June 21 - Friday June 25
        rich niemann, steve grosland, elisabeth langford, reu students
         all at umsl, indiv. projects

        other teachers at fnal

Friday, June 25  visit to washu cosray group. 
           John Clark (chair)  1:30 pm
           Bob Binns (CosRay group) 2:00-3:30 pm
            (heard about their work in establishing isotope composition
             of supernovae remnants and new plans in neutrino physics)            

Monday, June 28
        morning: 
         first half: travelling group debriefs trip to fnal
         second half: stay at home group debriefs progress on CosRayHS
           [but: special relativity, how do we tell them apart?]

        lunch: 12:00 Benton 328 Profs. Frank Moss and Sonya Bahar
           (biophysics), followed by lab tour (paddle fish).
           Prof. Baher edits the biophysics newletter (found on 
           aps.org/units).  She is interested in making it available
           also to high school teachers and their students. Her e-mail
           address is: bahar@neurodyn.umsl.edu

        afternoon: continue indiv. projects
          suggest: Leigh tests UMSL/5 ctr set (helped by Edwin)
                   Debbie, Jim work on cloud chambers
                   Electronics group studies progress of previous week,
                    accepts delivery of our oscilloscope look-alike,
                    decides about continuing development with K129N board
                   Elisabeth begins work on evaluation of large counters.
                   Steve Grosland has arrived and he and Angela begin
                   looking at CASA scintillator.

Tuesday, June 29:
         morning:work on reports

         lunch: informal group discussions.

         afternoon:work on indiv. projects:
          suggest: Debbie, Jim test UMSL/6 ctr. set (helped by Edwin and
                   Leigh)
                   Allen, Elisabeth, Leigh begin work on GPS setups.

Wednesday, June 30:
         morning: tying up loose ends of understanding
         lunch: 
            our REU students invite you to an ethics discussion 
            on gender equity. (this will mirror a presentation
            given by their colleagues in pittsburgh on that day).

         afternoon: continue on indiv. projects

Thursday, July 1: 
         morning: tying up loose ends of understanding
         lunch: plans for final day; what about 2005?
         afternoon: continue on indiv. projects


Friday, July 2: 
         morning: final prep?
         lunch: 11:30 am. Prof. Ricardo Flores (astrophys).
         afternoon: 
         2-5pm: posters, demos, visitors?
         (all teachers not continuing  should have final reports to jat
         before  leaving).

Monday, July 5 (maybe Tuesday, July 6?) - Friday, July 16.
        Daniels and Reisinger, REU students continue
        work on GPS time stamping assemblies,
        and other projects which remain or which surfaced.

after July 16, summer, fall, winter, spring: recover from workshop,
use equipment developments from summer.

summer, 2005: one week workshop? bring a friend! June? 
       also watch for possible "reunions" during the year,
       or other possibilities to describe the CosRayHS project.