Transcript Associate Teacher Institute”

UPRM Center
“Associate Teacher Institute”
Primer
“Instituto de Partículas Elementales
Para Profesores de Escuela Superior”
en Puerto Rico
Héctor Méndez
University 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 Centers
QuarkNet: a nationwide Educational program.
[~60 Universities and National HEP Lab across de US]
funded by NSF and DOE
Why UPRM QuarkNet Center at Mayaguez ?
The only group in “Experimental HEP” in
Puerto 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
Group’s Projects
 FOCUS
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(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)
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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
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PhotoElectric Effect
Cosmic Rays Detector
Introduction to HTML
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
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$100 for travel (3 weeks)
$150 ($15 per day) for food
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$250 mini-grant per year
(present a mini proposal to:
QuarkNet National Center)
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Total for 2 weeks: $850.00
(2 weeks)
Near Future Activities

ATI summer 06 with
12 + new 10 teachers
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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 de
Partículas
Elementales
UPRM Center