Associate Teacher Institute

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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
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Whats 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

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QuarkNet Centers

• QuarkNet a nationwide Educational program.
• 60 Universities and National HEP Lab across
  de US

funded by NSF and DOE
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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)

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Groups 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)

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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

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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)

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Schedule (two weeks)Monday Friday 900
1700

• 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

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ATIs 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

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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 dont lost contact..

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Bienvenidos al Instituto dePartículasElementale
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