Friday Flyer - March 3, 2017

Spotlight on Upcoming Events: Spring is upon us! We have great March activities; read about International Masterclasses and International Muon Week below. Look for a CMS e-Lab Poster Challenge in April and May.

Plan for summer. It's not far away! Mentors, please be sure your responses to the RFP are in. Ask Shane or Ken for the link and any help you need. Start thinking about Data Camp; recruitment will begin before you know it. And since it is time for spring cleaning, don't forget any "dangling deliverables" such as annual reports from 2016 that were not quite finished and put up on the QuarkNet site.

Watch for announcements and, of course, check your Friday Flyer every week.

News from QuarkNet Central: International Masterclasses 2017 are here! Masterclasses started with CERN videoconferences on Wednesday and will continue into April. Fermilab-connected masterclasses start Saturday, March 11. Two last-minute circulars ran this week; one was about iso images for masterclass DVDs and the other was an important note about CMS masterclasses. (There have been changes, so CMS masterclass leaders should check out the circular.) Check out how masterclasses are going via Twitter and Facebook! 

International Muon Week 2017 is around the corner! If you have a cosmic ray muon detector, find out whether muon rates are the same all over the world. Collect data with us during International Muon Week, March 13–17, 2017. Check out the registration link and the detector set-up instructions. Videoconferences through Fermilab will be scheduled for the week after taking data so that you can discuss your results with other groups. Help is available in the Cosmic Ray e-Lab at the Help Desk (life ring). Contact Mark with any questions.

Physics Experiment Roundup: How big is DUNE? This big. For a not-quite-as-big experiment, QuarkNet mentor Raul Armendariz shops components from Warehouse 2 at Fermilab.

Resources: Meet Fermilab great Herman White and, while at the lab, spend a minute with Keith Coiley at the data center. Physics is about big questions, so here's one: How do you build a universe? Easy! Follow this recipe from symmetry.

Just for Fun: Star Wars! Physics! Er...maybe not. And how big is the new astronomical image from Germany? This big.

QuarkNet Staff:
Mark Adams: adams@fnal.gov
Ken Cecire: kcecire@nd.edu
Shane Wood: swood5@nd.edu