Friday Flyer - November 18, 2016

Spotlight on Sudha Balakrishnan: You may not know Sudha Balakrishnan, but chances are her work has impacted you. Sudha works as an important part of the QuarkNet IT team and spends a lot of time maintaining and improving our e-Labs. Born in India, Sudha went to high school in Tinley Park, Illinois. After getting her B.S. in Physics at the University of Illinois, she went on for an M.S. in Applied Mathematics at the State University of New York. She also received another M.S. (computer science) at DePaul University. Sudha has worked for QuarkNet at Fermilab since January 2015 while also teaching math at the College of DuPage. She reports that her favorite hobby is painting.

News from QuarkNet Central: If your group is planning to register for International Masterclass videoconferences online, the opportunity closes today. To get it in last minute, get the links from this previous circular. Registration is still open! You can register by checking the schedule and then sending an e-mail. The latest masterclass circular tells you how. Speaking of International Masterclasses, have you checked them out on Twitter recently?

Physics Experiment Roundup: It's November and the Linacs are blossoming at Fermilab and CERN. 

Using the QuarkNet Website: You can edit a document in your own center group. Read how.

Resources: Concrete: symmetry asks what to do with all this data. More abstract: A no-dark-matter theory of gravity (you read that right) is kicking up a bit of a storm in physics world. Here is a news article and, for the very bold, the paper by Dutch physicist Erik Verlinde. Friday Flyer takes no editorial position on this or, really, anything.

Just for Fun: Some pictures are worth a thousand words. Others count for millions of bytes. This one just leaves us speechless. (Here's the context.)

Dark matters on Black Friday: There will be no Friday Flyer next week. We pick it up again on December 2.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

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