Friday Flyer - October 7, 2016

Spotlight on the Virtual QuarkNet Center: The Virtual QuarkNet Center is a unique center that has no geographic bounds, with teachers from Albany to Shanghai. They meet monthly online and get together once per year. This summer they were in Chicago, where lead teacher and LHC fellow Mike Wadenss facilitated their work in a LIGO e-Lab workshop. That's not all they did; because they are so geographically separated and so motivated, the teachers in this one center were responsible for five separate International Masterclasses in 2016 and maintain a very strong presence in the cosmic ray program. The team is ably mentored by Danielle McDermott of Wabash College, Dan Karmgard and Antonio Delgado, of Notre Dame.

News from QuarkNet Central: We've chosen dates! International Masterclasses 2017 will have Fermilab videoconferences from March 13 to April 8. CERN dates are also available; learn more by reading the first IMC circular of this academic year.    

Do not forget other opportunities heading your way soon: International Cosmic Day and Beamline for Schools. 

Physics Experiment Roundup: New results reveal the asymmetrical charm of LHCb and give insight into the early universe.

Resources: Maxwell's equations almost cry out for a single magnetic charge, but none has been discovered. Learn how physicists at CERN are hard at work seeking magnetic monopoles. In astrophysics, symmetry reports on creating the universe in a computer. And how about that Nobel Prize in Physics 2016?

Just for Fun: A word about words in particle physics, from symmetry.

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