2018 FNAL Meeting & LIGO e-Lab Workshop

July 18-20, 2018
Training Building (EAOC), Large Training Room

Small URL for page: https://tinyurl.com/qn2018fnal

 

LIGO e-Lab Workshop Objectives

Participating teachers will be able to:

  • > Plot and interpret data recorded by LIGO seismic instruments; address limitations in the data.
  • > Make claims based on evidence from LIGO data and provide reasoning.
  • > Describe the connections between LIGO seismic data and classical physics wave concepts.
  • > Explain the importance of LIGO seismic data in a gravitiational wave search.
  • > Develop a plan to implement material from the workshop in an educational setting.

Agenda 

Times and specific activities are subject to adjustment.

 Wednesday 18 July

09:00     Coffee, Registration, Sign-in
                and Introductions

10:00     Fermilab Scientist Talk: Jim Annis
              > Gravitational Waves & LIGO

11:00     Break

11:15     Exploration of LIGO e-Lab: 

  • > Start at https://www.i2u2.org/
  • > Log in with account
  • > Review Resources and Project Map
  • > Try out features

12:00     Lunch

13:00     Student Presentation
              Machine Learning in Astrophysics
              > Anne Foley (Naperville North)
              > Nicholas Ermolov (Glenbrook South)
              > Brian Nord (mentor)

13:45    Fermilab Scientist Talk: David Caratelli
             Neutrinos

14:30     Tour: Neutrino Campus
              > ICARUS, Angela Fava (Fermilab)
              > MicroBooNE, Lauren Yates (MIT)

15:45     LIGO Film Festival:

16:30     End of day

 

Thursday 19 July

09:00     Opening discussion

09:30     Seismology Review using e-Lab resources
              > Use e-Lab resources
              > Demo interferometer
10:15     Search and analyze in e-Lab data:

10:45     Begin research/poster-making

12:00     Lunch

13:00     Continue research/poster-making

14:00     Fermilab Scientist Talk: Mattia Checchin
              > Quantum Computing

15:00     Break

15:15     Continue research/poster-making

16:30     End of day

Friday 20 July

09:00     Opening Discussion/Finish Posters
              LIGO Article

09:30     Student Presentation
              Cherenkov Detectors
              > Eha Srivastava (Glenbard East)
              > James Kennedy (Oak Part River Forest)
              > Mandy Rominsky (mentor, test beams)

10:30     Tour: FNAL Test Beam Facility
              > Jerry Zimmerman, Detector Development

12:00     Lunch

13:00     LIGO Virtual Visit, William Katzman
              > LIGO Livingston, via Zoom

13:30     Present posters 

14:15     Implementation discussion
              > Ideas recorded

14:45     Break

15:00     Thermodynamics Demonstration Pilot
              > Michael Zwartz, Noyce Scholar
              > Andrew Dalassendro, Cryogenic Engineering

16:00     Reflection/Evaluation
              Evaluation link

16:30     End of LIGO e-Lab workshop


             

 

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