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Physics Theorynet Meeting, January 11, 2013
Room 218 Dana Building, Northeastern University MINUTES -------- Attending: Matthew Headrick, Brandeis University Ken Olum, Tufts University Mike Wadness, Medford HS Rick Dower, Roxbury Latin School Chris Siren, Groton-Dunstable Regional HS Elaine Picard, Concord-Carlisle H.S. Nancy Najmi, Reading Memorial HS Nick Nicastro, Wachusett Regional HS Michael Hirsh, Needham H.S. Tomasz Taylor, Northeastern University Tim Stamnitz, Bow High School, NH John Samperisi, Monadnock HS Regrets: Brent Nelson, Northeastern University Richard Levergood, Londonderry HS Scott Goelzer, Coe-Brown Northwood Academy Noreen Scarpitto, Reading Memorial HS Brandon Murakami, Rhode Island College Don Fries, Community School, Tamworth, NH Per Berglund, University of New Hampshire Ann Kaiser, La Salle Academy Nivedi Das, Sharon H.S. Albion Lawrence, Brandeis University Tasneem Zahra Husain Jesse Thaler, MIT Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado, Tufts University A. Website development Alex Hawk, student at Richard Levergood's Londonderry High School, is developing the website. Tufts cosmos server, run by Ken Olum, is the most logical and convenient choice of the host for the expanded site because it already hosts the existing physicstheorynet.org. There was a brainstorming session how the new site should look like, with everybody agreeing that it should be a moderately fancy and informative site aimed not only at the present participants, but also at the prospective ones. Some features discussed at the meeting were the need for a wiki equipment tracking/requests/descriptions and a modest dicussion forum capacity, in the style of Google Groups. Alex has joined the mailing list, and he will try to include suggestions already sent in by several of us. Please keep on thinking about it and send more input. B. Fall visits. We've got to a slow start, but several visits already took place and more arrangements are being finalized. In particular, Jesse Thaler visited Mike Wadness Medford HS with an informal presentation on particle physics and the LHC. Tom visited Londonderry and Wachusetts' focussing this time on "how we see elementary particles", cosmic rays and special relativity, with the muon as an example of a relativistic particle. C. Grant update Brent and Tom submitted a new proposal, now upgraded with an evaluation mechanism and a request for a graduate student who would help us in class visits and demos. D. Next Meeting is scheduled for May 10. _____________________
Tomasz Taylor, Professor Department of Physics 208 Dana Research Center Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115 |