[CPEPnews] Teacher's Nuclear Science Workshop in Oakland, California - Sunday, January 11

[Howard Matis]

There  will be a half-day workshop for San Francisco Bay Area high 
school and community college science teachers on Sunday, January 11, 
from noon to 5:00 pm, at the Oakland Marriott City Center in downtown 
Oakland. The workshop, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of 
Energy and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will consist of 
lectures by prominent researchers on modern particle and nuclear 
physics, together with an introduction to Quark Matter. We have 
selected speakers who are known for their ability to communicate 
science to non-experts. Following the lectures there will be a round 
table discussion with current and recently graduated students attending 
the conference, to discuss their science education and their day-to-day 
experiences as scientists. We invite the teachers workshop attendees to 
the opening reception of the Quark Matter conference on Sunday evening.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is hosting Quark Matter 2004, 
http://qm2004.lbl.gov/, a large international physics conference, on 
January 11-18, 2004, at the Oakland Marriott City Center. This 
conference attracts leading researchers from around the world, who will 
present experimental results and theoretical work discussing the state 
of matter at a trillion degrees. Matter at such enormous temperatures 
existed about 10 microseconds after the Big Bang and may be present 
today in a neutron star's core. Perhaps we are creating it in 
laboratory experiments.

The program, which includes ample time for discussion, is:
12:00 pm	Open for registration
12:30 pm	Lunch for all participants
1:30 pm	Workshop

*	From the Greek elements to modern physics – Horst Stocker, Professor 
of Physics, University of Frankfurt, Germany
*	How accelerators and particle detectors work – Carl Gagliardi, 
Professor of Physics, Texas A & M University
*	Particles, nuclei and the cosmos – Gary Westfall, Professor of 
Physics, Michigan State University
*	The nucleus at a trillion degrees - David Morrison, Staff Scientist, 
Brookhaven National Laboratory
*	Round table discussion with graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s

5:00 pm	Program concludes
6:30 pm	Quark Matter reception

We invite all Bay Area high school and community college science 
teachers who are interested in this workshop to attend. Each teacher 
who attends may invite one or two students whom he/she feels will 
benefit from this program. Please feel free to forward a copy of this 
invitation to interested colleagues. Please register early as there are 
a limited number of spaces.

All participants, including invited students, must register at the 
conference web site http://www.lbl.gov/nsd/qm2004/Teacher.html by 
January 2. The first 50 teachers who register and attend will receive 
an honorarium to cover transportation expenses. We will distribute 
educational material on Nuclear Physics that you can use in your 
classroom and provide a CD-ROM of the presentations.

If you need more information, please contact us. We look forward to 
seeing you and your students in January.

Howard Matis
Workshop Coordinator
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