eLearning Collaborative

Our trip in California ended with us learning how to retrieve data using Leopard. This program is specifically used to get Spitzer data. We may use this in the future to find available data and preform our own projects with it. After the group saved photometric data on the galaxy we observed as well as neighboring stars of (hopefully) steady brightness using APT (Astronomy Photometry Tool), we imported the .txt files that were created into excel. This is where we left off at Caltech, but out project doesn't end there. Those steps were just the beginning.

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Our group has been back home for almost two whole days now. We arrived back in Rochester on Monday night. I am sad that we only really got to spend five days at CERN. Enough was packed into that time, but there is still alot that we could learn from the people there. The most amazing part for me was definately learning from the physicists at CERN who were willing to share their knowledge with us. Hopefully in the future, we will stay in contact with some who may become involved with our research group. It's exciting how much it has grown in just this past year.

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Today was open house at CERN where the general public was invited to come into the facilities and see what was up. There were tours of different buildings as well as the ATLAS detector. Our goal today was to interview people who aren't affiliated with CERN in hopes of getting their opinion about different topics. Attached is a sound clip (mp3) that you can listen to of a couple that Leighann and I interviewed for a bit. It is a bit hard to hear since there was alot of people around, but check it out.

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Another clip... couldn't attach all at once.

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here it is hopefully

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After lunch we got a tour ATLAS which is another detector at CERN which happens to be 82 meters underground. The ambition of this project is to describe all forces as one force. Similar to CMS, it has the same basic layers, but the difference is the superconducting magnets in the muon detectors.

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