Projects

QuarkNet Projects 2012

This year's students worked on a total of seven projects. The following links lead to pages that include a brief summary of their work. These pages also include any files that were a part of the project, such as code, pictures, documentation, etc.

• Dark Matter in the Solar Neighborhood

  Adam (Saint Charles East High School)

• Measuring Ground Motion with Seismometers

  Akshay (Metea Valley High School)

• Calibrating Equipment for the Direct Detection of Dark Matter using Noble Element Scintillation

  Kit (Illinois Math and Science Academy) and Sohaila (Waubonsie Valley High School)

• Asymmetry of the Milky Way

  Katie (Wheaton Warrenville South High School)

• Using Finesse for Simulations of Light Behavior in Optical Cavities

  Nicholas (Naperville Central High School)

• Visualization of the Electron Cloud in the Main Injector

  Saksham (Waubonsie Valley High School)

• Massively Parallel Processing Pattern Recognition in Extra Dimensions

  Tom (Warren Township High School)