Physics 5990: Wayne State University Undergraduate and Teachers Research Experience

NOTE: THIS IS OUR OLD PAGE AND WILL SOON BE PERMANENTLY REPLACED WITH THE OFFICIAL WSU REU WEB PAGE (for now not all links are updated in the new page, so we have both up).

NOTE: This program is a collaboration of Wayne State with the Laboratory of Nuclear Sciences (LNS) located at Cornell University and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). Students prepare over the winter for their summer experience with the CLEO experiment at Cornell and the STAR experiment at BNL. The pages of the WSU-CLEO group and the WSU-STAR group are here.

NOTE: This program is supported by the National Science Foundation through grant PHY-9820306.

Class meets Fridays in Physics 312 at 16:30 (NOTE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

To get an idea of what we do, click on the Alumni links at the bottom of this page.

Class Plan
Date Topic Lecturer
28 January Introduction to High energy Nuclear Physics Professor Gavin
4 February Introduction to High Energy Physics Professor Bonvicini
11 February Introduction to Statistics Professor Bonvicini
18 February Introduction to High Energy Physics Analysis Professor Gavin
25 February Cleo Experiment Professor Cinabro
3 March Cleo software Professor Cinabro
10 March The STAR experiment Professor Pruneau
17 March Spring Break -
24 March STAR software Professor Pruneau
31 March Student presentations -
" Student presentations -
7 April Student presentations -
" Student presentations -
14 April Student presentations -
" Student presentations -
21 April Student presentations -
" Student presentations -
28 April Student presentations -
" Student presentations -
5 May Orientation Professors Bonvicini/Pruneau

Note: in the following table, all teachers (T) go to Cornell. Students marked (C) go to Cornell, students marked (B) go to BNL.

Participating Students (Teachers), Winter 2000
Student Summer Project Supervisor

Ron Arscheene (T)

Introduction to science for high school students G. Bonvicini, WSU

Larry Borum (T)

CP violation in two body D decays D. Jaffe, UCSD

Chris Bush

Rare semileptonic D(s) decays G. Bonvicini, WSU

Luis Cely

--- C. Pruneau, WSU

Sonya Gargies

Test board for STAR SVT R. Bellwied, WSU

Brenda Garza

Kinematic Fitting S. Pappas, A. Weinstein, Caltech

Kate Korbiak

Observation of the hourglass effect D. Cinabro, WSU

Gary Lalli (T)

Introduction to science for high school students G. Bonvicini, WSU

Leronki Leonard

Rare semileptonic D(s) decays G. Bonvicini, WSU

David Mayfield

Vertical injection at CESR D. Rice, Cornell

Bukola Olojo

Angular distribution of lepton pairs in CLEO III D. Cinabro, WSU

Robert Santavicca (T)

Introduction to science for high school students G. Bonvicini, WSU

Wilber Sherrod (T)

Introduction to science for high school students G. Bonvicini, WSU

Eric Wisniewski (T)

Introduction to science for high school students G. Bonvicini, WSU

Useful links

  1. Research Starting Points

    1. Cornell Laboratory of Nuclear Studies: High Energy Physics research at Cornell

    2. Wayne State Department of Physics and Astronomy: Physics at Wayne State

    3. The Particle Adventure: Excellent introduction to High Energy Physics and many good links to other educational sites

  2. Computing Documentation

    1. The XEMACS guide: Comprehensive guide to the xemacs file editor

    2. UNIXhelp for users: Basic introduction to the unix operating system

    3. Fortran Guide: Much of CLEO's software is written in the programming language Fortran. This is a pretty good fortran guide. Fortran's day has passed and it is difficult to find good guides on the web.

    4. C++ Introduction: Much of CLEO's new software will be written in the programming language C++. Here is a beginners introduction and tutorial. There is lots more to be found about C++ on the web.

    5. Java documentation: Java is a program language that is exceptionally useful for WWW based applications as all the browsers are able to run Java programs. This is Sun's page and newcomers might like to start with the tutorial.

  3. The World Wide Web

    1. Introduction To HTML and URLs: Great place to start learning how to create and link web pages

    2. Doctor HTML: Excellent way to check web pages for errors

    3. Web Pages that Suck: Learn good web page design by looking at bad design. Great site for learning what not to do and why. Also many links and hints on good design.

  4. Very Useful Web Sites

    1. Merriam-Webster: Online dictionary and thesaurus

    2. AltaVista: Classic place to search the world wide web

    3. Yahoo!: Classic organized list of web sites

    4. Ask Jeeves: Ask it a question and it returns a list of web sites. A personal favorite.

  5. WSU/CURE Alumni

    1. 1999

    2. 1998

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