PAN 2002 Program

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We are offering a unique opportunity for your science teachers and a few students.  The Physics of Atomic Nuclei (PAN 2002) fellowship program - now in its ninth year - will be held this summer from July 22-25 (for teachers) and from July 29-August 1 (for teachers and students) at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL), one of the leading nuclear physics laboratories in the world.  This is a program for middle and high school physical science, chemistry, and physics teachers and for high school students. 

The PAN 2002 program will introduce teachers and students to the science fundamentals of the extremely small domain of atomic nuclei and its connection to the extremely large domain of astrophysics and cosmology. Lectures and hands-on experiments are led by NSCL faculty and senior staff.

This years topics will be similar to last year and include:

• Fundamentals of nuclear and particle physics

• Relativity

• The origin of the elements in the cosmos

• The mystery of Cosmic Rays

• Ongoing research at the NSCL

• Nuclear physics experiments. This includes construction of cosmic ray detectors to be used in class room projects during the second week. The detectors will be available for the participating teachers for use at their schools.

This year we encourage participating science teachers to bring one to three students from their own school. We offer the option of staying in a MSU campus dormitory for teachers and students supervised by accompanying teachers.