Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP)

High school visitors & SCIPP researchers participated in the '22 Quarknet Particle Physics Masterclass on 3/5. Students learned about the fundamental forces & particles, analyzed data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN and joined a Zoom w/ researchers from Fermilab & Berkeley Lab.

February 21, 2020, Video: My Life as a Particle Physicist, in American Sign Language, by SCIPPer Giordon Stark! youtube.com/watch?reload=9…

February 17, 2020: SCIPPer Giordon Stark was an Instructor at the recent IRIS-HEP analysis preservation boot camp!

Cake for the ⁦@ATLASexperiment⁩ end-of-year party! The design is based on the poster for our ongoing⁩ workshop, and features our⁩ results on Higgs boson decays to 4 leptons using the data collected 2015-2018 and the New Small Wheel muon detector. #CERN #Higgs #Cake

December 3, 2019: SCIPP Member Giordon Stark is featured in Symmetry Magazine! Check out the article: " A matter of interpretation". symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-matt…

SCIPP Member and UC Santa Cruz Physics Professor David M. Smith is featured in the latest inquiry@UC Santa Cruz Research Magazine! Check out the full story, "Waiting with GODOT Studying the physics of lightning requires fortitude...and patience". inquiry.ucsc.edu/2019-20/waitin…

That’s a wrap on the inaugural #USATLASComputingBootcamp! Thanks so much to all the students who came and learned with us this week and huge thanks to my fellow instructors who made this week a great and fun success! (Not pictured: @lukasheinrich_, Henry Schreiner, Karol Krizka)

July 17, 2019: Breakthrough Listen launches new optical search with VERITAS Telescope Array! SCIPP physicist David Williams will help lead effort using four 12-meter telescopes to search for nanosecond flashes of light from extraterrestrial civilization. news.ucsc.edu/2019/07/breakt…

SCIPP Member Dr Giordon Stark @kratsg :

SCIPP Members Prof. Robert Johnson and Grad Student Sarah Mechbal launched AESOP-Lite in May 2018. Just released is a short movie of Roger the Koala making his stratospheric journey in hopes of finding the ubiquitous cosmic rays. Video link: youtube.com/watch?v=0WLk9n…

Physicist Michael Dine joins panel on string theory at World Science Festival news.ucsc.edu/2019/05/dine-p… via @ucsc

Santa Cruz. Their main work in QuarkNet in the past few years has been to run great ATLAS masterclasses. The "SCIPP center" is headed up by mentor Jason Nielsen and administrator Vicki Johnson. Teachers in the group participate in many ways, including those masterclasses...

Friday, February 1, 2019: SCIPP Outreach in the QuarkNet Friday Flyer! "Spotlight on the SCIPP University of California Santa Cruz QuarkNet Center SCIPP is the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, the particle physics research institute at the University of California,

SCIPP Member, Jacob Pasner, in Symmetry Magazine: The farmer physicist: A graduate student looks for belonging inside and outside academia, 01/22/19 By Sarah Charley.

SCIPP Member, David A. Williams, in the UCSC News: Scientists to inaugurate a new type of gamma ray telescope at Whipple Observatory The prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT) is designed as a pathfinder telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array.

October 19, 2018: SCIPP Member, Giordon Stark, was quoted in a recent write-up about CERN!

June 11, 2018: Perspectives on 10 Years of Discovery with Fermi: By capturing the most energetic light in the sky, the spacecraft continues to teach us about the mysteries of the universe. By William Atwood, Peter Michelson and Steven Ritz. www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2018-06-1…

2018 QuarkNet Masterclass at SCIPP this Saturday!

@UCSC_Physics @UCSC_SCIPP too!

Guess who's joining the cool kids on twitter! Be sure to follow for updates about the department, as well as some cool physics news!

Just setting up my Twitter. #myfirstTweet