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Summer Institute at NYU in 2002
The New York Schools Cosmic Particle Telescope Project is a collaboration lead by Prof. G. Farrar. It aims to create a next- generation astrophysical observatory in New York City, distributed among hundreds or thousands of schools and other sites. Currently, the effort is primarily focussed on a demo project using an emergency water supply tank on the roof of NYU's Waverly Building which was retrofitted in July 2005 to perform dual service as a cosmic particle detector. Other work involves modeling the resolution of an array of such detectors and its sensitivity to high energy neutrinos, developing more powerful methods of reconstruction the properties of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays from the air showers they produce, and using cosmic ray data to constrain models of the galactic magnetic field.
Under the auspices of NYSCPT, faculty at NYU, Columbia, Barnard, CUNY with public and private school teachers and students and other volunteers sponsored a Summer Institute at NYU in 2002 and supports ongoing research teams in 10 high schools.
NYSCPT volunteers (* indicates active participation in present phase)
*Jeff Allen, grad student at NYU, B.A. Berkeley 2005.
*Donald Diwan, Stuyvesant H.S., 2006.
*Glennys Farrar, Prof. Physics, NYU
*Carl Friedberg, President and CEO, Comet Inc., Ph. D. Princeton, 1968, in High Energy Experimental Physics.
Alexander Fabry, undergrad at Harvard, Stuyvesant H.S. 2005.
*Fred Hansen, Head of the NYU Physics Shop
*Pragya Kakani, Jericho H.S.
*Yvette Leung, Jericho H.S.
*Jack Ullman, Prof. Emeritus, Lehmann College
*Bert Wells, B.A. Caltech, Ph. D. Yale, LLD, Yale, Covington and Burling
Neil ZImmerman, grad student at Columbia, Cooper Union B.S. 2004, M.S. 2005
Photo Gallery
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Neil Zimmerman's Senior Thesis
NY Academy Science article, September/October 2005 Update 27
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