After 10 days of intensive cosmology study, students write scripts or do presentations about one of the concepts presented in the workshop. Topics included the Big Bang (13.7 billion years ago), stages of cosmic evolution; matter and antimatter; dark matter and dark energy; General and Special Relativity; and particle physics.

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Graphic Novel Video

General relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915. It
is the current description of gravitation in modern physics. NOVA General Relativity animation.

Graphic Novel PDF

PDF of Powerpoint Presentation

 




Supernova Rap

 


Particle Party




QuarkNet 2010 Workshop

Physics In and Through Cosmology 2010, A QuarkNet Leadership Workshop, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics.




2010 Workshop - Lambda

The Lambda Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab for the Physics in and through Cosmology Workshop 2010. Special thanks to Dr. Rollie Otto and Ms. Laurie Kerrigan for making this all possible..




Video

Students created a game show based on 'Family Feud' where contestants answered questions about current research in cosmology.

PDF of Powerpoint Presentation

 

 

 



The Expanding Universe




The Big Bang




Nice Cream

Dr. Rollie Otto makes Nice Cream for students and teachers at the BCCP Cosmology Workshop 2008.




Cosmology Game - BCCP Cosmology Workshop Student Presentation

Bay Area high school students created a cosmology game called Galileo Feud at the 2009 BCCP Cosmology Workshop at Lawrence Berkeley Lab..




Advanced Light Source Tour with BCCP Teacher Academy Director Rollie Otto

Dr. Rollie Otto leads cosmology workshop students on a tour of the Advanced Light Source facility at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. At the BCCP cosmology workshops, prominent physicists present the current scientific view of the history and structure of the universe. Students and teachers.



 

 


Matter / AntiMatter Wars

 

 

 

2007 Workshop Comics

 


Gravitational Lensing PDF

 

                               

Radiocarbon Comic PDF