Spring 2024
Archival home page for QuERY 2024 at Bellaire High School.
Past session topics and schedule
| Date | Speaker | Core concept | Special topic(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/14/24 | Dan Ferenc-Segedin (Harvard) | Waves | Crystals, Molecular Beam Epitaxy |
| 2/21/24 | - | Small group discussion | Meet your group! |
| 2/28/24 | Skandaprasad Rao (MIT) | Quantum Wavefunctions | Scanning Tunneling Microscopy |
| 3/6/24 | Michal Szurek (MIT), Katie Barajas (Harvard) | Small group activity - Quantization | Boomwhacker modes, atoms, spectroscopy |
| 3/13/24 | Spring break | Spring break | Spring break |
| 3/20/24 | Elizabeth Park (Harvard) | Superposition | Color centers in diamond |
| 3/27/24 | Sarah Muschinske | Entanglement | Superconducting quantum computing |
| 4/3/24 | Cora Barrett (MIT), Hana Warner (Harvard) | Small group activity - Quantum information | Classical + quantum logic gates |
| 4/10/24 | HISD holiday | HISD holiday | HISD holiday |
| 4/17/24 | - | Project start | - |
| 4/24/24 | - | Project week | - |
| 5/1/24 | - | Project week | - |
| 5/8/24 | - | Project week (optional) | - |
| 5/15/24 | - | Project week (optional) | - |
| 5/22/24 | - | Poster session | - |
Student Projects
Group 1
- Team name: QuarkRoaches
- Poster: Exploring the Properties and Applications of Carbon Allotropes
Group 2
- Team name: Project Key Lime Pie
- Poster: Polarization in Quantum Key Distribution
Group 3
- Team name: Project Doubleslit
- Poster: Wave Interference Experiment and Its Connection to Particle-Wave Duality
Group 4
- Team name: Muona 2.0
- Poster: Investigating Muon Lifetime and Decay using a Cosmic-Ray Muon Detector
Group 5
- Team name: Superconductivity
- Poster: Superconductor Levitation through Quantum Locking
Group 6
- Team name: Quack Quack Quantum
- Poster: Building a Michelson Interferometer
Group 7
- Team name: CHSH
- Poster: CHSH Game: Quantum Probability
Group 8
- Team name: Plasma
- Poster: Effects of Magnetic Fields on the Behavior of Gases
Group 9
- Team name: The QTs
- Poster: Particle Swarm Optimization
Bellaire Teaching Support
- Jimmy Newland
- Gary Johnson
- Reena Chopra