The Indian Academy of Sciences, along with two members of the QuarkNet team based in Fermilab, is holding a workshop for physics teachers for two days on 10 and 11 March 2006 (Friday and Saturday). This workshop is being held as a part of the Education and Outreach Program for the LCWS06: the International Linear Collider Workshop being held at the Indian Institute of Science, during March 9-13, 2006. This will be held at the Digital Services Information Centre (DISC) at the Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore. We would like to invite you to take part in this workshop. Some information on the workshop is given below.

This Workshop will enable the teachers and students in the Bangalore and surrounding areas to participate in the study of extensive air-shower cosmic rays. It will be conducted by two members of the QuarkNet team from Fermilab (Marjorie Bardeen and Robert Peterson). They will be bringing a detector with them. They propose to begin an international collaboration to be established. These research-based programmes will, over the next few years, involve students in a search for extremely energetic cosmic rays. The participants will learn how to use the Grid-enabled e-Lab that allows students to upload and analyse data. They can also use the e-Lab to communicate results to students at home and abroad. The team from USA will be bringing a detector with 4 scintillator paddles. People will work in in 4 groups of 4 - 5. On the first day there will be some introductory lectures on Cosmic Ray Physics and the familiarisation of the participants with the detectors and the e-tools. There will be some time spent on the Web portals. The idea here is to familiarise a few teachers and few physicists in the area with this detector and the experiments. Then this group will mentor young students in turn.

This programme will enable teachers and students to conduct research with a growing international collaboration, beginning with students in the US. Currently, over 100 teachers and 259 students research groups in high schools across the US participate in the programme. The teachers involved in the workshop (and their students) will join hands with these students and teachers in the US.