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This is your chance to
experience physics as never before! Enjoy the wide spectrum of
illuminating science fun for the whole family!
October 27, 10 am – 4pm
Small Hall (behind Phi Beta Kappa Memorial
Hall)
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Full
schedule at a glance
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This year’s PhysicsFest
theme is
Experience electromagnetic radiation of all
scales in our hand-on 100% interactive displays, to learn how to be a
radio operator, to safely explode things in a microwave, to find out the
most colorful way to measure temperature, to catch a glimpse of a
intergalactic radiation, and more!
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Join us for our first annual
Undergraduate Physics poster session and
competition
Location – Small Hall Library,
10-11.30am
Come and see what the next generation
scientists and researchers are up to!
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Visit
research labs (12-4pm)
Have you ever wonder how a research
lab looks like? This is your chance to see several physics and applied
science labs and talk to people who work there.
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Participating scientists:
Mumtaz Qazilbash -
Optical studies of solid-state materials (Room 028)
R. Ale Lukaszew – Thin films and
nanostructures (Room 030)
Eugeniy
Mikhailov – Quantum and Nonlinear optics (Room 032)
Gina Hoatson – Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance (NMR) techniques (Room 115)
Todd
Averett – Experiments with Subatomic Particles (Room
167)
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For our younger visitors we
offer an exciting treasure hunt – collect secret messages from all the
research labs to get a prize!
Want to have
your own PhysicsFest at home? Just check out these
great books in your local library and start having fun!
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Daylight astronomy? Why not! Take a short
elevator ride to the roof of Small Hall to see the Sun and planets as
you’ve never seen them before.
Observations start an 12pm, weather permitting.
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 Want to try your hands on
physics experiments? Come to our Physics
Playroom!
Fun hand-on science for everyone
from 1 to 101!
Location – Small Hall 122
Open 10am – 4pm
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Interactive
demonstrations
Ever wonder about how a laser
works? Or what happens with air when it is really cold? Join physics
students for fun ways to learn physics. Guaranteed excitement for all
ages.
Location – Small Hall 110
Demonstration
starts at 12.30pm, 1.30pm, 2.30 pm and 3.30pm
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 Want to know more about
cutting edge science?
Presentations from
Physics professors
Location – Small Hall 111
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12pm
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Joshua
Erlich
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What is everything is made of?
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1pm
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Bob
Welsh
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The WWII Enigma Machine; How it worked, how the Allies broke
it (with
an actual Enigma Machine for the audience to play with)
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2pm
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Seth
Aubin
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Nobel lecture
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3pm
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Ale
Lukaszew
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Structural color, metamaterials and plasmons
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