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October 18, 10 am – 4pm
Small Hall (behind Phi Beta Kappa Memorial
Hall)
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This year’s PhysicsFest
theme is
Re-live your favorite movies, and learn if the super-powers are really physically possible...
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PhysicsFest 2014 Photo and Video Competition!
Send us your best physics-related photos and videos!
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Join us for our third annual
Undergraduate Physics poster session and
competition
Location – Small Hall Library,
10-11.30am
Come and see what the next generation of
scientists and researchers are up to!
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Visit
research labs (12 - 4pm)
Have you ever wondered how a research
lab really looks? 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:
Seth Aubin – Bose-Einstein Condensates (Room
067)
Todd Averett – Hyperpolarized Gases for Nuclear Physics (Room
167)
Mumtaz Qazilbash -
Photon spectroscopy (Room 024)
R. Ale Lukaszew – Thin films and
nanostructures (Room 030)
Irina Novikova –
Quantum optics and Atomic Physics (Room 065)
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For our younger visitors we
offer an exciting treasure hunt – what superpowers can be found
in physics research labs?
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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 hands-on science for everyone
from 1 to 101!
Location – Small Hall 122
Open 10am – 4pm
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Interactive
demonstrations
Where magic meets science - this year's show is inspired by Disney "Frozen"! Guaranteed excitement for all
ages. We may even make a snowman!
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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Ale Lukaszew
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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
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1pm
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Keith Griffioen
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Physics of Music
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2pm
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Patricia Vahle
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Neutrinos: A little talk about next to nothing
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3pm
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Irina Novikova
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Nobel-inspired lecture: Out of the blue
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