Physics with a Bang! 2008
Physics with a Bang!
was a free Holiday Lecture & Open House that took place at the University of Chicago on December 6, 2008. There were two lectures, one at 10am and one at 2pm. The Open House included guided tours to physics & chemistry labs in the James Franck Institute, and hands-on interactive science demos for kids of all ages in our Demo Alley. Overall, about 500 people attended. This was the second year we have staged Physics with a Bang! and we plan to make it an annual event.
Physics
with a Bang! was
organized by the Chicago
Materials Research Center and
the James
Franck Institute.
This year, it was co-sponsored by the University of Chicago
as one of its kick-off events for the SCIENCE
CHICAGO program,
a year-long celebration of science across all of Chicago.
The special high-speed video playback was made possible by
the Keck Initiative for Ultrafast Imaging at the University
of Chicago. Many thanks to Eileen Sheu for organizing the
whole event, Dennis Gordon and Van Bistrow for expert preparation
of the experiments and smooth operation of the lecture demonstrations,
Arnab Banerjee for building the superconducting train set,
Nathan Keim and John Royer for doing the high-speed videography,
all students and faculty who participated in the Open House & Demo
Alley as tour guides or demonstrators, and everyone else
from various other university outfits for their help in making
this year’s event work well. Last but not least, thanks
to Laszlo Frazer, Jinbo He, Beth Rooney, and Dan Silevitch
for taking the pictures you can enjoy on the next pages (the
photographer’s name is indicated below each image)....links
to these pages are at the very top of this one.