Special Events | Post by cdom on October 28th, 2009
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The Society of Physics Students at UCSC PRESENTS:
A General Meeting: “A Sharper Image: Adaptive Optics and Laser Guide Stars for Astronomy and Human Vision Applications“
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Place: ISB 231
SPS is pleased to present professor Claire E. Max of the the Astronomy and Astrophysics Dept. http://www.ucolick.org/~max/max-web/Max.v2.html
This week she will talk about Adaptive Optics and Laser Guide Stars for Astronomy and Human Vision Applications, in her own words:
Adaptive Optics is a technology that detects and corrects changing distortions in optical systems.. It has been applied to great effect during the past decade for correcting astronomical telescopes for blurring due to turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere, and for imaging the living human retina. This talk will describe the history of Adaptive Optics (AO) and laser guide stars, give a status report on their current technology, and describe some scientific highlights: close-up views of black holes in colliding galaxies, and imaging of three dimensional structures in the living human retina.
Uncategorized | Post by cdom on October 23rd, 2009
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SPS Movie Night
12 Monkeys will be shown at Thimann 3 on November 6th 2009.
Show will start at 7:00 o’clock post meridiem.
popcorn included
Uncategorized | Post by cdom on October 19th, 2009
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The Society of Physics Students at UCSC PRESENTS:
A General Meeting: “The Bare Essentials of Particle Physics”
Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Place: ISB 231
Be there or be quadrilateral!
This week Prof. Jason Nielsen (Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics) will offer tips and tricks to solve those particle physics problems at relativistic speeds!
In his own words:
Even if you haven’t managed to take a particle physics course yet, don’t worry! You will still be able to catch the excitement of the Large Hadron Collider experiments and kill those particle physics exam questions after this lecture by Prof. Nielsen. We’ll go through the fundamental particles and forces, and we’ll also brush up on relativistic kinematics with a few tips to make calculations easier. With our new-found particle skills, we’ll look ahead to the startup of the LHC scheduled for November.
Uncategorized | Post by cdom on October 13th, 2009
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The Society of Physics Students at UCSC
General Meeting: “From classical to Quantum Phase Transitions”and Graduate School Info about Rice University Thursday, October 15, 2009
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Place: ISB 231
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This week SPS is proud to present Alumnus Jed Pixley and graduate student of the Physics dept. at Rice University. He will be talking about (in his own words):
This talk will focus on a brief introduction to quantum criticality. This describes matter undergoing a second order phase transition at zero temperature. We will focus onquantum phase transitions where order parameter fluctuations fail to capture all of the quantum effects. The metal-insulator transition will be discussed in order to motivate the main topic on quantum criticality in heavy-fermion metals.
Everyone is welcome.
Coffee, tea and snacks will be provided!
