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Welcome!
4:00-4:30 Pizza, veggies, beverages, demos, meet students and faculty
4:30-4:50 Prof. Nancy Forde: “The physics of life”
4:50-5:10 Prof. Howard Trottier: “Dark energy and the accelerating universe”
5:10-5:50 Short information presentations:
Prof. Simon Watkins “Careers in Physics”
Gary Liu “Science Coop Program”
Prof. Barbara Frisken “Programs and Courses”
Nichol Furey: “Undergrad Research Experiences”
5:50-? Dr. Elana Brief: “Tours of Research labs”
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A water drop forming
http://mrsec.uchicago.edu/Nuggets/Spout/
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Very fast, very small transistor
This is 10 times smaller than the width of a hair
SFU physicists made this
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Tarantula nebula
Nebula - a mass of gas or dust within a galaxy
Photo from Hubble Space Telescope
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A double rainbow in Hawaii
http://www.mussell-family.com/hawaii/hanalei_double_rainbow.jpg
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Image courtesy of Mike Vetterli
A simulated proton-proton collision at very high energy
Proton: tiny particle with positive charge
Protons are found in the nucleus (centre) of atoms
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A nest made of tiny carbon “nanotubes”
http://www.physicscentral.com/pictures/pictures-04-02.html
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Astronaut on the moon
Photo credit: NASA
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Writing with a single molecule of DNA
http://physics.ucsd.edu/~des/Science_Cover.jpg
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Enjoy some images of Physics…
SFU
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All snowflakes are different
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/photos/photos.htm
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Photo courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Neutrino detector
Neutrino: a tiny particle with no charge (and maybe no mass!)
This detector is more than 2 km underground in an old nickel mine in Sudbury, Ontario
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is looking for neutrinos from the sun
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A soap film
Image Credit: H. Bordeaux/ Univ. Bordeau
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The Andromeda galaxy
The closest galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy
http://www.galaxyphoto.com/
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The sight of sound
F/A-18 Hornet creates a shock wave as it breaks the sound barrier.
The shock wave is seen as a large cloud formed by the cooling of the air.
U.S. Navy photo by Ensign John Gay
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Proton: tiny particle with positive charge
The LHC is Located in Geneva, Switzerland
SFU physicists work on it
The LHC: A super-high-energy proton-proton collider
Image courtesy of Mike Vetterli
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Iron on copper
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/atomo.html
This is 2500 times smaller than the width of a hair
The kanji characters spell “atom”
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Enjoy some images of Physics…
SFU
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The Eagle Nebula
Photo from Hubble Space Telescope
Nebula - a mass of gas or dust within a galaxy
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Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Published four physics papers in 1905 that changed the way we understand the universe
2005 is the “World Year of Physics” to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this work
Photo by Yousuf Karsh
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A hollow optical fibre
Image Credit: F. Benabid/Univ. of Bath
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A bullet going through an apple
Photo by Harold Edgerton
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The Hubble Space Telescope
Photo credit: NASA
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A “random laser” made out of beads
Image Credit: D.S. Wiersma/LENS/INFM
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Saturn – the sixth planet from our sun
Photo from Cassini, NASA
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Enjoy some images of Physics…
SFU
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Photo courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Neutrino detector
Neutrino: a tiny particle with no charge (and maybe no mass!)
This detector is more than 2 km underground in an old nickel mine in Sudbury, Ontario
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is looking for neutrinos from the sun
A person
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Lightning strikes a tree
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/lwx/lightning/lgtng-hits-tree.jpg
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Atomic steps in a semiconductor
This whole picture is 50 times smaller than the width of a hair
SFU physicists took this picture
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Catch a wave!
Image credit: M. Torres/CSIC, Spain
Pattern formed by liquid in a shaking pan
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Photo credit: NASA / JPL / Cornell
The surface of Mars
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A gas of atomic magnets spontaneously oscillates
An SFU physicist did this experiment!
These atomic magnets are rubidium atoms
Image from Jeff McGuirk
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Cloud patterns over mountains
http://earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/karman_hires.jpg
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Enjoy some images of Physics…
SFU
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The moon during an eclipse
http://www.astronomy.gr/images/gallery/large/Moon_Eclipse.jpg
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A not-quite-perfect copper metal surface
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/hexagone.html
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Red blood cell shapes
SFU physicists made these images.
http://www.sfu.ca/biophysics/research/RBC/RBC.html
Diverse shapes can be predicted from physics principles
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A silk thread in a flowing soap film
Image courtesy of Jun Zhang, NYU
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Quantum corral: iron on copper
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/corral.html
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Sub-atomic particle tracks in a bubble chamber
http://www.physto.se/~grulab/studmat/fys2004/fy1200/hemsidan/pics/bubble-chamber2.jpg
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Ice crust on Jupiter’s moon Europa
Image Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab
Jupiter is the fifth planet from our sun
It has 62 moons!
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Two spiral galaxies collide
Photo from Hubble Space Telescope