Students, families, teachers and especially the curious are invited to attend our annual Holiday Lecture and Open House. See fast, loud, surprising and beautiful physics demos performed by Profs. Heinrich Jaeger and Sidney Nagel. Talk to scientists about their latest discoveries. Participate in hands-on activities related to their research.
Saturday, December 8th, 2012
Kersten Physics Teaching Center
5720 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL
Lecture repeated at 11am and 2pm
Open House and Demo Alley from 12pm-4pm
Doors for the Lectures open 30 minutes before each show. Admission to this event is free. Please note: there will be no online registrations this year, and will be a first to arrive, first ticketed event. Shows will also be streamed live to alternate venues.
This event is sponsored by the James Franck Institute, the Department of Physics, and the Materials Research Science & Engineering Center. The organizer of the Open House is David Schuster .
For those needing special assistance, please call (773) 834-9916, or send email to ecs@uchicago.edu
Please see http://jfi.uchicago.edu/~jaeger/PhysicsBang08/Site/Intro.html for pictures from the 2008 event