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The Coffee-Ring Effect and the Physics of Breakfast
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-11-30)
As anyone who has ever spilled coffee knows, liquids that contain suspended particles tend to leave ring-shaped stains when they dry. This ubiquitous phenomenon has been observed for thousands of years, but the physics ...
100 years of Einstein's Gravity
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-11-02)
Curved spacetime, relativistic time, black holes and gravitational waves are just a few topics in Einstein’s theory of gravity called Special and General Relativity. Professors Cadonati and Shoemaker will take you on a ...
The Ig Nobel Prizes and Improbable Research
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-10-11)
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. Ten new prizes have been awarded every year since 1991, in gala ceremonies at Harvard and MIT, with winners traveling from around the world, and ...
Superposition, Entanglement, and Raising Schrödinger's Cat
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-10-21)
Research on precise control of quantum systems occurs in many laboratories throughout the wor1d, for fundamental research, new measurement techniques, and more recently for quantum information processing. I will briefly ...
How the Planck Constant is Better than a Kilogram Artifact, or How the History of Measuring Physics Constants Will Lead to a “New” International System of Metric Units
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-09-30)
For over 200 years, the metric system has been the standard for comparing measurements in science and industry. Formal procedures were adopted about 125 years ago to create the International System (SI) of units, and it ...
Dark matter, and how we would not be alive without it
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-08-30)
Most of the mass in the Universe is of some unknown form of matter. While we have some guesses what it might be we are not sure. In this talk for a non-specialist audience, Professor Abel will explain how observations using ...
Illustrated Special Relativity Through its Paradoxes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-04-02)
John de Pillis discusses the Fusion of Linear Algebra, Graphics, and Reality. This lecture is a part of the Inquiring Minds Lecture Series.
Chaotic Music and Fractal Art: A Glimpse into the Neurophysiology of Aesthetics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-01-27)
The enjoyment of music and art are uniquely human experiences. Yet we still do not understand the attributes that lead us to appreciate some artistic works and not others. In this talk I will address how concepts in ...
Celebration of 2018 Physics Nobel Prize: Lighting the way with microscopic tractor beams and sculpted laser pulse
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-10-23)
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes two breakthrough inventions in laser physics. The first, optical tweezers, allows scientist and engineers to use lasers like the tractor beams of Star Trek to manipulate everything ...
The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-11)
One of the most obvious facts about the universe is that the past is different from the future. We can remember yesterday, but not tomorrow; we can turn an egg into an omelet, but can't turn an omelet into an egg. That's ...