Physics & Engineering Festival On Tap For Saturday
Texas A&M University invites audiences across Texas, the nation and the world to get up-close and personal with science and technology outreach at the 2024 Physics and Engineering Festival, set for Saturday, April 13, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the George P. Mitchell ’40 Physics Building on the Texas A&M campus.
As in years past, no fees or tickets are required for the free annual event (view promotional poster online), which will feature hands-on demonstrations, keynote talks and a legendary Texas-sized five-barrel depth charge as well as special events and bonuses.
The day’s jam-packed schedule kicks off at 10 a.m. with Texas A&M Distinguished Professor and Regents Professor of Physics and Astronomy Dr. Nicholas B. Suntzeff, who will present the James G. Potter Lecture, The Greeks, Einstein and Alien Worlds: The Importance of Eclipses, in the Stephen W. Hawking Auditorium within the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy. At 11:30 a.m., NASA astronaut and Texas A&M engineer Greg Chamitoff will present Human Space Exploration for Everyone, also in Hawking Auditorium.
From 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., festival participants are encouraged to unleash their inner scientists while taking in hundreds of fun experiments and demonstrations manned by Texas A&M faculty, staff and students throughout the Mitchell Physics and Blocker Building patio areas. Three fantastic performances of the Science Circus also will be featured (11 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2 p.m.) along with five performances of the Low-Temperature Physics Extravaganza (10:45 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 1 p.m., 1:45 p.m.), two big-barrel implosions (12:45 p.m. and 1:45 p.m.) on the south side of the Mitchell Physics Building and Large Hadron Collider virtual tours at 1 p.m. in Hawking Auditorium. Finally, a Texas-sized five-barrel depth charge explosion complete with 1,000 plastic balls will close out the exhibition portion of the show at 3 p.m. on the south side the Mitchell Physics Building.
This story source was originally published by Texas A&M Arts & Sciences.