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URL:http://physics.bu.edu/internal/events/show/1464
SUMMARY:The Aesthetics of Constructing and Deconstructing Materials and Mag
	nets
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Greg Boebinger\nPoster: http://physics.bu.edu/interna
	l//files/get/Boebinger.pdf\n\nPart of the Physics Department Colloquia Seri
	es.\n\nThe MagLab generates magnetic fields exceeding two million times the
	 Earth’s magnetic field using exotic\nmaterials and home-developed magnet
	 designs. This talk seeks to answer the question "Why would anyone\nwant to
	 do such a thing"? We start by surveying the aesthetics and science of mate
	rials\, from the flaking of\nobsidian to the fabrication of nano-composites
	 necessary for the construction of the MagLab’s world-record\nmagnets. Th
	e use of these magnets will then be illustrated by a few research highlight
	s from the MagLab’s\ninternational user community on MATERIALS: tweaking 
	macroscopic quantum phenomena in two-dimensional\nsquare lattices of copper
	 and oxygen; ENERGY: analyzing nature’s most complex fluid by measuring t
	he mass\nof 100\,000 different molecules in a single drop of oil; and LIFE:
	 using sodium and quantum dots to revolutionize\nmagnetic resonance imaging
	. During the talk\, we anticipate that jokes will be told.
LOCATION:SCI 109\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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