Here you can find all information about future Photon activities, including rundowns of future meetings.
(Edit: this is up to date as of March 2014)
On the Horizon
- A potential SPS Zone Meeting, held at BU!
- Semester Project: Zeusaphone
- Photon physics outreach
- Many more guest speakers: including Michael Gertsenshteyn, and more TBA
- Photon member speakers: including Ryan Gelly, Ben Dickens, Jon Makkinje, and more TBA
- Rescheduled Grand Finale
- SPS Picnic
- Blue Hills Day Trip
- Survey Raffle
Semester Highlights
- Photon Goes to The Museum of Science! Saturday, September 28th
- BU Physics Pumpkin Drop 2013
- Speakers: including Nicholas Schade (metamaterials physics), Lina Necib (theoretical particle physics, cosmology)
- Photon research projects: Vishal Bala (Black Hole Imaging), Gerard Lawler (Validation of the Mars International Reference Ionosphere)
- First Annual Explosion Day
- Frog Pond Ice Skating and SPS Mixer
Semester Project On the horizon is the construction of a Zeusaphone (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeusaphone or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Km49gm7GI). We’re currently seeking a place to build it, but in the meantime, here is a reasonable article explaining how we might build one: http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Musical-Tesla-Coil-like-a-Pro/. If you’d like to be involved, then we urge you to look this over.
- April 19th (Saturday)
– Blue Hills hiking day trip
- April 12th (Saturday)
– SPS Picnic and Mixer
- April 4th
– Brief LA introduction with Mark Greenman and research presentation by Ryan Gelly
- February 28th
– Student Project: Measurement of Mpembe Effect
- February 21st
– Featured demo: Fruit-based plasma creation
- February 14th
– “Physics of Cancer Evolution” by Prof. Korolev – Featured demo: steam-powered glass bottle vacuum
- February 7th
– Planning meeting – Featuring: results of Ryan Gelly’s optical experiment
- January 31st
-Prof Carey’s movie night, film TBA -Featuring: Ryan Gelly’s optical experiment
- January 24th
-Zeusophone discussion -Planning meeting
- January 17th
-First meeting of the new semester -Planning meeting for upcoming events -Featuring: vacuum and suction experiments
- December 13th
-Study Period Lunch Break
- December 6th
-Mark your calendars. It’s EXPLOSION DAY! -Featuring: Coke and Mentos, Vinegar and Baking Soda, Elephant’s Toothpaste, and the Grand Finale
- November 22nd
-Professor presentation -Game of the Week: Professor Liar
- November 15th
-Student speaker: Gerard Lawler – Validating the Mars International Reference Ionosphere -Experiment: Aerodynamics of air hockey
- November 8th
-Tesla coil demonstration -Making and testing lemon/potato batteries and maybe pickle light bulb
- October 4th:
-Student speaker: Vishal Bala – Imaging Black Holes and their Blazars -Work on semester project: Zeusaphone -Possible experiment
- September 27th:
-Guest speaker: Nicholas Schade – Metamaterials and their awesome applications (think invisibility cloaks) -Experiment: Measuring the speed of light with chocolate, marshmallows, and microwaves.
- September 20th:
-Discussion of zone meeting, semester project -Experiment: Several experiments with the Van de Graaf generator
- September 13th (first meeting!!):
-Introduction to Photon; discussion of plans for this year -Ice breakers -Experiment: Forced resonance of non-newtonian fluids using loudspeakers