This year we will be participating in the College of Arts and Sciences final Year of Mercy event: "Welcome the Stranger."
Friday, December 2nd, at Lower St. John's
Two Sessions: 11:30-12:15, and 12:30 to 1:15
At each session, we will be joined by several refugee speakers, as well as the coordinator for Lutheran Family Service's Community Service Office. You can bring needed supplies directly to the event.
43rd Annual Physics Field Day
Presented by Creighton University’s Society of Physics Students
Saturday, March 19, 2016 Nobel Laureiates
Registration starts at 7:30, events start at 8:00 AM
You are invited to the Creighton University Physics Department’s Physics Field Day 2016! On Saturday, March 19, you and your team of high school physics students will duke it out with other local high schools for the title of “Field Day Champion.” This year’s theme is “Nobel Laureates in Physics,” where we will explore the work of notable physicists and the impact they have made on our society.
Registration Cost: The registration fee is $15 per team plus $3 per person, with 2-5 individuals per team. Breakfast and lunch will be provided for both teachers and students.
Location
Hinson-Lied Science Building, Creighton University
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, launched in June 2012, and is the first telescope in orbit to focus high energy X-ray light. High energy X-ray light provides a unique probe of the most energetic phenomena in the universe, from flares on the surface of the Sun, to the explosions of stars, to the extreme environments around neutron stars and black holes. NuSTAR has discovered new classes of objects, such as neutron stars accreting at prodigious rates, and has provided uniquely robust measurements of how fast black holes are spinning. Compared to the previous generation of non-focusing observatories working in this energy band, NuSTAR's change in technology provides 10x sharper images and 100x greater sensitivity. This talk will present some of the highlights from the NuSTAR mission and describe how they are changing our picture of the extreme universe.
Abstract: The research presented in this thesis was carried out with the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) detector at the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) LHC (Large Hadron Collider). Two feasibility studies are conducted for Run 2 energies at the LHC. The first case studies the photo-production process of the ηc meson decaying to a four particle final state, π+π-K+K- in Pb-Pb ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs).
Dr. Steve Rolston
Professor & Co-Director
Joint Quantum Institute
Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland
Where is My Quantum Computer?
Twenty years ago mathematician Peter Shor proved that a computer based on the laws of quantum mechanics could in principle factor large numbers in polynomial time, a problem believed to be exponentially difficult for classical computation. Given the importance of this problem to modern cryptography, it understandably stimulated a great deal of excitement and effort. Dozens of candidate systems have been proposed and many worked on, but we are still many years away from a machine that threatens our financial transactions. In this talk I will highlight the challenges to build large, controllable systems that maintain their quantum character, and look at where we are, where we will be going, and what we have learned along the way.
Presented by Creighton University’s Society of Physics Students
Saturday, March 28, 2015 Condensed Matter
Registration starts at 7:30, events start at 8:00 a.m.
You are invited to the Creighton University Physics Department’s Physics Field Day 2015! On Saturday, March 28, you and your team of high school physics students will duke it out with other local high schools for the title of “Field Day Champion.” This year’s theme is “Condensed Matter,” where we will explore physical principles that we encounter on a daily basis—though perhaps we do not think about them explicitly.
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Dr. Steve Rolston