Culminating event December 2024


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Culminating Event, Where the Arts Meets Physics

When6-8 pm,  Monday, 12/09/2024

Where: Channing-Murray foundation, 1209 W Oregon St, Urbana, IL 61801

Hosted by: Class participants of PHYS 495 + Special Guest Presenters

We warmly invite you to our public culminating event of PHYS 495 Where the Arts Meets Physics class! 

In this project-based course, students immersed in a variety of scientific concepts and artistic media, including through guidance by experts from many diverse disciplines across campus. Participants themselves shared their expertise and explorations and were in dialogue as they journeyed through the process of project building. Scientific themes included quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, magnetism, waves, high-energy physics, and more. Immersion in the arts included principles of music composition, installation art, movement and dance, theater and poetry, and more. 

Explore and engage in the creations that emerged in the form of art installations, music pieces, interactive art, and performances on Monday, December 9th 6-8 pm in the beautiful Channing-Murray space.

Everyone is welcome!

Class Participants: Xavier Davenport, Jason Miles, Kriti Shetty, Naomi Spiro,  Mauricio Vazquez, Ziyue (Albert) Wu

Teaching Assistants:  Surkhab Kaur, Azel Murzabekova

Faculty Instructor: Smitha Vishveshwara

Special Presenters and Guides: : Alex Tecza, Kato Lindholm, Joy Yang, Sheila Parinas,  Jessica Page Elliott, Ben Hooberman, Virginia Lorenz, Paul Kwiat, Nic Morse, Noora Ghadiri, Henry Strehlow, Rebecca Wiltfong, Cheryl Sabas,  Janice Benner, Stephen Bullwinkel, Doug Jeffers, Jack Zwettler, Kamila Abdiyeva

Event Program

6:10 pm – Opening Remarks & Project Journeys

6:25 pm – Project Landscape Free Exploration

6:50 pm – Mad Science Club Performance

7:00 pm – Introduction to Sheila Parinas Art

7:05 pm – Quantum Odyssey/Falling into Grace

7:15 pm – Free Explorations

7:40 pm – Quantum Entango

7:50 pm – Taking Spinductor on a Walk

Throughout the event exhibits & demos will be in action 

Project Landscape

Bell & Shor Take the Spinductor for a Walk – Xavier Davenport

Gravitational Waves & a Black Hole – Noora Ghadiri

Various – Sheila Parinas Art

 A Particular Sound – Jason Miles

Fractured Spectra & Quantum Odyssey – Kriti Shetty

Subatomic Shadows &  Falling into Grace – Naomi Spiro

Magnetic Mandala – Albert Wu

Ghost of a Fingerprint –  Mauricio Vazquez