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Culminating Event, Where the Arts Meets Physics

When: 6-8 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