Thursday (8/20)
DR. PAUL HALPERN. The University of the Sciences physics professor — and author of 11 popular science books, including, “What’s Science Ever Done for Us? What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics,” “Robots Life, and the Universe” — discusses his newest book, “Collider: The Search for the World’s Smallest Particles,” in which he provides an accessible look at the hottest topic in physics and the experiment that will transform our understanding of the universe. University of Pennsylvania Bookstore, 6:00 PM, FREE
Project Tuva, the new interactive video application developed for Microsoft Research, is featuring Richard Feynman’s 1964 Messenger Lecture Series presented at Cornell University.
Project Tuva (for Microsoft Research) from Stimulant on Vimeo.
Finding the best in physics now becomes easier with the formal launch of Physics,
http://physics.aps.org/
a new, free, online publication from the American Physical Society. Physics will highlight and provide commentary on selected papers from among the extensive publications of Physical Review Letters and the Physical Review series. Optional weekly email updates will keep readers apprised of important new articles as they appear.
Physics aims to meet those needs by means of three features, all with original content.
- Viewpoints discuss and explain a particular paper’s findings in a manner accessible to all physicists, especially to those outside its subspecialty.
- Trends are longer pieces that cover a recent body of work in a specific field, but also look ahead to the challenges and questions that fascinate that field’s top researchers.
- Synopses are staff-written summaries of papers that merit wider attention among physicists in all fields.
