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Available speakers |
Some scientists are available during the World year of Physics to give talks to a variety of audiences ranging from technical to non-technical. If you would like to invite them to give a talk, please contact them directly. |
| Gordon W. F. Drake |
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| Lecture Title: |
What Einstein Saw: 100 Years of Progress in Physics |
| Description: |
The progress of physics and the technologies derived from it can be gauged by the accuracy with which we
can measure things. The year 2005 has been designated the International Year of Physics by the United Nations
to commemorate Einstein's three famous papers of 1905, which laid the foundations for the last 100 years of
progress. The talk will trace some of the key ideas that have emerged in understanding the quantum and cosmological
worlds, and Dr. Drake's own research projects to test this understanding by applying it to atomic systems.
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| Email: |
gdrake@uwindsor.ca |
| Cliff Burgess |
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| Target Audience: |
High School Students and General Public |
First Lecture: |
String Theory: Quantum Mechanics and Gravity -- the Start of a Beautiful Relationship? |
| Description: |
String theory is our best candidate for a theory of the physics at very short
distances, and is the only known candidate theory which handles quantum...
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Second Lecture: |
What Is the Universe Made Of? The Case for Dark Matter and Dark Energy |
| Description: |
For the first time in human thought it is now possible to observationally
determine how much matter is in the Universe as a whole. These observations...
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Email: |
cburgess@perimeterinstitute.ca |
| Manuella Vincter |
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| Target Audience: |
Physics Undergrad |
| Lecture Title: |
The Mystery of Matter |
| Description: |
One of the primary goals of particle physics is to explain the structure of matter
at the smallest distance scales. The attempt to understand the material world around
us in the simplest possible terms has involved ingenious feats of scientific
sleuthing. Such investigative work has lead us to realize that protons and neutrons,
the building blocks of all matter around us, themselves are complex objects with
a rich substructure. The exploration of the fundamental components of matter has
been the major task of particle physicists for over the past 50 years...
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| Email: |
vincter@physics.carleton.ca |
| Gary W. Slater |
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| Target Audience: |
High School Students and General Public |
| Lecture Title: |
Brownian Motion: The Life Of Dancing Molecules |
Description:
Version Française |
Einstein's 1905 article on the random dynamics of small particles in fluids is perhaps not as famous as his
other 1905 articles, but his theory of Brownian motion has had a huge impact in science. In this presentation,
we will follow the history of this phenomenon, starting with the botanist Robert Brown, and we will look at its
importance in various scientific disciplines including polymer science, analytical chemistry and biophysics...
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Version Française
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| Other: |
Bilingual - Gary can present his lectures is either French or English |
| Email: |
gslater@uottawa.ca |
| Qing-Bin Lu |
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| Target Audience: |
Physics/Chemistry/Biology Academia and High School Students |
| Lecture Title: |
From Femtochemistry to Femtobiology: Applications of Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy to Biological and Medical Studies |
| Description: |
In 1905, Einstein proposed the light quantum theory of the photoelectrical effect. This theory not only played
a key role in developing the quantum theory in the early 20th century but "has become the basis of quantitative
photochemistry in the same way as Faraday's law is the basis of electrochemistry" (c.f. The Presentation Speech
for the Nobel Prize in Physics 1921). For this contribution, in particular, Einstein received the Nobel Prize in
1921...
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| Email: |
qblu@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca |
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CompetitionsThe following links will take you to the home pages of several competitions, that we feel would be of interest to physics teachers. This site will be updated as more links become known. For even more resources, visit the Useful links section
If you know of a site, that should be featured on the WYP2005 site, please submit the link here: Submit A link.  Competition links submitted by visitors
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 Art of Physics competition. (This is a photographic competition where art meets physics. Each photographic entry must be accompanied by a 200 word description of the physics principle depicted by the photograph. Winning entries and honourable mentions form part of a travelling exhibit.) |
CAP High School Physics Prize examination. (The prizes for the top three national participants are being sponsored by the Canadian Chemistry and Physics Olympiad, with the CAP offering prizes to the top provincial participants. Certificates of merit are also offered provincially. In some cases, the provincial prizes are supplemented by the provincial university Physics departments. Many university scholarships and admissions committees have used the results in their decisions.)
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