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"EXPLORING YOUR UNIVERSE" at UCLA! A great science outreach event for kids and adults
outreach event that showcases science from departments across UCLA through
hundreds of fun, hands-on activities, demonstrations and experiments for all
ages. Activities for all
ages include workshops, faculty and graduate student talks,
planetarium shows, solar telescope viewing, comet making, weather
tours, dinosaur fossils, physics demos and much more! With wide involvement from
students, staff and faculty, EYU has quickly become the main science outreach
event at the university. In addition to hands-on demonstrations and
experiments, there is a lecture series, a planetarium show, a physics show, and
access to rare fossils, rocks, minerals and UCLA’s world-class meteorite
collection – this event truly has something fun for everyone!
To view the event poster, go to:
http://planets.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/2013_EYU-poster-2_small.pdf
There will be two lecture series during the program:
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General Talks (located in Kinsey Pavilion)
1:30 - 2:00: Dr. Wes Campbell (Physics)
Your Smartphone Is Made of Science: The Amazing Physics of the Common Cell Phone
2:30 - 3:00: Dr. Richard Kaner (Chemistry)
Fun with Plastics
3:30 - 4:00: Dr. Jean Turner (Astronomy)
Tuning in on the Radio Universe
4:30 - 5:00: Dr. James Rosenzweig (Physics)
Miniaturizing the Accelerator: Taking the World's Largest Scientific Instrument from Km-Size to the Table-top
5:30 - 6:00: Dr. Michael Rich (Astronomy)
Amateur Stargazing and Big Science: Discovering Colliding Galaxies from Lockwood Valley
Earth Space Sciences Special Talks (located in Geology 3656):
1-1:30pm - UCLA Prof. Jean-Luc Margot
Life in the Universe
2-2:30pm - UCLA Prof. Ed Rhodes
Natural Disasters: What's Next?
3-3:30pm - UCLA Researcher Alan Rubin
Meteorites: From the Asteroids to the Earth
4-4:30pm - UCLA Researcher Jean-Pierre Williams
Flash! Bang! Cosmic Impacts into Earth
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The event
will be held in the Court of Sciences (a good place to start), Geology, Physics
and Astronomy, Math Sciences buildings.
Food will be available on campus at numerous locations. The event will take place rain or shine.
Driving and Parking Information:
If entering off Hilgard, enter campus from Manning to the Lot 2 Pay-By-Space parking area ($12 for all day parking). If entering campus from Westwood Blvd., buy
an all-day parking pass for Lot 8 at the center island kiosk just north of
Charles Young / Circle Drive or you can continue past the kiosk and park in the
Lot 6 Pay-By-Space area.
