PHYS 498 ART :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
Artist's depiction of a roton - a strange quasiparticle occuring in Bose Einstein condensates. Credit: Christopher Ticknor, LANL, Ryan Wilson & Brad Baxley, JILA
Weekly Class Meetings: Monday 3.00-4.50pm,
Default Location: Loomis 147
Project time: TBD
Class Format: Generally each class will involve focusing on one or more scientific concept and genre of art and studying how concepts are depicted by these genres. Topics include the cosmos, waves, and quantum physics; theater, visual arts, music, and design. The format of the class will typically involve a presentation by the instructor and any student who so desires, dialog, short student presentations on some days (dispersed throughout the semester), and formulation of projects. Some classes will involve fields trips and others will have guest presenters from physics, theater, dance, and other disciplines. Some classes will also be dedicated to production and presentation of projects.
Schedule:
- Jan 22: Meet and greet; The Universe – beginnings to modern times; Depicting the cosmos in the visual arts, film, music, theater, and more.
- Jan 29: Project Team Formation; The Quantum World, Bizarre, cold states of matter
- Feb 5: Project formulation; Science and Dance; ICAM Cooper pair dance and others (K. Padavic); Language of Dance (A. Iyer); Guest Kirstie Simson
- Feb 12: Science and Theater
- Feb 19: Quantum Voyages (M. Highman, D. Markovich) + Creative Fragment due
- Feb 26: The Cosmos and Nuclear Power (L. Kissinger, T. Peng, R. Amaro)
- Mar 5: No classes this week (make-up class TBD)
- Mar 12: Project Meeting and Presentation
- SPRING BREAK
- Mar 26: Quantum Voyages: Behind the Scenes (L. Szini, C. Zhao, M. Highman)
- Mar 30: Quantum Voyages production in celebration of Tony Leggett's 80th birthday
- Ap 2: Physics and Music (A. Busse, R. William)
- Ap 4: Quantum Voyages production open to the public at the Beckman Institute
- Ap 9: Physics, Mathematics and Art (D. Inafuku)
- Ap 16:
- Ap 23:
- Ap 30:
Student final presentation from Spring 2017
