University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Physics

Saturday Physics Honors Program

About SPHP
About Physics Day
Physics Day Registration

Saturday Honors Physics Program, an outreach program for high school students,
is also open to the general public.

The lectures are free of charge and are scheduled from 10:15 to 11:30 a.m.,
unless indicated otherwise.

Lectures are held in room 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics,
1110 West Green Street, Urbana, IL. (Map to Loomis)
Parking is available on the east side of the building in lot B21.


Saturday Physics Honors Program
Fall 2006 Schedule

September 23
Corked Bats and Rising Fastballs: Using Physics to Debunk Some Myths of Baseball

Professor Alan Nathan, Physics, UIUC

October 7
Why Can't Time Run Backwards

Nobel Laureate Anthony J. Leggett, Physics, UIUC

October 21
Physics Day

Physics Van demonstration and tours of research laboratories
Please check the "About Physics Day" link in Mid-September for more information.

November 4
Physics of the Body

Swanlund Professor Klaus J. Schulten, Physics, Chemistry, UIUC

November 18
Looking for 10–16-m Objects with a 104-m Microscope
Professor Timothy J. Stelzer, Physics, UIUC

December 2
Phonon Imaging: Seeing Sound in Solids
Professor James P. Wolfe, Physics, UIUC

2006 SPHP Poster
PDF version

Past Saturday Physics Honors Programs

Fall 2005    Fall 2004    Fall 2003    Fall 2002    Fall 2001    Fall 2000    Fall 1999    Fall 1998   
Fall 1997
   1996-97   1995-96   1994-95    1993-94


Welcome to the Fall 2006 Saturday Physics Honors Program!


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