At UK, the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies Group is a team of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty, who use the University's Dell Cluster supercomputer to predict and simulate the galactic mechanics of the early universe.
Ganpathy Murthy, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, speaks about Big Bang Theory, Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Part 2 - What’s the Evidence for the Big Bang and Expansion of the Universe? What Do We Measure and How? What’s the evidence? How we know the Big Bang happened, and that the universe is expanding and accelerating. How we measure how fast different parts of the Universe are moving away.
Ganpathy Murthy, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, speaks about Big Bang Theory, Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Part 3 - More Evidence, Including the Evidence for Dark Matter, and Dark Energy More on the Big Bang, how we measure how far away different parts of the universe are Dark Matter, Dark Energy
Ganpathy Murthy, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, speaks about Big Bang Theory, Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Part 1: The Big Picture; the History of the Universe from the Big Bang to Now Introduction to What’s New in Science The big picture; the history of the universe from the Big Bang to now. Important scientific milestones leading to our present knowledge
In part two of the Dean's interview with Mike Cavagnero, the Chair of Physics and Astronomy discusses the role of the department on campus and the possibilities and excitement of where the discipline may be headed.
Mike Cavagnero, the Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, was one of the initial faculty members to teach a class in A&S Wired in Fall of 2011 titled Measuring Science. He talks about the course and the power of using the iPad in the classroom. You can also view a video on the final projects the class did: vimeo.com/35279096 This is part one of a two-part Dean's Channel interview with Mike Cavagnero. Part two is here - vimeo.com/35011430
Erin Peters is a graduate student in the Chemistry Department, president of the Chemistry Graduate Student Association at UK, and graduate research assistant to Steven Yates. In this interview, Peters talks about her research at UK’s particle accelerator.
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Steven Yates is an Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor who works in the departments of both Chemistry and Physics and Astronomy.
In this interview, Yates discusses his recent collaboration with the iThemba Laboratory, a nuclear particle accelerator facility in Cape Town, South Africa.
The 26 A&S Wired students registered for Mike Cavagnero's eight-week class: "The Science of Measurement" tackle projects from around campus and complete the endeavors using iPad measuring tools.
The iPad can serve as a compass to measure magnetic fields, has a built-in camera, so it can serve as a spectrometer to measure light sources and an accelerometer, which can measure how fast it is moving.
Watch Mike Cavagnero show off a couple of the capabilities of the iPad.
Jeffrey Burch is an aerospace engineer that started his career as a physicist. Burch graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1977 with a BS in Physics, and went on to earn higher degrees from the University of Chicago and Rutgers University. In this interview, he discusses the faculty that influenced him during his time at UK.
