All Welcome
Departments of Mathematics and Physics
OPEN DAY
10:30-16:00, Saturday 8 November 2003
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All Welcome
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| 10.45-11:00 | Welcome to mathematics, Professor David Simms | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Tea and coffee. Staff and students will be available to answer questions | |
| 11.30-12.30 | Gravitation and quantum mechanics, Professor Samson Shatashvili | |
| What is geometry? Dr Dmitri Zaitsev | ||
| Supercomputers! Professor Jim Sexton | ||
| 12.30-13.00 | Brief walking tour of College with students and staff | |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch, sandwiches | |
| 14.00-14.15 | Careers in physics and mathematics, Sean Gannon | |
| 14.15-15.40 | Molecular machines, Professor Werner Blau | |
| The physics of sports, Dr Mauro Ferreira | ||
| Astrophysics, Dr Brian Espey | ||
| Computational physics: understanding the reality, Dr Stefano Sanvito | ||
| 15.40-16.00 | Visit to the Physics laboratories |
The talks will be in MacNeill Lecture Theatre in the Hamilton building, the Hamilton building is at the east end of College, by Westland Row. http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/hamilton.html.
For further information about the departments see:
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/ and http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/
Enquiries:
Conor Houghton, email: houghton@maths.tcd.ie, tel: +1-608-3542.
Brian Espey, email: Brian.Espey@tcd.ie, tel: +1 608-1675