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"EXPLORING YOUR UNIVERSE" at UCLA! A great science outreach event for kids and adults



Exploring Your Universe (EYU) is a FREE public

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!

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There will be two lecture series during the program:



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

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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



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.



 




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