[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Special Seminar today at 13:00

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Fri 2018-09-28 at 13:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Various (TRIUMF/Emily Carr University)

Title:     Leaning Out of Windows Art-Science Collaboration

Abstract: LOoW (Leaning out of Windows), a collaborative four year SSHRC funded research project between Emily Carr University and TRIUMF, is now in its second art production phase. Physicists will work collaboratively on a team comprised of 1-2 scientists, 2 artists and 1 scholar from another field (e.g. philosophy of science, cognitive linguistics, art historian).  Each group will meet every 6-8 weeks for a period of 8 to 10 months (Fall 2018 to Spring 2019). Group members will present their ideas, followed by a robust discussion sharing distinct approaches, strategies, methodologies and thoughts, improvising on the challenges of communicating through discipline-specific language (e.g. employing associative thinking in the form of metaphors and analogies, diagrammatic explication, etc.) 

The collaboration topic will be emergence, broadly defined, developed through a series of conversations with a core group of TRIUMF physicists and the two principle investigators from Emily Carr.

 Emergence in physics is often used as a technical term for the complex collective behaviour of a large number of elementary constituents. Of course, the term “emergence” is not used univocally in physics or in broader society. It can also refer to the formation of structures in time, the uncovering of meaning from chaos, or beyond. This project will explore the concept of emergence in these varied contexts.

Remote connection link:
https://mediasite.audiovisual.ubc.ca/Mediasite/Play/fd17850a31d44f7a9b4abeaa195011211d

 Each team will address a subtopic of Emergence that connects with the physicist's particular field of study. Some potential subtopics within this broad thematic include:

- The formation of galactic structures in the universe from dark matter.
- The creation of elements in stars.
- Complex order in condensed matter systems.
- From quarks and gluons to mesons and baryons.
- Nuclear structure emerging from nucleons and chiral forces.
- Collective behaviour in nuclei.
- Hund’s rules in atomic physics
- Emergent behaviours in charged plasmas.
- Beam dynamics and the collective behaviour of space charge.
- Creating molecules with rare isotopes for nuclear medicine.
- Jets at the LHC.
- Uncovering signals from noisy data.
- Emergence of spacetime and gravity from quantum information.

New participants are invited to join!

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