Tuesday, July 14, 2026
9:00 am (Heroy 153): Matthew Klein (Assistant Professor of Physics): The search for new physics at the LHC (slides)
10:30 am (Heroy 153): Patrick Breysse (Assistant Professor of Physics): A Brief History of Everything (slides) (YouTube)
12:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm (Fondren Science 32): Demo with Toys (Kuei Sun, Heidi Wu) (handouts)
2:30 pm (Heroy 153): John E. Thompson (Plano East Senior High School): Some Creative Ways to Use Claude-Gemini-NotebookLM-ChatGPT (examples)
3:55 pm: Group photo
4:00 pm: Adjourn
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
9:00 am (Heroy 153): Rebekah Napier-Jameson (Postdoctoral researcher in The Wylie Lab, SMU Department of Biological Sciences):
Guardians of the Genome: p53 and the SMC5/6 Complex (slides)
10:30 am (Heroy 153): Shane Wood (QuarkNet National Staff): Updates from QuarkNet Central (slides)
10:45 am (Heroy 153): Kuei Sun (Lecture of Physics): Physics of Collisions (slides)
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm (FOSC 322) David Son (Professor and Chair of Chemistry): Chemistry Lab Tour
1:30 pm (Heroy 153) Peng Tao (Professor of Chemistry): Chemistry Lab Tour
2:30 pm (Heroy 153) Cruise Le Blanc (Undergrad of Physics): Teaching Cosmology in High Schools (slides)
4:00 pm: Adjourn
Thursday, July 16, 2026
9:00 am (Heroy 153): Heidi Wu (Assistant Professor of Physics): Galaxy clusters: The Giants in our Universe (slides)
10:30 am (Heroy 153): Sapta Bhattacharya (Assistant Professor of Physics): Higgs boson and the unification of forces (slides)
12:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm (Fondren Science 32): Quantitative Lab (Kuei Sun)
2:30 pm (Fondren Science 32): Physics Tournament (Heidi Wu)
3:45 pm: Survey and Sign-out
4:00 pm: Adjourn