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