Superconductors and black holes: FSU professors invite community to virtual physics class

Florida State University physics professors are welcoming the community into the classroom this fall to learn about magnets, waves and exploding stars through the annual Saturday Morning Physics program.

“Saturday Morning Physics is a free-of-charge lecture series in which physicists discuss their work in easy-to-understand, non-technical terms,” said Associate Professor of Physics Christianne Beekman. “The program allows students to interact with scientists who perform research at the forefront of various disciplines within physics.”

The Saturday Morning Physics program has been running since 1983 and has welcomed hundreds of kids and adults to the FSU campus each fall to learn about basic physics concepts from FSU faculty. The first session will take place Oct. 9 and focus on astronomy and dark matter.

Other session topics include the physics of waves, superconductors and exploding stars.

All sessions, which will be delivered via Zoom, are free and open to the public. Sessions start at 9:30 a.m. and run until about 11:15 a.m.

The registration link is available on the Department of Physics website.

The session dates and topics are below:

Oct. 9: Astronomy in a universe filled with light and dark matter

Oct. 16: Particle physics: What matter is and how we know

Oct. 23: The National MagLab and strange superconductors

Oct. 30: Physics of waves

Nov. 6: Forging elements in exploding stars and in the lab

Nov. 13: Spacetime and black holes