We take a look at different ways to inspire interest in the physics of renewable energy technologies and how to start students on the road to challenge how the world perceives energy use. We look at modest-scale demonstrations involving Solar panels and 1 Farad supercaps, incandescent and CFL lighting, and the spinning of a Coke can with…

There will be a reception immediately following in the Joseph Henry Room, Jadwin Hall.

"Last July's discovery of the Higgs particle at the Large Hadron Collider was a triumph for both experiment and theory in fundamental physics. But the Higgs also introduces major conceptual paradoxes that strongly suggest we are missing essential new physical principles. Chief amongst these is the severe ``naturalness" or ``fine-tuning" problem,…