Stony Brook University
7:30 pm
Harriman Hall, P137
Friday, November 10, 2023
Movie Physics 2: The Physics Strikes Back
Prof. Jan C. Bernauer and Ethan Cline
Abstract: Moving pictures are unthinkable without physics. In the talk, we will illustrate how physics makes movies possible, for example how modern technologies can produce the illusion of 3D. We will also go on a journey and explore how movies depict and bend the rules of physics -- the good, the bad and the ugly.
Jan C. Bernauer is an Assistant Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University. He is mainly interested in precision measurements to study the properties of protons and neutrons, as well as to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. He studied in Mainz and finished his Ph.D. in 2010, measuring the proton form factors and radius using the MAMI accelerator. He then worked at MIT as a postdoc research scientist. He joined the department in 2018 and is now working on the MUSE, DarkLight and sPHENIX experiments.
Ethan Cline is a joint postdoctoral associate at Stony Brook University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2019 on the MUSE experiment at PSI and subsequently joined Prof. Jan C. Bernauer's research group at SBU. He is primarily interested in nucleon form factors and precision medium energy physics. Ethan is currently working on the MUSE and DarkLight experiments.
