Saturday Physics for Everyone

Saturday Physics for Everyone (SPE) is a series of lectures on modern aspects of the physical sciences held Saturday mornings each fall. The program began in 1993 and offers high school students the opportunity to hear presentations from world-class scientists and researchers.

By attending Saturday Physics for Everyone, you will learn about recent advances in the physical sciences, you will gain an understanding of how physics affects development in modern technology, and influences your life on a daily basis. A question and answer session is held at the end of each program. This is your chance to interact with renowned scientific leaders in the research community.

  • Audience: High school students and the general public.
  • Cost: Free of charge.
  • Time: 10:15 AM to 11:30 AM, unless indicated otherwise.
  • Location: Room 141, Loomis Laboratory of Physics, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, IL
  • Parking: East side of building in lot B21.
  • Questions/comments? Email us at sat_physics@physics.illinois.edu or call 217.244.2948.
  • Talk slides: When available, the slides from the professors' talks can be found linked from the individual events below.

Fall 2012 Schedule


Event Title Speaker Date/Time Location
The Quantum Information Revolution Professor Paul Kwiat 9/15/2012
10:15 am		 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics 1110 W. Green St. Urbana IL
A Billionth of a Billionth of a Meter: Building a Microscope for the Observation of Quarks and Anti-Quarks Inside the Proton Professor Mattias Grosse Perdekamp 9/29/2012
10:15 am		 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics 1110 W. Green St. Urbana IL
How We Think and Move at the Smallest scale: a (Bio-) Physicist's Perspective Professor Paul Selvin 10/13/2012
10:15 am		 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics 1110 W. Green St. Urbana IL
Extrasolar Planets Professor Jon Thaler 10/27/2012
10:15 am		 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics 1110 W. Green St. Urbana IL
Our Weird Quantum World Professor Michael Weissman 11/10/2012
10:15 am		 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics 1110 W. Green St. Urbana IL
Understanding the Energy Challenge: It Takes More Than Science Professor Paul Debevec 12/1/2012
10:15 am		 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics 1110 W. Green St. Urbana IL

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Professor Naomi Makins
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463 Loomis
217.333.7291
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Dr. Inga Karliner
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303 Loomis
217.333.9358
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Toni Pitts
Toni Pitts
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290Z Loomis
217.244.2948
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