Acto de Entrega de Diplomas y Premios – Olimpiada Asturiana de Física 2016

Acto de entrega de Premios:

Os informamos que el Acto de Entrega de Diplomas y Premios de la Olimpiada Asturiana de Física tendrá lugar en el Aula de Grados de la Facultad de Ciencias (Calle Calvo Sotelo, s/n, 33007, Oviedo) el viernes 8 de Abril de 2016 a las seis de la tarde (se ruega acudir al menos 15 min antes).

Han confirmado su presencia hasta la fecha:

– El Rector de la Universidad de Oviedo: D. Vicente Gotor.

– El Director General de Ordenación Académica e Innovación Educativa. Gobierno del Principado de Asturias: D. Francisco Óscar Laviana.

– El Decano de la Facultad de Ciencias: D. Norberto Corral.

– El Director del Departamento de Física: D. Agustín Fernández.

– El Coordinador de la PAU: D. Jesús Daniel Santos

-El Presidente de la Real Sociedad Española de Física – Sección Asturias: D. Jorge Pisonero

 

La RSEF-Sección Local Asturias agradece el patrocinio de las siguientes empresas colaboradoras:

airliquide

sidilabEmpresas colaboradoras

 

 

Charla Premio Nobel de Física 2014 – Prof. David Gross

Se anuncia conferencia a cargo del Prof. David Gross, Premio Nobel de Física 2004, sobre un asunto de excepcional interés como muestra el resumen (ver link).

Charla David Gross 14-Abril

La conferencia tendrá lugar en la sede de la Fundación Ramón Areces, el jueves 14 de Abril a las 19:30, y será posible seguirla directamente a través de este enlace:

http://www.fundacionareces.tv/watch/directo

 

Elecciones en la Sección Local. Real Sociedad Española de Física

Estimados socios,
ha llegado el momento de elegir una nueva junta de dirección de la Sección Local en Asturias de la Real Sociedad de Física. Para ello se convocan elecciones para el día 10 de Abril de 2015. A partir de este momento queda abierta la presentación de candidaturas hasta el día 6 de Marzo de 2015 como fecha límite.

Os animamos a todos aquellos que tengáis interés a poneros en contacto con nostros a través de los medios habituales para obtener más información sobre el proceso.

Real Sociedad Española de Física
Sección Local Asturias.
Departamento de Física
Universidad de Oviedo
Facultad de Geología, 6a Planta, 33007.
Oviedo. T. 985105014
www.rsefas.org rsef.asturias@gmail.com

 

2012 Physics Nobel Prize

Overview

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Serge Haroche of Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris,

France, and David J. Wineland of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Colorado Boulder, Colo., USA «for groundbreaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.»

In the quantum world, the general understanding is that to measure a single quantum particle will destroy that particle Haroche’s method required trapping photons—individual particles of light—and measuring their quantum properties by sending atoms through the trap.

 

 

Wineland approached the problem from the other direction,

trapping electrically charged atoms and measuring their properties with light particles. The results of their work have led to highly precise atomic clocks and provides a foundation that may one day make quantum computing a reality.. These two researchers took different approaches to solve this unique quantum problem, and their efforts have resulted in direct observation of single quantum particles without destroying them.

Higgs within reach

CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson

 

The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN today presented their latest results in the search for the long-sought Higgs boson. Both experiments see strong indications for the presence of a new particle, which could be the Higgs boson, in the mass region around 126 gigaelectronvolts (GeV).

The experiments found hints of the new particle by analysing trillions of proton-proton collisions from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2011 and 2012. TheStandard Model of particle physics predicts that a Higgs boson would decay into different particles – which the LHC experiments then detect.

Both ATLAS and CMS gave the level of significance of the result as 5 sigma on the scale that particle physicists use to describe the certainty of a discovery. One sigma means the results could be random fluctuations in the data, 3 sigma counts as an observation and a 5-sigma result is a discovery. The results presented today are preliminary, as the data from 2012 is still under analysis. The complete analysis is expected to be published around the end of July.

Read the CERN press release→

A proton-proton collision event in the CMS experiment producing two high-energy photons (red towers). This is what we would expect to see from the decay of a Higgs boson but it is also consistent with background Standard Model physics processes. © CERN 2012

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