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"EXPLORING YOUR UNIVERSE" at UCLA! A great science outreach event for kids and adults

Exploring Your Universe (EYU) is a FREE public

outreach event that showcases science from departments across UCLA through
hundreds of fun, hands-on activities, demonstrations and experiments for all
ages.  Activities for all ages include workshops, faculty and graduate
student talks, planetarium shows, solar telescope viewing, comet making,
weather tours, dinosaur fossils, physics demos and much more!  With wide
involvement from students, staff and faculty, EYU has quickly become the main
science outreach event at the university. In addition to hands-on
demonstrations and experiments, there is a lecture series, a planetarium show,
a physics show, and access to rare fossils, rocks, minerals and UCLA’s
world-class meteorite collection – this event truly has something fun for
everyone!



DAYTIME ACTIVITIES



Astronomy (12:00 - 5:00 pm) (Court of Sciences unless otherwise
noted):

- How the Sun works and solar telescope viewing

- Stellar Evolution

- Bottle Rockets

- Comet Making Demo

- Pocket Solar System and Asteroids

- Constellation Detectives

- Discovery methods for finding new worlds beyond our solar system

- Planetarium Shows (Mathematical Sciences 8th floor): Every half hour starting
12:30 pm! Pick up tickets to planetarium at the Information Booth.



Physics (12:00 - 5:00 pm) (Physics and Astronomy Building - PAB):

- Physics Demonstrations: 2:30 and 3:45 pm.

- Lasers and Optics

- Waves and Vibrations

- Rotational Motion

- Electricity and Magnetism



Earth and Space Sciences (12:00 - 5:00 pm)(Geology Building unless
otherwise noted):

- The Shocking World of Electricity

- Dinosaurs and Fossils

- Earth: Inside and Out

- Mineral Gallery

- Natural Disasters (Court of Sciences)

- Meteorite museum

- Build Your Own Hurricane (Chemistry quad)

- More info about the activities here

- Your Local Space Neighborhood:

     - THEMIS:
Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms

     - ARTEMIS: Studying Space
Weather

     - Dawn:
Investigating the conditions and processes of the solar system's earliest epoch


     - Diviner
Lunar Radiometer Experiment


     - ELFIN
Satellite:
See UCLA's first Satellite!



Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (12:00-5:00) (Court of Sciences):

- Exploding Marshmallows--Expand marshmallows using a vacuum pump!

- Can Crushing--See how pressure can crush soda cans!

- Tornado-in-a-bottle--See and create your own vortexes!

- Cloud-in-a-bottle--See clouds being made right before your eyes!

- Portable Weather Station--Talk with experts about conditions and get an
updated forecast for the day!



CEIN - Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (12:00-5:00
pm) (Court of Sciences):

- What is nanoscience, and what is special about nanoscale science and
engineering?

- Hands-on activities for all ages.  Q&A with scientists



Environmental Sciences (12:00-5:00 pm) (Court of Sciences):

- Plant a seed and what it grow at home

- Sustainable Practices

- Solar Power Demo



Chemistry (12:00-5:00 pm) (Court of Sciences):

- Find out how to make a bubble bomb for baths

- Find out what floats on top of what... and what floats on top of that!

- Watch food get frozen with liquid nitrogen

- Eat liquid nitrogen ice cream

- Make some "elephant toothpaste"

- Inflate a balloon with only water, sugar, and yeast!

- Check out a homemade kid-safe lava lamp



Engineering (12:00-5:00 pm) (Court of Sciences):

- Discover microbes using microscopes

- Program robots to obey your command!

- Learn how circuits work! Make your own circuits!



Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (12:00-5:00 pm) (Court of Sciences):

- See live salamanders and tide pool animals!

- Extract DNA from fruits and plants!



OSA/SPIE (Optical Society of America/The International Society for Optical
Engineering)
(12:00-5:00 pm) (Court of Sciences):

- Explore how optics work!



Neuroscience Brain Readers (12:00-5:00 pm) (Court of Sciences):

- See brains! Learn what normal brains look like to doctors and challenge
yourself to guess which brains are from patients with epilepsy.



STAR EcoStation (12:00-5:00 pm) (Math Sciences
Building):

- See animals and talk with professional animal caretakers!



Mathematics and Statistics (12:00-5:00 pm) (Court of Sciences):

- Guess how many marbles and jelly beans there are, and how many of each color
there are!

- Play a guessing game and see if you can beat theory!

- Solve the Monty Hall problem!



To view the event poster, go to: 

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http://planets.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/2013_EYU-poster-2_small.pdf



There will be two lecture series during the program:

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General Talks (located in Kinsey
Pavilion)


1:30 - 2:00: Dr. Wes Campbell (Physics)

   Your Smartphone Is Made of Science: The Amazing Physics of the
Common        Cell Phone


2:30 - 3:00: Dr. Richard Kaner (Chemistry) 

   Fun with Plastics

3:30 - 4:00: Dr. Jean Turner (Astronomy)

   Tuning in on the Radio Universe

4:30 - 5:00: Dr. James Rosenzweig (Physics)

   Miniaturizing the Accelerator: Taking the World's Largest
Scientific Instrument from Km-Size to the Table-top


5:30 - 6:00: Dr. Michael Rich (Astronomy)

   Amateur Stargazing and Big Science: Discovering Colliding Galaxies
from    Lockwood Valley



Earth Space Sciences Special Talks (located in Geology 3656):

1-1:30pm - UCLA Prof. Jean-Luc Margot

   Life in the Universe

2-2:30pm - UCLA Prof. Ed Rhodes

   Natural Disasters: What's Next?

3-3:30pm - UCLA Researcher Alan Rubin

   Meteorites: From the Asteroids to the Earth

4-4:30pm - UCLA Researcher Jean-Pierre Williams

   Flash! Bang! Cosmic Impacts into Earth



The event will be held in the Court of Sciences (a good place to start),
Geology, Physics and Astronomy, Math Sciences buildings. 



Food will be available on campus at numerous locations.  The event
will take place rain or shine.



Driving and Parking Information: 

If entering off Hilgard, enter campus from Manning to the Lot
2 Pay-By-Space parking  area ($12 for all day parking).  If entering
campus from Westwood Blvd., buy an all-day parking pass for Lot 8 at the center
island kiosk just north of Charles Young / Circle Drive or you can continue
past the kiosk and park in the Lot 6 Pay-By-Space area.



 







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