ASU Physics Department Picnic

Because physicists are socially awkward people (ahemm) the Physics Department at ASU makes an effort every year to gather every physicist, physics student, and their family at a picnic.

Every year, there has not been a story or rumor spreading about the department about physicists getting either very, very floored (from the after 8 party) or very, very high from remnants of good food, good socializing, and good everything.

If you like socially awkward people talking about intelligent things, get your tickets today at the ASU Physics Department Main Office located at PSF470.

This year, the picnic is held at Kiwanis Park, Friday, April 24th, 5pm-9pm.

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Quasiparticle Self-Consistent GW Approximation

Quasiparticle Self-Consistent GW Approximation

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president obama to address 2009 commencement at ASU

so the news is out.

it seems to me that michael crow is fishing for media coverage and things of sort. i suppose this will up ASU’s coolness factor by 85287. even *i* am falling for this trick. now, who would have thought? a university in a [soon-to-be] third world state to be crushed by quite an immense education budget cut is now consoled by this hot shot of an invitation.

^{hayden lawn. this guy was promoting truancy among asu students in october 2007.}

i remember [not yet president] obama visited in 2007 during my freshman year at asu. i wasn’t impressed. no, not because i hate him. i wasn’t impressed because 2/3 of my chemistry class was missing that day and dr. briggs was not bothered to credit the students who decided to be the good students that they are for being in class. not even a pop quiz. it was lame. but now i am pissed at myself for not filing for graduation this year. plus he is speaking on my birthday too. oh stupid stupid stupid.

oh never mind now. i think i will choose the year 2012 to graduate. in math, physics, and russian. after all, the world will end in 2012, right?

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sold out!

i am proud to announce that the announcing of the beyond center’s effort: the origins symposium was a total success. for two days students lined up for at least 1.5 hours when the crappy cheap tickets began to become available to students with ASU ID. a couple of days after the tickets went public, they sold out! it is too late now if you’re still thinking about it. but then if you know the right people to talk to, you might just stand a chance to get a last minute of mercy for the tickets for free. of course, you did not hear it from me ;)

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Origins Symposium

let’s talk origins

does it matter if we come from monkeys or not? on a grater scale of things, we are all builups of cosmic remnants from materials that our dear old universe spit out during that shabang of a process we all have heard about. i buy this theory. it has to be true because dr. starrfield says so. but is this necessarily the truth?

now that ASU has become the roof to big names in science today (read: paul davies. readread: lawrence krauss) it is hard to say. cosmologists are conflicting sometimes. of course, one can choose to doubt or like me, fangirl excessively at glossy magazine pictures of nebulas and fuzzy things in the sky.

because everybody wants to feel smart and because ASU beyond center has way too much money they don’t own to waste on–i.e., dancing along with michael crow and his budget cut plans–they have decided to contribute a piece of their boastworthy faculty’s smartness and of their pals, and host a symposium this year that features speakers such as brian greene, steven pinker, david gross, and richard dawkins (gag) just to name a few. see below.

it is not everyday you get a bus of hot-shot physicists, biologists, mathematicians, linguists, and absurdly smart people hording the gammage auditorium at asu talking about our origins. if you think this is going to be about monkeys, you will be disappointed. okay, maybe there will be some mention of monkeys because richard dawkins is going to be there. it is no mistake that ASU beyond center invited richard dawkins to ridicule religion and how religion takes a hazardous shot at explaining our origins. he’s done it before in 2007 when he lectured asu about our godless origin. and he is going to do it again. well, i suppose this will be quite an exciting symposium. i am excited to hear stephen hawking croak and screech about bangs and holes and whatnots. get your tickets today. $10 with student ID. free hookups if you know where to look. see you there. or not. more at origins.asu.edu

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