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After a long career studying high-speed collisions of subatomic particles, Alan Nathan now studies collisions between baseballs and bats. Whether you’re a scientist, a baseball enthusiast, or just a sports fan, join us in USC’s Swearingen Engineering Center on February 8th at 7:00pm as we explore the world of knuckleballs, pop flies, and home runs using the powers of mathematics and physics! The talk is free and open to the public.Dr. Alan M. Nathan has been a Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Illinois since 1977. His research specialty is experimental nuclear/particle physics, with over 80 publications in scientific journals to his credit. In the past decade or so, he has expanded his research interests to include the physics of baseball and has published numerous papers in this area. He has given many talks on the subject, from audiences ranging from those primarily interested in physics to those primarily interested in baseball--and everywhere in between. He has served on panels advising organizations such as MLB, the NCAA, and USA Baseball on issues related to bat performance. Visit http://webusers.npl.illinois.edu/~a-nathan/pob for more information.Speaker: Dr. Alan M. Nathan (University Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Title: “The Physics of Baseball”
Date: Friday 8 February 2013?
Time: 7:00pm?
Venue: Amoco Hall (Room 1C01), Swearingen Engineering Center, University of South CarolinaTalk sponsored by Carolina Science Outreach and the University of South Carolina’s Athletics Department, Department of Mathematics, and Department of Physics & Astronomy.
About Carolina Science Outreach
Carolina Science Outreach is a student-run organization dedicated to sharing science with the people of South Carolina. Through fun and interactive presentations we hope to spread our love of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics with everyone from elementary, middle, and high school students, to adults in the community at large. Visit www.csousc.org for more information.###