CERN, Comenius University and The Big Bang Collective present Magical Science at Pohoda 2019
As well as concerts, there are festivals of literature, theatre, dance, debates, visual arts and food taking place at Pohoda2019. The latest “festival” within Pohoda will be at the beautiful Sporka Science & Magic stage offering festival-goers a programme that will share the excitement and fun of science with everyone - no need to be a science enthusiast. Scientists from Slovakia and abroad who work in CERN and other top-class institutions are bringing a terrific programme of talks, workshops and even a very special electronic music DJ set.
03. July 2019
On Friday, Jozef Beňuška will talk about easygoing physics; Tomáš Eichler is going to reveal what is going on with us while we are asleep; Branislav Sitár will come to present what CERN and LHC have brought us; Juraj Tekel will talk about what space is made of and Samuel Kováčik will introduce us to the physics of beer. On Saturday, we will have Roger Jones with us to talk about the topic “What’s the Matter with Antimatter”, Norbert Werner will tell us something about heartbeats of galaxies. The topic of Klára Velmovská’s presentation will be mad science and Martin Mojžiš will introduce us to neural networks that paint like Picasso. At the end of the program, chemist Peter Szolcsányi will talk about phenomena such as smells, pheromones and passion. Both days will also feature “Seeing the Invisible” workshop where we will build our own cloud chambers.
Friday 9:00 - 9:40 Jozef Beňuška: Easygoing physics
Fun and games with physics experiments for everyone, regardless of age. We will use the occasional complicated word, of course. But everything will be easy to understand and above all fun.
Friday 9:55 - 10:25 Tomáš Eichler: Why and how we wake up?
Survive! Learn about the vital importance of switching between brain states - sleep and wakefulness! Enter Sandman with a “A tale of the worm tail” on why and how we wake up. You will see the first ever 3D recording of all brain cells during sleep, wakefulness, and the transitions between them.
Friday 11:40 - 12:10 Branislav Sitár: What have CERN and the Large Hadron Collider ever done for you?
A long time vice president of the CERN's council will talk about the largest scientific laboratory in the world and its main facility – LHC, particles in the Standard Model, the Higgs boson, evolution of elementary particles after the Big Bang, Slovak footprint at CERN and its connection to our lives.
Friday 12:20 - 12:50 Juraj Tekel: What is space made of?
The world is made of atoms. Space itself seems to be there just as a stage for creation. But quantum gravity changes this and predicts that space is also made of something. How? Of what?
Friday 12:50 - 13:30 Samuel Kováčik: Physics of beer
Where does the energy in beer come from and why do beers always have foam? You will discover this and much more during my talk and experiments. Why do I always get the hard jobs? BYOB!
Saturday 10:00 - 10:30 Roger Jones: What's the Matter with Antimatter?
A long time member of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (and Head of Physics at Lancaster University), Roger will talk about the nature of antimatter and why it presents an important question about how the Universe as we see it managed to emerge from the Big Bang. These are some of the big questions that the Large Hadron Collider and other particle physics experiments elsewhere hope to answer. (this talk will be in English).
Saturday 10:40 - 11:10 Norbert Werner: Tlčúce srdcia galaxií
Recently, scientists have been able to capture the first photograph of a black hole and we are quite sure that these objects form the heart of all large galaxies, controlling their growth and evolution. Take a journey into the world of mysterious beating hearts of galaxies with Norbert Werner.
Saturday 11:20 - 12:05 Klára Velmovská: Mad Science
Fire, rockets, gases, vacuum cleaner made from washing machine, music in physics and much more! #simpletools #answeringquestions
Saturday 12:20 - 12:50 Martin Mojžiš: Neural networks which paint like Picasso
There are filters which can turn a photograph into a painting similar to those of van Gogh or Picasso. Neural networks do this in a different way. Using a photograph they paint an image like van Gogh or Picasso.
Saturday 13:00 - 13:30 Peter Szolcányi: Smells, pheromones and passion
Human scent is often overlooked, even though it is a remarkably important sense. Why do people smell differently to us and what does it have to do with genes? Do we choose our partners based on their smell?
Seeing the invisible: Cloud chamber workshop
You will not believe what you see when you build your own detector in a cloud. Our huge Universe is made out of tiny particles that are completely invisible to us, but imagine if we could see them. During this workshop, we will build very special detectors to discover that the empty space around us is not as empty as we might think!
CCC Club Friday 12:20 - 13:20 Lawrence Lee: ColliderScope — Experimentálna hudba z experimentálnej fyziky
ColliderScope is the project of Lawrence Lee, a musician and physicist at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. With a unique form of synthesis, audio waveforms are designed to show images from the world of experimental particle physics — painting dynamic pictures directly with sound using an oscilloscope. Converting vintage tech trash from experiments of the past into musical instruments, he creates a live audio-visual experience unlike any other, founded on the science and math that power our universe. Come for a walkthrough of his experimental process.
