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Einstein Week: Celebrating the 100th birthday of Relativity Theory
What Einstein Week is all about:
It is part of the centennial celebration at Duke of the birth of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. In Einstein's universe, a second isn't always a second, gravity isn't a force, and space stretches and bends. To celebrate his leap of genius, the Mathematics and Physics Departments at Duke University invite you to participate in the Einstein Week, to see the world through Einstein's eyes! Duke Undergraduate Relativity Competition
- Individual, written competition open to all Duke undergraduates
- Will take place on Saturday, September 10, 2005, from 10am--12:30pm, Physics 113
- First prize --- $1,000
- Second prize --- $500
- Third prize --- $250
- How to win? Come to the following Einstein Lectures! Competition will draw on these lectures.
Results for Duke Undergraduate Relativity Competition
- First place --- Abhijit Mehta (Math & Physics Majors)
- Second place
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Science on demand
Professor, author and string-theorist-about-town Brian Greene wants to expand the ways we learn about science. Greene, the author of popular physics books such as The Elegant Universe and the host of several science specials on PBS, recently led the creation of a free online learning hub called World Science U.
The site offers video courses on topics such as special relativity and quantum mechanics. It is a spin-off of the World Science Festival, an annual event run by a nonprofit organization Greene founded in New York.
Greene says he’s been thinking about digital education since the 1990s, when he moved from Cornell University to Columbia University but wanted to continue teaching his former students.
“I was doing video-conferenced courses way back then, when the technology really couldn’t support all that we needed,” Greene says. “And now there’s a huge opportunity to leverage the technical prowess we have to create a
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Beginning Monday, Sept. 5, Duke professors of mathematics and physics will devote a week to explaining Albert Einstein's discoveries, their relevance to everyday life and their place in contemporary science. Duke's "Einstein Week" -- a series of talks, informal discussions and a lärjunge competition -- comes 100 years after the scientist's famous burst of publications in 1905.
"The originality, depth and natural beauty of Einstein's Relativity Theory are an intellectual tour dem force," said Arlie Petters, organizer of Einstein Week and a Duke professor of mathematics and physics. "The talks will explore the geometry and physics of relativity, as well as anecdotes and facts in the history of the subject."
In a contest on Saturday, Sept. 10, in 120 Physics Building, undergraduate students will grapple with problems involving Einstein's Relativity Theory. The winner will receive $1,000, second place $500 and third $250.
"Einstein Week" is part of a larger semester-long series of ev