[Academic] IOP Festival of Physics - The Big Bounce

[Paul Griffin]

Hi all,

I’ve arranged a Zoom chat for tomorrow, (Thursday 21st) at 1:30pm for anyone who is interested in being involved with The Big Bounce festival in October; details below. If anyone can’t make it then drop me a line and I would be happy to chat at some other time.
Zoom link: https://strath.zoom.us/j/96880327011
Password:  597978

The public engagement coordinator from the Institute of Physics was very keen to hear of the interest from Strathclyde Physics. It sounds like that significant support could be made available for ambitious ideas, which would be very interesting to tap into. The current format is planned as

  *   Friday, 30th Oct: Engagement with schools
  *   Saturday and Sunday, 30/10 & 01/11: Pop-up events. Space has been booked in Barras
  *   Sunday 01/11: Table-top exhibits in Barrowlands.

The deadline for proposals is 26th May, which is next Tuesday. However, I understand that the organisers are open to broad and loose ideas being submitted as placeholders.
https://form.jotform.com/201062878558059

Regards,
Griff

        **********************************************
        Dr. Paul F. Griffin
        Department of Physics
        University of Strathclyde
        Glasgow G4 0NG
           phone : 0141-548-5813
           email : paul.griffin at strath.ac.uk<mailto:paul.griffin at strath.ac.uk>
           web : http://photonics.phys.strath.ac.uk





On 4 May 2020, at 21:32, Paul Griffin <paul.griffin at strath.ac.uk<mailto:paul.griffin at strath.ac.uk>> wrote:

Hi all,

As you’ll see below, the Scottish Branch of the Institute of Physics have relocated this year’s Festival of Physics from Edinburgh to the East End of Glasgow. This is a really interesting opportunity for our department, especially for those who always dreamed of headlining the Barrowlands or of having a pitch at the Barras. All options should be considered to be open; workshops, hands-on demonstrations, talks, dance-your-PhD, operatic versions of your latest paper, telescope nights, .

The soft application deadline is the 26th May, about three weeks from now.

Key details are:
Event: The Big Bounce /  Festival of Physics
Dates: Friday, 30th October – Sunday, 1st November inclusive
Location: East End of Glasgow, including Barras Market and Barrowlands
Links: https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Edinburgh/Our-Dynamic-Earth/Festival-of-Physics/13652055/
https://flickr.com/search/?text=festival%20of%20physics


I would like to have a wider chat next week about what what we could do as a group for this, keeping in mind the deep resource we have in our undergraduate and PhD students. If anyone is interested in discussing then drop me an email, letting me know of any time or day constraints that you might currently have for a teleconference. Please do share more widely to anyone that might be interested.

I hope everyone is doing well and keeping physically and mentally healthy during Covid. Perhaps planning for the Big Bounce might be an aptly-named and pleasant distraction at this time.

Griff


        **********************************************
        Dr. Paul F. Griffin
        Department of Physics
        University of Strathclyde
        Glasgow G4 0NG
           phone : 0141-548-5813
           email : paul.griffin at strath.ac.uk<mailto:paul.griffin at strath.ac.uk>
           web : http://photonics.phys.strath.ac.uk<http://photonics.phys.strath.ac.uk/>





Begin forwarded message:

From: supacentral <supacentral at GLASGOW.AC.UK<mailto:supacentral at GLASGOW.AC.UK>>
Subject: IOP Festival of Physics - The Big Bounce
Date: 4 May 2020 at 10:31:08 BST
To: ALL-SUPA at JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:ALL-SUPA at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Reply-To: supacentral <supacentral at GLASGOW.AC.UK<mailto:supacentral at GLASGOW.AC.UK>>

Dear all,

The IOP in Scotland are still planning to hold this year’s Festival of Physics and looking for content. Mikey Jarrell, Public Engagement Manager (Scotland) writes:

“There are a few changes to this year’s festival. In order to better reach community audiences that don’t usually attend science festivals (and reach beyond Edinburgh), we’ve relocated to the East End of Glasgow for this year. The festival will be held in a number of venues around the Barras Market, including the Barrowland Ballroom, on the weekend of Friday 30th Oct to Sunday 1st Nov. We’ve also renamed the festival The Big Bounce, in order to attract audiences that might not attend a ‘Festival of Physics’ – though that’s very much still what it is! I’m really excited by the new opportunities and audiences that this will give us.
To engage Glasgow communities with the upcoming (though postponed) COP26 in the city, the theme this year will be climate solutions - in physics or beyond, though of course this won’t be reflected in the entire programme so proposals on other topics are very welcome. As usual we’re looking for talks, workshops, art, theatre, storytelling; or whatever creative ideas the community can come up with that showcase physics, innovation and discovery in a fun and accessible way.
All the details are attached, including a link to the proposal form.”

Please take a look and submit ideas. There will also be a call out for volunteers later on in the year.

Best wishes,

Vicky

--
Dr Vicky Ingram (She/Her/Hers)
SUPA Gradschool Coordinator
Room 234D
School of Physics & Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QQ

W: https://www.supa.ac.uk/
T: @physicsscotland<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fphysicsscotland&data=02%7C01%7Cpaul.griffin%40STRATH.AC.UK%7Cbc502344500e434579d908d7f00e0f3b%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C637241815496349622&sdata=Wsonw1dAohpHQyqoJs0lNCow4HlgmH%2F7m5hXgMCV3ig%3D&reserved=0>
Please note my working days are normally Mon, Tues and Weds morning.

To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list : https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=all-SUPA&A=1

<The Big Bounce Call for Content Proposals.pdf>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://phys.strath.ac.uk/pipermail/academic/attachments/20200520/b3fa6937/attachment-0001.html>