Stephen Sekula steve@hub.polari.us
Dallas, TX, USA
Husband; Associate Professor of Physics; I teach at SMU in Dallas, TX; I study the Higgs Particle with the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN; writer and blogger; drummer; programmer; teacher; scientist; traveler; runner; gardener; open-source aficionado.
2020-01-17T21:31:01Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From FYIscipolicy on Twitter: With its selection as the site for the proposed Electron-Ion Collider, @BrookhavenLab is poised to further build on its long history as a center for particle accelerator development. https://www.aip.org/fyi/2020/brookhaven-picked-site-electron-ion-collider2020-01-17T21:31:01Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Whew. Had a good time working at @APSphysics headquarters with my @APS_DPF Program Committee colleagues sorting abstracts into sessions for the upcoming #APSAprilMeeting https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1218283027803058177/photo/12020-01-17T21:31:00Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Whew. Had a good time working at @APSphysics headquarters with my @APS_DPF Program Committee colleagues sorting abstracts into sessions for the upcoming #APSAprilMeeting https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1218283027803058177/photo/12020-01-17T21:30:58Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Whew. Had a good time working at @APSphysics headquarters with my @APS_DPF Program Committee colleagues sorting abstracts into sessions for the upcoming #APSAprilMeeting https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1218283027803058177/photo/12020-01-16T17:20:50Z via NavierStokes To: Public
The theme for this semester's @SMUPhysics #HonorsPhysics is "The Physics of Video Games and Gaming"! Students will explore physics in the context of game design, execution, coding, and hardware. Enroll in #PHYS1010 today! https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1217858387595100160/photo/1Honors Physics, Spring 2020: The Physics of Video Games and Gaming
2020-01-15T03:50:46Z via NavierStokes To: Public
"Honors Physics, Spring 2020: The Physics of Video Games and Gaming"
SMU students are invited to explore physics through the lens of creating games and gaming experiences using interactive technologies. Coding, math, visualization, and storytelling combine in a landscape of physical laws to allow us to interact in increasingly realistic ways through a virtual space. Games may break the laws of nature in such a space, …
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From neutrino_mark on Twitter: My report on @doescience selecting @BrookhavenLab to host the Electron-Ion Collider The Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider will complete three years of data taking with the upgraded sPHENIX detector before being reconfigured for nuclear femtography https://cerncourier.com/a/brookhaven-to-host-electron-ion-collider/2020-01-15T00:10:53Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From graemeastewart on Twitter: Fabiola highlights *people* writing software as a key part of HEP success at the #CERN DG presentation - and #HSF gets a mention too :-) https://twitter.com/graemeastewart/status/1217036702570684416/photo/12020-01-12T20:40:54Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From symmetrymag on Twitter: Giordon Stark is working with a panel of language experts at a Deaf-centric project called @aslcore to develop physics signs for Deaf scientists to use to communicate with each other. https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-matter-of-interpretation-asl-physics https://twitter.com/symmetrymag/status/1216374531062935553/photo/12020-01-12T20:30:51Z via NavierStokes To: Public
I am pleased to be teaching @SMUPhysics #HonorsPhysics again this semester. My learning assistant and I will be doing a new theme for the course. To learn about it, check out the "teaser trailer"! https://smu.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=712b0b22-50f3-421e-b645-ab40001dd54e https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1216455354915217409/photo/1Call and Response: Course Evaluation Dialog for PHYS 3305 (Fall 2019)
2020-01-11T16:30:57Z via NavierStokes To: Public
"Call and Response: Course Evaluation Dialog for PHYS 3305 (Fall 2019)"
This image of the ATLAS detector is my “cover image” for PHYS 3305 in our Canvas learning management system. Course evaluations are imperfect (in a different way, of course, grades are an imperfect measure of student potential). Students evaluating professors is fraught with peril in both directions. That said, there is immense social value in …
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One of my favorite college memories: New Year's Eve concert at the Killingworth Congregational Church Grange Hall w/ my band, Grushenka; cover of Rush's "Red Barchetta." Our bassist kicked ass. I flubbed the drum part (duh) but had SERIOUS FUN TRYING. @erdanton @solidgoldrold2020-01-11T15:11:03Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Awesome. Now it's snowing. First time I've seen snow in Dallas in a few years (but that might partly be because of past travel during this time of year...)
Snow!!! 🌨☃🏔
Haven't personally seen it in a long time, either.
JanKusanagi at 2020-01-11T15:33:55Z
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2020-01-11T15:00:57Z via NavierStokes To: Public
More words for our time, c/o Neil Peart: Wilderness of mirrors So easy to deceive My precious sense of rightness Is sometimes so naive So that which I imagine Is that which I believe ("Double Agent", Counterparts, Rush)2020-01-11T14:40:53Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Words 4 r time. Thx, Neil Peart. Is the voice of reason against the howling mob Hero...is the pride of purpose In the unrewarding job Hero...not the champion player Who plays the perfect game Hero...not the glamour boy Who loves to sell his name Everybody's buying Nobody's hero2020-01-11T14:31:16Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From SMU on Twitter: Double-checking Newton's law with competitive skydiver and @SMUPhysics coordinator, Lacey Breaux🍎 https://twitter.com/SMU/status/1215396962561716224/photo/12020-01-11T13:30:52Z via NavierStokes To: Public
On the passing of Neil Peart: https://t.co/qT8H9AEOKD I think I wore holes in the magnetic tape on one of his drumming studio video tapes.2020-01-11T01:20:47Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Hooray. Texas winter. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1215805171055386625/photo/12020-01-08T23:50:51Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From ValerieH137 on Twitter: #OnThisDay 28 years ago: @Fermilab's CDF detector with muon chambers in the foreground. https://twitter.com/ValerieH137/status/1214967112260837378/photo/12020-01-08T23:50:50Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Well... this will be exciting: "Cold front could drop Dallas-Fort Worth from the 70s into the 30s, bring chance for strong storms" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2020/01/08/cold-front-could-drop-dallas-fort-worth-from-the-70s-into-the-30s-bring-a-chance-for-strong-storms/