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.
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From OzerTheMoon on Twitter: Things in academia no one prepares you for, volume 6284950 Teaching is physically exhausting. After 3 straight hours of public speaking adrenaline rush, your body want to drop dead.2019-09-14T14:31:00Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From APSphysics on Twitter: Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) are 3-day regional events where physics majors can present research, network with peers, and discover career options. Apply today: https://www.aps.org/programs/women/workshops/cuwip.cfm?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=CUWiP 20202019-09-13T13:51:00Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From RAS_Diversity on Twitter: Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist who shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, becoming the second woman to ever win the Prize, was born #OnThisDay in 1897 🔬⚛ #OTD #DiversityandInclusion #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #RocketWomen https://twitter.com/RAS_Diversity/status/1172029606045659137/photo/12019-09-13T02:40:52Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From profcooley on Twitter: The community has waited 18 years for this result. First results from Katrin presented in the last plenary session of #taup2019 by Guido Drexlin Congratulations KATRIN! https://twitter.com/profcooley/status/1172336458776006657/photo/12019-09-13T02:40:51Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From profcooley on Twitter: The community has waited 18 years for this result. First results from Katrin presented in the last plenary session of #taup2019 by Guido Drexlin Congratulations KATRIN! https://twitter.com/profcooley/status/1172336458776006657/photo/12019-09-13T02:40:51Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From profcooley on Twitter: The community has waited 18 years for this result. First results from Katrin presented in the last plenary session of #taup2019 by Guido Drexlin Congratulations KATRIN! https://twitter.com/profcooley/status/1172336458776006657/photo/12019-09-12T13:50:48Z via NavierStokes To: Public
I used a hydrogen gas discharge tube and a simple DVD disc in class on Tuesday to share the atomic spectrum of Hydrogen with my Modern Physics students. This is the simple joy of revealing the Balmer spectrum, a… https://www.instagram.com/p/B2UDLFanoCO/?igshid=s9rr43ui6u902019-09-09T14:10:46Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Hey, @profcooley - if you haven't run into @ferpsihas at TAUP yet.... https://twitter.com/ferpsihas/status/11709238489186795532019-09-08T11:52:24Z via NavierStokes To: Public
The Washington Post: NOAA’s support of Trump over its own scientists provokes uproar in weather community https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/09/07/noaas-support-president-trump-over-its-own-scientists-provokes-mass-uproar-weather-community/?noredirect=on2019-09-07T21:20:44Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Jodi is on her way to Japan for the TAUP conference. Unfortunately, so is a typhoon. To all our friends and colleagues headed to TAUP, be safe. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2H-fiPHxNl/?igshid=1slkitk3zakgl2019-09-06T23:30:49Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From brkthroughprize on Twitter: We’re pleased to announce that the @ehtelescope collaboration has won the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Congratulations to the entire team, across 60 institutions and 20 countries. https://breakthroughprize.org/News/54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QEPzP58neg&feature=youtu.be2019-09-06T15:40:47Z via NavierStokes To: Public
SMU has been working to save energy in the wake of triple-digit temperatures. This has been my office temperature since those measures went into effect. I am _super happy_. Office is not freezing, and the vents are not whooshing constantly at loud levels. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1169998430229258240/photo/12019-09-05T22:20:48Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From 1cRebeca on Twitter: PhD thesis nailing! Another quirky tradition of @uppsalauni. Max Isacson from the @ATLASexperiment is now ready to defend his thesis in a couple of weeks! https://twitter.com/1cRebeca/status/1169627695594037248/video/12019-09-04T16:40:44Z via NavierStokes To: Public
I am adding a short unit on heat energy and thermodynamics to Modern Physics this semester. Small experiment ongoing for lecture videos. Students do not get thermodynamics in our introductory sequence, but seeing… https://www.instagram.com/p/B1_wa2An7GL/?igshid=w49zdiv9yi8w2019-09-04T13:00:52Z via NavierStokes To: Public
A small lesson in how modern technology will betray you if you are not wary. In special relativity, you often have to compute some function of the ratio of an object's speed to light-speed. This ratio gets small,… https://www.instagram.com/p/B1_Xf7yH0j_/?igshid=1t7xsiyh6054e2019-09-01T22:30:42Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Yeah... so this has been even more amazing than I could have hoped. I was 4 years old again telling my dad to shush in the theater because I am mesmerized by the spectacle. @ Morton H Meyerson Symphony Center https://www.instagram.com/p/B14pupGnx7Z/?igshid=18xgwphsjxslj2019-09-01T18:40:44Z via NavierStokes To: Public
This weekend did not go as originally planned. This will make up for a bit of that. https://www.instagram.com/p/B14PSU4nG0M/?igshid=1o1lzislr2p4n2019-09-01T15:50:54Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From NOAASatellites on Twitter: NOAA's #GOESEast spotted lightning in the eye of #HurricaneDorian this morning. The now catastrophic Cat. 5 storm is expected to bring life-threatening storm surge and very heavy rainfall to the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama through Monday. More: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/hurricane-imagery?utm_source=Social%20Media&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=Dorian%20GLM%20Loop%2020190901 https://twitter.com/NOAASatellites/status/1168151173767008256/photo/1
The latest tactical report from trained spotters indicates it is still staying put and comms infrastructure is pretty much going away in The Bahamas. Streaming updates from NHC and spotters at http://voipwx.net/2019-09-01T12:32:01Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Incredible views of Hurricane Dorian near peak intensity https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/09/01/incredible-views-hurricane-dorian-near-peak-intensity/?noredirect=on2019-09-01T00:20:51Z via NavierStokes To: Public
SMU Modern Physics students will learn a little about GPS this semester, and some of the tricky bits of special and general relativity that are needed to make it work in the first place. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6573720335605121024