texas a&m university invites audiences across texas the nation and the world to get up-close and personal with science and technology outreach at the 2021 physics and engineering festival set for saturday april 10 from 10 am to 4 pm as an interactive livestreamed event with the same covid-19 restrictions that canceled the 2020 festival still in place texas a&m is taking the free annual event virtual livestreaming the festival via a combination of youtube and zoom for the first time in its nearly two-decade history dedicated students faculty and staff have been hard at work since fall to convert one of aggielands most popular spring attractions into a quality virtual experience complete with interactive demonstrations keynote talks and live q&a sessions with scientists dont want to wait until april 10 to start your 2021 physics and engineering festival fun enter our online drawing by april 1 for a chance to win a mystery science box giveaway featuring a surprise bundle of science goodies to be delivered directly your door! activities will kick off live at 10 am with a brief welcome punctuated by what typically is the events traditional finale a texas-sixed five-barrel depth charge featuring 1 000 plastic balls the tentative schedule also includes a three-part demo show (10:20 am 12 pm 1:30 pm) highlighting the best of the festivals trademark 200-plus science exhibitions and engineering technology demonstrations which as in previous events will debut dozens of exciting new demonstrations built during the past year by student teams affiliated with the deep (discover explore and enjoy physics and engineering) program at 11 am nasa astronaut and texas a&m engineer dr nancy currie-gregg will present a glimpse into human spaceflight the first of the days two keynote talks currie-gregg a professor of engineering practice at texas a&m since 2017 accrued 1 000 hours in space as a mission specialist on four space shuttle missions and helped to assemble the iss while also logging more than 4 000 flying hours in a variety of rotary-wing and fixed-wing aircraft at 12:30 pm ucla physics and astronomy chair dr david saltzberg will deliver a keynote presentation how did amy and sheldon win their nobel prize in which he will discuss his experiences putting his university of chicago physics phd to work in an industry seemingly far from his own as a science consultant helping the writers and other crew tell the story of the big bang theory as well as that of the spin-off series young sheldon from 2 pm to 4 pm participants are invited to take in additional demos moving from room to room (view tentative room list at bottom of schedule) to explore and interact with scientists who also will be responding to pre-submitted audience questions throughout the festival bazinga! ucla astrophysicist and the big bang theory science consultant dr david saltzberg will deliver his keynote presentation on all things amy and sheldon at 12:30 pm on saturday april 10 (credit: david saltzberg) all events are presented by the texas a&m department physics and astronomy in partnership with several other campus units including the departments of aerospace engineering atmospheric sciences chemistry electrical and computer engineering and mathematics the 2021 livestreamed event is sponsored by halliburton col hal schade 67 the college of science the department of physics and astronomy the george p and cynthia woods mitchell institute for fundamental physics and astronomy and additional spirit of giving donors previous supporters that have made the annual festival possible include the texas a&m university system dr charles r 62 and judith g munnerlyn exxonmobil the willard and anne levin foundation ahmed mahmoud 87 michele mobley 87 susan sheskey purna c murthy 88 cc creations schlotzskys college station and pepsi for the latest details regarding the 2021 physics and engineering festival please visit https://physicsfestivaltamuedu -atm- contact: shana k hutchins (979) 862-1237 or shutchins@sciencetamuedu or dr tatiana erukhimova (979) 845-5644 or etanya@physicstamuedu the post physics & engineering festival set for april 10 via interactive livestream appeared first on texas a&m college of science share: