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SUMMARY:Listening to the Universe Vibrate: The New Dark Astronomy
DESCRIPTION:This class will take place on May 2\, 2:30-4:30p.m.\, on Zoom\, with renowned physicist Gary Sanders. Gary is offering a second\, unmissable class on May 9! Click here to find out more. \nAstronomy has always been done with electromagnetic waves (light\, radio waves\, microwaves\, x-rays\, gamma rays). But much of the universe is dark. And it is massive and\, in places\, enormously violent. To reveal this universe\, ripples in the fabric of space-time\, gravitational waves\, predicted by Einstein in 1916\, were detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2014. In the audio frequencies\, these waves enable us to listen and draw a new map of a surprising universe. Space- time\, intuitively the nothingness of the universe\, is a rich and energetic medium that we live in. It is now the basis of a new multi-messenger astronomy that will be described by physicist Gary Sanders. \nTopics covered will include: \n\nTraditional astronomy with light\nNothingness\, the vacuum\, quantum aspects of the vacuum\, space-time\nGeneral Relativity and gravitational waves\nThe challenge of detecting gravitational waves\nThe birth trauma of gravitational wave searches\nHow LIGO changed the game plan and made the detection\nFirst discoveries from listening to the universe\n\nSuggested Reading: \nClick here to view and read the LIGO website. \n\nInstructor: Dr. Gary Sanders \nOffline Registration: Download PDF Registration Form\, complete and mail in with payment. \nRegistration Questions? Contact us or call (715) 892-3982 or (715) 476-2881. \nRegistration Issues/Troubleshooting: If you are registering with one email address for two or more people\, please register each person individually (i.e. do not register all at once\, but add students one at a time to checkout). If you continue to have difficulty or have another question\, please contact us.
URL:https://feuniversity.org/class/listening-to-the-universe-vibrate-the-new-dark-astronomy/
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SUMMARY:Songwriting
DESCRIPTION:This class will take place May 6\, 13\, 20 and 27\, 10:00a.m.-Noon\, at the Mercer Public Library.*\n*Please note that the May 13 class will be held at the Community Center. \nBeginning Songwriting for those who never thought they could\, not in a million years!\n…for the pre-beginner – no background or experience on an instrument \n…for adults who’d like to break the rules and trespass in another areas entirely \n…for those who feel they have no business taking this course \nTogether we will learn to tap into personal resources that have been lying dormant\, lying in wait for us to form our original rhythms\, melodies\, and lyrics. Teacher-led facilitated class input will lead to one window opening after the next. \n– We’ll jump right in\, and within 15 minutes we’ll be panning for musical gold!\n– We’ll embrace ‘wrong’ notes & mistakes…\n– We’ll identify small sounds that have enough grit on them to hold onto\n– We’ll practice building snippets together and adding layers if we see fit\nIf you’ve read this far please believe me\, THIS IS DOABLE FOR YOU.  \nWe will learn to ‘hear’ sounds in our heads\, hearts\, and imaginations. For example\, the beauty of our precious Northwoods give us plenty of sounds\, sights\, and even aromas with which to get inspired: there are limitless ways to open our minds to being creative. \nEven your spoken NAME has a rhythm to it! In previous “Doing Music from the Inside Out” FeU classes students have used percussion instruments to create little ‘tunes’ by combining the ‘sound’ of participants’ names in creative ways. There’s been delight seeing how simply something can be made from (almost) nothing! \nMost of the work (read:joy) we do in Songwriting will be collaborative\, meaning you won’t feel alone and helpless. We will set out together to find inspiration by exploring a number of ways of getting a song started: \nWhat comes first\, music or lyrics? \nHow do I make a note of what I’ve created so I don’t forget? \nIs Rusty serious? I don’t have to be able to read/write music???!!! \nAnd if you do have a “musical background”….the whole approach to this class is being musical creativity – not notes\, scales\, theory\, etc. Come and be liberated from your musical pedagogy! \nSuggestions: \nCuriosity – preferably childlike\, even reckless! \nThis offering requires no previous musical training! And we won’t read music either! \nOption of bringing any instrument in playing condition from which sounds can be prodded \nVarious instruments provided in class – no skills required \nPaper/writing tool esp pencil w/erasure \nWe may explore some phone apps to support our creativity \nOnline keyboard/guitar – available in class as free download \nInstructor: Rusty Wulff \nOffline Registration: Download PDF Registration Form\, complete and mail in with payment. \nRegistration Questions? Contact us or call (715) 892-3982 or (715) 476-2881. \nRegistration Issues/Troubleshooting: If you are registering with one email address for two or more people\, please register each person individually (i.e. do not register all at once\, but add students one at a time to checkout). If you continue to have difficulty or have another question\, please contact us.
URL:https://feuniversity.org/class/songwriting/2023-05-06/
LOCATION:Mercer Public Library\, 2648 Margaret St.\, Mercer\, WI\, 54547\, United States
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SUMMARY:Peering Back to the Big Bang: The Quest to Detect Cosmic Inflation
DESCRIPTION:This class will take place on May 9\, 2:30-4:30p.m.\, on Zoom\, with renowned physicist Gary Sanders. Although you can sign up separately\, we encourage you to also take Gary’s class Listening to the Universe Vibrate on May 2! \nThe Big Bang is considered to be the starting point of our observable universe. The Big Bang initiated in the vacuum of space-time\, as we describe it in everyday language. How can that happen? Was it a start of time and space? Was it a quantum fluctuation in the prior vacuum? We don’t know. As the universe expanded and cooled to the point that atoms could form and emit light that could travel finite distances\, the universe became luminous. This happened about 380\,000 years after the Big Bang. This first light can be seen in any direction of the sky as a very uniform bath of microwaves. This Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) will be described. \nThe nearly smooth distribution of brightness of these microwaves\, in every direction\, is a surprise. How did the very early universe get so smooth? The prevailing theory describes a short violent expansion of the fledgling universe\, faster than the speed of light\, that smoothed the universe with imperfections caused only by quantum fluctuations. These imperfections provided the means\, much later\, for the rich features we see in the observable universe such as stars and galaxies. But cosmic inflation happened before the first light. How can we see it or discount it? The search for signatures of cosmic inflation in the CMB\, in space\, Antarctica and at 17000 feet in Chile\, will be summarized. \nTopics covered will include: \n\nIntuitive physics\, nothingness\, the vacuum\, Heisenberg Uncertainty and quantum aspects of the vacuum\, space-time\nThe time progression of the universe from the Big Bang to today\nFirst light in the universe\, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)\, the 1964 discovery as a surprising static\nWhat happened before this first light to make the universe so smooth? Cosmic “Inflation”?\nQuantum fluctuations yield primordial gravitational waves\nThe birth trauma of searches for cosmic inflation\nThe ongoing quest to see through the CMB back to inflation\nWhat we are about to do with the Simons Observatory at 17000 feet in Chile\n\nSuggested Reading: \n\nLosing the Nobel Prize\, by Brian Keating \nThe Little Book of Cosmology\, by Lyman Page \nInstructor: Dr. Gary Sanders \nOffline Registration: Download PDF Registration Form\, complete and mail in with payment. \nRegistration Questions? Contact us or call (715) 892-3982 or (715) 476-2881. \nRegistration Issues/Troubleshooting: If you are registering with one email address for two or more people\, please register each person individually (i.e. do not register all at once\, but add students one at a time to checkout). If you continue to have difficulty or have another question\, please contact us.
URL:https://feuniversity.org/class/peering-back-to-the-big-bang-the-quest-to-detect-cosmic-inflation/
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SUMMARY:Rock'n'Roll's Golden Years: An EarObics Class from Buddy Holly to Woodstock
DESCRIPTION:This class will take place May 11\, 18 and 25\, 2:00-3:30p.m.\, at the Mercer Community Center\, with Rusty Wulff.\nThis course covers a representative sample of music/musicians ranging from Buddy Holly through Woodstock. There will be emphasis both on cultural context and on the music itself. \nRock emerged in the mid 1950s as a blending of mainstream pop\, rhythm and blues\, and country and western–styles that previously had remained relatively separate. This new style became the music of the emerging youth culture and was often associated with teen rebellion. \nWe will follow the story of how this rowdy first wave of rock and roll led the way to groups like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones before even going psychedelic by the end of the 1960s. \nInstructor: Rusty Wulff \nOffline Registration: Download PDF Registration Form\, complete and mail in with payment. \nRegistration Questions? Contact us or call (715) 892-3982 or (715) 476-2881. \nRegistration Issues/Troubleshooting: If you are registering with one email address for two or more people\, please register each person individually (i.e. do not register all at once\, but add students one at a time to checkout). If you continue to have difficulty or have another question\, please contact us.
URL:https://feuniversity.org/class/rocknrolls-golden-years-an-earobics-class-from-buddy-holly-to-woodstock/2023-05-11/
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SUMMARY:Bogs and Beavers
DESCRIPTION:This class will take place on May 30\, 1-3p.m. with Susan Knight at the Trout Lake Station\, and on June 6\, 1-3p.m. with Jenna Malinowski at the Mercer Community Center\, with a field trip. By signing up for this class\, you register for both sessions!\nIMPORTANT UPDATE: The June 6 session of this class has been rescheduled to June 20\, 1:00-3:00p.m.\, at the Mercer Library.\nBogs: Gems of the Northwoods\nwith Susan Knight \nNorthern Wisconsin bogs are peatlands typical of many wetlands around the world at high northern latitudes. We find these bogs throughout the Northwoods\, and they are easy to spot on a topographic map of the area. They tend to be wet\, cold\, acidic\, low in oxygen and nutrient-poor. Because of all these conditions\, they share a unique flora\, including several carnivorous plants\, orchids and other unusual plants not found in many northern Wisconsin habitats. Also because of all these conditions\, decomposition of dead organic matter is very slow\, and they accumulate and store a tremendous amount of carbon. This is critically important to limiting the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. For those willing to get their feet wet\, they are fun to visit and are remarkably free of mosquitoes. \nBeaver Management in Wisconsin: Past\, Present and Future\nwith Jenna Malinowski \nJenna Malinowski is a wildlife biologist who sits on the Furbearer Advisory Committee\, Beaver Task Force\, and is active in the Wisconsin Trappers Association. Jenna will spend an hour presenting on beaver biology\, history\, ecological impacts\, population status\, economic considerations\, habitat management and beaver damage management currently outlined in the Wisconsin DNR Beaver Management Plan. She will discuss current research on the relationship between beavers and cold stream management\, trapping research\, and techniques for managing nuisance beaver. The presentation will be followed by a field trip to an active beaver lodge and beautiful wetland created by our beloved ecosystem engineers. \nInstructors: Susan Knight and Jenna Malinowski \nOffline Registration: Download PDF Registration Form\, complete and mail in with payment. \nRegistration Questions? Contact us or call (715) 892-3982 or (715) 476-2881. \nRegistration Issues/Troubleshooting: If you are registering with one email address for two or more people\, please register each person individually (i.e. do not register all at once\, but add students one at a time to checkout). If you continue to have difficulty or have another question\, please contact us.
URL:https://feuniversity.org/class/bogs-and-beavers/2023-05-30/
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