Saturday Morning Physics, the popular outreach series, is back — just in time for the divisional round of the MLB playoffs — and celebrating its 30th anniversary year with a schedule packed with family-friendly presentations

DATES: Select Saturdays throughout the fall starting Oct. 4 at 10:30 a.m. See the full schedule.

EVENT: For three decades, U-M’s Saturday Morning Physics has been exploring cosmic mysteries and answering practical problems with the public through striking experiments and live lectures. The 30th season of SMP will continue that tradition starting Oct. 4, with Timothy Chupp, professor of physics and biomedical engineering, delivering a free public presentation on the science of baseball.

This year’s SMP lineup also includes talks about science language, the age of the universe and the mysteries of quantum science, as well as a full morning of crowd-pleasing, family-friendly physics demonstrations Dec. 6.

Speakers include: 

• Timothy Chupp (U-M), “Science of Baseball,” Oct. 4
• Anne Curzan (U-M), “When ‘Physic(k)s’ Lost Its ‘k’ and Other Language Quarks,” Oct. 18
• Scott Watson (Syracuse University), “How Old Is the Universe—That is, What Time Is It?” Nov. 8
• Gabriele Carcassi (U-M), “What Is Classical and What Is Quantum?” Nov. 15
• 30 Years of SMP! (U-M), Family-friendly physics demonstrations, Dec. 6

SMP is sponsored by the Dr. Mary Lois Tiffany Endowment, Hideko Tomozawa Endowment, Van Loo Family Endowment, Pulikeshi Dayalu Astrophysics Fund and Friends of the Program.

PLACE: Weiser Hall rooms 170 and 182, 500 Church St., Ann Arbor

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Events are free and open to the public. Parking is available at the Church Street parking structure with a fee of $10 per car (credit card only).