A new kind of order
There’s an experiment going on in a stuffy lab in Tome Hall, and it’s playing out with two physicists, a student and a gyrating table rigged with a pendulum setup. The springcoupled pendulum chain, built by Jiahao “Jacky” Han ‘17, demonstrates the breakup of the pendula’s uniform swinging motion, the descent into chaos and then the emergence of a new kind of order. The experiment, which in the end is about moving energy, could be used for developments in areas such as data storage, “stuff you can move without moving atoms around,” says Lars English, associate professor of physics.
Events lectures forums openings music Calendar of Arts: dickinson.edu/coa The Clarke Forum: clarke.dickinson.edu (includes event podcasts)
OCT. 9-DEC. 12
NOV. 17-21
Emerging Contemporary Artists in China
Tibetan Monk Residency
The Trout Gallery Pull Left_Not Always Right
OCT. 30-FEB. 20
The Trout Gallery
The Vase Project: Made in China — Landscape in Blue Barbara Diduk with Zhao Yu NOV. 5
The Clarke Forum The New Asylums: Mentally Ill and Behind Bars
Doris Fuller, Treatment Advocacy Center NOV. 8
Styles and Substance
Alzheimer’s research
Where do memories live, and how does memory work? The study of memory has become Associate Professor of Psychology Teresa Barber’s life’s work, and her recent research takes a new look at memory and its relationship with Alzheimer’s disease.
The College Choir and DICE NOV. 9-11
Music and the AntiApartheid Movement Residency
Janie Cole, Music Beyond Borders and the University of Cape Town NOV. 14
Admissions
Fall Open House
The Clarke Forum Enlightened Activity: The Green Tara Initiative NOV. 19
The Clarke Forum Federal Policy, Urban Policing and the Roots of Mass Incarceration
Elizabeth Hinton, Harvard University NOV. 21
Dear America 13th Annual Diversity Monologues Contest NOV. 20-22
Movement Matters NOV. 22
Dickinson College Jazz Ensemble DEC. 5-6
Dickinson College Collegium
Northern Lights