{"664586":{"#nid":"664586","#data":{"type":"event","title":"School of Physics Colloquium","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker: Andrew Zangwill\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHost: Dan Goldman\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle: That\u2019s Not Physics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAbstract: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHave you ever left a colloquium or a seminar and thought to yourself ``that was interesting, but it wasn\u2019t physics\u201d? If so, you are in good company, because there has long been disagreement in our community about which research specialties belong to the canon of physics and which do not, particularly when it comes to hiring faculty members into physics departments to train PhD students.\u0026nbsp; In this talk, I discuss some aspects of this debate from the founding of American Physical Society to the present day.\u0026nbsp; Examples include a field that was once a part of physics but is not anymore; a field that was once ``not physics\u201d but is definitely so today; and a field whose status as \u201cphysics\u201d remains unsettled in the minds of many.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHave you ever left a colloquium or a seminar and thought to yourself ``that was interesting, but it wasn\u2019t physics\u201d? If so, you are in good company, because there has long been disagreement in our community about which research specialties belong to the canon of physics and which do not, particularly when it comes to hiring faculty members into physics departments to train PhD students.\u0026nbsp; In this talk, I discuss some aspects of this debate from the founding of American Physical Society to the present day.\u0026nbsp; Examples include a field that was once a part of physics but is not anymore; a field that was once \u0022not physics\u0022 but is definitely so today; and a field whose status as \u201cphysics\u201d remains unsettled in the minds of many.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Andrew Zangwill; That\u2019s Not Physics"}],"uid":"35687","created_gmt":"2023-01-10 01:03:00","changed_gmt":"2023-04-06 19:02:43","author":"kcolebrooke3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-04-10T15:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2023-04-10T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-04-10T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-04-10 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-04-10 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-04-10 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Marcus Nanotechnology Bldg. Room: 1116-1118","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"4215","name":"colloquium"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}