Tucson Dance Academy’s 9th Annual Summer Showcase A Dream is a Wish promises to be an artistic celebration of joyful dance. With nearly 400 students “TDA” is one of Tucson’s favorite dance studios, where the dancer AND the whole student is encouraged, and talent is developed. Choosing UA’s Centennial Hall for it’s storied and professional ambiance, […]
Jason Mraz has announced plans for a series of early summer live dates. The dates begin Friday, June 16th at Tucson, AZ’s Centennial Hall and includes both headline shows as well as an eagerly anticipated headline performance at Telluride, CO’s 44th Telluride Bluegrass Festival, slated for Sunday, June 18th. For complete details and ticket information, […]
Adam Savage, one of television’s most loved personalities, has joined forces with Michael Stevens, one of YouTube’s biggest stars and they’re coming to a theater near you. They’re bringing along more than three tons of their crazy toys, incredible tools and mind-blowing demonstrations for a celebration of curiosity that’s an interactive, hands-on, minds-on theatrical experience like […]
Featuring a dozen musicians, Pink Martini performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America and North America. Pink Martini’s debut album Sympathique was released independently in 1997 on the band’s own label Heinz Records (named after Lauderdale’s […]
MERCYME – LIFER TOUR
HAWK NELSON, MICAH TYLER
5:15pm — VIP doors
5:30pm — VIP Q&A
6:00pm — General doors
7:00pm — Show begins
Since their debut in 2001, GRAMMY®-nominated, multiple American Music Award and Dove Award winners MercyMe have sold more than 9 million units in CD, single and DVD sales, garnered 27 No. 1 multi-format Christian radio singles and four consecutive mainstream radio hits with […]
Mar 6 2017
Domesticating the Quantum
Pierre Meystre, Editor in Chief, American Physical Society
Following its discovery, the quantum became central to our quest for a fundamental understanding of nature, from the structure of atoms and light to the Standard Model of particle physics, and beyond. As we learned how to tame, and increasingly how to domesticate the […]
Feb 27 2017
A Myriad of Particles
Elliott Cheu, Interim Dean, Honors College and Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Arizona
From the beginning of civilization, we have attempted to reduce our world to its simplest components. This search resulted in the discovery of the electron and culminated in the recent detection of the Higgs boson. Our current […]
Feb 13 2017
Space, Time and Gravity
Sam Gralla, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Arizona
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Einstein revolutionized our conception of reality, showing that space and time are not merely the stage on which the show unfolds, but dynamical entities that stretch, bend, and vibrate to give rise to the force […]
Feb 6 2017
The Journey to the Extreme
Feryal Ozel, Professor of Astronomy and Physics, University of Arizona
The Universe presents us with a myriad of extreme objects where our understanding of physical reality is continuously challenged. Do normal nuclei dissolve into quarks and perhaps into other new particles in the cores of neutron stars? What is the […]
Jan 30 2017
Rethinking the Rules of Reality
Keith R. Dienes, Program Director, Physics, National Science Foundation and Professor of Physics, University of Arizona
In this series kickoff lecture, we take a tour through some of the most cutting-edge concepts in modern physics. After discussing the connections between symmetries, forces, and conservation laws, we describe the fundamental building […]
