SNOLAB presents talk on the physics of sports 

SUDBURY: We love sports for lot of reasons: because they inspire; because we like to compete or cheer; or because sports help build community. The reality is sports occupy a big part of our lives, and you don’t have to be fan of sports to appreciate athletic achievement.

Chang Kee Jung thinks about sports often, and not just as a fan. Jung spends time researching athletics as distinguished professor and chair at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University. Jung’s passion is to put the physics into physical achievement.

Jung will be in Sudbury on Oct. 1 to give a talk on the science of sports called Capturing Innovations and Underlying Physics in Sports.

“Surprisingly, a large fraction of the intriguing and often spectacular sports actions and feats can be explained using relatively basic physics concepts,” Jung says.

In his talk, Jung will explain the physics behind some remarkably creative innovations in popular sports today (baseball, soccer, volleyball, basketball, high jump, gymnastics, etc.) using basic concepts in classical physics.

The public talk kicks off the 24th International Workshop on Next Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors (NNN25) hosted by SNOLAB in downtown Sudbury from Oct. 1-3. The conference will bring 100 international physicists to Sudbury for in-depth discussions on future large-scale detectors for research on nucleon decay and neutrino physics.

“We are very excited to organize this workshop, and to bring it to downtown Sudbury and into community venues like Place des Arts and The Refettorio,” said SNOLAB research group manager and conference co-chair Stephen Sekula.

The public talk is generously supported by the City of Greater Sudbury. The lecture is free, but registration is encouraged here. Doors open at 7:30 pm. 

Who: Chang Kee Jung, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University 

What: Public lecture on Capturing Innovations and Underlying Physics in Sports. 

Where: The Refettorio at 131 Durham Street, Sudbury 

When: Doors open at 7:30 pm, and talk scheduled for 8 pm. 

Why: Because you don’t have to love sports to appreciate athleticism! 

About NNN25 

The 24th International Workshop on Next Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors (NNN25) will be held in Sudbury from Oct. 1-3. Over the last 25 years, the NNN series of workshops has been providing the international community a forum for in-depth discussions on future large-scale detectors for research on nucleon decay and neutrino physics since its inaugural workshop in 1999 at Stony Brook (NY). The main physics topics of the workshop include: searches for proton decay, CP violation in the lepton sector, determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy, and observation of neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae. 

NNN25 is jointly organized by SNOLAB, McDonald Institute, and McGill University. We are grateful to the Canadian Institute of Nuclear Physics (CINP), which has generously provided financial support for a limited number of members to participate in the conference at reduced cost, and the City of Great Sudbury for financial support to host activities downtown.