We have led another successful semester of
School for Young Physicist sessions. This year came with a challenge at times
since we have seen an influx of students this year, but this is a challenge
that we welcome as long as more people who are interested in physics have the
opportunity to study it outside of the classroom. This semester has also come
with another good surprise. In all but one of the sessions we had an
international guest or someone who works somewhere else than Latvia. Expanding
the horizons of our students is one of our goals, so that they see more of what
happens not only locally but also internationally. Two of such sessions were
about physics is medicine and electromagnetism.
In
the former there was a more general lecture on some uses of physics in
hospitals. For example, how ultrasound works and is used for imaging for
medical complications, as well as the working principles of an electro cardiogram.
The guest of this session Ingolf Sack, PhD went more in depth of what can be
achieved with ultrasound and related technologies. For the practical part of
the session one of our students developed a to experience one of the quantum computing
cryptographic methods.
In
the latter we dwelled deep into what is electromagnetic radiation. The process
through which electromagnetic waves are produced was explained. The uses of
many sections of the electro magnetic spectrum was looked into and talked
about. The guest was prof. Ingolf Sack with whom we had a Q&A session about
his work with the use of induction in many industrial processes.
