The universe is weird. But this weirdness is useful. Come have your mind blown and learn about how we can harness this weirdness to solve problems in ways that seem inexplicably fast. Gain intuition for why quantum mechanics is weird! Learn about computing with bits that aren't just 0 or 1, but somehow both at the same time, and how early versions of these computers have already been built. No prior knowledge of quantum mechanics will be assumed.

Have you seen people walking around MIT with shirts saying $$\frac{PV} {nR}$$ and wondered why that was supposed to equal T? Have you ever wondered why time moves forward; why cold things melt; how we are supposedly running out of energy, despite the fact that scientists tell us that energy is conserved; why engines cannot be perfectly efficient? We will introduce the physical variable entropy and describe some of its many uses in science. One of these will be to derive the famous ideal gas law $$PV=nRT.$$

Come and learn about the physics of electric guitar and be a physics rock star! The electric guitar is an awesome instrument which uses some of the most beautiful physics ever discovered: waves (lots of sweet waves!) boundary conditions, electric fields inducing magnetic fields inducing currents, amplification of signals, distortion and filtering... Come learn how all this physics works and how it makes the electric guitar rock!