Express yourself through movement! Even if you've never danced before, come learn the fundamentals of moving your body in a purposefully creative way. We'll learn some of the basics and a short dance to give you exposure to contemporary. Open to all levels of experience!

Why does a helium balloon float toward the ceiling? Why are soap bubbles always round and rainbow-colored? And what do these have to do with biotech, clouds, rockets, atoms, or even the expanding universe? In this fast-paced and hands-on class, we’ll use everyday objects - balloons and bubbles - to explore the big ideas of physics. From the forces that lift things into the air, to the colors of light waves, to the mysteries of the cosmos itself, you’ll see how simple questions lead to some of the most powerful scientific discoveries. Come ready to play with balloons (yes, you’ll get one that floats!) and to blow bubbles while uncovering the hidden rules of nature. Whether you’re curious about mechanics, fascinated by light, or just love making bubbles float away, you’ll leave with a new way of looking at the world around you.

Exact results are exceedingly rare in physics. An important exactly soluble model, originally designed to model 2D ice, is the six-vertex model. For a system with macroscopically large number of degrees of freedom, getting 'exact solution' implies that we will exactly diagonalize the Hamiltonian. This will be done using a powerful technique known as the Bethe Ansatz. We then take suitable limits to extract relevant thermodynamic properties of the system. A very unique thermodynamic property of ice is that it has nonzero entropy at absolute zero temperature. The principal result we obtain in this class will be this residual entropy of 2D ice.