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Quantum Museum Exhibits

Museum of Quantum Realities

5-7:30 pm, December 10th, 2025 Siebel Center for Design

Culminating Public Event

PHYS 199 CHP - Exploring Quantum Science Through the Arts

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Join us for a quantum inspired adventure of imagined worlds, fibonacci spirals, play of light and sound, spooky actions, mysterious cosmic rays, and more.

A celebration of the 2025 International Year of Quantum

Featuring explorations and works by class participants and science-artist guests.

Hosted by the Department of Physics, Campus Honors Program and Siebel Center for Design

 

In this project-based course, students from the Campus Honors Program immersed in a variety of scientific concepts and artistic media, including through guidance by experts from many diverse disciplines across campus. Participants themselves shared their expertise and explorations and were in dialogue as they journeyed through the process of project building. Scientific themes revolved around the Universe and quantum physics, in tribute to the current United Nations-proclaimed International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Immersion in the arts included principles of music composition, visual and installation art, theater and poetry, and more.

Here, at the culminating event, in our creations and presentations, we offer you some of the most bewildering and enchanting aspects of quantum science and the arts, and their confluence, that we encountered in our explorations. As for the name of the event, ‘Museum of Quantum Realities’, another happening that caught our attention was the Paris Louvre Museum heist! As for reality, well, what is reality? Maybe we can find out together!
Course Participants: Briley Berns, Sophia Dike, Henry Gengler, Aubrey Sanders, Meghan Pierce, Evan Derricks, Ruohan Pan, Max Fang, Xander Pascal, Deniss Ramos, Evelyn Sleezer, Scott Gilbert, Vrishnak Ramnath, Divij Garg, Shrikar Dulam

 Teaching Assistants: Mai Li, Kriti Shetty

 Faculty Instructor: Smitha Vishveshwara

 Special Presenters and Guides: Aarya Mehta, Avi Pellegrinetti, Xavier Davenport, Amy Hassinger, Stephen Taylor, Gina Lorenz, Armand  Beaudoin, Sheila Parinas, Tom Faux, Robin Kearton, Rachel Switzky, Nicholas Puddicombe, Haley Bender

 

Program: 

5 pm - Doors Open

5:30 pm - A quantum walk through the gallery (Main Lobby)

5:50 pm - Free Exploration

6:30 pm - Encountering Quantum Conundrums (Main Lobby)

6:50 pm - More Free Exploration

 

 

 

 

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Project Exhibit landscape: 

 

Starlight Room: Quantum Mosaics and Spirals

Exhibitors:

Divij -- Mathematics in our World

Shrikar -- Quantum Mosaics

Henry -- Cloud Chamber Music

 

Alcove: Polar Perspectives

Exhibitors:

Xander -- The Polar Scope

Sophia -- Polarized Poetry

Aubrey -- Entangled Poetry

Ruohan --  Sculpting Ice with Waves - Traces of Memory

 

Corridor: Of Fauna and Phantoms

Exhibitors:

Briley -- Fauna of Patterns

Vrishank -- Phantom Frequencies

 

Media Studio:  Clouds, Chaos, and Constellations

Exhibitors:

Max --  Beauty in Chaos

Meghan -- Stellar Awe

Scott -- Clouds and Computers

 

Gallery: In a heartbeat

Exhibitors:

Sheila -- Observations of an artist

Noora -- Black Holes and Ripples

Deniss & Evelyn -- Parallel Patterns

Vrishank -- Phantom Frequencies

 

Everywhere: Exploring Many Worlds

Exhibitors:

Evan -- The Many Worlds Hypothesis                                                                                                     Image Credit: Briley Berns

Fibonacci Hunt