A fashion enthusiast with bubble-gum pink streaks in her hair, she makes physics look stylish. As a professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, she teaches physics and astronomy to artists, designers, and architects-relying on art-based materials to get concepts across. ×įusing physics and art in this way is a familiar venture for Mócsy. To the left of Mócsy are Sydney Simon of the Yale University Art Gallery and post-doctoral physicist Audrey Francisco, who assisted with preparing and teaching the class. On the table is Kijana Richmond’s The Duality of Perception. Jessica Smolinski/Yale University Art Gallery Ágnes Mócsy (center) with her class of Yale University students. Depending on your viewing angle, this sculpture of colorful balls looks like the circular outline of a particle or the undulating pattern of a wave, explained fellow student Kennedy Bennett, who was wearing her final project-a T-shirt embroidered with the equations for time dilation and length contraction. Later, a small group ducked outside to see Kijana Richmond’s The Duality of Perception. Roizner Rodriguez sang the tune over a baseline and drumbeat that Mazer created using plasma and electromagnetic waves collected by NASA. Students Kyle Mazer and Sebastian Roizner Rodriguez opened a series of performance pieces with a synthed-up version of Frank Sinatra’s 1964 hit Fly Me to the Moon. For 40% of their grade, the students had been asked to complete a “fusion project,” in which they researched a physics concept and conveyed it through a creative medium of their choice. “It’s trippy that we’re here,” she said as visitors trickled in to see the show. Mócsy’s experimental seminar came to a celebratory finish on May 7th when her students presented their final projects in a public show at the Yale University Art Gallery-a first for any physics class. But a flyer from the university’s museums and libraries triggered her to consider a new possibility: Why not teach physics using Yale’s famous art collection? Receiving the green light last fall, she took a class of 15 first-year students on an art-filled journey through the cosmic landscape, the particle zoo, and quantum weirdness. On the hook to teach, she expected to take the reins of a class on nuclear physics, her specialty. Mócsy, a theoretical physicist, had just started a visiting professorship at Yale University in New Haven. The idea to teach physics through art had been brewing in Ágnes Mócsy's mind for years. Jessica Smolinski/Yale University Art Gallery Yale University student Suzanne Brown explains an art piece that she created during a physics class for first year students.
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