1. WELCOME!

2. Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College 80 Fort Brown ● Brownsville Texas 78520

3. WHAT IS PHYSICS? PHYSICS IS THE STUDY OF…

4. SPACE TIME MATTER ENERGY Link

5. PHYSICS: Trying to find the basic rules of the universe Trying to answer to the question: WHY? Playing or watching games is more fun when you know the rules Soccer has rules, Halo has rules Physicists try to understand the basic rules of the universe

6. Understanding the rules leads to new technologies, like…LASERS Laser video

7. MRI

8. GPS GPS video

9. WHAT DO PHYSICISTS DO? RESEARCH MAKE LASER COMPONENTS LOOK INSIDE CELLS LOOK OUT INTO SPACE AND..

10. …TRAVEL!

11. WITH A DEGREE IN PHYSICS YOU COULD BECOME A… TEACHER PHYSICIAN WALL STREET ANALYST ($$$) PHYSICIST

12. AT THE UTB/TSC DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY WE STUDY BIOPHYSICS NANOSCIENCE LASERS AND OPTICS THEORIES OF GRAVITY PULSAR ASTRONOMY ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS MATERIAL SCIENCE AND…

13. …YOU COULD LOOK FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES

14. WHAT ARE THEY? Signals from space They are different than any other signals we receive. WHAT ARE THEY? Signals from space They are different than any other signals we receive.

15. HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM OTHER WAVES? LIGHT WAVES HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM OTHER WAVES?

16. HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN A GRAVITATIONAL WAVE HAS PASSED??

17. HOW DO YOU SEE GRAVITATIONAL WAVES? LIGO, Hanford, WA LIGO, Livingston, LA North American Nanohertz Observatory

18. WHAT DOES THE UNIVERSE LOOK LIKE??

19. TRYING TO SEE THE “UNSEEN” UNIVERSE

20. WHATEVER YOU PLANS, BE SURE TO STUDY

21. "To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.“ –President Barack Obama

22. WELCOME! WE HAVE 4-YEAR SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE!!! –YOU EARN MONEY TO STUDY PHYSICS AND RESEARCH GOOD LUCK!