Welcome to the Absolute Zero Press Room. Here you will find the latest news releases, feature stories, background information and fact sheets about the public television series and the outreach campaign. In addition, newsworthy information about the campaign activities being undertaken by National Partners will be included. We also will provide reporters with a resource list of spokespersons.
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The Latest Campaign News
Summer 2007
Spring 2007
- Absolute Zero discussed during "Voice of America" story.
Read the transcript and/or listen to the story (MP3).
- Absolute Zero Web seminar with Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips announced by NSTA - Find out more
- Four more organizations join as new National Partners in the Absolute Zero campaign. They include:
- National Society of Hispanic Physicists joins as a National Partner in the Absolute Zero campaign.
- National Hgh Magnetic Field Laboratory highlights Absolute Zero campaign in the education section of their Web site.
- NASSMC - Here is the December Issue of the NASSMC News Bulletin: http://www.nassmc.org/bulletin.html
- Dear National Partners: Want to promote Absolute Zero to your members and constiutents, hand out information at meetings or conferences? Now you can with the Absolute Zero Promotional Flyer. Download the following PDF file and distribute the "Cool News" about the upcoming PBS series and outreach campaign.
Download the PDF 
- Russell Donnelly, the Principal Investigator for the campaign and series, was featured in
Inside Oregon, the official newsletter for employees of the University of Oregon. Read the article here: http://duckhenge.uoregon.edu/io/article?id=384
Many of the Campaign's National Partners have featured the Absolute Zero in their publications, on their web sites and in announcements to their members. Here are a few highlights:
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Past EDucational events
This week on the Engineering Campus of UW-Madison, the school is holding its biennial Engineering EXPO (see http://engineeringexpo.wisc.edu/), Thursday through Saturday (April 19-21). As a part of the three-day activities, the Cryogenics group will be hosting an exhibition featuring measurements to determine Absolute Zero (as described in the Community Education & Outreach Guide), and an interactive display highlighting phase changes between gas, liquid, and solid. Visitors to the exhibit will also be treated to a sample of ice cream made on site with liquid nitrogen. Students from the Madison area's middle and high schools attending the EXPO should go away knowing how to convert between the Celcius, Kelvin, Fahrenheit, and Rankine temperature scales, and be able to identify the value of absolute zero temperature on each of these scales. Based on previous Engineering EXPOs, the expected attendance over the three days will be near 10,000.
NSTA Web Seminar: Absolute Zero: The Cold, Hard Facts About the Coolest Stuff in Physics
Nobel Laureate Dr. Bill Phillips, a leading researcher in the physics of ultra-low temperature atomic gases. From his laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Dr. Phillips told the tale of how and why he and his colleagues made the coldest gases ever seen, provided engaging ideas on how to make the physics of the ultra-cold appealing to middle and high school students, and described demonstrations for formal and informal educators.
Find out more
Thursday, March 8 - 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Drexel University's Physics Dept's 12th Annual Kaczmarczik Lecture was attended by 1000 participants, including 700 high school students from the Greater Philadelphia School District. The speaker was 2006 Physics Nobel Laureate John C. Mather. Prior to the lecture, physics laboratories held an open house. A table of low-temperature demonstrations was set up by Prof. R. Ramos and Society of Physics Students during the Reception for the 700 high school students. Hands-on demonstrations featured a SQUID, magnetic levitation with superconductors, breath liquefaction and cooling of electrical circuits to liquid nitrogen temperatures. Film clips about Absolute Zero were shown. Flyers showing outreach activities and information about the Absolute Zero Campaign/PBS Documentary were distributed.
Saturday, February 24 - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
National High Magnetic Feld Laboratory's annual Open House
Absolute Zero was featured at the lab’s annual Open House, which attracts close to 4,000 people from the Southeast. The Lab had a booth with a cryogenics demo (staffed by the Lab's Absolute Zero Experts). Print flyers were distributed. The event featured hands-on demonstrations, tours, games, informational videos, food, give-aways and the chance to meet and chat with scientists and other Mag Lab staff.
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