Every year during Advent, TUBAF is transformed into a theatre and the lecture halls into stages. Namely, whenever students and staff give their Christmas lectures. This season still has two highlights to offer: The Christmas lecture of the Institutes of Materials Science and Materials Engineering on 18 December at 2.30 pm and on the same day at 6 pm the lecture "Cool Santas and hot chocolate - thermal and mechanical material properties of Christmas hollow bodies". Interested parties were also able to follow science with show effects live at this year's production of the show lecture group of the Faculty of Chemistry, Physics and Biosciences "Around the world in eight days - two research trips" last Wednesday and Thursday.
With spades and formulas: this was the chemistry theatre group's show lecture
The large lecture theatre in the Clemens-Winkler-Bau is full of noise. Not only because chemicals are stirred and firecrackers are set off to great effect. The two protagonists Phileas Fogg and Jeanne Passepartout also clash time and again. He is the practical man travelling through his life as a chemist with a spade, she is the theorist who explains the world with formulae. The conflict really ignites when their professor Jules Verne sends them out into the wide world. They go to Paris - where liquids are dyed in the colours of the tricolour, and the sober Jeanne tries to develop a formula for love. Phileas travels to Sweden and dreams of winning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. If he can't get it straight away, he at least sets off a firecracker - much to the amusement of the audience. Interested people and families with children experience science in a completely different way.
Offers for teachers and schools
The show lecture group from the Faculty of Chemistry, Physics and Biosciences has also come up with a didactic concept for its productions. The names and formulas of the substances used in the show experiments are projected onto the wall, often accompanied by a warning: "Caution: It's getting loud". The members of the show lecture group have also prepared a booklet for teachers. After all, the Advent show lecture is just one of the ways in which the faculty inspires pupils to study chemistry or applied natural sciences. Next year, another chemistry summer camp and a school college are planned. And, of course, another theatre production in one of TUBAF's lecture halls!
Further information on the two upcoming Christmas lectures at TUBAF in the calendar