{"id":340,"date":"2017-03-06T19:39:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T19:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/?p=340"},"modified":"2017-03-06T19:39:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T19:39:25","slug":"alumnus-shane-larson-wins-fermilab-physics-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2017\/03\/06\/alumnus-shane-larson-wins-fermilab-physics-slam\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Shane Larson wins the Fermilab Physics Slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Larson, BS 91, has won the Vth Fermilab Physics Slam &#8211; a public contest in which scientists are given 10 minutes on stage to explain what the heck they do to over 1000 people in a sold out auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/suburbs\/aurora-beacon-news\/news\/ct-abn-physics-slam-st-1202-20161201-story.html\u00a0 has a Chicago Tribune article about the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Shane works\u00a0 at the Adler Planetarium and teaches at Northwestern University.\u00a0 He gave a talk here in 2016 on the LIGO gravitational wave discovery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Larson, BS 91, has won the Vth Fermilab Physics Slam &#8211; a public contest in which scientists are given 10 minutes on stage to explain what the heck they do to over 1000 people in a sold out auditorium. http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/suburbs\/aurora-beacon-news\/news\/ct-abn-physics-slam-st-1202-20161201-story.html\u00a0 has a Chicago Tribune article about the contest. Shane works\u00a0 at the Adler Planetarium&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2017\/03\/06\/alumnus-shane-larson-wins-fermilab-physics-slam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6866,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1500,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-outreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}