Join us at Lake Tahoe Community College for a day of physics education.
Saturday, April 21st
All sessions are held in the Duke Theater, Room F111
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Fall 2011 Conference at UC Berkeley
Join us the first weekend in November at UC Berkeley for a day and a half of physics education.
Friday evening, November 4th
Social and Lecture Demo Show
- 5:30 No-Host Dinner at Chianlai Thai Cuisine, 2505 Hearst St.
- 6:30 Welcome Gathering and Social
- 7:30 Lecture Demo Sho
Saturday, November 5
Program
- 8:00 Registration, coffee, donuts
- 9:00 Welcome
- 9:15 Show and Tell
- 10:15 Break
- 10:30 “Physics for Future Presidents — A new approach for the non-science student.” Invited speaker: Richard Muller, Professor of Physics, U.C. Berkeley, Faculty Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- 11:30 Group photo
- 11:45 Lunch
- 12:45 Business meeting (in just 15 minutes!)
- 1:00 Two options:
- Tour of Physics Research Labs. Guided tours of physics faculty labs in Astrophysics, Condensed Matter & Materials Science, and Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, led by graduate students and researchers.
- Roundtable Discussion for high school teachers to discuss common problems and solution.
- 2:15 Break
- 2:30 Two options:
- Three concurrent workshops featuring labs and lecture demonstrations from Berkeley and other schools (contributions welcome). Spend the full period in one or circulate among the labs to see them all.
- Modeling Instruction introduction workshop
- 4:00 End 🙂
Map
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Complete program
Download our complete program in PDF format here.
Registration
$20 for NCN AAPT members (includes one lunch ticket). First timers are always free (lunch tickets for first timers are $10). Lunch will be beef, turkey, or veggie sandwiches.
Pre-registration is not required, but will help us know how many people to expect:
(The registration below says it’s free, but that’s just because we’re not collecting payment online. The usual registration fees apply, including free admission for first time attendees.)
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Professional Development Opportunities for Physics Teachers
The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PTEC) has a great new map of professional development opportunities across the US. Use the map to find professional development opportunities for physics and astronomy inservice and preservice teachers: http://www.ptec.org/pd/
Spring Section Conference
Our spring 2011 Spring Conference has two components:
Highlights:
Friday Evening Social
April 22: San Mateo High School
- Hot Dog Reception
- Tour of new biotech wing
- “My Favorite Movie Clips” presented by Adam Weiner and Paul Robinson
More details below
Saturday Mini-Conference
April 23: Exploratorium, San Francisco
- Show and Tell
- Invited speaker, Adam Weiner: “Don’t Try This at Home! The Physics of Hollywood Movies”
- Brief business meeting
- “A Physics Teachers’ Guided Tour of the Exploratorium” by Paul Doherty
- Contributed presentations
More details below.
Renewable Energy Workshop at UC Berkeley, March 5-6, 2011
The workshop is sponsored by the AAPT as well as the APS Forum on Physics and Society as well as the new APS Topical Group on Energy Research and Applications.
It will be held March 5-6 at UC Berkeley (Evans Hall 10).
The workshop should be of interest to faculty who wish to introduce energy topics into their courses as well as advanced students who might be interested in some aspect of energy research. A similar course organized three years ago was considered a great success. Participants will receive a book of the talks presented.
REGISTER SOON. We sold out when a similar course was offered three years ago.
For more information, see http://www.calpoly.edu/~dhafemei/APSenergy.html
(Thanks to Barbara Levi from Southern Cal AAPT for working on this program and forwarding us the information.)