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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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Fall Conference 2011 Invited Speaker

We are pleased to announce that the invited speaker for our Fall 2011 Conference will be UC Berkeley’s own Richard Muller. Muller is a professor of the popular “Physics for Future Presidents” class at UC Berkeley and author of a popular book of the same name. Muller is also a Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and associated with the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics. Read more about Muller’s career, interests and most recent book, “The Instant Physicist,” on his website.

Save the Date for the UC Berkeley Physics Department Demo Show Friday Nov. 4th and the section Conference on Nov. 5th!

Exploratorium Educator Social

An amazing opportunity for Educators from our friends at the Exploratorium:

Dear Educator,

Your colleagues at the Exploratorium invite you to the first-ever Exploratorium Educator Social on Saturday, September 17, 6 to 9 p.m. This free, evening event is your chance to enjoy the museum after hours with your colleagues and Exploratorium educators.

Featuring:

An exclusive presentation of the world-renowned Iron Science Teacher competition. Cheer on the competitors in this zany science cook-off where teachers compete before a live audience for the sought-after title of Iron Science Teacher.

Free evening hours access to the museum. Play with all the exhibits at your leisure!
Science activity tables. Get ideas for your classroom from Exploratorium educators.
Complimentary beer, wine, and light refreshments.

This event is open to all Bay Area educators, so please feel free to pass this invitation along to your colleagues.

The event is free; please RSVP here.

If you have any questions, contact member@exploratorium.edu.

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, September 17!

Sincerely,

Rowena Douglas, Director, K–12 Professional Development

Kurt Feichtmeir, Director, Extended Learning

Shelley Wood, Director, Membership

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 2011 Conference Notes

Notes from the Spring Conference on April 23rd, 2011 are posted with links that are currently available. If you need anything corrected or would like to add anything to a post, please email Bree at Secretary@NCNAAPT.org.

If you were at the conference and would like to print out a certificate for your Professional Development records, you can download it here as a Document or a pdf.

Registration — Dennis and Bree register everyone

A note from our Program Chair, Paul Robinson, about our meeting:

“AAPT’ers,

What a great meeting! About 75 physics teachers–one of our largest turnouts in years–came to hear and see Adam Weiner’s great talk on the Physics of Hollywood Movies only to be followed by Paul Doherty’s behind the scenes tour of the Exploratorium. And the contributed papers were so good that over 30 people stayed until closing time 5 PM to hear them.

We have a new president, David Marasco and VP for Colleges and Universities, Frank , both of Foothill College. Congratulations and thank you! The winners of the Sargent-Welch certificates should email me for the address where they should be mailed for redemption. Thanks everybody for a great meeting.”