Astronomy's Discoveries & Physics Education: Gordon Research Conference
June 17-22, 2012
Colby College, Waterville, ME
June 17-22, 2012
Colby College, Waterville, ME
Better Physics
WHAT'S NEW:
May 9, 2012 -- Program for "Astronomy's Discoveries & Physics" with speakers, times, and titles of most talks is on the GRC website. It is also on this site.
April 15, 2012 -- Your invitation to attend
April 15, 2012 -- How to ask for funds to attend this conference
March 29, 2012 -- Updated version of Roger Blandford's UATP talk: New horizons in undergraduate physics education
March 22, 2012 -- Contents of AJP theme issue and introductory editorial
Feb 23, 2012 -- David Helfand's UATP talk: X-ray views of the physics of the Universe
Feb 14, 2012 -- Abstracts for "Astronomy's Detectors and Physics Education" are here and also in the APS March Meeting Bulletin.
Better Physics
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For now Better Physics is supporting efforts to use the research results of modern astronomy and astrophysics to enrich undergraduate physics instruction. This site reports several efforts to this end.
- June 17-22, 2012 at Colby College in Waterville, ME there will be a five-day Gordon Research Conference on Astronomy's Discoveries and Physics Education.
- February 27, 2012 at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) there was a session of invited speakers talking about "Astronomy's Detectors and Physics Education."
- February 7, 2012 at the winter meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) there was a session of invited papers "Using the Riches of Astronomy to Teach Physics."
- In May 2012 the American Journal of Physics (AJP) will publish a theme issue devoted to ways to use the research results of astronomy to enrich undergraduate physics instruction
- In July 2011 at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, there was a three-day topical workshop "Using Astronomy to Teach Physics" (UATP)
- In May 2011 at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Boston, there was a special session of invited papers "Using the Discoveries of Astronomy to Teach Physics."