Fall 2017 Meeting of the Illinois and Wisconsin Sections of the AAPT
"Contemporary Physics Instruction"
Oct. 20-21, 2017
Physics Department
Rockford University
Rockford, Illinois 61108
We are pleased to invite you to attend the Fall 2017 joint meeting of the ISAAPT and the WAPT. Come to learn more about physics, discover new tools and techniques for teaching physics, share your experiences via contributed presentations and Take Fives, and meet old and new friends.
Campus information and parking - Building map - Hotels - Places to eat
Registration. Click on the tabs to see the details
2016-2017 Illinois Outstanding High School Physics Teacher Award. This will be given during the banquet on Friday evening. Congratulations to Michael McHale, Byron High School, Byron, IL.
Meetings. The ISAAPT Council will meet on Saturday morning. The Illinois and Wisconsin sections will each have a business meeting during lunch on Saturday.
Invited Speakers
"Las Campanas Remote Observatory: Remote Challenges and Solutions; Real Science Within Reach", Friday at 4:30
Howard Hedlund, Astro-Physics Inc., Rockford, IL
"The State of ‘Beyond the First Year’ Physics Labs and the Resources to Support Them", Friday at 5:15
Lowell McCann, Ph. D., University of Wisconsin – River Falls
"Building Instruments of Discovery", Friday at 7:45
Sarah Tuttle, Ph. D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"Is the pipeline leaking? White women and other minoritized scientists in Astronomy", Saturday at 8:15
Sarah Tuttle, Ph. D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"Science and Social Media: One Physicist’s Experience", Saturday at 1:15
Robert McNees, Ph. D., Loyola University, Chicago
Workshops
W1. "Exploration of Integrating Computation into the Curriculum"
Todd Zimmermann, Ph. D., University of Wisconsin, Stout
W2. "Women and Minorities in the History of Physics, Role Models for Today"
Gregory Good, Ph. D., Director, Center for the History of Physics
W3. "More Modern Modern Physics for the High School Classroom"
James Madsen, Ph. D., University of Wisconsin, River Falls
W4. "IOLab – a multi-sensor device"
Morten Lundsgaard, Physics Department, UIUC
Host - Deepshikha Shukla, Rockford University, dshukla@rockford.edu