Spring 2018 Meeting of the Illinois Section of the AAPT
"Biophysics and Its Impact on Teaching"
April 27-28, 2018
Department of Physics
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Edwardsville, IL
We are pleased to invite you to attend the Spring 2018 meeting of the ISAAPT. 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. Note that this meeting includes the annual Student Research Symposium.
Campus information and parking - Hotels - Places to eat
Invited Speakers
"Reinventing Introductory Physics for Future Biologists", Friday at 2:45
Wolfgang Losert, Professor of Physics and Associate Dean, Director, Partnership for Integrative Cancer Research, College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at University of Maryland.
"Integrating Physics and Physiology for Premedical Students at Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar", Friday at 5:30
Mohammad Yousef, Associate Professor of Physics, Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar
"Guided Cell Migration – A Dynamical Systems Perspective", Friday at 8:30
Wolfgang Losert, Professor of Physics and Associate Dean, Director, Partnership for Integrative Cancer Research, College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at University of Maryland.
"A perspective on biophysics courses, past, present, and future", Saturday at 10:00
Juan Rodriguez, St. Louis College of Pharmacy, St. Louis
Workshops
W1. "IOLab – a multi-sensor device for K1-College"
Morten Lundsgaard, Physics Department, UIUC
W2. "Teaching and Assessing Problem - solving for the 21st Century"
Eddie Ackad, Foster Learning, LLC
Host - Tom Foster, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, tfoster.siue@gmail.com