Prof.
David Sokoloff
(University of Oregon)
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Erik Bodegom
(Portland State University)
,
Erik Jensen
(Chemeketa Community College)
01/10/2018, 10:00
Track L - Other (Please elaborate under comments below)
Oral Presentation
The IOLab is a versatile, relatively inexpensive data acquisition device developed by Mats Selen and his colleagues at University of Illinois (1). It is self-contained in a cart that can roll on its own wheels, and it includes an optical encoder that measures motion quantities and a force sensor. It also contains sensors to measure a variety of other physical quantities. With a current cost of...
Prof.
Katemari Rosa
(Federal University of Bahia)
01/10/2018, 14:00
Track L - Other (Please elaborate under comments below)
Oral Presentation
Drawing from the conference theme, Physics Education for Development: a focus on context, I propose for this talk that we look at the role of women, particularly women of color, for the sustainable development of communities. There are several experiences of socioeconomic development programs around the world that focus on women for the programs’ success. Similarly, businesses companies have...
Prof.
Wilkin Nicola
(University of Birmingham, UK)
02/10/2018, 10:00
Track L - Other (Please elaborate under comments below)
Oral Presentation
My theoretical physics research is in ultracold gases, where the phenomena are predominantly quantum mechanical. My novel results have been discovered and analysed via computer algebra. This understanding of the power of computer algebra has transferred to my education practice - where it enables my team and I to design mathematically based questions that can be automatically marked. These...
Dr
Apriel K Hodari
(Eureka Scientific, Inc. Oakland, USA)
02/10/2018, 14:00
Track L - Other (Please elaborate under comments below)
Oral Presentation
Centering marginalized voices has long been a tool for critiquing mainstream institutions and individual practices by feminist theorists and critical race scholars. In this paper, I will present findings from Centering Women of Color in STEM: Identifying and Scaling Up What Helps Women of Color Thrive (CWCS). The project studies predominantly white physics departments in which women of color...
Prof.
Diane Grayson
(University of the Witwatersrand)
03/10/2018, 10:00
Oral Presentation
The century in which today’s students are growing up is different in a number of important ways from last century. This includes ubiquitous and increasingly sophisticated technology, climate change, globalisation, and the concentration of the bulk of the world’s wealth in the hands of an ever-decreasing percentage of its population. And then there was the great recession of 2008. Taken...
Prof.
Andrew Forbes
(U. Witwatersrand)
04/10/2018, 10:00
Track L - Other (Please elaborate under comments below)
Oral Presentation
Interference, the quintessential property of wave optics, is a venerable topic that spans centuries of study, influencing how we understand both the classical and quantum worlds. Infact, little has changed since the seminal work of Young with his double slit experiment, performed even to this day in much the same way as he did it. In this talk we will revisit the central paradigms in classical...
Dr
Honjiswa Conana
(University of the Western Cape)
04/10/2018, 14:00
Track L - Other (Please elaborate under comments below)
Oral Presentation
Physics educators recognise that successful introductory physics learning depends on understanding and using the various ‘representational modes’ (i.e. semiotic systems) (see Airey and Linder 2017) which are characteristic of the communication practices in physics (for example, specialised language, symbols, graphs, sketches, diagrams, mathematics, and gestures). Physics Education Research has...
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Embracing the interconnectivity of people beneath the night sky: Where physics and culture meet
Prof.
Richard Hechter
(University of Manitoba, Canada)
05/10/2018, 10:00
Track L - Other (Please elaborate under comments below)
Oral Presentation
In Canada, like many other countries around the world, there has been an increased call for incorporating Indigenous knowledges within physics, and physics teacher, education. Coupled with this are dedicated efforts to foster learning environments where students grow to become problem solvers not only for physics-based problems, but for societal problems as well. Physics
education, at all...
