Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Annual Meeting of the APS Four Corners Section
Volume 60, Number 11
Friday–Saturday, October 16–17, 2015; Tempe, Arizona
Session L1: Plenary III |
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Chair: Jeff Drucker, Arizona State University Room: Murdock Hall 101 |
Saturday, October 17, 2015 2:45PM - 3:33PM |
L1.00001: Educational Transformation at a Critical Time:why us and why now -- the promises of disciplinary engagement Invited Speaker: Noah Finklestein Significant, perhaps unprecedented, attention is being paid to the needs for transformation within the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at the undergraduate level. This talk examines how higher education STEM disciplines, and physics departments in particular, are positioned to contribute to these discussions. I will review the growth of our own program in physics education research (PER) at CU-Boulder. This work develops a new theoretical line of inquiry in physics education research through experimental work at the individual, the course, and the departmental scales. I present samples of these scales reviewing: how we can build on work at the introductory level to transform our upper division courses (E/M and advanced laboratories), studies of how our environments do and do not support women in physics, and time permitting, an examination of what the data say about teaching physics through a massively open online course (MOOC). [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, October 17, 2015 3:33PM - 4:21PM |
L1.00002: Extreme ball lightning, dark matter, and public safety Invited Speaker: J. Pace VanDevender The first geophysical evidence consistent with a candidate for dark matter is reported. The evidence consists of verified deformations in a peat-bog witness plate that an eyewitness reported to the Royal Society as having been caused by an extreme ball-lightning event lasting abouts. The deformations are shown to be consistent with a massive, rapidly rotating, magnetized object, whose properties match the theoretical characteristics of a quark nugget. The results suggests that stable quark nuggets indeed exist, form the core of extreme ball lightning, contribute to dark matter, and pose an unexplored threat to public safety. [Preview Abstract] |
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