Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2022
Volume 67, Number 3
Monday–Friday, March 14–18, 2022; Chicago
Session N27: Outreach, Policy, Education and HistoryDiversity Education Outreach Recordings Available Undergrad Friendly
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Sponsoring Units: FOEP Chair: Shireen Adenwalla, FOEP Room: McCormick Place W-187C |
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 11:30AM - 11:42AM |
N27.00001: Share your research at FunSize Physics Shireen Adenwalla, Xiaoshan Xu, Leigh M Smith www.funsizephysics.com is a colorful, user-friendly website with the express purpose of showcasing exciting new developments in condensed matter physics to a broad audience of non-experts. The contributions are written by you, the researchers, serving as an efficient, low bar broader impact activity in a PI’s portfolio. Google Analytics allows researchers to quantify the impact of their contributions, tracking the number of views, stars, thumbs up and viewing time. We have successfully used social media such as Facebook and Twitter to update the community and are expanding to other channels such as Instagram and WeChat, so as to reach different populations and are starting a YouTube channel. This diverse and strategic portfolio of social media will increase awareness of Funsize Physics. In addition, by making the website a convenient place in which to collaborate and discuss a variety of outreach efforts, it serves as a resource for PIs to develop best practices for outreach activities to K-12 students and the general public. We invite contributions from students, post-docs and faculty-share your beautiful, ground breaking science with a wider audience, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of your outreach activities-make it yours! |
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 11:42AM - 11:54AM |
N27.00002: Physics and Astronomy for Community Engagement (PACE) at University of Michigan-Flint Biplob Barman Outreach programs are paramount to succeeding as an educational institution, particularly when its students are involved in the organizational process. What is more important is that a legacy city of Flint's stature needs a variety of outreach initiatives to jump start the mechanism of growth and resilience that would take it back to its illustrious past. This work, aptly called PACE, centers around working with high schools, in the greater Flint neighborhood, to foster their participation in physics themed events. The idea is to take simpler facets of experimental physics research to middle schools and high schools to imbibe a sense of curiosity and scientific acumen among them. The first module (held in April 2021) of this PACE program focused on organizing a Physics competition wherein high school students presented an experimental demonstration of their choice. This was followed by a 2-day (October 2021) Physics Campfair where Teachers and Students participated in experimental analysis of LED emissions using an optical spectrometer. Subsequently, they studied the current-voltage characteristics of these LEDs and compared their behavior to that of conventional resistors. |
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 11:54AM - 12:06PM |
N27.00003: Making Music and Mateirals from Fire Markus Buehler Fire has fascinated humankind since the prehistoric era. Rooted in the interactions between sound and flames, here we report a method to use fire for a variety of purposes, including sonification, art, and the design and manufacturing nature-inspired materials. We present a method to sonify fire, thereby offering a translation from the silent nature of flames, to represent audible information and to generate de novo flame images - capturing a relationship between the shape and flickering of flames in a fire, and musical composiiton. To realize material specimen derived from fire, we use deep learning to generate image stacks to yield continuous 3D geometries that are manufactured using 3D printing. This represents the first generation of nature-inspired materials from fire and can be a platform to be used for other natural phenomena in the quest for de novo architectures, geometries, and design ideas, thus creating additional directions in artistic and scientific research through the creative manipulation of data with structural similarities across fields. |
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 12:06PM - 12:18PM |
N27.00004: Adapting Methods of Physics Outreach to Unite the Community in times of Extreme Isolation Nell E Grabowski, Dan A Fauni, Keeran O Ramanathan, Kayla Dickert, Ryan Hess, Roberto C Ramos
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022 12:18PM - 12:30PM |
N27.00005: Women Supporting Women in the Sciences: Designing laboratory kits via virtual international teams for primary and secondary level students in eastern Africa Jill K Wenderott, Julie Fornaciari, Danielle Butts, Cecilia China, Gloriana Monko, Joyce Elisadiki, Sossina Haile Globally, about 30% of female students select science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related subjects in higher education, though the enrollment is particularly low in engineering, manufacturing, and construction (8%) and natural science, mathematics, and statistics (5%).1 Improving this representation requires a myriad of approaches, including spurring primary- and secondary-level (K-12) girls' interests in STEM and promoting women scientists as mentors to younger students. With these approaches in mind and with the support of a 2020 APS Innovation Fund, Women Supporting Women in the Sciences (WS2)2 began an initiative to form international teams to design and distribute low-cost physics and materials science laboratory kits to 5000 primary and secondary school students, predominantly in eastern Africa. These teams are working with WS2 Partners in eastern Africa to deliver and teach the science lab kits to their local communities in 2022. This talk will discuss the recently-completed lab kit design phase, as well as outcomes to date from the piloting of the lab kits in eastern Africa. |
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 12:30PM - 12:42PM |
N27.00006: Quantum Information Science Ecosystem efforts at the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems (SQMS) research center Silvia Zorzetti, Hannah Adams, Mandy Birch, Sandra E Charles, Jens Koch, Stefano Lami, Sam Posen, James A Sauls, Richard Stanek, Davide Venturelli, Christina Young The Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems (SQMS) research center has made substantial progress in the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the quantum field. The Ecosystem thrust works towards the creation and implementation of programs to train the next generation of scientists and engineers in quantum. The SQMS Carolyn B. Parker fellowship is the first fellowship solely dedicated to the recruitment of URMs and is named after the first African American woman known to have earned a postgraduate degree in physics. We will also discuss ongoing outreach efforts promoted by the center. In this frame, the pilot programs aim to identify new research opportunities to develop valuable collaborative relationships and bridge science and industrial applications. |
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 12:42PM - 12:54PM |
N27.00007: Citation bias and gendered citation practices in contemporary physics Erin G Teich, Jason Z Kim, Christopher W Lynn, Samantha C Simon, Andrei A Klishin, Karol Szymula, Pragya Srivastava, Lee Bassett, Perry Zurn, Jordan D Dworkin, Danielle S Bassett The under-attribution and historical erasure of women's contributions to scientific scholarship is well-known and well-studied. These effects are still felt today in myriad ways by women scientists, including lower interest in collaboration, lower perception of academic excellence, lower than expected award reception, and fewer invited paper commissions. Yet another crucial metric of under-attribution within scientific scholarship is the under-citation of papers authored by women relative to expected rates, and the corresponding over-citation of papers authored by men. This "gap" in citations has been quantified in several fields ranging from international relations, to neuroscience, to communications, to astronomy. Here, we quantify the citation gap in contemporary physics, analyzing over one million articles published over the last 25 years in 35 physics journals that span a wide range of subfields. We investigate correlations between this gap and the dimensions of citation venue, citation type, and citers themselves, demonstrating that citation statistics are not a homogeneous background effect baked into the fabric of physics scholarship, but rather vary widely according to these metrics. Thus, we demonstrate that although citation behavior is a personal action, it adheres to certain trends at the population level, and has wide-ranging and potentially harmful effects. We then discuss possible strategies for citation bias mitigation. |
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 12:54PM - 1:06PM |
N27.00008: Arianna Wright Rosenbluth: the woman behind the Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithm Adam A Iaizzi In recent years, there has been a huge interest in rediscovering the lost contributions of women and other minorities to science. Here we shine light on yet another such hidden figure: Dr. Arianna Wright Rosenbluth, co-inventor of the Metropolis Monte Carlo method, which is, by any measure, one of the most important algorithms ever developed. Monte Carlo describes a wide range of numerical techniques that use random numbers. The Metropolis algorithm generalized this initially specialized method to solve any equilibrium statistical physics problem (and indeed, many problems outside of physics). Since its introduction in 1953, it has become the most common form of Monte Carlo and spread beyond physics to chemistry, biology, social science, finance, and even pure math; its use is now so widespread that it is commonly mistaken for being a synonym for Monte Carlo itself. Arianna Rosenbluth, herself a child prodigy and fully-qualified physicist, wrote the first complete computer implementation of the Metropolis algorithm. In this talk, I will describe the historical and scientific context for this revolutionary algorithm and its connections to the development of the hydrogen bomb. |
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 1:06PM - 1:18PM |
N27.00009: Confidence in graduation as a measure of student success in graduate school Claire L Seitzinger, Philippe Buhlmann, Maetzin Cruz-Reyes, Katherine Lust What factors contribute to student success in graduate school? In 2012, a mental health survey was designed for the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota, and after its success in that department, has since been adopted and implemented in 23 other departments on the campus. Looking at the data from 8 of those departments who took the survey between 2016 and 2019, we wanted to understand the challenges facing graduate students at our university and provide insight for other programs, as well. By defining "success in graduate school" as "student confidence in graduation" we conducted several single predictor binary logistic regressions to assess crude associations between the independent variables and the outcome variable. Based on the logistic analysis, variables with a significance level <0.25 were screened for inclusion in a multivariate logistic regression model. A backward stepwise binary logistic regression method was performed, and parameters were obtained by the maximum likelihood method. Our model revealed that factors such as year in graduate school, mental and physical health, and score on the flourishing scale all correlate with student confidence in graduation. Here we will discuss our results and provide recommendations for improving student confidence in graduation on departmental and institutional levels. |
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 1:18PM - 1:30PM |
N27.00010: Hubble discovery can read "universe is not expanding". Ibrahim M Hanna When we use Hubble telescope to observe from an earth location looking into the galactic space, and to achieve correct results by using a correct measurement system that makes sense of stars positions, we need first to build a correct inertial system of the galaxy with XYZ coordinates using the milky way align with one of the coordinates, like Y, then to establish an inertial reference, we may calculate a corrected position for Hubble, relevant to coordinate reference point of the milky way, and such correction would calculate ( -70Km/Sec relevant to our reference point , of the milky way) and then we may conclude that the inertial position of a star relevant to a reference point of our coordinate system reflects No metric expansion of universe . |
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