Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Joint Spring 2010 Meeting of the Texas Sections of the APS, AAPT, and SPS
Volume 55, Number 3
Thursday–Saturday, March 18–20, 2010; Austin, Texas
Session I1: Plenary Session III: Physics and Physics Education at Small Grain Sizes |
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Room: Robert Lee Moore Hall 4.102 |
Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:30AM - 9:15AM |
I1.00001: Fluid mechanics of mathematics testing in Texas Invited Speaker: The performance of Texas high school students on mathematics exams is tightly connected to the level of poverty in the school. I will employ the coarse-graining techniques that lead from molecular motions to fluid mechanics in order to find how student scores evolve over time. I will show that the points of divergence between well-off and low-income kids are particularly clear when viewed as streamlines of a flow in the space of grade-level and score. The results can also be cast in the form of a Fokker-Planck equation, which highlights the separate roles of convection and diffusion. I will use the results the assess the plausibility of using charter schools, highly qualified teachers, and accountability systems as primary agents of school reform. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:15AM - 10:00AM |
I1.00002: Research and Education Activities under NSF-IGERT program at the University of Texas-Austin Invited Speaker: An overview will be given for the research and education activities conducted under a NSF funded Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) at the University of Texas-Austin. The scheme of this program is on ``Atomic and Molecular Imaging of Interfaces/defects in Electronic, Spintronic, and Organic/Inorganic Materials''. I will describe several research projects and outreach activities including the Nanoscience Summer Academy. [Preview Abstract] |
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