Focus Session: New Ways of Communicating Physics

Presentations

• The Need For ``Pleasure in Finding Things Out:'' The Use of History and Our Greatest Scientists for Human Survival and Scientific Integrity

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 8:00 AM – March 21, 2011, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Joshua Borchardt

    • North Dakota State University

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• Energy Experiments for STEM Students

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 8:12 AM – March 21, 2011, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • John Fanchi

    • TCU

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• Physics Learning Strategies with Multi-touch Technology

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 8:24 AM – March 21, 2011, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Mark Potter

    • SUNY Oswego

  • C. Ilie

    • SUNY Oswego Physics Dept.

  • D. Schofield

    • SUNY Oswego CS Dept.

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• Why the New York Times Science Tuesday section is only eight pages and what to do about it

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 21, 2011, 8:36 AM – March 21, 2011, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Brian Schwartz

    • The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
    • The Graduate Center of CUNY

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• Teaching Physics Through Comic Books

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 9:12 AM – March 21, 2011, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Rebecca Thompson

    • American Physical Society

  • Tassia Owen

    • American Physical Society

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• Khan Academy: the world's free virtual school

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 9:24 AM – March 21, 2011, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Joshua A. Dijksman

    • Duke University
    • Department of Physics, Duke University

  • Salman Khan

    • Khan Academy

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• How to Talk Science to Homer Simpson

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 9:36 AM – March 21, 2011, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Michael Lucibella

    • The American Physical Society

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• School for Scientific Thought: Saturday sessions that bring high school and STEM graduate students together

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 9:48 AM – March 21, 2011, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Elisabeth Gwinn

    • UCSB
    • Physics Department, UCSB

  • Wendy Ibsen

    • CNSI, UCSB

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• The Changing Landscape of Science News

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 10:00 AM – March 21, 2011, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • James Riordon

    • American Physical Society

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• Interactive NMR: A Simulation Based Teaching Tool for Fundamentals to Applications with Tangible Analogies

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 10:12 AM – March 21, 2011, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Sarah Griesse-Nascimento

    • Boston University

  • Joshua Bridger

    • Dover Sherborn HS

  • Keith Brown

    • Harvard SEAS and Physics
    • Harvard University

  • Robert Westervelt

    • Harvard University
    • Harvard SEAS and Physics

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• ALPhA: The Advanced Laboratory Physics Association

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 10:24 AM – March 21, 2011, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Eric Black

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Lowell McCann

    • University of Wisconsin at River Falls

  • Jonathan Reichert

    • TeachSpin, Inc.

  • Gabe Spalding

    • Illinois Wesleyan

  • John Essick

    • Reed College

  • David Van Baak

    • Calvin College

  • Steve Wonnell

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Back to the old questions: physics as culture

  ORAL

  March 21, 2011, 10:36 AM – March 21, 2011, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Leonardo Colletti

    • Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Universit\`a di Trento, 38123 Povo (TN), Italy
    • University of Trento -- Italy

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