Agenda from 2008 Conference

AAPT/APS Physics Department Chairs Conference
American Center for Physics
College Park, MD
June 6-8, 2010

Premeeting

• Congressional Visits
   
• Dinner Keynote Talk
  "The Global Energy Challenge"
  George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory

Session I: Energy Research and Energy Education
Chair: Dale Harlingen

• Energy on This World and Elsewhere: An Introductory Physics Course with Appeal for a Broad Spectrum of Students
  Gordon Cates,  University of Virginia
   
• Challenges for Departments Rapidly Expanding in Hot Research Fields with Active Faculty Entrepreneurship: A Photovoltaics Example
  Alvin Compaan, University of Toledo
   
• Preparing Young Professionals for Opportunities in Renewable Energy
  Tom Furtak, Colorado School of Mines
   
• Facing Our Energy Challenges in a New Era of Science
  Harriet Kung, Director, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, U.S. Department of Energy
   

Session II: Undergraduate Physics Education
Chair: Cathy Mader

• Engagement in Undergraduate Research: How Early and How Often?
  VJ Agarwal, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
   
• Contemporary Competitiveness through the Integration of Education and Research by Systemic Mentoring
  Diola Bagayoko, Southern University
   
• Advanced Labs Today: How They’re Changing… and Getting Better
  Dick Peterson, Bethel University
   
• Studio Physics at MIT
  Bob Redwine - MIT
   

Breakout Session I

Breakout Session II


Session III: Graduate Physics Education
Chair: Charles H. Holbrow

• An Overview of Professional Science Masters and Physics Entrepreneurship Programs
  Edward Caner, Case Western Reserve University
   
• A report on the conference Graduate Education in Physics: Which Way Forward? J
  Janet Tate, Oregon State University
   

Session IV: Teacher Education
Chair: Warren Hein

• Teacher Education Efforts Across a University System
  Laurie McNeil, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
   
• Encouraging Physics Teaching Majors at B.Y.U.
  Steven Turley, Brigham Young University
   

Session V: Diversity
Chair: Ed Bertschinger

• A Report from the Gender Equity Conference for Physics
  Meg Urry, Yale University
   
• Report from AIP Liaison Committee on Under-represented Minorities in Physics
  Quinton Williams, Jackson State University
   

Session VI: The Doubling Initiative
Doubling the number of undergraduate physics majors
Chair: Laurie McNeil

• Careers in Physics
  Cathy Mader, APS/Hope College
   
• SPIN-UP: 5 Years Later
  Ruth Howes, Marquette University