Who came

Where from

What they  brought

 

AAPT Topical Workshop Participants: Teaching GR to UGs
  
Poster and Paper Titles  (P = poster; A = article)

 

 

 

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No.

First

Last

University

Titles

 

1.       

Neil

Ashby

Colorado

Relativity in the Global Positioning System

P

2.       

Thomas

Baumgarte

Bowdoin

Some Thoughts on Involving Undergraduate Students

in GR-Related Research

A

3.       

John

Belcher

MIT

Visualizing Gravitational Radiation:  Can Dynamic Line Integral Convolution Help?

P

4.       

Ed

Bertschinger

MIT

 

 

5.       

Jeff

Bowen

Bucknell

Light Cones in the Schwarzschild Geometry

A

6.       

Thomas

Brueckner

Central Florida

Stirring Up Undergraduate Interest in Relativity Research in a

Non-relativistic Department

A

7.       

Steve

Carlip

UC Davis

General Relativity in a "Physics for Nonscientists" Course

P

8.       

Soumya

Chakravarti

Cal State Pomona

Ten Weeks with Uncle Albert

P

9.       

Wolfgang

Christian

Davidson

Open Source Physics Curriculum Material for Teaching Relativity

P

10.   

Greg

Comer

St. Louis

Using Mathcad to Model Neutron Star Radial Oscillations and Rotation

A

11.   

David

Craig

Lemoyne

 

 

12.   

Tevian

Dray

Oregon State

The Geometry of Special Relativity

P

13.   

Joel

Franklin

Reed

Spinning Charged Bodies and the Linearized Kerr Metric

A

14.   

David

Harrison

Toronto

A Voluntary Straitjacket: Teaching General Relativity without Mathematics

P

15.   

Jim

Hartle

UC Santa Barbara

General Relativity in the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum

A

16.   

Mark

Haugan

Purdue

 Improving Undergraduates’ Readiness to Learn General Relativity

P

17.   

Russ

Herman

U North Carolina -Wilmington

Lessons on Teaching Undergraduate General Relativity and Differential Geometry Courses

P

18.   

Charlie

Holbrow

AAPT/Colgate

AAPT Topical Workshops

P

19.   

Savi

Iyer

Geneseo

General Relativity at SUNY Geneseo

P

20.   

Loretta

Johnson

Kalamazoo

 Experimental Tests of General Relativity: What Students Need to Know

P

21.   

William

Komp

U Louisville

 

 

22.   

Jean

Krisch

Michigan

Gravity in the Curriculum

P

23.   

Shane

Larson

Penn State

Empowering Undergraduates with General Relativity: Stepping stones to build research skills (co-auth: Shoemaker & Hiscock)

P

24.   

Michelle

Larson

Penn State

(see Rubbo)

P

25.   

Seth

Major

Hamilton

Quantum gravity with undergraduates

A

26.   

Don

Marolf

UC Santa Barbara

Teaching Black Holes

 

27.   

Tom

Moore

Pomona

Tips on Teaching GR (with Tensors) to Undergraduates

A

28.   

Richard

Mould

SUNY-SB

Acceleration of Light at Earth’s Surface

AC

29.   

Ed

Neuenschwander

Southern Nazarene

General Relativity Education at Southern Nazarene University, 1989-present

P

30.   

Steven

Penn

Hobart & Wm. Smith

 

 

31.   

Jorge

Pullin

Louisiana State

Central Ideas of General Relativity

 

32.   

George

Rainey

Cal State Pomona

A One-Term (1 Quarter) Undergraduate Course on General Relativity with Applications

A

33.   

Ian

Redmount

St. Louis

Teaching General Relativity--A Seven-Layer Cake

A

34.   

Louis

Rubbo

Penn State

Hands-On Gravitational Wave Astronomy:  Extracting astrophysical information from simulated signals  (co-auth: Louis Rubbo, Shane Larson)

P

35.   

Richard

Saenz

Cal Poly SLO

 

 

36.   

Roberto

Salgado

Syracuse

New Ideas for Teaching Relativity: Space-Time Trigonometry

P

37.   

Peter

Saulson

Syracuse

Detecting Gravitational Waves with a Rubber Ruler: A Case Study in the Meaning of Coordinates in General Relativity

P

38.   

Donald

Schnitzler

Linfield

Time Dilation Merry-Go-Round

P

39.   

Bernard

Schutz

Max Planck Inst.

 

 

40.   

Deirdre

Shoemaker

Penn State

(see Shane Larson)

 

41.   

Edwin

Taylor

MIT

(see Slavo Tuleja)

 

42.   

Jan

Tobochnik

Kalamazoo

 

 

43.   

Slavo

Tuleja

Slovakia

Orbits of particles and light around non-spinning and spinning black holes

P

44.   

Stamatis

Vokos

Seattle Pacific

The challenge of changing deeply held student beliefs about the relativity

of simultaneity;

Student understanding of time in special relativity: Simultaneity and reference frames

A
A

45.   

Rai

Weiss

MIT

Experiments and observations that motivate students to understand the essential physics of general relativity

 

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