AAPT Winter Meeting 2019 in Houston, TX
 

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  • 2018 Andrew Gemant Award - David Kaplan (Dark Matter: The Next Frontier)
      • 2018 Andrew Gemant Award - David Kaplan (Dark Matter: The Next Frontier)
      • PL01
      • Sun 01/13, 4:00PM - 5:30PM

      • Awardee: David Kaplan
      • Type: Plenary
      • This event will take place at the University of Houston in the Agnes Arnold Auditorium. Transportation will be provided. Bus will pick-up outside the Westin Galleria main entrance (Alabama Street) across from the hotel valet stand at 3:00 PM.
  • 2018 Andrew Gemant Award - David Kaplan (Particle Fever: A Temporary Bout of Insanity)
      • 2018 Andrew Gemant Award - David Kaplan (Particle Fever: A Temporary Bout of Insanity)
      • PL
      • Sun 01/13, 12:30PM - 1:30PM

      • Awardee: David Kaplan
      • Type: Plenary
      • David E. Kaplan received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1999. He had postdocs at the University of Chicago/Argonne National Lab and SLAC and joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2002. Kaplan discovers possible theoretical extensions to the standard model of particle physics and cosmology, and then novel ways to discover those and other models. Kaplan is a Fellow of the APS, and has been named an Outstanding Junior Investigator by the DOE, a Kavli Frontiers Fellow of the NAS and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. He has also created and produced the documentary film, "Particle Fever," for which he has won a DuPont Journalism Award, and other accolades.
  • 2019 Hans Christian Oersted Medal
      • 2019 Hans Christian Oersted Medal
      • PL07
      • Tue 01/15, 11:30AM - 12:30PM

      • Awardee: Gay Stewart
      • Type: Plenary
      • A Spectacular Opportunity for the Physics Community to Broaden Its Community of Learners - Research supports that a high-quality, strongly conceptual, rigorous introductory physics course improves student confidence and narrows performance gaps. Such courses are a doorway, not a gatekeeper. Years of anecdotal evidence strongly supports these findings. The redesign of the AP Physics B course, resulting in AP Physics 1 and 2, was an over-ten-year process, involving a substantial group of physics educators, physics education researchers, and stakeholders. The resulting courses were designed to be doorways. The initial result was to open the door to almost twice as many students, and to more than double the number of underrepresented students receiving college credit. Schools with an educator prepared, or adequately supported, to teach such a course are seeing excellent results. Overall, however, students are not being supported in developing the depth of understanding the curriculum framework was designed to provide and assess. Too many students are still trained to memorize and solve problems in a rote fashion. “Simplified” concepts force students to memorize many things that seem unrelated that are just aspects of a single more sophisticated idea. A brief history of how I got involved, the redesign process, and what we can do to better seize this opportunity will be discussed.
  • AAPT Presidential Transfer
      • AAPT Presidential Transfer
      • PL04B
      • Tue 01/15, 10:30AM - 11:30AM

      • Presider:
      • Type: Plenary
  • AIP Science Writing Award
      • AIP Science Writing Award
      • PL06
      • Tue 01/15, 11:30AM - 12:30PM

      • Awardee: Claire Eamer
      • Type: Plenary
      • Claire Eamer is a freelance writer, reporter and an award-winning children's author with a long-standing interest in science, particularly environmental science. She has authored 10 children's books, including five books on science and history and three books on evolution, biodiversity and adaptation and one picture book. She holds two degrees in English.
  • Homer L. Dodge Citation for Distinguished Service to AAPT
      • Homer L. Dodge Citation for Distinguished Service to AAPT
      • PL04
      • Tue 01/15, 10:30AM - 11:30AM

      • Presider: George A. Amann
      • Type: Plenary
      • • Janelle Bailey, Temple University • Heather Lewandowski, University of Colorado • Sherry Savrda, Seminole State College of Florida • Robert Teese, Rochester Institute of Technology • Aaron Titus, High Point University
  • Melba Philips Award
      • Melba Philips Award
      • PL05
      • Tue 01/15, 10:30AM - 11:30AM

      • Awardee: Jack Hehn
      • Type: Plenary
      • Title of Talk: "May the Work I Have Done Speak for Me"
  • Plenary - Michelle Feynman
      • Plenary - Michelle Feynman
      • PL02
      • Mon 01/14, 9:30AM - 10:30AM

      • Presider: Chandralekha Singh
      • Type: Plenary
      • In 1977, when she was only nine years old, Michelle’s adventurous parents, Richard and Gweneth Feynman decided they had to visit Tannu Tuva, a mountainous country nestled between the Soviet Union and Mongolia, almost on a whim. Their motivation was fueled, oddly, by Richard’s childhood curiosity over the culture’s exotic stamps and the quizzical spelling of the forgotten nation’s capital city. But Richard didn’t want special treatment. He wanted to get there on a more basic level. That famously quirky stubbornness of Richard Feynman meant he would wait eleven years before being granted a travel visa to Tuva. To explain and elaborate on her father’s quirky perspective and personality, Michelle presents an unprecedented, intimate look at what it was like to grow up as a Feynman, complete with vivid personal stories and vibrant photographs. Richard loved public games, catching people off guard, and challenging Michelle’s math teachers, much to her embarrassment. It wasn’t until she was much older that Michelle learned that her father was even considered a genius. Her experience was with that of a loving, clumsy, forgetful, but hard-working teacher that never took himself too seriously. In 1988, Richard finally received permission from Moscow to travel to Tuva, but it was too late. Richard had passed the day before. Twenty-one years later Michelle was given the opportunity to visit Tuva in her father’s place. She will close by sharing this deeply personal and emotional experience.
  • Plenary - Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne, Nobel Prize 2017, LIGO and Gravitational Waves
      • Plenary - Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne, Nobel Prize 2017, LIGO and Gravitational Waves
      • PL03
      • Mon 01/14, 5:30PM - 6:30PM

      • Speaker: Kip Thorne
      • Type: Plenary
      • My 60 Year Romance with the Warped Side of the Universe - and What it has Taught me about Physics Education: Already in the 1950s and 60s, when I was a student, Einstein’s general relativity theory suggested that there might be a “warped side” of our universe: objects and phenomena made not from matter, but from warped spacetime. These include, among others, black holes, wormholes, backward time travel, gravitational waves, and the big-bang birth of the universe. I have devoted most of my career to exploring this warped side through theory and computer simulations, and to developing plans and technology for exploring the warped side observationally, via gravitational waves. Most of my classroom teaching, mentoring, writing, and outreach to nonscientists, has revolved around the warped side; and from this I have developed some strong views about physics education. In this talk I will discuss those views, in the context of personal anecdotes about my warped-side research, teaching, mentoring, writing, and outreach.

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