Download the Rutgers Workshop Report (PDF, 54 pages, 830KB)
Participants arrive Friday, June 4, late afternoon
Friday, June 4
4:00 pm | Registration – set up posters |
5:00 pm | Welcoming Remarks – Bob Hilborn and Rutgers representative |
5:15 – 5:45 | Carl Wieman, "Transforming the departmental culture to improve student learning (and other miracles)" - Note: Mr. Wieman was unable to attend the workshop, so this talk was canceled. |
5:45- 6:00 pm | Questions and Discussion |
6:00 pm | Brief Reports I - twenty minutes per institution – files pre-loaded – 3 reports per session (Chicago, Cornell, Georgia Tech) |
7:00 pm | Reception with posters |
7:30 pm | Dinner |
8:30 pm | Brief Reports II (Harvard, Illinois, Michigan) |
Saturday, June 5
8:00 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Case Study 1: MIT |
9:00 am | Case Study 2: Rutgers |
9:30 am | Break |
10:00 am | Diversity and Undergraduate Physics in the 21st Century – Jim Stith |
10:45 am | Case Study 3: University of Colorado - Boulder |
11:15 am | Brief Reports III (Michigan State, Penn State, Princeton) |
12:15 | Lunch |
1:00 pm | Breakout session – new directions in the undergraduate physics curriculum, tracks, interdisciplinary work, etc. |
2:00 pm | "The role of PER in introductory course reform and physics teacher preparation" – Eugenia Etkina |
2:45 pm | Break |
3:30 PM | Breakout session – introductory physics – serving engineering, life sciences |
4:30 pm | Brief Reports IV (Purdue, Stanford, Toledo) |
5:30 pm | Free time |
6:00 pm | Informal Reception |
6:30 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm | "Undergraduate Research - The Start of a Career," Anthony Johnson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
8:30 pm | Informal Reception |
Sunday, June 6
8:00 am | Breakfast |
8:45 am | Breakout session – what do our students do after graduation, do our programs prepare them for what they actually do? |
9:30 am | Brief Reports V (Virginia, Yale) |
10:15 am | Break |
10:30 am | Defining the key challenges facing undergraduate physics over the next ten years, What needs to be done |
11:15 am | Wrap Up and Evaluation - Bob Hilborn and Karen Johnston |
12:00 | Lunch and adjourn |