Conference Schedule & Presentations
| Friday, March 14 | |
| Time | Description |
| Noon - 4:00pm | Registration/Set up posters |
| 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Posters and reception |
| 4:00pm - 4:15pm |
Welcoming Remarks and Introductions Beth Cunningham, Bob Hilborn |
| 4:15pm - 5:15pm |
Plenary: Views from Biology and Biochemistry Susan Singer, Melanie Cooper Download Materials: A New Biology Education for the 21st Century (PDF) - Singer |
| 5:15pm - 6:15pm |
Plenary: Views from Biology and AAMC Mark Kroopnik, Todd Cooke Download Materials: An Overview of the new MCAT Exam (PPTX) - Kroopnick |
| 6:30pm - 7:30pm | Dinner |
| 7:30pm - 8:30pm |
Plenary: Case studies from the pedagogical interface between biology and physics Joe Redish, Dawn Meredith Download Materials: IPLS Reform: Still Plenty of Questions (PDF) - Meredith NEXUS/Physics: Repurposing physics for the life sciences (PDF) - Redish |
| 8:30pm - 9:30pm | Poster Session |
| Saturday, March 15 | |
| Time | Description |
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Plenary: IPLS Labs Nancy Beverly, Ken Heller Download Materials: Designing and Implementing a Sustainable Laboratory as Coherent Part of an IPLS Course (PDF) - Heller |
| 9:00am - 10:15am |
Short Plenary/Breakouts: Course Transformation and Learning Goals I , Working Groups Michelle Smith Download Materials: At the end of my physics course, a biology student should be able to… (PPTX) - Smith |
| 10:15am - 10:45am | Break and Posters |
| 10:45am - 11:45am |
Plenary: Case studies of IPLS Tim McKay, Nancy Donaldson Download Materials: Physics of Medicine (PPTX) - Donaldson Physics for the Life Sciences (PPTX) - McKay |
| 11:45am - 12:30pm | Breakouts: Defining needed strategies and resources for course transformation |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
Plenary: More views from biology Steve Vogel, Mike Klymkowsky, Jané Kondev |
| 2:45pm - 3:15pm | Break and Posters |
| 3:15pm - 4:15pm | Working groups: lessons from today's presentations |
| 4:15pm - 5:30pm |
Plenary/Panel/Discussion: IPLS with different math expectations Scot Gould, Simon Mochrie, David Weaver Download Materials: Calculus-based introductory physics re-imagined (PPTX) - Mochrie |
| 5:30pm - 6:15pm | Free Time |
| 6:15pm - 7:15pm | Dinner |
| 7:15pm - | Poster Session/Take down posters |
| Sunday, March 16 | |
| Time | Description |
| 8:00am - 8:55am | Breakouts: Formulating recommendations |
| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Plenary: Course Transformation and Learning Goals II Carl Wieman Download Materials: The intimate relationship between expertise, learning goals, pedagogy, and course transformation (PPTX) - Wieman |
| 10:00am - 10:30am | Refreshment break |
| 10:30am - 11:30am | Plenary: Pull together ideas |
| 11:30 - noon | Wrap-up |
