Partnership for Integration of Computation into Undergraduate Physics

Upcoming Events

• AAPT WM26
  Saturday, January 17 - Monday, January 19, 2026
  PICUP workshops and sessions
  Join us for a PICUP workshop on January 17, and sessions throughout the Winter Meeting.

Past Events

• Joint UMN/Twin Cities + PICUP Regional Workshop 2025, U of MN - Twin Cities
  Saturday, November 8, 2025
  Regional Workshop

• 2025 Boston and New England Regional PICUP Workshop, Tufts University
  Saturday, October 4, 2025
  Open up bold new teaching horizons with computational activities!

• Greater Chicagoland PICUP 2025 DICE, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
  Saturday, September 20, 2025
  Integrating Computation into Introductory and Advanced Physics Courses and Building a Supportive Community of Like-Minded Educators in the Greater Chicagoland Area

• 2025 Altanta DICE, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
  Saturday, September 13, 2025
  Regional Workshop in Atlanta, GA

• Metro Detroit Area DICE, Lawrence Technological University
  Monday, August 11, 2025
  Regional workshop

• PICUP @ AAPT SM25
  Sunday, August 3 - Wednesday, August 6, 2025
  Join us for PICUP workshops and sessions at AAPT Summer Meeting 2025 in Washington, DC!

• AAPT PICUP Workshop: Integrating Computation into Introductory Physics
  Sunday, August 3, 2025
  Introductory Physics

• 2025 PICUP Summer Virtual Workshop, Online
  Tuesday, July 29 - Thursday, July 31, 2025
  Harnessing Large Language Models for Integrating Computation into Physics Courses

• SLICE 2025
  Monday, June 23 - Friday, June 27, 2025
  Summer Leadership Institute for Computational Education in Physics

• 2025 Los Angeles Area DICE, Riverside City College, Riverside CA
  Saturday, May 17, 2025
  First Annual LA Area Workshop on Integrating Computation into Undergraduate Physics

• PICUP Spring 2025 Webinar Series: Tech meets Mech: Bringing Mechanics students up to Code
  Monday, April 7, 2025
  View the recording here.

• PICUP @ the APS joint March and April Meeting
  Sunday, March 16 - Friday, March 21, 2025
  Session

• PICUP Spring 2025 Webinar Series: Integrating Data Science & AI into Undergraduate Physics Curriculum
  Wednesday, February 5, 2025
  View the recording here.

• PICUP @ AAPT Winter Meeting in St. Louis, MO
  Saturday, January 18 - Tuesday, January 21, 2025
  Workshop and sessions at the AAPT Winter Meeting in St. Louis, MO

  Workshop: 1/18/2025; 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM; Room Midway Suites 5 -1st Floor

  Workshop Schedule: Click here

• PICUP Fall 2024 Webinar Series: Teaching Physics Creatively using Computational Essays
  Tuesday, December 3, 2024
  View the recording here.

• PICUP workshop at 2024 NSBP/NSHP Joint Conference
  Thursday, November 14, 2024
  Workshop

• PICUP Fall 2024 Webinar Series: A discussion on teaching Machine Learning for the Physical Sciences
  Tuesday, November 12, 2024
  View the recording here.

• Joint UMN/Twin Cities + PICUP workshop 2024 DICE, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
  Saturday, November 2, 2024
  Regional Workshop

• PICUP Workshop at the Fall 2024 Joint Meeting of the Wisconsin and Illinois Sections of the AAPT
  Friday, October 11, 2024
  Integrating Computational Activities into Physics Courses

• Greater Chicagoland PICUP Workshop 2024, Lewis University
  Saturday, September 21, 2024
  Integrating Computation into Physics Courses

• PICUP/OPTYCs Summer 2024 Virtual Workshop, Virtual
  Tuesday, July 30 - Thursday, August 1, 2024
  This workshop is a very basic primer on integrating computation into introductory courses with easy-to-use, readily available computational tools. No programming experience whatsoever is necessary to participate.

• PICUP Spring 2024 Webinar Series: Integrating Computation Throughout the Undergraduate Physics Major at the University of Minnesota
  Tuesday, April 23, 2024
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Spring 2024 Webinar Series: Computation in a General Education Physics of Music Course
  Tuesday, March 26, 2024
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Workshops at the 2024 Joint Spring Meeting of the AAPT, APS, and SPS Texas sections
  Friday, March 22, 2024
  Integrating Computation into Physics Courses: Separate Workshops on Introductory Physics and Advanced Topics

• PICUP Spring 2024Webinar Series: Integrating Programming in the Molecular Science Curriculum: Resources from the Molecular Sciences Software Institute
  Tuesday, January 23, 2024
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Fall 2023 Webinar Series: Computational Data Science with Jupyter Notebooks: An Undergrad/Graduate-Level Course Offered in Different Formats
  Monday, December 4, 2023
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Fall 2023 Webinar Series: Frame-shifting for student success in physics classroom coding
  Tuesday, November 28, 2023
  View the recording here.

• Joint UMN/Twin Cities + PICUP Regional Workshop 2023
  Saturday, November 18, 2023
  Sustainably Integrating Computation into Undergraduate Physics Courses

• PICUP Fall 2023 Webinar Series: Pivot Interactives
  Tuesday, August 22, 2023
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Summer 2023 Virtual Workshop, Online
  Tuesday, August 1 - Thursday, August 3, 2023
  Teaching a Computational Physics Course

• IUPUI Physics Department / PICUP Workshop, IUPUI Physics Department
  Saturday, June 10, 2023
  Incorporating Computational Physics in the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum

• 2023 Boston and New England PICUP Workshop, Tufts University
  Saturday, May 27, 2023
  Open up bold new teaching horizons with computational activities (The Boston workshop was postponed until later in 2023.)

• Spring 2023 PICUP/OPTYCs Virtual Workshop
  Saturday, May 20, 2023
  Introductory Physics Course Activities Using Spreadsheets

• PICUP Spring Webinar Series: Exploring the Intersection of Physics Education and AI: The Role of ChatGPT
  Tuesday, May 9, 2023
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Webinar: Various ways to use HTML5 simulations in a physics class
  Tuesday, March 21, 2023
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Spring Webinar Series: A Scaffolding Framework for Supporting Students’ Development of Computational Adaptive Expertise
  Thursday, February 16, 2023
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Workshop at the 2023 AAPT Winter Meeting, Portland, OR
  Saturday, January 14, 2023
  Integrating Computation in Introductory Physics Courses

• Joint PICUP/ALPhA Webinar: Computational Physics with Python and Vernier Sensors
  Monday, November 14, 2022
  View the recording here.

• 2022 PICUP/OPTYCs Virtual Workshop, Online
  Saturday, November 12, 2022
  Using Spreadsheets to Integrating Computation into Physics Courses for Two-Year Colleges

• PICUP Fall Webinar Series: Using Computing in Physics at the Molecular and Cellular Level P@MCL
  Wednesday, October 5, 2022
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Virtual Workshop, On your computer!
  Tuesday, August 2 - Thursday, August 4, 2022
  A 3-day online workshop, designed for faculty without previous experience inserting computation into their courses, which will introduce easy-to-use, readily available computational tools.

• PICUP Spring Webinar Series: The Unveiling of the PICUP Capstone Report
  Wednesday, May 11, 2022
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Spring Webinar Series: Computation in Introductory Physics at KU
  Wednesday, April 27, 2022
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Workshop at the 2022 Spring ISAAPT Meeting, Illinois State University
  Friday, April 8, 2022
  Integrating Computation into Introductory Physics Courses

• Joint PICUP/ALPhA Webinar: Coupled Modes of Oscillators and Instruction: Combining Theory, Computation, and Experiment in Junior-level Mechanics
  Wednesday, March 30, 2022
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Spring 2022 Webinar Series: Quantum Mechanics and Data Science for HS Physics
  Wednesday, February 16, 2022
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Fall 2021 Webinar Series: Hidden Gems of the PICUP Collection
  Tuesday, December 7, 2021
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Fall 2021 Webinar Series: Integrating Computation Across the Curriculum at IUPUI
  Thursday, October 28, 2021
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Fall 2021 Webinar Series: A Beginner's Guide to
  PICUP
  Wednesday, September 29, 2021
  View the recording here.

• 2021 Virtual Capstone Conference, online
  Wednesday, August 11 - Friday, August 13, 2021
  PICUP Conference

• PICUP Summer 2021 Virtual Workshop: Integrating Computation into Your Introductory Physics Course, Online via zoom
  Tuesday, July 20 - Thursday, July 22, 2021
  A free online workshop for faculty without previous experience inserting computation into their courses

• PICUP Spring 21 Webinar Series: Physics for Tomorrow: Contemporary Enhancements to the Undergraduate
  Tuesday, June 1, 2021
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Spring 2021 Webinar Series: The Future of Remote Learning in Physics
  Tuesday, May 18, 2021

• Workshop on Assessment in Computational Physics
  Saturday, April 17, 2021
  Hosted by Tim Atherton, Tufts University and Alexis Knaub

• PICUP Spring 2021 Webinar Series: Computational Thinking in K-16 STEM Education
  Thursday, February 25, 2021
  View the recording here.

• PICUP stipends to support computation-based curricular changes, online
  Monday, February 1 - Wednesday, April 14, 2021
  $$$

• PICUP Spring 2021 Webinar Series: Computation in Undergrad Physics with an Emphasis on Using MATLAB
  Thursday, January 28, 2021
  View the recording here.

• AAPT Virtual Coffee Hour - hosted by Larry Engelhardt and Marie Lopez del Puerto from PICUP
  Tuesday, December 15, 2020
  

• Jupyter Notebooks Workshop
  Wednesday, September 9, 2020
  

• p5.js Workshops
  Monday, September 7 - Saturday, September 12, 2020
  

• Spyder Workshop
  Thursday, September 3, 2020
  

• GlowScript Workshop
  Wednesday, September 2, 2020
  

• Octave/MATLAB Workshop
  Tuesday, September 1, 2020
  

• Spreadsheets Workshop
  Monday, August 31, 2020
  

• PICUP Back-to-School Webinar: Tools of the Trade
  Wednesday, August 12, 2020
  View the recording here.

• GlowScript Virtual Hackathon, On your computer!
  Saturday, July 18, 2020
  Aimed at making improvements to glowscript.org -- if you are interested in participating, write to bruce.sherwood@gmail.com for details. 

• PICUP Virtual Workshop, On your computer!
  Tuesday, July 14 - Thursday, July 16, 2020
  A free online workshop for faculty without previous experience inserting computation into their courses

• PICUP Capstone Conference 2020, POSTPONED
  Sunday, June 28, 2020
  The PICUP Capstone Conference has been POSTPONED UNTIL 2021 due to the ongoing crisis.

• PICUP Virtual Conference
  Friday, June 26, 2020
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Spring 2020 Webinar Series: Online Trajectories
  Thursday, May 21, 2020
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Spring 2020 Webinar Series: Failure Modes for Online Physics
  Wednesday, April 29, 2020
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Spring 2020 Webinar Series: Our transition to virtual instruction: How are we doing so far?
  Thursday, April 2, 2020
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Spring 2020 Webinar Series: Why Integrate Computation?
  Tuesday, March 10, 2020
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Workshop at the 2020 Winter AAPT Meeting, Rollins College
  Sunday, January 19, 2020
  Integrating Computation into Upper-Level Physics

• PICUP Workshop at the 2020 Winter AAPT Meeting, Rollins College?
  Saturday, January 18, 2020
  Integrating Computation into Introductory Physics

• PICUP Community Synchronous Meeting (online via zoom), Online via zoom-the url for joining in will appear here the day of the meeting
  Monday, December 9, 2019
  Topic TBA
  Time: 5:00pm PST | 6:00pm MST | 7:00pm CST | 8:00pm EST

• PICUP December 2019 Webinar
  Monday, December 9, 2019
  View the recording here.

• Joint PICUP/SIGHPC Webinar (Session 2 of 2)
  Friday, December 6, 2019
  View the recording here.

• Joint PICUP/SIGHPC Webinar (Session 1 of 2)
  Thursday, November 14, 2019
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Community Synchronous Meeting (online via zoom), Online via zoom-the url for joining in will appear here the day of the meeting
  Thursday, November 14, 2019
  Topic TBA
  Time: 7:00pm PST | 8:00pm MST | 9:00pm CST | 10:00pm EST

• PICUP Community Synchronous Meeting: Integrating Computation in Your Non-Computational Class
  Wednesday, October 23, 2019

• PICUP Community Synchronous Meeting (online via zoom), Online via zoom: https://csuchico.zoom.us/j/382145834
  Wednesday, October 23, 2019
  Integrating Computation in Your Non-Computational Class

• Workshop: Teaching Computational Thinking Skills with MATLAB (sponsored by Mathworks), Carleton College, Northfield, MN
  Sunday, October 20 - Tuesday, October 22, 2019
  

• PICUP October 2019 Webinar: Plugging computation into upper-division physics courses without turning the class into a numerical methods course
  Tuesday, October 1, 2019
  View the recording here.

• Greater Chicagoland PICUP Workshop 2019, Lewis University, Main Academic Building, Room AS-158-A
  Friday, September 20 - Saturday, September 21, 2019
  A day-and-a-half long conference on improving students' physics learning experience through integrating computational activities into high school and undergraduate physics courses, with some other good stuff on improving pedagogy in STEM courses thrown in.

• Spyder Workshop
  Tuesday, September 3, 2019
  

• PICUP Workshop at the 2019 AAPT Summer Meeting, Utah Valley University
  Sunday, July 21, 2019
  A Primer on Computing with Python

• PICUP Review-A-Thon at the Summer 2019 AAPT Meeting, Utah Valley University, Provo Utah
  Sunday, July 21, 2019
  Join us to help review some Exercise Sets that have been submitted to the PICUP Collection

• PICUP Workshop at the 2019 AAPT Summer Meeting, Brigham Young University
  Saturday, July 20, 2019
  Integrating Computation into Introductory Courses

• 2019 PICUP Summer Faculty Development Workshop at UW River Falls, River Falls, WI
  Monday, July 8 - Sunday, July 14, 2019
  

• K-State PICUP Workshop, Cardwell Hall (Department of Physics) on the campus of Kansas State University
  Saturday, April 27, 2019
  Workshop on Integrating Computational Activities into Physics Courses (with mostly Python flavoring)

• PICUP Workshop at the APS April Meeting, Denver, CO
  Saturday, April 13, 2019
  

• PICUP Workshop at the 2019 AAPT Winter Meeting, University of Houston
  Sunday, January 13, 2019
  Integrating Computation into Upper Level Courses

• PICUP Workshop at the 2019 AAPT Winter Meeting, University of Houston
  Saturday, January 12, 2019
  Integrating Computation into Introductory Courses

• PICUP Holiday Meeting (online via zoom.us), online via zoom.us @ 9:00pm EDT
  Thursday, December 20, 2018
  General check-in about the semester and open discussion

• PICUP December 2018 Webinar: An overview of the PICUP website and the PICUP Collection
  Tuesday, December 4, 2018
  View the recording here.

• PICUP October 2018 Webinar: Unique and Interesting Undergraduate-accessible Computational Problems
  Tuesday, October 30, 2018
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Workshop at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Far West Section of the American Physical Society , California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
  Friday, October 19, 2018
  Integrating Computation into Undergraduate Physics Courses

• Workshop: Teaching Computation in the Sciences Using MATLAB (sponsored by Mathworks), Carleton College, Northfield, MN
  Sunday, October 14 - Tuesday, October 16, 2018
  

• PICUP Workshop at the Fall 2018 Meeting of the Southern Atlantic Coast Section of the AAPT, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
  Saturday, October 13, 2018
  

• Greater Chicagoland PICUP Workshop, Lewis University
  Saturday, September 29, 2018
  Enhance your courses with computation

• PICUP October 2018 Webinar: A meeting of Editors of the PICUP Collection
  Thursday, September 27, 2018
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Community Meeting (online via zoom.us), online via zoom.us @ 8:00pm CDT
  Thursday, September 27, 2018
  PICUP Editor's Meeting and Peer Review Q&A

• PICUP Workshop at the 2018 AAPT Summer Meeting, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
  Sunday, July 29, 2018
  

• Advanced Laboratory Physics Association (ALPha) Conference on Laboratory Instruction Beyond the First Year of College III (BFYIII), Loyola University-Maryland, Baltimore, MD
  Wednesday, July 25 - Friday, July 27, 2018
  3D Physics: Integrating Experiment, Theory, and Computation

• 2018 PICUP Summer Faculty Development Workshop, University of Wisconsin at River Falls
  Sunday, July 15 - Friday, July 20, 2018
  Enhance your courses with computation!

• PICUP Community July Meeting: What to expect for your upcoming PICUP workshop
  Monday, July 9, 2018

• PICUP Departmental Development Workshop at IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
  Saturday, April 28, 2018
  

• PICUP Workshop at the Spring 2018 Meeting of the Southern Atlantic Coast Section of AAPT
  Saturday, March 3, 2018
  

• PICUP February 2018 Webinar
  Tuesday, February 27, 2018
  View the recording here.

• PICUP January 2018 Webinar
  Monday, January 29, 2018
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Workshop at the 2018 AAPT Winter Meeting, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
  Sunday, January 7, 2018
  

• PICUP November 2017 Webinar
  Wednesday, November 29, 2017
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Departmental Development Workshop at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  Tuesday, November 21, 2017
  

• PICUP Arizona Regional Workshop at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
  Saturday, November 18, 2017
  

• PICUP October 2017 Webinar
  Monday, October 23, 2017
  We met on Zoom, but did not record this session.

• Exploration of Integrating Computation into the Curriculum, 2017 Fall Meeting of the Combined Illinois and Wisconsin Sections of the AAPT, Rockford University, Rockford, IL
  Friday, October 20, 2017
  

• Workshop: Developing Competency in Teaching Computation using MATLAB (sponsored by Mathworks), Carleton College, Northfield, MN
  Sunday, October 15 - Tuesday, October 17, 2017
  

• PICUP Workshop at the Fall 2017 Fall Meeting of the North Carolina Section of AAPT, North Carolina
  Saturday, October 14, 2017
  

• North East Ohio PICUP Regional Workshop at the John Carroll University, John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH
  Saturday, October 7, 2017
  

• Poster at the AAPT Summer Meeting 2017 , Event Center I (Conference Center), Cincinnati, OH
  Tuesday, July 25, 2017
  Poster PST2D32: Expanding the PICUP Community of Practice

• AAPT Session EH at the 2017 AAPT Summer Meeting, Breakout 9 (Conference Center), Cincinnati, OH
  Tuesday, July 25, 2017
  Results of a Comprehensive National Survey of the Uses of Computation in Undergraduate Physics Programs.

• PICUP Workshop at the 2017 AAPT Summer Meeting, Cincinnati, OH
  Sunday, July 23, 2017
  

• 2017 PICUP Faculty Development Workshop at UW River Falls, UW River Falls
  Monday, July 10 - Friday, July 14, 2017
  

• PICUP May 2017 Webinar
  Tuesday, May 9, 2017
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Workshop at the Spring Meeting of the Ohio-Region Section of the American Physical Society, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
  Saturday, May 6, 2017
  

• PICUP Local Faculty Computational Community Development Workshop at the joint North Dakota and Minnesota AAPT Sections Spring Meeting, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
  Saturday, April 29, 2017
  

• PICUP Workshop at the Spring 2017 meeting of SACS-AAPT, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA
  Saturday, April 22, 2017
  

• PICUP April 2017 Webinar
  Tuesday, April 11, 2017
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Workshops at the Spring Illinois Section of AAPT Meeting, Eastern Illinois University, Charelston, IL
  Friday, April 7 - Saturday, April 8, 2017
  

• PICUP March 2017 Webinar
  Tuesday, March 21, 2017
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Workshop at the 2017 APS March Meeting, New Orleans, LA
  Sunday, March 12, 2017
  

• PICUP Workshop at the Texas AAPT Section Spring Meeting, San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX
  Friday, March 10, 2017
  

• PICUP Workshop at the 2017 AAPT Winter Meeting, Atlanta, GA
  Sunday, February 19, 2017
  

• PICUP February 2017 Webinar
  Tuesday, February 7, 2017
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Workshop at the APS April Meeting, Washington, DC
  Friday, January 27, 2017
  

• PICUP December 2016 Webinar
  Monday, December 12, 2016
  View the recording here.

• PICUP October 2016 Webinar
  Monday, October 24, 2016
  View the recording here.

• PICUP Workshop at the Southern Atlantic Coast Section of AAPT Meeting, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC
  Saturday, October 22, 2016
  

• PICUP Workshop at the Northeastern Region (New England, New York, & New Jersey AAPT Sections) Meeting, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
  Saturday, October 22, 2016
  

• PICUP Workshop at the Washington State Section of AAPT Meeting, Pierce College, Steilacoom, WA
  Saturday, October 22, 2016
  

• 2016 PICUP Summer Faculty Development Workshop, UW River Falls
  Monday, August 1 - Friday, August 5, 2016
  

• PICUP Demo Workshop at the AAPT Summer Meeting, Sacramento, CA
  Sunday, July 17, 2016
  

• PICUP Workshop at the Chesapeake AAPT Section Meeting, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA
  Saturday, April 23, 2016
  

• Global Physics Department Webinar
  Wednesday, April 20, 2016
  

• PICUP Workshop at the Southern Atlantic Coast Section of AAPT Meeting, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
  Saturday, April 16, 2016
  

• PICUP Workshop at the APS April Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT
  Friday, April 15, 2016
  

• PICUP Workshop at the APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD
  Sunday, March 13, 2016
  

• PICUP Workshop at the AAPT Winter Meeting, New Orleans, LA
  Sunday, January 10, 2016
  

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