SLICE: Summer Leadership Institute for Computational Education in Physics
June 22 - 26, 2026 @ University of Wisconsin - River Falls
A week-long workshop to grow and sustain a network of experienced computational physics educators who will develop, refine, implement, and advocate for computational teaching and learning methods in physics. We will encourage participants to share and discuss diverse instructional designs, course materials, evidence-based pedagogies, and assessment strategies that will help coherently achieve a wide variety of computational physics learning goals.
Apply for SLICE 2026!
Draft agenda:
Potential discussion topics:
- Assessment strategies in the era of LLMs
- Computational physics learning outcomes for physics majors
- Department level change at large/medium/small institutions
- Assessing departmental integration of computation
- Others as proposed by participants
Potential mini-workshop topics:
- Lessons from computer science education
- Materials for a lower-level / upper-level computational physics course
- Materials for individual upper-level physics courses
- Materials for a quantum computing course
- Others as proposed by participants
