Joint UMN/Twin Cities + PICUP Regional Workshop 2024

Save the Date!

Saturday November 2, 2024, 8:30am - 4pm 

 

Who Should Attend

Physics instructors at 2-year and 4-year colleges and universities, as well as high school teachers teaching AP physics or CIS physics courses. If you came to the 2023 workshop, come again! We look forward to hearing from you. If you didn't come to the 2023 workshop, please join us this Fall! 

Draft Schedule

8:30-8:45      Arrival, Registration, and Coffee

8:45-9           Welcome, Introductions, Review of PICUP site and available resources 

9-10              Session 1: Learning goals

                     With time to brainstorm about own courses and curriculum

10-10:10      BREAK

10:10-11      Session 2: Assessment

11-12           Session 3: Share-a-thon (3-5 min talks) and contributed/invited talks

12-1             Lunch and Breakout discussions on topics folks are most interested in

1-1:15          Workshop Photo

1:15-2:00    Parallel Session 4.1: Introductory kinematics and dynamics

                    Parallel Session 4.2: Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics

2:00-2:50    Working time

2:50-3         BREAK

3:00-3:20     Session 5: Artificial Intelligence

3:20-3:45     Session 6: Discussion of dissemination of computation

3:45-4:00     Feedback for future meetings and wrap up

Registration

Registration details coming soon.