Meeting Schedule
Fall 2019 Wisconsin Association of Physics Teachers
Chula Vista Resort & Water Park, Wisconsin Dells
Friday, November 8th, 2019
5 pm: Registration/Check-In
5 – 6 pm: Social time
6 – 7 pm: Dinner
7 – 8 pm: Presentation/Talk
Saturday, November 9th
8:30-10:10 | Talks Session I | |
08:30 | Matt Evans & Erik Hendrickson | Welcome and What do College instructors want incoming students to know? |
08:50 | Ken Menningen | Comparison of face-to-face and online outcomes for Physics 100 |
09:10 | Suruj Seunarine | Evolution of geomagnetic cutoffs at the South Pole and neutron monitor rates |
09:30 | Swapnil Tripathi | Gravitational Wave Data Analysis |
09:50 | Turner Howard | A Shop Experience for Physics Majors in the Digital Age. |
9:00-10:00 | Workshop | |
Dr. Mick Veum and Gary Baier | The Language of Physics | |
10:10-10:40 | Posters | |
Christina Othon | An Inquiry Based Biophysics Course for Non-majors | |
Rachael Anderman Lancor and Brian Lancor | Solar Cookers in the Physics Classroom | |
10:40-12:10 | Talk Session II | |
10:40 | Brad Hinaus | Frictionless Collisions for the Masses |
11:00 | Jim Madsen | Neu News from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory |
11:20 | Nenad Stojilovic | Undergraduate students’ common misconceptions about symmetry and why they often fail to recognize it |
11:30 | Lowell McCann | 10 Years of ALPhA’s Laboratory Immersions |
11:40 | Melissa Vigil | Using Ethology and Molecular Biology to Develop Problems for Use in Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences |
12:00 | Amy Root | Highlighter Grading Strategy |
Lunch 12:10-1:30 | ||
1:30-3:30 | Talk Session III | |
01:30 | Alan Scott | Cosplay as Education Outreach – A Year as Neil Armstrong |
01:50 | Mark Lattery | Next Generation Modeling Courses for Teachers |
02:10 | Daniel Sinkovits | Cross Diagram for Solving Kinematic Problems |
02:30 | Matthew Vonk | Using Interactive Video to Teach Physics |
02:40 | Jim Mallmann | Surprising Ways to Make Introductory Physics Problems Much More Difficult |
03:00 | Jennifer Docktor | Get the Facts Out about STEM Teaching |
03:10 | Steven Sahyun | 3D Printed Electric Charge Potentials |
03:20 | Paul Erdman | Planet Flatness |