Summer 2004 |
RISE Program
In the Summer of 2004, Professor Melanie Becker provided undergraduate women with valuable research experience through the Research Internship in Science and Engineering (RISE) program. These four women students, chosen from more than 100 applicants, spent up to five hours a day in classes and several more hours on independent work, learning about string theory. Research has shown that the number of women in physics drastically drops-off after their undergraduate work. This program, funded by the National Science Foundation, works to encourage undergraduate female physics majors to get involved in research and continue their physics educations, reducing the severity of that drop-off. For more information, please contact Dr. Becker at melanieb@physics.umd.edu |
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May
28, 2004/ June 1, 2004 |
Summer Physics Education Workshops Professor Edward Redish traveled to several conferences this summer to talk about physics education. On May 28, 2004, he gave a talk entitled “ Changing Student Ways of Knowing: What should our students learn in a physics class? ” to the Ontario Association of Physics Teachers Annual Conference at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Please click here for additional information, including his abstract. Then, on June 1, 2004, he spoke on “ Alternative Ways of Approaching Student Learning in Problem Solving” at the Scholarship of Physics Teaching – Looking at Alternative Ways of Teaching Physics conference hosted by Uppsala University . For more information about his presentation, please click here. |
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July 25, 2004 |
Science in the Courts |
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August 2004 |
Professor Gates Conferences An “Introduction to Supersymmetry at the Mali Symposium on Applied Sciences, held August 2-5, 2004 A presentation at the Aspen Center for Physics' convocation honoring the work, genius, and impact of Albert Einstein in Aspen , Colorado from August 8-11, 2004 Participation in the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Mathematics Curriculum Development Workshop at Spellman College in Atlanta , GA from August 13-14, 2004 A talk entitled “Adinkras - A Graphical Re-conceptulization of Supersymmetrical Representation Theory” at the 10th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology, held at Northeastern University , Boston , August 16-22, 2004 |
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August 19-24, 2004 |
Nobel Symposium on Neutrinos Dr. Rabindra Mohapatra will give a lecture at the Nobel Symposium on Neutrinos, held in Stockholm from August 19-24, 2004. |
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August 20-25 2004 |
Feynman Festival Professor Y.S. Kim hosted the second annual Feynman Festival from August 20-25. Nearly 100 scientists came to the University of Maryland Department of Physics to continue some of the research lines initiated by Dr. Richard Feynman. Please click here to view the conference program. |
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