SUNDAY |
2:00 - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30pm - 9:30pm | PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPING CURRICIULA |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Wittmann |
7:30pm - 7:50pm | Introduction |
7:50pm - 8:40pm | Joe Redish "Thinking about thinking: making the transition from classical to quantum physics" |
8:40pm - 9:30pm | Lei Bao "States and Perturbations of Cognitive Processes in Learning Quantum Mechanics" |
MONDAY |
7:30am - 8:30am | Breakfast |
9:00am - 12:30pm | QUANTUM MECHANICS CURRICULA AND TEACHING QUANTUM MECHANICS |
| Discussion Leader: Jan Tobochnik |
9:00am - 9:50am | Peter Garik "Using Software for Quantum Concept Instruction in the Classroom" |
9:50am - 10:40am | Corinne Manogue "Teaching Quantum Mechanics in the Paradigms Curriculum" |
10:40am - 10:50am | Coffee Break |
10:50am - 11:40am | George Greenstein and Arthur Zajonc "The Challenges of Quantum Physics as a Pedagogical Tool" |
11:40am - 12:30am | Dave Pritchard "CyberTutor: An Effective Combination of Tutoring, Assessment, and Educational Research" |
12:30pm | Lunch |
1:30pm - 6:00pm | Free Time |
4:00pm - 6:00pm | Poster session |
6:00pm - 7:00pm | Dinner |
7:30pm - 9:30pm | RESEARCH EXPERIMENTS IN QUANTUM CURRICULUM |
| Discussion Leader: Jean-Francois Van Huele |
7:30pm - 8:20pm | Hideo Mabuchi "Research experiments and experimental teaching in Quantum Mechanics" |
8:20pm - 9:10pm | Timothy Havel "The Quantum Cookbook: A Set of Laboratory Exercises, Based on NMR Spectroscopy, for an Introductory Course in Quantum Mechanics" |
9:10pm - 9:30pm | General Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30am - 8:30am | Breakfast |
9:00am - 12:30pm | STUDENT UNDERSTANDING OF PHYSICS CONCEPTS |
| Discussion Leader: David Meltzer |
9:00am - 9:50am | Stamatis Vokos "Student understanding of the semiclassical limit of quantum mechanics" |
9:50am - 10: 40am | Chandraleka Singh "Student understanding of quantum measurement and time development" |
10:40am - 10:50am | Coffee Break |
10:50am - 11:40am | Richard Robinett "Testing the development of student conceptual and visualization understanding in quantum mechanics through the undergraduate career" |
11:40am - 12:30am | Seth Rosenberg "A Cognitive Perspective on Students' Understanding of Quantum Mechanics |
12:30pm | Lunch |
1:30pm - 6:00pm | Free Time |
6:00pm - 7:00pm | Dinner |
7:30pm - 9:30pm | THEORETICAL RESEARCH AND TEACHING QUANTUM MECHANICS |
| Discussion Leader: Mario Belloni |
7:30pm - 8:20pm | Elisheva Goldstein "Theoretical Approach to Structure and Mechanism" |
8:20pm - 9:10pm | Peter Lepage "Renormalization, the Schrodinger
Equation, and Undergraduate Research" |
9:10pm - 9:30pm | General Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30am - 8:30am | Breakfast |
9:00am - 12:30pm | TOPICS IN QUANTUM MECHANICS |
| Discussion Leader: Arthur Zajonc |
9:00am - 9:50am | Edwin Taylor "Multi-Path Quantum Mechanics" |
9:50am - 10:40am | Dan Schroeder “Feynman Diagrams for Undergraduates” |
10:40am - 10:50am | Coffee Break |
10:50am - 11:40am | John Townsend "A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics" |
11:40am - 12:30am | Dan Styer "Making Sense of What's Not Common Sense: Two Examples of Five Techniques" |
12:30pm | Lunch |
1:30pm - 6:00pm | Free Time |
4:00pm - 6:00pm | Poster session |
6:00pm - 7:00pm | Dinner |
7:30pm - 9:30pm | PHOTON EXPERIMENTS WITH UNDERGRADUATES |
| Discussion Leader: George Greenstein |
7:30pm - 8:20pm | Mark Schneider "Simple Experimental Realizations of Quantum Mysteries |
8:20pm - 9:10pm | Charles Holbrow "Photon Quantum Mechanics for
Undergraduates" |
9:10pm - 9:30pm | General Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30am - 8:30am | Breakfast |
9:00am - 12:30pm | QUANTUM CURRICULA |
| Discussion Leader: Harvey Leff |
9:00am - 9:50am | Dean Zollman "Using visualization to teach quantum mechanics" |
9:50am - 10:40am | Ronnie Kosloff "Visualizing quantum mechanics: A dynamic base for teaching" |
10:40am - 10:50am | Coffee Break |
10:50am - 11:40am | David Mermin "Quick Quantum Mechanics for Computer Scientists" |
11:40am - 12:30am | David Hestenes "A Common Mathematical Language for Classical and Quantum Mechanics" |
12:30pm | Lunch |
1:30pm - 6:00pm | Free Time |
6:00pm - 7:00pm | Dinner |
7:30pm - 9:30pm | EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH THAT COULD INFLUENCE QUANTUM CURRICULA |
| Discussion Leader: Stephen Addison |
7:30pm - 8:20pm | Amy Bug "Classes that prepare undergraduates for research in quantum physics, and vice versa" |
8:20pm - 9:10pm | Herman Batelaan "Diffraction of electrons from a
standing wave of light" |
9:10pm - 9:30pm | General Discussion |