The newly-created Organization for Physics at Two-Year Colleges (OPTYCs), under the auspices of AAPT, will resurrect previous workshop series and programs for professional development, reduce isolation for TYC faculty through networking and mentoring opportunities, and create a culture of PER for TYCs nationally. In this talk, I will describe the vision for OPTYCs and outline the various...
Last year, the Department of Physics at William & Mary launched a new professional mentoring program for female undergraduates in physics, Mentoring for Careers in Physics (MCP). Initiated by Ran Yang, the co-founder and co-director of MCP, our program pairs undergraduate physicists (or anyone considering a physics major) with female professionals working in STEM fields beyond academia. MCP...
It is important to bring 21st century physics into the classroom. A recent experiment by the Regal lab prepared the first three energy eigenstates of a harmonic oscillator and then used time-of-flight spectroscopy to measure the momentum distribution (which can be easily converted into the momentum-space wavefunction). In this talk, I will explain how this experiment works and how you can...
