Physics Education Research Seminars
Spring 2016

Every other Wednesday at 3:00 pm,
Room 1400, Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building

Refreshments at 2:50 pm

Date (2016)	Speaker	Title
20 Jan.	Laura Merner American Institute of Physics	Physicists: Their Education and Career Paths
3 Feb.	Mark Reeves George Washington University	From Random Walks to Brownian Motion, from Diffusion to Entropy, From Order to Chaos: Adding Biofocus and adopting SCALEUP in the Introductory Physics Class (at the same time)
17 Feb.	Joe Martin Michigan State University	What Does it Mean for Physics to Be Fundamental?
2 Mar.	Gerd Kortemeyer Michigan State University	It's all in the data! But what is it?
16 Mar.	Sanjay Rebello Purdue University	Applying Ideas of Visual Cognition to Problem Solving in Physics
30 Mar.	Tim Stelzer University of Illinois	Mastering Mastery
13 Apr.	Benjamin Zwickl Rochester Institute of Technology	Taking PER into the workplace: A study of math, physics, and communication in physics-intensive careers

For information or special accommodations please E-mail Kim Crosslan at crosslan at pa.msu.edu.

Fall Semester 2015 PER Seminar schedule

Spring Semester 2015 PER Seminar schedule