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Start: 2007-02-19 16:00
End: 2007-02-19 18:00
The modern era of cosmology began nearly one hundred years ago. From the start, the field has engendered controversy, both within and beyond the halls of science. At its root stands Einstein's elegant theory of gravitation, general relativity. Einstein's contemporaries saw in his equations a universe that could evolve over time -- a possibility that Einstein himself initially rejected. Other physicists worried that an evolving universe might sound too much like the biblical account, and urged caution. | 20
Start: 2007-02-20 16:00
End: 2007-02-20 18:00
New insights into student understanding continue to emerge from ongoing investigations by the Physics Education Group at the University of Washington. Two projects that focus on electric circuits and dynamics are part of a larger effort to develop and refine research-based instructional materials for several different student populations. The results have strong implications for instruction in introductory and upper-level physics courses and laboratories as well as in special physics courses for preservice and inservice K-12 teachers. | 21
Start: 2007-02-21 16:00
End: 2007-02-21 18:00
Superfluidity - the ability of liquid 4He, when cooled below 2.176 K, to flow without resistance through narrow pores - is one of the most amazing phenomena in physics. Supersolidity - the coexistence of superfluid behavior with the crystalline order of a solid - was proposed theoretically long ago as an even more exotic phase of solid 4He, but it has eluded detection until recently. In 2004, Kim and Chan (E. Kim and M. H. W. Chan, Nature (London) 427, 225 (2004); E. Kim and M. H. W. | 22
Start: 2007-02-22 16:00
End: 2007-02-22 18:00
Broadly, my research focuses on how students interpret the nature of activity in school science settings and how that impacts what they learn. In this presentation I will describe characterizations of two ways students can interpret their activity in science classes, I label them answermaking and sensemaking. Answermaking is common and unproductive for the goal of students coming to see the concepts of physics for what they are, ways of making sense of physical phenomena. Sensemaking is a potentially productive student view of school activity for this goal. | 23
Start: 2007-02-23 13:00
End: 2007-02-23 15:00
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