Physics and Astronomy faculty presented at American Association of Physics Teachers conference

John Buncher, Matt Craig, Steve Lindaas and Ananda Shastri, all of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, attended the American Association of Physics Teachers conference last week. Matt Craig presented a poster titled “Agile Development of a Python-based Image Analysis Tool” on his work developing a collaborative tool using iPython notebooks. Ananda Shastri presented his talk “Structured Progression in a […]

Three professors from the Department of Physics and Astronomy presented at the Minnesota Chapter of the American Association of Physics Teachers

Three professors from the Department of Physics and Astronomy presented at the Minnesota Chapter of the American Association of Physics Teachers held at Augsburg College in Minneapolis on April 26. John Buncher presented Why Elephants Really Are Big-Boned: Stress and Scaling in the IPLS Lab, Linda Winkler presented Rocket Science in Introductory Physics, and Ananda Shastri presented Matters of the […]

STEM Teaching Toolbox session – today at 3 in the FDC

Hear from faculty about handy software to use in your courses: Adam Goyt will share information about LaTex; Damiano Fulghesu will talk about creating graphs of functions using Grapher and Geogebra; John Buncher will present information on Inkscape and Gimp; and Erdenebaater Chadraa will talk about ‘R’, an open source statistical package.

John Buncher attended FPGA Exercises in the Advanced Lab

John Buncher, Physics and Astronomy, attended the “FPGA Exercises in the Advanced Lab” ALPhA immersion July 24-26 at the University of Minnesota. Field Programmable Gate Arrays are flexible microprocessor devices that are ubiquitous in industry. The Advanced Laboratory Physics Association is affiliated with the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and runs advanced laboratory sessions to help departments update their […]