ALPhA’s Laboratory Immersions

Register

for Buffalo State and Caltech Immersions

Learn a new advanced laboratory experiment well enough to teach it - with confidence!

These inaugural Laboratory Immersion experiences will provide participants with one to three days of intensive hands-on work with a single advanced laboratory experiment. Space will be limited, however, with room for only 12 participants at each site.

July 17, 2010 (tentative) at the 2010 AAPT Summer Meeting in Portland, OR

Reed College is the site for ALPhA's first Laboratory Immersion, co-sponsored with the American Association of Physics Teachers. Unlike other Immersions, this session is for a single day:

John Essick will lead this session.

Aug. 2—4, 2010, at Buffalo State College in Buffalo, NY

Immerse yourself for three days in one of these experiments:

The mentors for these experiments are Michael DeMarco and Ram Rai of Buffalo State College, Jonathan Reichert of Teachspin, Inc., and David Van Baak of Calvin College.

Aug. 11—13, 2010 at Caltech in Pasadena, CA

Immerse yourself for three days in one of these experiments:

Eric Black and Ken Libbrecht are the mentors for these experiments

 

Registration for Buffalo State and Caltech Immersions: $100.00 per experiment (includes meals). Travel and Housing costs are the responsibility of the participants. Housing information will be forthcoming.

Questions about ALPhA's Laboratory Immersions Programs should be addressed to Lowell McCann by email at Lowell.McCann@uwrf.edu.