Fall 2017
Below is the meeting schedule for Fall 2017. All meetings are on Fridays from 3-4pm in RLM 6.112 unless otherwise noted.
Notes from some meetings are available by clicking on the meeting title.
Date | Title | Presenter |
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Sep. 1 | New TA Question and Answer Session | Experienced TAs and Members of the Forum |
Sep. 8 | Welcome Session Happy Hour Crown & Anchor, 5pm |
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Sep. 15 | The Great American Eclipse | Brian Lippincott, Briana Indahl, Joseph Guidry, and Matt Guthrie |
Sep. 22 | Education Around the World Joint Education Forum/Molotov Seminar, 5pm RLM 6.122 | Wei-Jin Zhang, Shida Shen, Nil Das, Behzad Eftekhari, Georgios Stratis, Maria Jose, and Behnam Arzaghi |
Sep. 29 | How Texas Crashed Its Education System | |
Oct. 4 | Building a Physics Department (Luncheon) Kodosky Reading Room, 12pm | |
Oct. 6 | Do Statistical Methods Have An Expiration Date? SEA 4.244 (Auditorium), 12pm | Dr. Andrew Gelman - Statistics and Political Science (Columbia University) |
Oct. 20 | AAPT/APS Meeting in Dallas |
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Oct. 27 | Designing an online course | Matt Guthrie |
Nov. 3 | How Childhood Trauma is Expressed Amongst Adolescents: A Bayesian Network Analysis | |
Nov. 10 | Teaching physics and encouraging young women to pursue STEM fields | |
Nov. 14 | Longitudinal Predictions Using Alternative Binning to Reduce Regression to the Mean (PhD Defense) RLM 9.222, 12pm | Sarah Stephens |
Nov. 17 | SZB 330, 3:30pm | Dr. Yasmiyn Irizarry - Department of African & African Diaspora Studies |
Nov. 24 | No Meeting - Thanksgiving Holiday |
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Dec. 8 | End of Semester Meetup at Crown |
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Topics and notes from previous semesters are available here