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2018 AAPT Winter Meeting AD FOR EXPERT TA 2018 AAPT Winter Meeting San Diego, CA January 6-9 Meeting Information ............................. 3 AAPT Awards ......................................... 6 Plenaries ............................................... 10 Commercial Workshops ......................... 12 Exhibitor Information ............................ 14 Workshops ............................................ 17 Session Abstracts .................................. 21 Sunday ............................................... 23 Monday ............................................. 44 Tuesday ............................................... 77 Maps ..................................................... 93 Session Sponsors ................................... 95 Participants’ Index ................................. 96 Advertiser Index .................................... 98 American Association of Physics Teachers One Physics Ellipse College Park, MD 2040 www.aapt.org 301-209-3311 Special Thanks Attention! AAPT wishes to thank the following persons for their dedi- This is the last printed copy of the cation and selfless contributions to the AAPT National Meetings Program Winter Meeting: Book. AAPT has decided to move forward with a green initiative that Greg Severn, University of San Diego for organizing the work- will allow us to protect the shops. environment and save money. Paper sorters: The national meetings program Beverly (Trina) Cannon Ryan Hazelton will be available in the following Charlene Rydgren Andy Rundquist formats, starting at the 2018 Jackie Doyle Rob Salgado Summer Meeting. Katie Ansell Ernie Behringer 1) AAPT National Meetings Frank Lock Dan Jackson Program APP Bahar Modir Jeremiah D. Williams Brad Conrad Frank Lock 2) Online PDF of Program 3) Meeting at a Glance Facebook/Twitter at Meeting We will be posting updates to Facebook and Twitter prior to and during the meeting to keep you in the know! Participate in the conversation on Twitter by following us at twitter.com/AAPTHQ or search the hashtag #aaptwm18. We will also be posting any changes to the schedule, cancellations, and other announcements during the meeting via both Twitter and Facebook. Visit our Pinterest page for suggestions of places to go and things to do in the Cincinnati area. We look forward to connecting with you! Facebook: facebook.com/AAPTHQ Twitter: twitter.com/AAPTHQ Pinterest: pinterest.com/AAPTHQ AAPT Board of Directors David E. Sturm, Vice Chair of Section Representatives George A. Amann, President University of Maine 60 Schoolhouse Rd.. Orono, ME Staatsburg, NY Contacts: David M. Crowe, at large Gordon P. Ramsey, President Elect (High School Representative) Meeting Registration Desk: 301-209-3340 Loyola University–Chicago Loudon Academy of Science Chicago, IL Sterling, VA AAPT Programs & Conferences Dept: 301-209-3340; [email protected] Mel Sabella, Vice President Karen Jo Matsler, at large (4-Year Chicago State University College Representative) Tiffany Hayes, Director, Programs & Chicago, IL University of Texas – Arlington Conferences Wolfgang Christian, Secretary Arlington, TX Cerena Cantrell, Associate Director, Programs Davidson College Sherry L. Savrda, at large & Conferences Davidson, NC (2-Year College Representative) Janet Lane, Programs Administrator Thomas L. Okuma, Treasurer Seminole State College of Florida Bay College Sanford, FL Leticia Marquez, Logistics & Registration Coordinator Baytown, TX Richard H. Price (ex officio) Janelle M. Bailey, Past President Editor, Amer. Journal of Physics Temple University Gary D. White (ex officio) American Association of Physics Teachers Philadelphia, PA Editor, The Physics Teacher One Physics Ellipse Dyan Jones, Chair of Section Beth A. Cunningham (ex officio) Representatives AAPT Executive Officer College Park, MD 20740-3845 Mercyhurst University Erie, PA Robert C. Hilborn (guest) 301-209-3340, fax: 301-209-0845 AAPT Associate Executive Officer [email protected], www.aapt.org Photo Release: AAPT and its legal representatives and assigns, retain the right and permission to publish, without charge, photographs taken during this event. These photo- graphs may be used in publications, including electronic publications, or in audio-visual presentations, promotional literature, advertising, or in other similar ways. January 6–9, 2018 3 Download Your Mobile App Now! Download Steps: Uur Event URL: https://crowd.cc/wm18 Takes attendees to the online version of your event. Your App URL: https://crowd.cc/s/1jPzu Takes attendees directly to mobile markets to download your app. January 6–9, 2018 5 2018 Oersted Medal Awarded to Barbara L. Whitten Barbara L. Whitten is Professor Emerita of Physics, at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO. She earned her BA in Physics at Carleton College and her MA and PhD at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. She is an excellent physicist, teacher, mentor who is strongly committed to education and the wider physics community. Prior to joining the faculty of Colorado Col- lege, she taught in the Western College Program of Miami University and worked as a research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Whitten has a variety of interests in physics: both in terms of technical physics and service to the profession. She has main- tained an active technical physics program that has most recently focused on computational environmental physics. Over her years at Colorado College, she involved students in her research, taught all levels of the undergraduate curriculum, developed novel courses and served as a founding member of the Feminist and Gender Studies program at Colorado. This meant that from its inception, the Gender Studies program has had a natural scientist as part of its interdisciplinary faculty governing com- Barbara L. Whitten mittee. It was her interest in feminist science that led to her primary impact on the physics teaching community. Many years ago, when thinking about ways to increase the numbers of women and other under-represented groups in under- The Value of graduate physics programs, instead of guessing what might be the correct approach, she decided to ask. Specifically, she decided to ask why some physics departments seemed to be more successful in graduating women and underrepresented minorities Diversity in than others. Working through the APS’s Committee on the Status of Women in Physics, she developed and led a site visit pro- gram where a team of faculty and students visited several institutions: interviewing faculty, staff, and undergraduate students. Physics By the end of the project, she had conducted 15 site visits and received funding through the National Science Foundation. After visiting each institution, the site visit team would create a summary of their findings. The site visit findings culminated in “What Works for Women in Undergraduate Physics?” featured in Physics Today in 2003. One of the main findings was that the Tuesday, January 9 things that improved the departmental climate for women also helped the men in the department. What was good for women 12–1 p.m. in physics helped all undergraduates thrive. The findings from these site visits have continued to influence the ways in which physics departments look at themselves. This project has successfully opened physics departments to women and underrepre- Golden Ballroom sented minorities. (http://www.aapt.org/aboutaapt/Barbara-Whitten-to-Receive-AAPT-2018-Oersted-Medal.cfm) Named for Hans Christian Oersted, the Oersted Medal recognizes those who have had an outstanding, widespread, and lasting impact on the teaching of physics. The recipient delivers an address at an AAPT Winter Meeting and receives a monetary award, the Oersted Medal, an Award Certificate, and travel ex- penses to the meeting. The award was established in 1936. 2018 John David Jackson Excellence in Graduate Physics Education Awarded to Mehran Kardar Mehran Kardar was selected to receive the Jackson Award in recognition of his work as a teacher of graduate statistical me- chanics. He has written two graduate textbooks in statistical mechanics that are used in many graduate programs. He receives among the very best teaching evaluations of any professor in the MIT Physics Department and his courses draw large crowds. He has received every MIT award for graduate teaching and his students have gone on to become leaders in statistical physics and related fields. Kardar received his BA in Natural Sciences, his MA from the University of Cambridge and his PhD from the MIT. From 1983 to 86 he was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and a Visiting Summer Research Collaborator at Brookhaven National Laboratories. In 1986 he joined the MIT Department of Physics as an Assistant Professor. In 1990, he was promoted Mehran Kardar to Associate Professor of Physics, receiving tenure in 1992 and a full professorship in 1996. Honors and awards include an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1987–91), a Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989), Gug- genheim Fellowship (2001), the MIT Class of 1948 Career Development Chair (1990–92), the MIT Edgerton Award for Junior Faculty Achievements (1991), the Buechner Teaching Prize of the MIT Department of Physics (1992), and the MIT School of Force from Science Prize in Graduate Teaching (1993). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, as well as the American Academy Non-equilibrium of Arts and Sciences. In both 1993 and 2008 he was recognized with the MIT-wide award for graduate teaching in which the nomination and selection processes