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 | Dr. Michael Marder - Physics |
| Oct. 4 | Building a Physics Department (Luncheon) Kodosky Reading Room, 12pm | Dr. Lorne Davis - Physics (Texas Lutheran University) |
| 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 | |
| Oct. 27 | Designing an online course | Matt Guthrie |
| Nov. 3 | How Childhood Trauma is Expressed Amongst Adolescents: A Bayesian Network Analysis | Valerie Ringland - School of Social Work |
| Nov. 10 | Teaching physics and encouraging young women to pursue STEM fields | Joanna Lucero - Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders |
| Nov. 14 | Longitudinal Predictions Using Alternative Binning to Reduce Regression to the Mean (PhD Defense) RLM 9.222, 12pm | Sarah Stephens |
| Nov. 17 | Broadening Horizons in STEM Education: Expanding and Extending our Conceptualizations of Equity and Social Justice SZB 330, 3:30pm | Dr. Yasmiyn Irizarry - Department of African & African Diaspora Studies |
| Nov. 24 | No Meeting - Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| Dec. 8 | End of Semester Meetup at Crown |
Topics and notes from previous semesters are available here
