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CUA
OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
SCIENTIFIC
OUTREACH
CUA
Summer Schools
Schools
held in conjunction with ICAP
The
Center for Ultracold Atoms has established a tradition of summer school for
graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who are moving into the field.
These are held in conjunction with the biannual International Conference on
Atomic Physics (ICAP). The school is held the week before ICAP and
participants are expected to attend ICAP. The curriculum is particularly
slanted toward understanding the new science to be presented at the
Conference. Special efforts are made to keep the total cost low. The following
schools have been held or are currently
scheduled:
ICAP 18, MIT, July 2002
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ICAP
20, co-sponsored with the University of Innsbruck,
Innsbruck July 2006
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ICAP 22,
Storrs Connecticut. A summer school will be held at MIT the week preceding the
conference.
Other
schools
Brazil,
2007
In
collaboration with the
University
of SaoPaulo, Sao Carlos,
Brazil,
CUA is co-sponsoring a summer school in ultracold atoms under the
auspices for the
International
Center for Condensed Matter Physics (ICCMP) in Brasilia, Brazil, August 13 -
25, 2007.
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CUA
Visitors Program
The Center
for Ultracold Atoms sponsors short and long term visitors to collaborate in
the Center's research program at MIT and Harvard. Occasionally visitors are
jointly sponsored with the ITAMP. These visits are arranged on an individual
basis with one or more of the center's principal investigators. Interested
parties should contact a Center PI directly.
Workshops
From time to
time the Center for Ultracold Atoms co-sponsors workshops with the Institute
for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics at the Harvard - Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics.
COMMUNITY
OUTREACH
CUA
Teacher Recruitment Program
Stimulated by the nation's
desperate need for qualified teachers in the physical sciences at the
secondary level, CUA has initiated a program to encourage undergraduate
physics majors into careers in pre-college teaching careers in the physical
sciences. This is the TOPS program.
TOPS (Teaching Activities in
Physical Science). TOPS is a six week summer program for eight students who
work under the supervision of two experienced high school physics teachers.
They gain experience in teaching to middle school students at the Museum of
Science, Boston, and high school students at the TOPS Physics Workshop at MIT.
The participants also have an opportunity to learn about research in the CUA,
and there are occasional talks by the CUA investigators.
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CUA
High School Activities
TOPS
Physics Workshop- a High School Summer
Program
In
connection with TOPS, CUA presents a two-week summer program for high school
students in the greater Boston area. The students learn about physical
concepts that are central to the CUA research, such as energy, heat,
temperature, light and optics. The participants are taught by student teachers
in the TOPS program, under the supervision of experienced high school
teachers, and have an opportunity to learn about CUA research through
laboratory tours and talks by the CUA
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Optical
Tweezers Workshops
Lectures
and Talks
In
addition to participating in conferences devoted to the scientific themes of
CUA research, CUA investigators give talks to the broader scientific community
and the public.
National
Society of Black Physicists, Boston,
February 21-25, 2007
CUA
Plenary Talks
Wolfgang Ketterle
Mara Prentiss
David E. Pritchard
Laboratory
Visits and Reception, Feb. 22,
CUA co-sponsored laboratory visits and a reception for the participants at
Harvard.
On Thursday, March 22, NSTA will present Absolute Zero: The
Cold, Hard Facts About the Coolest Stuff in Physics - an interactive Web
Seminar featuring Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips. From his laboratory at NIST,
Bill Phillips, a leading researcher in the physics of ultra-low temperature
atomic gases, will explain how and why he and his colleagues made the coldest
gases ever seen, provide engaging ideas on how to make the physics of the
ultra-cold appealing to middle and high school students, and suggest
low-temperature demonstrations. The Web Seminar is designed for
educators of grades 5 - 12. For more information or to register in
advance for the seminar, please log on
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