Physics and Astronomy


SEI Director: Georg Rieger, Mona Berciu (emeritus), Doug Bonn (emeritus)
STLFs: Jim Carolan, James Day, Louis Deslauriers, Peter Newbury, Ido Roll, Cynthia Heiner
Faculty: D. Bonn, J. Folk, B. Gladman, J. Iqbal, D. Jones, A. Kotlicki, K. Madison, J. Matthews, H. Richer, I. Stairs, M. Van Raamsdonk, S. Reinsberg, G. Rieger,  L. Van Waerbeke,  C. Waltham, C. Wieman, J. Zibin, S. Burke, D. Witt, A. Kotlicki
Students: S. Martinuk, D. Mazur,  B. Ramshaw, M. Warren, S. Vafaei, C. Veenstra, R. Wong, N. Holmes, E. Schelew, T. Vernstrom

Overview:

Physics & Astronomy received seed funding in 2007 and began their SEI efforts in the Fall of that year. The department moved to full funding starting in 2008 and now has a complement of six STLFs: Peter Newbury, Louis DesLauriers, and Cynthia Heiner are full-time, Jim Carolan is an emeritus faculty member, and James Day and Ido Roll are part-time.

The Department SEI effort is currently in 3 areas: Redesigning courses - starting with the Physics 100 course, developing a program to better prepare graduate student Teaching Assistants, and development of a course database system to archive course materials so that they can be easily re-used and improved. More information is given in the Activities section.