Thursday, March 11, 2010 at IUPUI

FACET is a sponsor of the IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning Winter Lecture Series, featuring Carl Wieman, Ph.D., Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics. This lecture series honors nationally recognized scholars who have made a contribution to their discipline as well as teaching and learning within their discipline. Dr. Wieman will be on the IUPUI campus for several small talks, and one public talk on Thursday, March 11th. FACET would like to invite our members to participate in this event.

Carl Wieman received his B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1977. He taught at the University of Colorado from 1984 to 2006 as a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Presidential Teaching Scholar. In January 2007, he joined the University of British Columbia as the Director of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative although he retains a part-time appointment at the University of Colorado to head the science education initiative he founded there. These collaborative initiatives are aimed at achieving departmental-wide sustainable improvement in undergraduate science education. Wieman has carried out research in a variety of areas of atomic physics and laser spectroscopy and has been recognized with numerous awards and honorary degrees including the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001 for the creation of Bose-Einstein condensation.

During his career, Wieman has worked on a variety of research projects and innovations in teaching physics to a broad range of students, including the Physics Education Technology Project, that creates educational online interactive simulations and studies their effectiveness. He also conducts research on student beliefs about physics and chemistry, learning of quantum physics, and on problem-solving skills. His education work has been recognized with the National Science Foundation’s Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award in 2001, the Carnegie Foundation’s U.S. University Professor of the Year Award in 2004, and the American Association of Physics Teachers’ Oersted Medal in 2007. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and serves on the Academy Board on Science Education. He is also a member of the U.S. National Academy of Education.

Please see the information below for times, descriptions, locations, and registration information. You must register for each part of this event that you plan to attend. Please contact FACET at 317-274-5647 or facet@iupui.edu if you have any questions.