WFU Physics Colloquium

Second Annual Homecoming Colloquium and Career Advising Event

TITLE: Oh the places you'll go: A Wake Forest Physics major, 16 years (!) later.

SPEAKER: Professor Louis Keiner,

Director, Center for Effective Teaching and Learning
and Associate Professor of Physics and Physical Oceanography
Coastal Carolina University

TIME: Thursday Sept. 28, 2006 at 4:00 PM

PLACE: George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101)

Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM in the lounge. All interested persons are cordially invited to attend.

ABSTRACT

There is a wide variety of things that one can do with a degree in Physics. Some you would expect, some you might not. Since leaving Winston-Salem, this alumnus has studied underwater acoustics, physical oceanography and remote sensing. He has worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, using neural networks to study satellite data. He has taught physics and oceanography to sometimes enthusiastic, sometimes indifferent undergraduates. He is temporarily in the business of teaching new university faculty members how to teach. This homecoming seminar has a dual purpose: to recount the career path of a 1990 graduate and to introduce current undergraduates to a field or two that they might not have considered as a possibility after they graduate.

Professor Keiner will also give a colloquium Friday, Sept. 29th at 4 PM in Olin 101 20 Years of Physics Education Research: What have we learned?

100 Olin Physical Laboratory, 7507 Reynolda Station
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7507
Phone: (336) 758-5337, FAX: (336) 758-6142
E-mail: wfuphys@wfu.edu

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