Events at Physics |
Events on Tuesday, April 1st, 2025
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar
- Promoting Student Learning and Success through Interactive Web-Based Tutorials
- Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Place: B343 Sterling Hall and Zoom:
- Speaker: Kathy Koenig, Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati
- Abstract: Meeting the diverse learning needs of students poses significant challenges, particularly in large enrollment courses or those involving a wide range of abilities. Over the past decade, we have implemented various research-based teaching strategies and developed learning tools to enhance student success across multi-section courses with common exams. This presentation will highlight one such tool: a suite of over 30 web-based interactive video-enhanced tutorials (IVETs), developed under NSF funding, designed to promote expert-like approaches to problem-solving. IVETs incorporate multimedia learning principles, featuring live-instructor video narration, branching multiple-choice questions, and adaptive feedback that simulates office hours with an instructor. Research findings on the effectiveness of the IVETs will be shared, along with what we have learned regarding best practices for developing and implementing online learning tools. IVETs and the software for creating custom interactive video tutorials are freely available at compadre.org/IVET, where they can be embedded into Learning Management Systems (LMS) via SCORM packages for automatic grading. Requiring minimal instructor effort, IVETs support student learning across remote, hybrid, and face-to-face course formats. This work is supported by NSF DUE-1821396 and DUE-2416548.
- Host: Abdollah Mohammadi
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar
- EFT at Neutrino Experiments
- Time: 2:00 pm
- Place: Join Zoom Meeting: Meeting ID: 965 9696 7335
- Speaker: Dr. Zahra Tabrizi , University of Pittsburgh
- Abstract: We will discuss how to systematically study physics beyond the standard model (BSM) in the neutrino experiments within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework. In this way, the analysis of the data can capture large classes of models, where the new degrees of freedom have masses well above the relevant energy of the experiment. Moreover, it allows us to compare several experiments in a unified framework and in a systematic way. Our proposed approach could be applied to several short- and long baseline neutrino experiments. We will show the results of this approach at the FASERv experiment, which will be soon installed 480 m downstream of the ATLAS interaction point, as well as the medium baseline reactor experiments Daya Bay and RENO. For some coupling structures, we find that these neutrino detectors will be able to constrain interactions that are almost three orders of magnitude weaker than the Standard Model weak interactions, implying that they will be indirectly probing new physics at the 10 TeV scale.
Topic: N3AS Online Seminar Series - Spring 2025
Time: Apr 1, 2025, 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
NOTE: All participants and hosts are now required to sign into a Zoom account prior to joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley.
- Host: Baha Balantekin