Larry Cain, FEd Chair-Elect and Program Chair, Davidson College

Each year the Chair-elect of the Forum on Education is also the chair of the FEd Program Committee. The Forum Program Committee sponsors invited sessions at the American Physical Society’s March and April meetings. The Forum is allocated 4 invited sessions at the March meeting and 5 invited sessions at the April meeting based on our membership. One of the March meeting sessions is the Jonathan Reichert and Barbara Wolff-Reichert Award for Excellence in Advanced Laboratory Instruction session. The other three sessions at the March meeting are on education topics chosen by the Program Committee. One of the April meeting sessions is the Excellence in Physics Education Award session. The Program Committee works with the AAPT to sponsor two April meeting sessions and with GPER to sponsor one April meeting session. The fifth April session is an education topic chosen by the Program Committee.

We are always looking for ideas for session topics that would be interesting and beneficial to the members of the American Physical Society as we seek to promote education within the organization. If you have ideas that you think would make good invited session topics at these two meetings, please send them to Larry Cain (lacain@davidson.edu). Any ideas submitted will be considered by the Program Committee this year, and will also be passed on to future program committees for their use.

FEd also sponsors contributed sessions at both these meetings based on the number of papers that are contributed in the Physics Education sorting categories. I invite you to consider contributing an education paper to one of these two meetings.

Disclaimer – The articles and opinion pieces found in this issue of the APS Forum on Education Newsletter are not peer refereed and represent solely the views of the authors and not necessarily the views of the APS.