Events on Friday, October 3rd, 2025
- Physics Department Colloquium
- Integrating Computation into the Undergraduate Physics Major
- Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Place: Chamberlin 2241
- Speaker: Shaul Hanany, University of Minnesota
- Abstract: Computation — modeling, simulating, predicting, analyzing, and displaying the behavior of physical systems — is central to physics. Yet, computation is not integrated into the US undergraduate physics curriculum. I will describe two institutional and curricular change efforts directed at integrating computation as a standard problem solving method throughout the physics major. One has been ongoing at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities for several years and the other is a nascent collaboration of 9 institutions of diverse types. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet the speaker! 2:00 - 3:00 PM, 5290 Chamberlin Hall Our colloquium speaker, Prof Shaul Hanany (https://cse.umn.edu/dsi/shaul-hanany) would like to hear from students about their career plans after their current degree and about their perceptions of career prospects. He would be happy to describe his department's Career Education Program for its students (both graduates and undergraduates), to talk about his research in observational cosmology/CMB, and to discuss the colloquium topic.
- Host: Peter Timbie