Speakers

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Guest Speakers Abstracts

• Eric Mazur
  Harvard
  (Banquet Speaker)
  The Make-believe World of Real-world Physics
  
  
  
• Richard Averitt
  Boston University
  Terahertz Spectroscopy
  
  
• Robert Beichner
  North Carolina State University
  The Student-Centered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs (SCALE-UP) Project
  
  
• William Church
  Littleton High School
  Physics With Robotics - A Decade With Our Little Electro-Mechanical Friends
  
  
• Nader Engheta
  University of Pennsylvania
  Taming Light and Electrons with Metamaterials
  
  
• Alain Karma
  Northeastern University
  Pattern Formation in Materials
  
  
• David Lustick
  UMass Lowell
  Exceptional Science Teaching
  
  
• Viktor Podolskiy
  University Massachusetts Lowell
  Bending the laws of diffraction with hyperbolic metamaterials
  
  
• Zhifeng Ren
  Boston College
  Nanostructure Approach for High-preformance Thermoelectrics, Photovoltaics, and Biosensing
  

• Michael Rubner
  MIT
  Nature Inspired Surface Coatings
  
  
• Mark Silverman
  Trinity College
  A Series of Fortunate Events: Serendipitous Encounters with Remarkable Materials
  
  
• Sachiko Tosa
  Wright State University
  Effective Instructional Strategies in Physics Classrooms