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Prof. Lowell I. McCann

at Univ of Wisconsin-River Falls

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Proceedings Article | 7 November 2016 Presentation

Support for hands-on optics immersions (Conference Presentation)

Gabriel Spalding, Lowell McCann

Proceedings Volume 9946, 99460T (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237750

KEYWORDS: Physics, Quantum mechanics, Single photon detectors, Outreach programs, Current controlled current source

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The Advanced Laboratory Physics Association (ALPhA) is an official affiliate organization of the AAPT, supporting upper-level undergraduate instructional lab education in physics. The ALPhA Immersions program is intended to be an efficient use of an instructor’s time: with expert colleague-mentors on hand they spend 2.5 days learning a key new instructional experiment (of their choice) well enough to confidently teach it to the students at their home institutions. At an ALPhA Immersion, participants work in groups of no more than three per experimental setup. Our follow-up surveys support the notion that this individualized, concentrated focus directly results in significant updating and improvement of undergraduate laboratory instruction in physics across the country. Such programs have the effect of encouraging investment, on the part of individual institutions. For example, we have disseminated ideas, training, and equipment for contemporary single-photon-based instructional labs dealing with core, contemporary issues in Quantum Mechanics. By the time this paper is presented, ALPhA will have delivered at least 420 single-photon detectors to a wide variety of educational institutions. We have also partnered with the non-profit Jonathan F. Reichert Foundation to support equipment acquisition by institutions participating in our wide variety of training programs.

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