Interdisciplinarity and Discipline in EducationCoordinators: Phil Nelson, Rob Phillips, Boris ShraimanJune 11, 2006 |
Sunday, June 11, 2006 |
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| 9:30am | COFFEE | Welcome |
| 9:45am | David Gross (KITP Director) |
Opening Remarks |
| 9:55am | Boris Shraiman (KITP) |
Provocation: A tale of two programs |
| 10:00am | Phil Nelson (UPenn) |
Intermediate Biological Physics |
| 10:20am | Koen Visscher (Univ. of Arizona) |
An interdisciplinary lab course at U. Arizona |
| 10:40am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 11:00am | Bruce Alberts (UCSF) |
How can future researchers learn to distinguish a critical biological problem from a mundane one? |
| 11:45am | DISCUSSION | |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 2:00pm | Rob Phillips (Caltech) |
Must have labs |
| 2:20pm | Ila Fiete and Hernan Garcia (KITP/Caltech) |
A view from the trenches |
| 3:00pm | Jané Kondev (Brandeis) |
Freshman Biophysics: Putting some life into Newton and Maxwell |
| 3:20pm | Bill Bialek (Princeton) |
The other half of Western Civilization |
| 3:40pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 4:00pm | Robijn Bruinsma (UCLA) |
Teaching pre-meds |
| 4:30pm | Julie Theriot (Stanford Med School) |
Physics concepts for medical students |
| 4:50pm | DISCUSSION | |
| 5:30pm | RECEPTION | |
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