COMSTECH
Sponsors

International Centre for Theoretical Physics
(Co-organizer)

Fourth Regional Lab Immersion Program 2016

(17th December, 2016 – 22nd December, 2016)

The Regional Laboratory Immersion Program (RLIP) 2016 is an international training workshop program is co-organized by the Department of Physics,and the Centre for Experimental Physics Education (CEPE), Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).

The workshop will span 6 days and will comprise lectures, laboratory work, demonstrations and guest lectures, from seasoned instructors.

Additionally, there will be an interactive laboratory sessions where the participants will be guided through the complete cycle of:

• generating physical data,
• understanding data and inferring physics from data,
• impeccable recording of practical work through laboratory notebooks, and
• presenting results with an acute sense of precision, significance, relevance. There will be particular emphasis on: Acquiring experimental data, presenting data, analyzing and processing
• data, building equipment, analyzing error and uncertainties and report writing. In addition, there will be inspiring lectures on great experiments in sciences.

Who is this Workshop Aimed For?

It is oriented towards post-graduate students, researchers and teachers who are involved in the field of physics education and experimental sciences. The workshop aims to enhance teaching skills, demonstrate vivid classroom experiments, design and building of physics experiments and developing skills in using modern tools for data acquisition and analysis.

Motivation of CEPE’s Lab Immersion Programs

Physics education, in Pakistan and many other developing countries, has not been able to plant interest in the experimental domain. The conventional approaches of teaching physics, with little or no experimental aids and those too being run-of-the-mill, boring and unexciting, have arrested the intellectual growth of our instructional laboratories. The economic apprehensions of developing physics teaching labs and the academic apprehensions of time investment at the cost of research and publishing journal articles for personal benefit and promotion has also contributed to the sorry state of affairs. Through the Regional Lab Immersion Program, we intend to address these problems by offering a concentrated five-day intensive program primarily meant for teachers and trainers introducing (a) skills and (b) tools in the physics laboratory. The net result is that laboratory experience is rewarding and stimulating in its own right, experiments can be designed and are accessible and modern tools (cameras, smart phones etc) can also be employed to enrich the lab experience.

Contributed Talks

Participants are encouraged to submit titles and abstract for contributed talks related to the physics laboratory instruction, including but not limited to:

• design of new laboratory experiments and techniques
• low-cost equipment and techniques for the developing world that can enhance physics laboratory instruction
• design ideas from physics competitions
• relationship between physics experimentation, history, archaeology and culture
• translation of research into education and student training
• proposals and successful examples of physics instruction etc.

These proposals can be submitted through our registration form.