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What is the PERG Research Meeting?

The Physics Education Research Group holds bi-weekly research meetings where members and affiliates of the PERG@University of Maryland can interact, present research (at any stage of progress), and engage in lively critical discussion.  Presentations range from completed, polished talks to open-ended discussions around a potential research question.  

Time

1:15pm-2:45pm every other monday (alternating with the Science Education Research Seminars). 

Location:

Toll Physics Building, room 4208

Schedule:

September 20: Brian Danielak & the Engineering Ed. Group --

                         The Role of Emotion and Affect in Engineers' Mathematical SenseMaking (abstract) (supporting materials). We will continue

                         looking at the data that we started with last week at the SciEd Seminar - now exploring how Wanda engages in problem solving.

October 5: Ayush Gupta & the Engineering Ed. Group -- The Role of Affect and Identity in Engineers' Mathematical SenseMaking

October 19: Luke Conlin -- Modeling Cognition at Multiple Scales (paper being submitted to ICLS by Conlin, Gupta, & Hammer)

November 2:    Open

November 16:   Stephen Pellathy, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics

November 30: Open

December 14:    Open 

Past Events