We are delighted to welcome all local teachers, and particularly the Detroit Metropolitan Area Physics Teachers (DMAPT) to a special meeting on Saturday, February 3rd. The meeting is also open to pre-service teachers.  The main theme of the meeting is the teaching of Optics in high school.  Teaching kits will be available for teachers to build and take to their schools.  We will also have cake to celebrate  DMAPT 50th Year Anniversary.  Teachers are invited to contribute any relevant "teaching Optics tip" that they wish to share with others.  Several tours of FOCUS research laboratories will be  included.

 Registration is FREE! but required.

FREE CEU Credit to the first 20 teachers to register and attend.

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED AS OF FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2ND, AT 2:00 P.M.

• 9:00 – 9:30 a.m.: Arrival and registration confirmation.

• 9:30 – 9:45 a.m.: Welcome (FOCUS Director, Prof. Chris Monroe)

• 9:45 – 10:30 a.m.: The Physics of Color Vision (Prof. Timothy Chupp)

• 10:30 – 11:15 a.m.: The Light Fantastic (Prof. Roy Clarke)

• 11:15 – 12:00 noon: Kaleidoscope Physics (Prof. Jennifer Ogilvie)

• 12:00 – 12:30 p.m.: Lunch

• 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.: High School Optics Teaching Tips

• 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.: Research Laboratory Tours as outline below.

Tours will include a 10-minute informal introductory overview of the relevant science, tailored for teachers, prior to discussion of any apparatus.

• Light and the trapping of  ions for Quantum Computers

• Optics to study from single molecules to single cells

• Advanced Optics in DNA Molecules and Protein Research

• Material dynamics with time-resolved x-ray diffraction and ultrafast x-ray optics