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Thorlabs sells chip based temperature controllers! https://www.thorlabs.com/item/MTD415L These chips are nice but they are psuedo surface mount and a little difficult for students to work with. Never fear, Thorlabs sells these mounted on through out daguhter boards. But let’s see if we can make it ourselves. My setup getting started with Claude (note this took…
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The Bean and I were floating down the Farmington River this weekend on rafts enjoying the last bits of summer. They informed me that Stray Kids has a new album! We continued talking about it and they said that the lead song is called “this & that”. I laughed out loud and said I know…
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Today, I am at the American Center of Physics in Washington, DC. I am at the PhysTEC conference. PhysTEC is an organization that supports the development of physics high school teachers. They are part of the American Physical Society (APS) and American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). The meeting is going great! Learning a lot…
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Thorlabs makes the best Teammate! I love Thorlabs! I always have, since day one. It’s a company that speaks to me. I mean Lab Snacks, say no more. It is a cool trend to dump on corporations. And I am sure there are some bad ones out there. But there are also some amazing corporations…
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I have been blown away on how amazing the Summer Programs Closing Ceremony at Brookhaven National Laboratory. It is at least an order of magnitude bigger than I was expected. (I only brought a handful of Cosmic Pathways fliers.) It is amazing to see some many great students working on so many amazing projects. It…
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Are you part of a physics department within 100 miles of either New York City or Chicago? Well I have an opportunity for you! We are running Cosmic Pathways Chicago on Oct 17 at Lewis University * AND * We are running Cosmic Pathways NYC II on Nov 7 at Adelphi University. Why should you…
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I was on the campus of Lewis University yesterday meeting with the Dr. Joe Kozminski and the rest of the amazing physics team. We were prepping for Cosmic Pathways Chicago. Listen the space and team they have at Lewis amazing! It is going to be a great show! Listen if you are a college student…
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Cosmic Pathways Chicago is on October 17th! I am excited. But also this is the time when there is a little bit of panic. Time to bring everything together and dot my tees and cross my Is. Road Trip Time! So, I just hopped in my car and headed to Chicago! For better or worse,…
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I love that Physics Today still comes out in actual print. I always leave it for students and visitors to browse through. It is such a great way to keep up with physics from around the world. Go Physics Today! This month our article is in there. “Undergraduate students grapple with an uncertain future.” [I…
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The following piece was published in the American Physical Society’s Forum on Education’s (APS FEd) Newsletter. I was going through something last semester and maybe I was a little too creative with this one. I work hard to be a flexible instructor. I don’t want any unfortunate life event outside of the student’s control…