Agenda

for the Physics Department meeting
 to be held Monday, December 9, 2002 in GO313.

 

I.          Call to order at 2:15 pm

II.        Approve minutes of 12/02/02 meeting.

III.     Announcements

A.       A call for participants is given for the 7th Annual Science, Gender, and Community Curriculum Reform Institute to be held June 14-18, 2003 at UW-Oshkosh.  The deadline is January 10, 2003.

B.        Provost Telfer reminds everyone of the contractual obligations of all faculty and academic staff to conform to the final examination policy as printed in the fall 2002 timetable p. 93.  Any exceptions require written approval from the Dean.

C.       Faculty and academic staff are reminded to turn in their December sick leave reports (white forms substituting for the yellow forms) prior to leaving for the holiday break.  Lynn will make these reports available to everyone.

D.       Vay Rodman seeks a physics representative to attend two days of workshops in laboratory safety in Milwaukee.  The workshops will be held Wednesday-Thursday, February 5-6, 2003, and feature nationally known lab safety advocate and chemistry teacher James Kaufman.  Risk management will pay all costs and provide transportation.

E.        Vay Rodman requests that the physics faculty identify as many unwanted chemicals as possible to begin boxing up and shipping them out over winter break.

F.        Requests for proposals for a number of Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium have been published.  The postmark deadline for all of them is March 1, 2003.  Posters have been placed in GO323 on top of the filing cabinets.

G.       The American Physical Society and will again co-sponsor a research internship program for undergraduate women in physics and related fields in the summer of 2003.  The deadline is January 31, 2003.

H.       Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory seeks undergraduate students interested in summer research in their High-Energy-Density Physics Program 2003.  The deadline is January 31, 2003.

I.          Junior and senior undergraduate students are encouraged to apply for the NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program and the NASA Academy.  Deadlines are January 27 and 31, 2003, respectively.

J.          The Institute for Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington announces its 2003 Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.  The deadline is March 3, 2003.

K.       The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center announces its 2003 Summer Undergraduate Research Program.  The deadline is March 1, 2003.

L.        The Magnetic Torque experiment and the digital oscilloscope were purchased 12/5/02.

M.      A department Holiday Party is planned for Wednesday December 18, 2002 at 7:00pm at the Menningen family home.

IV.     Old Business

A.       Curricular matters

i.           Discuss how to alter the intermediate lab course to include computer data acquisition skills.

ii.         Discuss the proposed modifications to the PHYSCS 170 series of courses.

B.        Update the status of the department searches.

C.       Update the status of physics library purchases. $1946.80 remains in the account as of 12/2/02.

D.       Update the status of National Physics Day celebration plans April 17, 2003.

V.       New Business

A.       Discuss spring 2003 committee assignments and overlaps with Rybski’s and Sahyun’s schedules.

B.        Establish times and dates for the performance reviews of Sahyun, Frandy, and Stepanov.

C.       Review current department HP LaserJet printer inventory.

D.       Begin discussion of the departmental promotion standards for possible revision.  Discussion may also include possible revision of the merit procedures as well.

VI.     Adjourn 3:15pm