Program Description
Participants will get an opportunity to play with everyday materials found in the playground or a kitchen, and think about their observations in the context of the expected behaviors of the states of matter: solid, liquid, gas that they learn about in school.
Learning Goals
Make conceptual models for the observed behavior of physical systems in a few different experimental settings. Keywords: States of Matter (solid, liquid, gas); Surface tension, fluid flow, Granular materials, soft matter, Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluids
Eligibility
Open to school students in grades 9th - 12th in Bengaluru. Please register using the registration link above, for group participation write to 'outreach@icts.res.in'. Participation is by invitation only.
About the Speaker
Shubha Tewari is Senior Lecturer II in Physics and the Director of the STEM Education Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A condensed matter physicist, she uses computer simulation methods to study the collective behaviour of soft matter systems such as granular materials and foams.
Shubha earned an M.Sc. in Physics at IIT Kanpur, and a PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a teacher, Shubha is deeply interested in improving the classroom experience for students using active learning methods. She is an enthusiastic organizer of outreach activities for the scientifically curious of all ages. Shubha is also currently Chair of the National Organizing Committee for the American Physical Society’s Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics.