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Black silicon, at Gordon Conference on Nonlinear Optics and Lasers, Colby Sawyer College (New London, NH), Monday, July 26, 1999:
talk_1102.pdf
Peer Instruction: Turning a Lecture Into a Seminar, at Physics Colloquium, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Indiana, PA), Wednesday, July 21, 1999:
talk_300.pdf
Education is more than just transfer of information, yet that is mostly what happens in large introductory courses – instructors present material (even though this material might be readily available in printed form) and students take down as many notes as they can. This format tends to reinforce the idea that learning is about acquiring information rather than gaining new ways of thinking. In fields such as physics, in which learning consists primarily of developing new thinking skills, this is disastrous. Students get frustrated because their study strategies are inappropriate, and thus... Read more about Peer Instruction: Turning a Lecture Into a Seminar
Peer Instruction: Turning a Lecture Into a Seminar, at NSF Engineering Education Scholars Workshop, Carnegie-Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA), Tuesday, July 20, 1999:
talk_299.pdf
Education is more than just transfer of information, yet that is what is mostly done in large introductory courses -- instructors present material (even though this material might be readily available in printed form) and students take down as many notes as they can. This lecture format tends to reinforce the idea that learning is about acquiring information rather than gaining a new way of thinking. In fields such as physics, in which learning does consist primarily of developing new thinking skills, this is disastrous. Students get frustrated because they are not succeding, in large part... Read more about Peer Instruction: Turning a Lecture Into a Seminar
The behavior of solids under excitation with intense femtosecond laser pulses, at Advanced Study Institute on Advances in Energy Transfer, Centro Ettore Majorana (Erice, Italy), Saturday, June 26, 1999:
talk_277.pdf
1. Electronic and optical properties of solids : interaction of matter with light, dielectric function, phonons, direct and indirect excitation processes, cohesion in solids, covalent and metallic bonding, band structure, interaction of light with matter:

2. Energy transfer and relaxation in solids: single and multiphoton excitation, avalance photoionization, carrier-carrier scattering, carrier-phonon scattering, radiative and nonradiative carrier recombination, carrier diffusion, time scales:

3. Optical probing techniques: Generation of femtosecond laser pulses, pump-probe...

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