Title: Public Engagement as a Physics Practice: Identity, Community, and Building the Infrastructure for Impact Abstract: Public engagement or, as it is more commonly known, “outreach” often lives at the periphery of physics departments, something some do in their “free” time. Yet many physicists and students facilitate informal programs. But what do we know about how these…

Title: Empathy in Physics Classrooms and other Academic Spaces Abstract: This talk explores the role of empathy — the ability to understand and share feelings, thoughts, and experiences of another — in physics classrooms and other academic spaces. Specifically, we ask: 1) how do faculty conceptualize empathy and its place in the classroom; 2) how…

Title: The Gendered History of Quantum Physics Abstract: The book Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik presents original analyses of the lives and work of sixteen women who, throughout the twentieth century, from various locations and in diverse ways, participated in the development of quantum physics. By focusing on lesser-known figures and…

Title: Gaia in Technicolor: Mapping Stellar Variability Through H-R Diagram Motions Abstract: Most people think of the famous H-R diagram in stellar astrophysics as being essentially static over human lifetimes, changing only on timescales of millions or billions of years. However, some pulsating stars and eclipsing binaries exhibit photometric and color variations strong enough that their…