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Links to Courses/Outreach Activities at ICAM Branches
US Department of Energy Reports on Challenges in Energy Excellent Reports on Grand Challenges in Basic Energy sciences and specific challenges (superconductivity, storage, lighting, etc.) These reports are comprehensive and excellent.
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air - Free online book by David Mackay, Cambridge University, which estimates the possible role of sustainable energy in transitioning to a post-fossil fuel economy - Note the wiki page for producing estimates for all countries.
Phyics 472: Scientific Background to Global Environmental Problems Upper level undergraduate course taught by Robert Joynt, University of Wisconsin
Physics/Engineering 160: Energy and the Environment Course by Daniel Cox, UC Davis for upper level physics and engineering majors examining global climate change, the end of fossil fuels, and alternative energy. (Note: the 2009 version of the course will be very different-please come back for an update)
The Physics of Energy Course at MIT about the physics of energy for nonspecialists.
Energy in Modern Society Course on Energy in Modern Society, Harris Kagan, The Ohio State University
Energy and The Environment Course on Energy and the Environment, Tom Murphy, UCSD
PHY150 Gateways to Emergence in Science and Society: Toward a Science of Sustainability Physics 150/Chemistry 298, is a course for upper level undergraduates and graduate students, taught by Alex Navrotsky and Davis Pines of U.C. Davis, with the assistance of eight distinguished invited lecturers. Videotapes of their lectures and supplementary course materials that will include student-designed projects, may be found on the website.
TCS198 The Internet as a Medium for Education about Science and Sustainability TCS 198/Chemistry 298 is a course for upper level undergraduates and graduate students that is intended to complement Physics 150, is taught by Stephen Hartzog of U.C. Davis.
Outreach Activities at ICAM Branches & Elsewhere
Superconductivity Web page by Julien Bobroff and colleagues at U Paris Sud on the many aspects of superconductivity. Includes a link the Supra 100 site celebrating the 100th anniversary since Onnes discovered superconductivity.
``Vulgarization’’ - Videos on superconductivity and magnetism by Julien Bobroff from U. Paris Sud - see Prof. Bobroff’s web page here.
Outreach at IFW Dresden including the famous model levitating train (as seen on YouTube!).
Undergraduate developed science demos for use in schools from Sabanci University, Istanbul
Rocket movies from the Cambridge Senior Physics Challenge
The Ohio State 2007 Festival of Physics There one can find a video of a lecture by Nobel laureate Philip W.Anderson on “Fifty Years of Localization Physics” and videos of introductory lectures on superconductivity, high temperature superconductivity, magnetism, and ultra cold gases by leading members of the OSU faculty.
A brief you tube segment on superconductivity by OSU Professor Nandini Trivedi may a be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2PbeCtgDTI
Other Science Outreach
African Summer Theory Institute
International Year of Astronomy Pages of the International Astronomical Union
A Quarterly Newsletter of the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
29 US and 36 branches abroad (as of March 2011)
The Emergent Universe - A web-based interactive museum about emergent behavior.
ICAM Science Steering Committee meeting
Next meeting scheduled for July 2011
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