Announcing the
Tenth InterAmerican Conference in Physics Education
at the
Instituto de Física,
Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
during
July 6-10, 2009
First announcement - Xth
IACPE
The InterAmerican Council on Physics Education (IACPE), in coordination and with the support of the Physics Institute of the Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, the Faculty of Education, and the Colombian Physics Society, invite you to the 10th InterAmerican Conference on Physics Education, to be held in Medellín, Colombia, from July 6 to July 10, 2009. The conference will be held at the University of Antioquia, in Medellín, Colombia. All meetings will take place at the Research University Headquarters (SIU).
The InterAmerican conferences on physics education take place every three years at locations in South, Central, and North America, and have been highly valued by physics educators in the Americas as an opportunity to meet others and to share experiences, helping to build an InterAmerican physics education community.
Goals of the conference
To present, discuss, and publish new ideas that improve physics teaching at various educational levels and improve the preparation of physics teachers for general and higher education.
GENERAL SUBJECT OF THE CONFERENCE: Teaching of Modern
Physics at different levels
Subjects and working groups
1. Physics teachers training and teaching of physics at a non-university level
2. Physics teaching for physicists and other professionals.
3. Use of the new Information Technologies (IT) in teaching physics
4. Physics teaching and the relation between physics and society.
5. New ideas for the improvement of physics teaching in general education.
6. History and epistemology in the teaching-learning process in physics
7. Experimentation in the physics teaching-learning process.
8. Teaching modern physics and other contemporary physics topics at different levels.
9. Problem solving in the teaching-learning process
10. Women in physics and physics teaching.
Activities at the
Conference
Conference Lectures
Roundtables
Paper presentations
Workshops
Summary session
Guest lecturers
Laércio Ferracioli. Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo-UFES. (Brazil)
María Rita Otero. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. (Argentina)
Marco Moreira. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). (Brazil)
Olivial Freire Junior. Universidade Federal da Bahía. (Brazil)
Ángel Romero. Universidad de Antioquia. (Colombia)
Guillermo Pineda. Universidad de Antioquia. (Colombia)
María Mercedes Ayala Manrique, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. (Colombia)
Registration for the
Conference
Participants must fill out an online registration form and send it to the Tenth Conference.
This form can be downloaded from the following website http://reune.udea.edu.co
Please follow the follow instructions for a successful registration.
Registration Fee is $150 (U.S. Dollars) until March 1, 2009 (deadline) and $180 (U.S. Dollars) after that. This includes conference materials, certificates, coffee, social activities and planned lunches.
Important dates (all 2009)
Abstract reception deadline: March 14
Notice of abstract acceptance: April 7
Deadline for full articles: April 30
All those interested in attending the conference must register. Authors wishing to submit their work must sent a summary in English, Spanish, or Portuguese before March 14th, 2009, sent by e-mail to 10-iacpe@fisica.udea.edu.co or to rcova@fisica.udea.edu.co
Participants will be notified about the acceptance of their papers in April 7, 2009. All decisions made by the selection committee are definitive.
There will be 15 minutes for each presentation and 5 minutes for questions. The articles will be selected by the organizing committee, who will also inform participants on the status of their work. If modifications are needed, authors will have 15 days to make the necessary changes. The selected articles should be sent by both physical mail (printed) and via internet before April 30, 2009. No articles can be accepted after this date.
Format for summaries,
articles and posters
The following are some specifications authors must follow so articles can be published.
Posters must be printed in one single sheet, sized 0.8 m x 1.00 m.
Text: only articles in Word or PDF format are acceptable; they must use double-space, 12 point font size, and pages should be numbered. The maximum number of pages for papers is ten pages, including a summary containing a maximum of 200 words. After the summary please include 4 to 6 keywords to describe the contents.
Quotations of three lines or shorter can be included in the text, authors must use quotation marks or italics followed by the name of the author, year of publication and page in parenthesis, for example: (Bolinger, 1975, p. 45).
Footnotes consisting of more than three lines should be included as a single spaced, separate paragraph with left and right indentation.
Explanatory notes should be footnotes. If these notes include references to other work, they should follow the models given below. Any author or work mentioned in the text should appear in the bibliography. References cited in the text should only be included in the bibliography (at the end of the paper). All references must be ordered alphabetically by the authors’ surnames.
Bibliographical reference format: Surnames of authors, (lowercase) name. Part of the work (in italics if it is a book: quotation marks if it is an article). City: Publisher. Year. For example: (New York: Wiley, 1975)
Illustrations must be digitized. It is recommended that a file with the illustrations and direction of location within the text be included in order to allow for necessary editing.
Contributors should attach a brief biography (200 words or less), written as a paragraph, which should contain academic information such as the highest academic degree obtained, field of work, the author’s main position, his / her current place of work and a list of the author’s most recent publications. This should be included in the text after the keywords.
Sponsors
Institute of Physics. Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences. University of Antioquia.
Faculty of Education. University of Antioquia. International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. (IUPAP) , Colombian Physical Society.
“To secure IUPAP sponsorship, the organizers have provided assurance that X IACPE will be conducted in accordance with IUPAP principles as stated in the ICSU-Document ‘Universality of Science’ (sixth edition, 1989) regarding the free circulation of scientists for international purposes. In particular, no bona fide scientist will be excluded from participation on the grounds of national origin, nationality, or political considerations unrelated to science.”
Executive Committee
The executive committee of the InterAmerican Council on Physics Education for the organization of this conference is composed of:
Deise Miranda, President of IACPE, UFRJ, Brasil
Rodrigo Covaleda, Chairman of the Xth IACPE Conference, Vice President of IACPE, Physics Institute, Antioquia University, Colombia
Gordon Aubrecht, Executive Secretary of IACPE, Ohio State University, United States
Marco A. Moreira (chairman of the VIIth IACPE), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Maite Andre (President of the InterAmerican Council), Pedagogical Institute of Caracas, Venezuela.
InterAmerican Council on
Physics Education
Maite Andrés (Venezuela)
Gordon Aubrecht (USA) (Executive Secretary of IACPE)
María Mercedes Ayala (Colombia)
Ricardo Buzzo (Chile)
Rodrigo Covaleda (Colombia) (Organizer of the Xth IACPE Conference and Vice President of IACPE)
Leonor Colombo de Cudmani (Argentina)
John Fitzgibbons (USA)
Teodoro Halpern (USA)
Celso Ladera (Venezuela)
Marta Massa (Argentina)
Eduardo Molto (Cuba)
Marco Antonio Moreira (Brazil)
Victoria Moreno (Panama)
Anna María Pessoa (Brazil)
Michael Ponnambalam (Jamaica)
Héctor Riveros (Mexico)
Leda Roldán (Costa Rica)
Julia Salinas (Argentina)
Amadeo Sosa (Uruguay)
Deise Miranda Vianna (Brasil) (President of the IACPE)
Local Organizing Committee
Rodrigo Covaleda. Chairman of the Xth IACPE, vice president of CIACPE, Physics Institute, Antioquia University, Colombia
Ángel Romero. Dept. Science and Arts F. Education. U. de Antioquia
Héctor Contreras V. Physics Institute F.C.E.N., U. de Antioquia
Óscar Meneses. Dept. Science and Arts F. Education. U. de Antioquia
Luis Fernando Castro. President of the Colombian Society of Physics. U. del Valle
Contact information
Universidad de Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia)
University Campus (St. 67 # 53-108)
Block 6, office 105-111
E-mail: 10iacpe@fisica.udea.edu.co
Phones: (57+4) 219 56 55
(57+4) 219 56 60