Selected Presentations, 1998 - present
2009
Talk, Particle Physics for Everyone, AAPT Winter meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 15 February 2009
Talk, Working to have an IMPACT, AAPT Winter meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 15 February 2009
Talk, Everything you wanted to know about the LHC but were afraid to ask, Science Café, Marion, Ohio 4 March 2009
Talk, Energy and the Global Economy, Great Decisions, Delaware, Ohio, 6 March 2009
2008
Talk, How can we determine what’s hard for physics by inquiry students?, AAPT Winter meeting, Baltimore, 29 January 2008
Talk,
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: What do they have to tell the world?, Science Cafe, Columbus, 2 April 2008
Invited Talk,
How can the world respond to the twilight of the era of cheap energy?, AAPT Summer meeting, Edmonton, 28 July 2008
Talk,
How can scientists best communicate science to the public?, AAPT Summer meeting, Edmonton (invited panel, later changed to contributed), 28 July 2008
2007
Talk, Student Evaluation Differences between Different Physics by Inquiry Courses, AAPT Winter meeting
Talk,
What the 2007 Reports of the IPCC mean, AAPT Summer meeting, Greensboro, NC, 28 July 2007
2006
Invited Talk, America's sources of energy-what will the future be?, AAPT Summer meeting, Syracuse
Talk,
Nuclear energy is the short-term solution to the energy problem, Context XIX, Columbus, Ohio
2005
Talk, Inquiry, Learning, and Teaching, Jearl Walker Outstanding Teaching Award Ceremony, 29 April 2005
Poster,
What went wrong at Davis-Besse: Ohio’s PWR goes down for a long count, Ohio Section, American Physical Society meeting, Wayne State University, April
2004
Poster at PERC, Contrasts in student understanding of simple E&M questions in two countries
Poster at PERC,
Can inquiry experiences in physics class change students' preconceptions about teaching?
Colloquium,
The 2003 Blackout, Cleveland State University, 1 October 2004
2003
Talk, Changes in Physics by Inquiry teaching at Ohio State University, AAPT Winter meeting
Talk,
May the force be with you: student explanations of forces on charges in magnetic fields, Ohio Section, APS, April 2003
Talk,
Getting students to come to grips with the meaning of division, Ohio Section, APS, April 2003
Talk,
Global Warming, Marcon, 24 May 2003
Talk,
Nuclear proliferation through coal burning, Marcon, 25 May 2003
Talk,
Proliferation of nuclear weapons through use of coal-fired electricity?, AAPT Summer meeting
Poster,
Extending student knowledge of division, AAPT Summer meeting
Poster,
Experience with teacher-provided homework solutions in an algebra-based physics course, AAPT Summer meeting
Poster,
Using a spreadsheet workbook to enhance student learning, AAPT Summer meeting
Poster,
The Contemporary Physics Education Project: Classroom support for teaching about energy issues, AAPT Summer meeting
Poster,
Student understanding of forces on charges in magnetic fields, AAPT Summer meeting
Poster,
Preservice education students’ knowledge of division: In need of buttressing, Physics Education Research Conference 2003
2002
Talk, Student ranking of atomic models, AAPT Winter meeting
Poster,
Student choices of models of the atom, AAPT Winter meeting
Talk,
“Intelligent Design” and Ohio, Southern Ohio Section, AAPT meeting
Seminar,
Climate Change, Human Activity, and World Population, Goddard Institute of Space Science, Columbia University
Poster,
How much oil?, AAPT Summer meeting
Talk,
Utility screening curves; changes and their implications, AAPT Summer meeting
Poster,
Was electric deregulation a bust?, Ohio Section, APS, October 2003
Talk,
Radiation and units, Ohio Section, APS, October 2003
Talk,
Consequences of economic decisions on emissions, Ohio Section, APS, October 2003
Workshop,
The nucleus in the classroom, Ohio Section, APS, October 2003
Talk,
Human Activity and World Population: Any connection to Global Warming?, Central Ohioans for Rational Inquiry, November, 2002
2001
Invited talk, In-service Teacher Training in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, from VIII IACPE, Porto Alegre, Brazil, AAPT Winter meeting
Invited talk,
Models of the structure of matter Why should we care what students think?, MSaTERS Conference, May 2001
2000
Talk, Quantization, David May, AAPT Winter 2000
Talk,
Facets and students, AAPT Winter 2000
Talk,
On the occassion of the retirement of Peter Lindenfeld from Rutgers University, April 2000
Final report on NSF Grant 9950528, working to use information gathered from interviewing prospective teachers about mathematics and nuclear topics to create pedagogical materials on these topics for teachers.
Talk,
Facets, AAPT Winter meeting
Talk,
Framework for understanding student conceptions by Tom Kassebaum, AAPT Summer meeting, 2001
1999
Paper, Science Teacher, TIMSS from January, 1999
Talk,
Breaking the whole into its parts: categorizing items on a survey
of student ideas about quantization, APS Centennial meeting, March, 1999
Talk,
CPEP, APS Centennial meeting, March, 1999
Talk,
Student concepts of quantization, OS/APS meeting by David May, April 1999
Talk,
Using facets in analyzing survey data from a project to
investigate student concepts of quantization and the photon, OS/APS meeting, April, 1999
Talk,
Introductory students’ ideas about quantization and the photon, at AAPT San Antonio meeting, August, 1999
1998
Talk,
Student
Understanding of the Photon Concept: Faculty Expectations, AAPT Winter 1998
Talk,
Activities to Supplement the Nuclear Science Wallchart, APS meeting, April, 1998
Talk,
Student conceptions of quantization and the photon, OS/APS October, 1998
David May talk on
student conceptions, OS/APS October, 1998
Invited talk,
Teaching Contemporary Physics in the Introductory Course, North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, November, 1998
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