What is interdisciplinarity? Views from students and professors in a non-major intro physics course

Ian Descamps, Thomas Moore, Benjamin Pollard

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We present an investigation into the interdisciplinary role of physics in a physics-for-non-physicists course at Pomona College. This work is guided by prior research into introductory physics for life-science (IPLS) courses, but attends to significant differences in the scope and context of this course. We interviewed enrolled students, physics professors, and professors from non-physics disciplines to explore the function of this course and the role of physics in the education of non-physics-science students. Interviews were audio recorded and transcribed, then analyzed to identify emergent themes. These themes outline the authentic physics, including content knowledge and other, broader learning objectives, that play an important and distinct role in the science education of enrolled students. Stakeholders generally align in their emphasis of interdisciplinary relevance with some divergence in the specific articulation of that idea. The differences can be understood through the stakeholders' distinct areas of expertise, with non-physics professors expressing value through relevance to their discipline and physics professors focusing on essential aspects of physics.

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نزدیک به ۲۰ ساله که چیزی به اسم نظریه شبکه‌ یا علم شبکه در ادبیات علمی پیدا شده. شاید نزدیک‌ترین یا نام‌آشناترین نظریه به علم شبکه، نظریه گراف در ریاضیات باشه. چیزی که از زمان اویلر (۱۷۳۶) شکل گرفته و در چند قرن اخیر هم همیشه حوزه‌ی پژوهشی برای ریاضیدون‌ها بوده. اما این فقط ظاهر کاره...

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Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science

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Course Description
This course provides a challenging introduction to some of the central ideas of theoretical computer science. It attempts to present a vision of "computer science beyond computers": that is, CS as a set of mathematical tools for understanding complex systems such as universes and minds. Beginning in antiquity—with Euclid's algorithm and other ancient examples of computational thinking—the course will progress rapidly through propositional logic, Turing machines and computability, finite automata, Gödel's theorems, efficient algorithms and reducibility, NP-completeness, the P versus NP problem, decision trees and other concrete computational models, the power of randomness, cryptography and one-way functions, computational theories of learning, interactive proofs, and quantum computing and the physical limits of computation.

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خانم دکتر فاخته قنبرنژاد از دانشکده فیزیک دانشگاه صنعتی شریف در این باشگاه از «مدل‌سازی، پس‌بینی و پیش‌بینی پدیده‌های همه‌گیری» خواهند گفت.

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