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Workshop : Ryerson Medical Physics
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| Date: | Wednesday April 9th, 2014 | ||||||
| Time: | 4:00 - 6:00+, 4:00 gather/chat, 4:30 start | ||||||
| Place: | Ryerson University : Kerr Hall West, KHW057 (http://www.ryerson.ca/maps/) | ||||||
| Directions: | Take the TTC to Dundas station. Walk north to Gould St., walk east to Victoria St. and then north to Kerr Hall West | ||||||
| Topic: | Tetyanna Antimirova and Roberta Tevlin present: Medical Physics | ||||||
Too many high school students are planning to become doctors. The competition is very, very tough and most will not make it. What other options are there? There is a lot happening these days where physics meets medicine – just think about all those acronyms – CAT, MRI, PET etc.! The TAPT will be meeting Wed. April 9 at Ryerson where they have a Medical Physics Program that is entering its eighth year. The Program Director Dr. Tetyana Antimirova will describe the undergraduate program and the Chair of the Department Dr. Pejovic-Milic will talk about careers in Medical Physics. Roberta will provide a resource to help connect the relativity unit with Positron Emission Tomography. Following this we will stretch our legs and have a tour of some of the lab facilities where research in biomedical physics is being done using ultrasound, infrared, element traces analysis, and nano particles. The Department of Physics Technologist Graham Pearson will show the extracurricular enrichment program (electronics workshop).
Roberta has been teaching physics in Toronto for 25 years. She is rather fanatical about modern physics and Physics Education Research and spends her spare time looking for ways to combine them to make high school physics more exciting and inviting. She has given workshops to this end around special relativity, general relativity, particle physics quantum uncertainty and entanglement. She is a consultant for the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical and the coordinator of PI’s Teacher Network. In her spare spare time she plays New Orleans jazz at Grossman’s Tavern in Toronto.
Dr. Tetyana Antimirova is an Assistant Professor and a current Assistant Chair for Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Physics at Ryerson University. Her current interests include Physics Education Research, Curriculum Development, Science Education and Outreach. Her current work is focused on the impact of technology (clickers, real-time data acquisition and analysis, video-based motion analysis, computer simulations, etc. the implementation of video-based motion analysis in large introductory physics courses. She also studies the impact of high school physics experience on the learning outcomes in the university introductory physics courses. Tetyana is a member of CAP, OAPT and AAPT. Tetyana credits her interest in physics and her career choice to her high school teachers.