2026 Winter Meeting Workshops
AAPT is offering many workshops in association with the upcoming 2026 AAPT Winter Meeting. These workshops will take place on Saturday morning, January 17. This is a great opportunity to gather with your colleagues and learn some new teaching techniques while engaging in thoughtful discussion. Be sure and register early, as these workshops can fill up quickly.
Cost: All half-day workshops (four hours) will cost $75 for members and $100 for non-members. There is a $90 fee to register for a workshop if you are not registering for the 2025 AAPT Winter Meeting.
Laptops: We encourage everyone to bring their own laptops to the workshops.
Continuing Education Units (CEU): Earn CEU hours for attending one of the AAPT workshops. Earn 0.40 hours for a 1/2 day workshop.
Saturday, January 17
Physics with Phones
Using advanced sensors integrated into smartphones, participants will try dozens of experiments with emphasis on fluids, waves, magnetism, and physics for life sciences. Suitable for both high school and introductory university physics courses. Participants will receive a kit with materials for the experiments. Bring a laptop for spreadsheet data analysis. https://st.llnl.gov/sci-ed/Physics-with-Phones
Price: $75 (Member), $100 (Nonmember)
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Organizer(s): Dan Burns, Jennifer L. Klay
The Search for Dark Matter: A Masterclass in Data Analysis and Statistics
This workshop will sample activities from a masterclass under development using data from the XENON1T dark matter detector, for high school and undergraduate physics students, with an emphasis on coding and statistical analysis. Experience with coding using CoLab is helpful but not required.
Price: $75 (Member), $100 (Nonmember)
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Organizer(s): Peggy Norris
PICUP Workshop: Tools for Integrating Computation into Intro- Spreadsheets, Web Vpython Trinkets, and Google Colab
Focus on the actual implementation of computational physics in the classroom by working on several exercises as a student might do so. These will use spreadsheets and browser-based coding environments, so attendees will not need any software installed, but will need to bring their own laptop computer. Previous programming experience is not required. PICUP will provide a partial reimbursement of $40 of the workshop registration fee to those who attend and complete this workshop. This project is funded in part by the National Science Foundation under DUE IUSE grants 2337049, 2337050, 2337051, 2337052, 2337053, 2337054, 2337055, 2337056.
Price: $75 (Member), $100 (Nonmember)
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Organizer(s): Larry Engelhardt
Workshop on the Modern Eddington Experiment 2026,2027,2028
The Modern Eddington Experiment (MEE) was performed in 2017 and again in 2024 by the leaders of this workshop, and in both years the experiment was successful and students were able to measure the curvature of space by obtaining the Einstein Coefficient. This workshop is intended to give you the training needed to prepare for the 2026 eclipse in Spain and the subsequent eclipses to accomplish this historic effort to verify Einstein's Law with your students. If successful, your students can contribute to the history of physics with MEE 2027 and 2028. Our research has shown that the best eclipses in the next 100 years for obtaining essential data for stars near the surface of the sun in the region from R= 1 to 2 are in 2027 (North Africa - Egypt) and 2028 (Australia) with 2026 serving as mostly a practice run with European partners.
Price: $75 (Member), $100 (Nonmember)
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Organizer(s): Toby Dittrich
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