Highlights from the Special Collections of AJP and TPT on Teaching About Quantum

Presentations

• Tools for Visualizing Quantum States

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2025, 6:45 PM – March 18, 2025, 7:21 PM

  Publication: Geometric visualizations of single and entangled qubits, Am. J. Phys. 92, 528–537 (2024)

  Presenters

  • Paul Cadden-Zimansky

    Bard College

  Authors

  • Paul Cadden-Zimansky

    Bard College

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• Hands-on quantum: teaching core quantum concepts to first-year undergraduates and high-school students

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2025, 7:21 PM – March 18, 2025, 7:57 PM

  Presenters

  • Jeremy Levy

    University of Pittsburgh

  Authors

  • Jeremy Levy

    University of Pittsburgh

  • Chandralekha Singh

    University of Pittsburgh

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• Quantum education for H.E.R.: Research-based pedagogies, speculative design, and new approaches to workforce development

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2025, 7:57 PM – March 18, 2025, 8:33 PM

  Publication: J. Meyer, G. Passante, S. Pollock, B. Wilcox (2023). How media hype affects our physics teaching: A case study on quantum computing. Phys Teach 61, 339–342.
  J. Meyer, G. Passante, B. Wilcox (2024). Disparities in access to US quantum information education. Phys Rev PER 20, 010131.
  J. Meyer, G. Passante, S. Pollock, B. Wilcox (2022). Today's interdisciplinary quantum information classroom: Themes from a survey of quantum information science instructors. Phys Rev PER 18, 010150.
  J. Arrow, S. Marsh, J. Meyer. A holistic approach to quantum ethics education (2023). Proc. 2023 IEEE QCE 3, 119-128.
  
  Planned papers:
  J. Meyer, G. Passante, S. Pollock, B. Wilcox. Validation of a cross-disciplinary conceptual survey of quantum computing fundamentals.
  J. Meyer, B. Semaan, B. Wilcox. Data justice and speculative design in PER assessment development: "Auditing" the Quantum Computing Conceptual Survey
  J. Meyer, J. Arrow, B. Wilcox, E. Sohr. Integrating quantum ethics throughout the quantum information curriculum: A comparison study of three pilot projects

  Presenters

  • Josephine Meyer

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Josephine Meyer

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Gina Passante

    California State University, Fullerton

  • Steven J Pollock

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Joan É Arrow

    Quantum Ethics Project

  • Erin Sohr

    University of Maryland - College Park

  • Kristin A Oliver

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Bethany Rae Wilcox

    University of Colorado, Boulder

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