PDP Teaching Teams and Venues
ISEE mobilizes many teaching teams each year through the Professional Development Program (PDP
1) the PDP participants – primarily graduate students and postdocs – who have a transformative professional development experience that they will draw on throughout their careers.
2) the students that they teach – primarily undergraduates – who gain an immersive inquiry experience in an inclusive environment.
Beginning with the most recent prior cohort of PDP teams, the team pages summarize how many people are impacted by ISEE each year.
PDP 2024 Teams and Teaching VenuesNote: the PDP 2024 programs are in development. Some teaching venues will be added, some might change. |
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TEAM 01-2024 |
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Teaching venue: Akamai PREP Camera Obscura re-design. TThis team will re-design an activity on camera obscura and pinhole optics as part of the PREP short course for Akamai interns. The activity is an important piece of the PREP course which provides students with knowledge and skills to help them have successful internship experiences.The team may be involved in teaching other short course activities, as well. Week-long short course in June 2024. Teaching Dates: June 3-8, 2024 Location: University of Hawaii, Hilo Design Institute Attending: Hilo Design Team Lead: Jackie Champagne, University of Arizona. PDP alumni 2019 |
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TEAM 02-2024 |
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Teaching venue: Akamai PREP Analog to Digital (A2D) re-design. This team will re-design an activity on image sampling in multiple domains (spatial, time, etc.) as part of the PREP short course for Akamai interns. The activity is an important piece of the PREP course which provides students with knowledge and skills to help them have successful internship experiences. The team may be involved in teaching other short course activities, as well. Week-long short course in June 2024. Teaching Dates: June 3-8, 2024 Location: University of Hawaii, Hilo Design Institute Attending: Hilo Design Team Lead: Lauren Lui, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. PDP alumni 2011, 2012 Disciplinary area: Astronomy, physics, optics |
undergraduate students |
TEAM 03-2024
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Teaching venue: Akamai astronomy and/or physics lab course at UH Hilo. UH Hilo Astronomy/Astrophysics/Physics labs - Content TBD. This team will develop a new activity related to an undergraduate (astro)physics lab course at UH Hilo. To be taught in Fall 2024. Teaching Dates: Fall 2024 TBD Location: University of Hawaii, Hilo Design Institute Attending: Hilo Design Team Lead: Danica Roth, Colorado School of Mines. PDP alumni 2011, 2012, 2014 Disciplinary area: Astronomy, physics
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TEAM 04-2024
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Teaching venue: AstroTech Summer School Optics re-design. This team will re-design an optics activity for AstroTech students, undergraduates and graduate students interested in instrumentation. This activity will help to prepare them for building a spectrograph later in the week. This activity will take place sometime during the AstroTech summer school July 8-13, 2024. The activity will take place on one day during the week-long summer school.Teaching Date: July 8-13, 2024 Location: University of California, Berkeley Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA Design Team Lead: Alicia Lanz, Capella Space. PDP Alumni 2019 Disciplinary area: Astronomy, optics, physics |
upper-level undergraduates and early graduate students |
TEAM 05-2024
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Teaching venue: AstroTech Summer School Gratings re-design. This team will re-design an activity on diffraction gratings for AstroTech students, undergraduates and graduate students interested in instrumentation.This activity will help to prepare students for building a spectrograph later in the week. This activity will take place sometime during the AstroTech summer school July 8-13, 2024. The activity will take place on one day during the week-long summer school. Teaching Date: July 8-13, 2024 Location: University of California, Berkeley Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA Design Team Lead: Raquel Martinez, University of California, Irvine. PDP Alumni 2017, 2018, 2019 Disciplinary area: Astronomy, physics, optics |
upper-level undergraduates and early graduate students |
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TEAM 06-2024
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Teaching venue: Lick Observatory Workshop for Community College students Content TBD. This team will develop a new activity related to astronomical observing or measurements involving data from Lick Observatory for a new workshop to be held at Lick for Bay Area community college students. The team may be involved in teaching other workshop activities, as well. Teaching Date: July 14-18, 2024 Location: Lick Observatory Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA Design Team Lead: Ian Weaver, SETI/Unistellar. PDP alumni 2019 |
community college students |
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TEAM 08-2024
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Teaching venue: Hartnell College Astronomy Lab Course - Asteroid astrometry and orbits. This team will develop a new activity on asteroid astrometry and orbital/distance measurements for a community college intro astronomy laboratory course in Salinas, CA. Data from Lick Observatory and possibly from other small telescopes will be used. Fall 2024. Teaching Date: Fall 2024 Location: Hartnell College, Salinas, CA Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA Design Team Lead: Evan Anders, University of California, Santa Barbara. PDP Alumni 2017, 2019 |
undergraduate students |
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TEAM 09-2024
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Teaching venue: Foothill College Astronomy Lab Course - Astronomical Target Selection. This team will develop a new activity on choosing targets for telescope observations for a community college intro astronomy lab course in Los Altos Hills, CA. This activity will prepare students for a later observing experience in the course. Fall 2024. Teaching Date: Fall 2024 Location: Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA Design Team Lead: Rachel Frisbie, Michigan State University. PDP alumni 2019 |
undergraduate students |
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TEAM 14-2024
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Teaching venue: Foothill College Astronomy Lab Course - Multicolor astronomical imaging. This team will develop a new activity on imaging astronomical objects in multiple filters. This activity will be for a community college intro astronomy lab course in Los Altos Hills, CA and will prepare students for working with observations from Lick Observatory. Fall 2024. Teaching Date: Fall 2024 Location: Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA Design Team Lead: Xinnan Du, Stanford University. PDP alumni 2017 |
undergraduate students |
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TEAM 10-2024
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Teaching venue: Sonoma State Astronomy Lab Course - Content TBD. This team will develop a new activity related to astronomical observing or measurements involving data from Lick Observatory for an astronomy lab course at Sonoma State (in Rohnert Park, CA). The course is a sophomore-level lab for all majors. Fall 2024. Teaching Date: Fall 2024 Location: Sonoma State, Rohnert Park, CA Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA Design Team Lead: Ryan Dorrill, previously University of Hawaii. PDP alumni 2019 |
undergraduate students |
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TEAM 11-2024 |
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Teaching venue: Las Positas College Physics Lab Course - Content TBD. his team will develop a new activity related to optics or another physics topic that is relevant to astronomy. The activity may include a connection to the design and use of telescopes at Lick Observatory. The course is an intro physics lab at a community college in Livermore, CA. Teaching Date: Fall 2024 Location: Las Positas College, Livermore, CA Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA Design Team Lead: Paul McNulty, New York University. PDP alumni 2019 |
undergraduate students |
TEAM 12-2024
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Teaching venue: Adaptive Optics Summer School (AOSS) Vision Science and AO. This team will develop a Vision Science themed Adaptive Optics hands-on experience to help teach AO content to AOSS participants (see above description of AOSS). Early-mid August 2024. Teaching Date: August 2024 TBD Location: UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA Design Institute Attending: Hilo, HI Design Team Lead: Nicole Putnam, State University of New York (SUNY). PDP alumni 2008, 2009, 2010, 2018 Disciplinary area: vision science, optics |
graduate students |
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TEAM 13-2024
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Teaching venue: Adaptive Optics Summer School (AOSS) Wavefront Sensor. This team will develop and teach a hands-on Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensor activity to help AOSS participants to learn AO design principles and content (see above description of AOSS). Early-mid August 2024.Teaching Date: Early-mid August 2024 TBD Location: UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA Design Institute Attending: Hilo, HI Disciplinary area: optics, astronomy, engineering, physics |
graduate students
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2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
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