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. This 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 Team Participants: Natasha Abrams, UC Berkeley Angela Twum, UC Santa Cruz Disciplinary area: Astronomy, physics, optics |
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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 Team Participants: Finn Giddings, University of Hawaii (IfA Mānoa) Jayke Nguyen, UC San Diego 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 Team Participant: Marziye Jafariyazani, Caltech Pasadena 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 Team Participants: Nathan Sandford, University of Toronto Samantha Walker, Cornell University 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 Team Participants: Abhimat Gautam, UC Los Angeles Rose Gibson, UC Los Angeles 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 Team Participants: Archana Aravindan, UC Riverside Jarred Gillette, Eureka Scientific (UC Riverside) Disciplinary area: astronomy, physics |
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 Team Participants: Luke Finnerty, UC Los Angeles Sal Fu, UC Berkeley Disciplinary area: astronomy, physics |
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 Team Participants: Shoko Sakai, UC Los Angeles Tomomi Sunayama, University of Arizona Disciplinary area: astronomy, physics, geometry |
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 Team Participants: Zoë Haggard, UC Los Angeles Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, UC Santa Barbara Disciplinary area: astronomy, physics, geometry |
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 Team Participants: Wenjun Chang, UC Riverside Eliina Karyndinha, UC Santa Cruz Disciplinary area: astronomy, physics, optics |
undergraduate students |
TEAM 13-2024
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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. 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 Team Participants: Chloe Degre Kendrick, University of Houston Anish Kharal, University of Houston Disciplinary area: vision science, optics |
graduate 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 Team Participants: Alexander de la Vega, UC Riverside Shea Hess Webber, Stanford University Disciplinary area: astronomy, physics |
undergraduate students |
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TEAM 15-2024 |
Teaching venue: UH Hilo STEM Bridge Program - Content TBD. This team will develop a new activity for incoming UH Hilo students who intend to major in STEM fields. To be taught in late summer/early fall 2024. Teaching Dates: Late summer / early fall 2024 TBD Location: University of Hawaii, Hilo Design Institute Attending: Hilo Design Team Lead: Jocelyn Macho, The J. Craig Venter Institute. PDP alumni 2018, 2019 Team Participants: Erin Garza, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego CA Haley Halasz, UC Santa Cruz Disciplinary area: Chemistry, biology |
undergraduate students |
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TEAM 16-2024 |
Teaching venue: ACE Jumpstart Program - Content TBD Teaching Dates: September 2024 TBD Location: UC Santa Cruz Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz Design Team Lead: Nicholas Santiago, California Council on Science and Technology, Sacramento CA. PDP alumni 2018, 2019 Team Participants: Mark Ryan, UC Santa Cruz Rie Uzawa, UC Santa Cruz Disciplinary area: |
undergraduate students |
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TEAM 17-2024 |
Teaching venue: ACE Jumpstart Program - Content TBD Teaching Dates: September 2024 TBD Location: UC Santa Cruz Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz Design Team Lead: Mercedes Pozo Buil, UC Santa Cruz. PDP alumni 2018, 2019 Team Participants: Arina Favilla (Returner), UC Santa Cruz Miguel Orozco, UC Santa Cruz Disciplinary area: |
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2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
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