Graduate Education in Physics: Which Way Forward?

A special meeting on the future of graduate education in physics was held at the American Center for Physics in Greenbelt, MD, from January 31 - Febraruy 2. I gave a poster session, Information Fluency and Physics Graduate Students.

http://www.aps.org/programs/education/upload/Vieleposter.ppt

There were panel sessions, plenary speakers and breakout sessions on a variety of interesting topics such as TA training, length of time to PhD, and the climate for women and minorities in physics. All of the materials from the conference are available on the APS site:

http://www.aps.org/programs/education/posters.cfm

There will be a follow-up report from this meeting and I will let you know as soon as it becomes available.