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id="header"> <div class="hLeft"> <h1><a href="/PICUP/" id="LidPH-1-TI"><span>Partnership for Integration of Computation into Undergraduate Physics</span></a></h1> </div> <div class="hRight" style="padding-top:18px"> <div id="headerLinks"> <a class="aaptLink" href="https://www.aapt.org" id="LidPH-1-AAPT"></a> <form name="HeaderSearch" class="HeaderSearch" method="get" action="/PICUP/Search.cfm"> <input type="text" class="textInput" name="Q" value="" style="float:none;margin-bottom:6px" placeholder="Search PICUP..."><br /> </form> <a href="/PICUP/user/login.cfm" id="LidPH-1-Login">Login</a>  |  <a href="/PICUP/user/add.cfm" id="LidPH-1-Register">Register</a><br /> <a href="/PICUP/user/Contact.cfm">Feedback</a> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="/PICUP/" class=" selectedNav" id="LidPH-3-Home" style="width:118px">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/PICUP/exercises/" class="wideNav" id="LidPH-3-Rec" style="width:165px">Exercise Sets</a></li> <li><a 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Any physics educators from around the LA area (or anywhere else if you're willing to travel!) that want to energize their physics courses! The scope of this workshop is appropriate for physics teachers from high schools, 2-year colleges, and 4-year colleges and universities. The workshop will include demonstrations and discussions about various aspects of integrating computational activities into physics courses at all levels from introductory to advanced. </li> <li style="padding-bottom:3px"> <h3><a href="https://www.compadre.org/PICUP/events/SLICE2025/?S=1">SLICE 2025</a></h3> <p> <em>Summer Leadership Institute for Computational Education in Physics</em><br /> <strong>Dates:</strong> June 23-27, 2025 </p> Save the date! A week-long workshop to grow and sustain a network of educational leaders in computational physics education who will support the continual evolution of computational teaching and learning needs in physics. We will engage in developing diverse instructional designs, course materials, evidence-based pedagogies, and assessment strategies that will help coherently achieve a wide variety of computational physics learning goals. 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