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A good score on the Physics GRE is an important ingredient in applying to graduate school. To help prepare for the test, the CPAPC organizes Physics GRE Boot Camps alternately for students from northern and southern California. [Click to see sites from earlier bootcamps: Feb 2011 (CSU Long Beach); Sep 2011 (UC Davis); May 2012 (CSU Long Beach); Sep 2012 (UC Davis); Aug 2013 (CSU Long Beach).]
Southern California
PHYSICS GRE BOOTCAMP
August
22-23, 2014
California State University
Long Beach
Event
The CPAPC GRE Boot camp is intended for students from Southern
California.
The boot camp primarily targets students underrepresented in Physics
from CSU campuses, but is open to all students at local CSU and UC
campuses.
Lodging for Friday
night, August 22, 2014 is provided for students identified as belonging
to underrepresented groups in Physics and come from farther away.
Contact Prashanth Jaikumar (contact info. below)
for information on
lodging once you have registered. We
can only guarantee lodging if you register by August 10, 2014. Other
students may qualify depending on available funding. (Underrepresented
groups in Physics as identified by the American
Physical Society are women and members of Hispanic-, African-, or
Native American ethnic groups/races).
Registration
Location
California State
University Long Beach (see maps
information)
Peterson Hall 2 (rooms 218, 219, 220 and 223)
Meals will be taken on site near the Hall of Science.
Contact
Dr. Prashanth Jaikumar,
Dept of Physics and Astronomy
Email: prashanth.jaikumar@csulb.edu, Tel:562-985-5592
Boot Camp Agenda
Sessions are held in Peterson Hall 1 & 2
Friday
Saturday
Time
Activity
Room
13:00
Registration,
Donuts & coffee
PH1-140
14:00
Take full GRE
exam under realistic exam
conditions
"
17:00
Break
(drinks & donuts)
"
17:30
Self-score the
exam, Introduce TAs & form
groups
"
18:00
Dinner &
Grad Student Talk
"
19:00
Group work I
PH1-223, 219
20:15
End first day
Time
Activity
Room
8:00
Donuts and
coffee
PH1-223, 219
8:30
Group work II
"
9:35
Break
"
9:45
Group work III
"
10:45
Break
PH1-140/141
11:00
Applying to
physics graduate programs
"
12:45
Lunch with UC
faculty members
"
14:00
Group
work IV
PH1-223, 219
15:15
Break
"
15:30
TA feedback
and strategies to succeed at the
physics GRE.
PH1-140/141
17:00
Wrap up,
Adjourn, Faculty available for
individual advice.
"
The Boot camp is organized by the California Professoriate for Access to Physics Careers (www.physics.ucdavis.edu/cpapc) and generously funded by contributions from UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, APS Bridges Program, the College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics and the Physics department at CSU Long Beach (http://www.csulb.edu/depts/physics/).