The Sirion Conference on the Photoelectric Effect

[steuard]

Every time I start teaching quantum mechanics in intro physics, I wind up feeling a little disappointed. To most students it's just another set of equations to memorize; they don't understand how much of a radical departure it is from everything we knew before. I suppose that's inevitable to some degree, since modern kids are raised on a diet of

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[beth_leonard]

That looks totally awesome!! Your students are so lucky! I imagine "Tinco" is for the element Tin, is Turgon for the element Argon? I have no idea where Parma comes from and can't remember the names of any of our old professors.

I hope you put "Copyright Alma College" on your papers as marketing material, because those are totally going to be posted to the internet by your students, and you might as well get the credit for them.

--Beth

[kirinn]

Professors Calma and Quessa must be in the other group. ;)

(No, I didn't know that off the top of my head. Had an inkling, though.)

((That pun was honestly unintentional but awesome.))

[steuard]

1. Professors Calma and Quesse are indeed in the other group. (The next four professors are a little less accurate: there were some variant choices depending on the reference source, so I picked the ones that sounded most natural as names. I tweaked a few of them to be more distinct or less weird, too.) For the record, the other main group is headed by Professor Felagund; that's a not-unreasonable pairing. [I didn't make any attempt to name the grad students: the same source couldn't give me *that* many names, I didn't have time, and I couldn't figure out any way to give just a last name without using a gender-specific title. Thank goodness for "Dr." and "Prof."!]

2. That was indeed a fantastic pun, doubly so for being unintentional. :)

[ext_725845]

I bet the good professor is a true book-lover ... ;-)