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Where did all the calculus go?

Physics World

Since then, I have had many similar conversations with other university physics lecturers who mourn the lack of mathematical fluency in their first-year undergraduate students. This gave students more opportunity to apply their learning as well as additional contact time with teachers to perfect these skills. A good compromise.

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Fighting algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence

Physics World

In 2011, during her undergraduate degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ghanaian-US computer scientist Joy Buolamwini discovered that getting a robot to play a simple game of peek-a-boo with her was impossible – the machine was incapable of seeing her dark-skinned face. of all undergraduate students in 2018, but only 1.7%

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Studying physics to improve healthcare systems

Physics World

I majored in physics during my undergraduate degree with a minor in chemistry and mathematics. And during that time, I worked as a physics lecturer at the National Institute of Science and Technology , acquiring experience in teaching and advising undergraduate students. How did you decide which specific course to enrol on?

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