Often the skills required to use the Unix/Linux command line are perceived as old-fashioned, difficult to learn, and unnecessary. However, the Linux command line is an extraordinarily flexible environment for programming, data reduction and analysis, simulation, and visualization, and is thus in wide use throughout the physics research community and beyond. These skills are surprisingly accessible to students. In this talk, I will argue that the command-line environment is a pedagogically beneficial environment for students to learn computational physics, with advantages both within the classroom and beyond it, and demonstrate some of the tools and methods the computational physics students at Syracuse use for simulation, visualization, animation, and data analysis.

McKensie Mack, McKensie Mack Group (MMG)

PERC - Bridging Session

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**Speaker:**  
McKensie Mack, McKensie Mack Group (MMG)

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**Abstract:** 

Without trust people cannot be expected to work effectively with one another. Without accountability, trust cannot be built and maintained. We all are impacted by systems of oppression. We are all socialized to hoard power, to define accountability as punishment, to pursue perfectionism even when we know that perfect just isn’t possible. These socializations lead to transactional organizational cultures that keep us from building equitable, inclusive communities for all. Building Cultures of Mutual Accountability is a 60-minute Town Hall focused on identifying pathways to developing cultures that encourage us to look out for each other, to look out for ourselves, and to grow individually and collectively from wherever we are.


**Bio:** 

McKensie Mack is a trilingual anti-oppression consultant, facilitator, educator, researcher, and the Founder of McKensie Mack Group (MMG) and the Creator #BoundaryWork. McKensie holds more than 10 years of experience helping organizations, community groups, governing agencies, and healthcare organizations expand dialogues of power, identity, and equity across race, gender, class, disability, and LGBTQ+ identity with clients based in the U.S, the UK, India, France, Germany, Spain, Peru, and more.

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The 2020 AAPT Virtual Summer Meeting brought together physics educators from around the globe to learn about the latest in physics theory, research methodology and education from leaders in their field. 

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Join us in exploring emergent themes in PER as a scholarly endeavor and as a research community!  Since its inception, PER has served as a confluence of discipline, theory, research methodology, practice, and application.  How have these facets and the interplays among them been fruitful for physics education globally, regionally, locally, or otherwise?  And, how have our successes and interactions influenced the very nature of PER itself?
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PERC SM 20

Since its inception, PER has served as a confluence of discipline, theory, research methodology, practice, and application.  How have these facets and the interplays among them been fruitful for physics education globally, regionally, locally, or otherwise?  And, how have our successes and interactions influenced the very nature of PER itself?

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