8 Years of ALPhA's Impacts / 45 Years of Developing Experimentalists with Few Resources: A Talk in Two Parts

In 2007, faculty with a shared interest in the health of advanced physics laboratory courses (those offered ‘beyond the first year of college’) created ALPhA, the Advanced Laboratory Physics Association. Over the past 8 years, ALPhA activities have involved faculty from a sizeable fraction of the physics departments in the United States. In the first part of this talk, I will overview ALPhA’s efforts and its impact. In the second part of the talk I will discuss the advanced laboratory curricula at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls, which was developed over several decades using minimal resources for maximum impact.