Meeting notes:
What is our 'pitch'? Contemporary physicists? Diverse physicists?
- Focus on contemporary, but don't hesitate to include historical figures
- 'Diverse' physicists exist historically, but are just underrepresented, and we want to pull them to the forefront
- Contemporary allows diversity to come naturally to some extent. This also allows physicists featured to write their own slides when nominated.
Format of slides:
- start with Keynote (easier to go from pwp to keynote)
- slides can later be converted to another format if needed
- Audio files would be nice to include (fun, accessible). Idea: physicist can narrate their own slides, maybe get McGill professors+researchers to narrate some slides.
Content of slides:
- Overall profile slide should include a link to a more concrete physics concept, i.e. (G.Gonzalez) 'What is a gravitational wave?'
- Ensure that the slides have a strong 'teachable' link to physics, currently too general
- Focus on getting more people, and less focus on more slides per person
- Include a 'key figure' slide
Soliciting input from community:
- We should have a specific google form for people requested to make a slide about themselves (more targeted, more complimentary)
- Start out with reaching out to a few trusted professors, to get a small list of physicists, and start from there
- Reach out to these physicists (if contemporary) personally
Types of researchers features and sorting them:
- Include a broad range of researchers (contemporary, academic, industry, historic), and focus on diversity more-so at first (we can refine later if needed)
- Think about what our goal for the use of this slide deck is: how will it be sorted? How much personal information will we include about the featured scientists (eg. mental health)? This will mostly determine how we choose to sort the slides.
- More research to include indigenous scientists
Things to ask/discuss with Ash from Project Biodiversify:
- How did they start?
- Who was their target audience when starting?
- Who is their main audience now?
From Zoom chat:
14:06:23 From Allison Gonsalves, Dr. to Everyone : Maybe make available through Teaching and Learning Services too? 14:55:03 From Daryl Haggard to Everyone : Resources for Katie
https://hbcu-colleges.com/physics
https://hispanicphysicists.org/
https://www.aises.org/membership/caises