Meeting notes: 25/05

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://www.beyondcurie.com/

https://hbcu-colleges.com/physics

https://nsbp.org/

https://hispanicphysicists.org/

https://www.aises.org/membership/caises

https://astrosociety.org/education-outreach/resource-guides/women-in-astronomy-an-introductory-resource-guide.html