Physics Open House will be "Virtual" this year

[Pelz, Jonathan]

Dear all,

Because of events related to COVID-19, it has been decided that our Open House will be an on-line "Virtual" Open house this year, and we will not have students come to Columbus. We are in the process of notifying the students who indicated they would come, and we told them that more details would follow.

We now need to plan how a virtual open house would work. Our initial thoughts would be to have the welcome event at the same date and time as originally planned (Sunday March 22, 2 - 5:30 or so), were we have a zoom meeting in which the Grad Office, the PGSC, and selected other individuals present similar information as we have in the past, and accepted students will have the chance to ask questions. We will try to make a list of FAQs that he have had in past open houses, in case students don't ask. Please let us know if you have suggestions for these FAQs (maybe what you asked when you visited OSU or another university, or wished you had asked?) We would also plan to schedule smaller Skype/Zoom meetings between small groups of accepted students and faculty members as we have had in the past, perhaps during the original time on Monday afternoon, March 23 (2:30 - 5:00).

We need some ideas if/how we would like to try to simulate the Poster Session that would have occurred on Monday morning. Would it make sense to have pre-recorded videos of a student/postdoc/faculty member briefly talking about the research displayed in a poster, and then scheduling times when the presenter would be available to Zoom/Skype with interested students? In the past, we have often had requests from visiting students to have "lab tours". It has been suggested that we could ask experimentalists record ~5-min videos where they talk briefly about the research and maybe do a short video tour of their lab or experimental setups.

If possible, we would like to have as many opportunities as possible for accepted students to interact with current grad students, as there was usually a whole lot of this during past open houses, and has been cited by visiting students as very useful and fun. Especially grad students, please let us know if you have some ideas about how we can try to do this in a virtual way.

Finally, since international students should also be able to participate in a virtual open hour and/or access materials posted on-line, we would appreciate ideas of which might be particularly useful for international students.

If you have ideas, please reply soon to Kris, Crystal, or me, or to the PGSC. Thanks very much.

Jon

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Jon Pelz
Professor and Graduate Studies Chair
Department of Physics
614-688-3299




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