Experimental Physics | Advanced Laboratory Physics Association

The Advanced Laboratory Physics Association (ALPhA), founded in 2007, is an association of college and university faculty and staff dedicated to enhancing advanced experimental physics instruction. ALPhA partners with equipment manufacturers, other professional organizations, and foundations to improve undergraduate physics laboratories beyond the first year of college.

ALPhA’s Current Projects Include:

The ALPhA Laboratory Immersions Program -- Learn a new advanced laboratory experiment well enough to teach it - with confidence!
2018 Conference on Laboratory Instruction Beyond the First Year (BFY 3), at Loyola University Maryland, July 25-27, 2018
ALPhA’s relatively inexpensive Single Photon Detector Initiative – enabling fundamental quantum mechanics experiments in the undergraduate laboratory

ALPhA In The News:

"Labs are necessary and we need to invest in them," May 2018 APS back page article mentions ALPhA's efforts to improve the advanced lab.
“Undergraduate labs lag in science and technology,” April 2017 Physics Today article about efforts to bolster advanced laboratory instruction
First recipients of the AAPT-ALPhA award announced, recognizing undergraduate students who have developed an experiment that’s new to their school’s advanced laboratory program

Upcoming Events and Opportunities:

ALPhA's 2018 Laboratory Immersions

28 May 2018 •
July 25-27, 2018, Vendor Registration for Conference on Laboratory Instruction Beyond the First Year (BFY3)

25 Jul 2018 • Loyola University-Maryland, Baltimore, MD
July 25-27, 2018, Conference on Laboratory Instruction Beyond the First Year (BFY3)

25 Jul 2018 8:00 AM • Loyola University-Maryland, Baltimore, MD

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ALPhA’s Current Projects Include:

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