1. Visualization and Simulation Special Interest Group 18 February 2003 All-round Development of Science Students Through Project Courses Outline: * Project objectives * Role of visualization and simulation * Examples: binary pulsar and leaky bucket animations

2. SIG 2 Project Objectives By introducing project courses, students will have more opportunities to strengthen their skills in:  Searching, discovering, integrating and organizing knowledge  Collaborative skills  Communication skills:  Assisting the juniors  Presentations to secondary school students

3. SIG 3 Student Involvement  Physics 191/291/391 “Directed Studies in Physics” are one- credit courses in which students can work on junior projects.  Service awards will be given to students who give talks in secondary schools.  Student speakers are encouraged to give their talks in their home schools.  Students attended a CELT workshop on multimedia productions in the winter break.

4. SIG 4 Progress  Students attended the CELT workshop on multimedia productions in the winter break.  A Website is being set up.  Four projects were nominated to be adapted for secondary school presentations:  Ultraviolet detectors (291 project)  Life Out There? (summer project)  Mobile Networks (191/391 project)  Binary pulsar (191/291/391 project)  Several projects in Mathematics may join in the future.  Invitation letters were sent to ~20 secondary schools.  Ms. Poon, Principal of Sun Kei Secondary School, agreed to coordinate with the secondary schools in Sai Kung district.

5. SIG 5 Animations  Animation 1: The lighthouse model of a pulsar  Animation 2: Leaky bucket as an analogy to call admission control in mobile networks Animation 2