Fall 2014
Spring 2015
Summer 2014
Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015
Spring 2014, Spring 2015
Fall 2015
Fall 2015
In particular, I seek to find ways to reduce the gender gap. Only about 6,000 physics bachelor’s degrees are earned in the U.S. each year, and, currently, only about 1/5 of those bachelor’s degrees in physics are earned by women. I use a physics identity lens in my work to understand how students make their initial career decisions at the end of high school and the beginning of college. I use quantitative methods to find what is broadly applicable and qualitative methods to understand the mechanisms of how successful strategies work. My Ph.D. is in the area of experimental atomic, molecular, and optical physics. I studied high harmonic generation in molecules.
Robynne M. Lock, Zahra Hazari, and Geoff Potvin, “Physics Career Intentions: The Effect of Physics Identity, Math Identity, and Gender,” AIP Conference Proceedings 1513, 262 (2013). Finalist for 2012 PERC Proceedings Paper Award.
Zahra Hazari, Geoff Potvin, Robynne M. Lock, Florin Lung, Gerhard Sonnert, and Philip M. Sadler, “Factors that Affect the Physical Science Career Interest of Female Students: Testing Five Common Hypotheses,” Physical Review Special Topics – Physics Education Research 9, 020115 (2013).
Geoff Potvin, Zahra Hazari, Leidy Klotz, Allison Godwin, Robynne M. Lock, Jennifer Dawn Cribbs, and Nicole Barclay, “Disciplinary Differences in Engineering Students’ Aspirations and Self-Perceptions,” 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Conference Proceedings (2013).
Allison Godwin, Geoff Potvin, Zahra Hazari, and Robynne Lock, “Understanding Engineering Identity Through Structural Equation Modeling,” 2013 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, IEEE Press (2013).
Zahra Hazari, Robynne M. Lock, Cheryl A.P. Cass, and Carrie Beattie, Obscuring Power Structures in the Physics Classroom: Implications for Student Engagement and Physics Identity Development, 2013 PERC Proceedings [Portland, OR, July 17-18, 2013], edited by P. V. Engelhardt, A. D. Churukian, and D. L. Jones.
R.M. Lock, S. Ramakrishna, X. Zhou, H.C. Kapteyn, M.M. Murnane, and T. Seideman, “Extracting Continuum Electron Dynamics from High Harmonic Emission from Molecules,” Physical Review Letters 108, 133901 (2012).
Robynne M. Lock, Xibin Zhou, Margaret M. Murnane , and Henry C. Kapteyn, “Elliptical Dichroism of High Harmonics Emitted from Aligned Molecules,” in Ultrafast Phenomena XVII: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference, The Silvertree Hotel and Snowmass Conference Center, Snowmass, Colorado, United States, July 2010. M. Chergui, D. Jonas, E. Riedle, R. Schoenlein, A. Taylor Eds., Oxford University Press, 2011. pp. 53-55.
Robynne M. Lock, Xibin Zhou, Wen Li, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Margaret M. Murnane, “Measuring the Intensity and Phase of High-Order Harmonic Emission from Aligned Molecules,” Chemical Physics 366, 22 (2009).
Xibin Zhou, Robynne Lock, Nick Wagner, Wen Li, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Margaret M. Murnane, “Elliptically Polarized High-Order Harmonic Emission from Molecules in Linearly Polarized Laser Fields,” Physical Review Letters 102, 073902 (2009).
Xibin Zhou, Robynne Lock, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Margaret M. Murnane, “Observation of Elliptically Polarized High Harmonic Emission from Molecules Driven by Linearly Polarized Light,” in Ultrafast Phenomena XVI: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, Stresa Italy, June 2008. P. Corkum, S. Silvestri, K.A. Nelson, E. Riedle, R.W. Schoenlein Eds., Springer Series in Chemical Physics Vol. 92, 2009. pp. 21-23.
I. Thomann, R. Lock, C. La-O-Vorakiat, E. Gagnon, A. Sandhu, H. C. Kapteyn, M. M. Murnane, and W. Li, “Direct Measurement of the Angular-Dependence of Molecular Ionization Cross-Sections by Time-Resolved Extreme-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy,” in Ultrafast Phenomena XVI: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, Stresa Italy, June 2008. P. Corkum, S. Silvestri, K.A. Nelson, E. Riedle, R.W. Schoenlein Eds., Springer Series in Chemical Physics Vol. 92, 2009. pp. 72-74.
W. Li, X. B. Zhou, R. Lock, S. Patchkovskii, O. Smirnova, A. Stolow, M. Murnane, and H. Kapteyn, “Probing Dynamics in Polyatomic Molecules Using High Harmonic Generation: the Role of Ionization Continua,” in Ultrafast Phenomena XVI: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, Stresa Italy, June 2008. P. Corkum, S. Silvestri, K.A. Nelson, E. Riedle, R.W. Schoenlein Eds., Springer Series in Chemical Physics Vol. 92, 2009. pp. 63-65.
Xibin Zhou, Robynne Lock, Nick Wagner, Wen Li, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Margaret M. Murnane, “Molecular Recollision Interferometry in High Harmonic Generation,” in Ultrafast Phenomena XVI: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, Stresa Italy, June 2008. P. Corkum, S. Silvestri, K.A. Nelson, E. Riedle, R.W. Schoenlein Eds., Springer Series in Chemical Physics Vol. 92, 2009. pp. 87-89.
Wen Li, Xibin Zhou, Robynne Lock, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane, Serguei Patchkovskii, and Albert Stolow, “Time-Resolved Dynamics in N2O4 Probed Using High Harmonic Generation,” Science 322, 1207 (2008).
Isabell Thomann, Robynne Lock, Vandana Sharma, Etienne Gagnon, Stephen T. Pratt, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, and Wen Li, “Direct Measurement of the Angular Dependence of the Single-Photon Ionization of Aligned N2 and CO2,” Journal of Physical Chemistry A 112, 9382 (2008).
Xibin Zhou, Robynne Lock, Wen Li, Nick Wagner, Margaret M. Murnane, and Henry C. Kapteyn, “Molecular Recollision Interferometry in High Harmonic Generation,” Physical Review Letters 100, 073902 (2008).
Nicholas Wagner, Xibin Zhou, Robynne Lock, Wen Li, Andrea Wüest, Margaret Murnane, and Henry Kapteyn, “Extracting the Phase of High-Order Harmonic Emission from a Molecule Using Transient Alignment in Mixed Samples,” Physical Review A 76, 061403 (2007).
Robynne M. Lock and Zahra Hazari, “Discussing underrepresentation as a means to facilitating female students’ physics identity development,” Physical Review Physics Education Research 12, 020101 (2016).
The degree is designed to support the teaching of physics in high schools by reinforcing content knowledge and introducing teachers to modern topics in physics and astronomy in a way that can be easily transferred into the high school classroom. These courses are designed to allow teachers to explore topics in physics at an advanced level, with mathematical rigor, thus providing teachers with insight into how modern physical theories actually work. At the same time, the courses aim to give access to the knowledge and tools that will enable teachers to introduce students to the most exciting modern developments in topics such as quantum theory, particle physics and astrophysics.
Learn Morewho wish to reinforce their content knowledge and who want to explore modern topics in physics and bring the excitement of those topics into their classroom.
who wish to earn a Master’s degree to be eligible to teach dual enrollment courses/community college courses.
who with to certify in 7-12 physical science or 7-12 physics/mathematics.
who wish to obtain high school teacher certification in 7-12 physical science or 7-12 physics/mathematics.
