Communicating Physics — Victoria Martinez

I’m a prairie kid who loves research. I have a Master’s in economics with a focus on public programs, labour and education. Long before that, I did my undergrad in physics & English with a math minor.

Besides my resume, you’ll find this page full of sewing projects, the odd published poem, and stories about Canadian science.

A note about the blog title: in math and physics, the prefix eigen means one's own. It comes from the german, but mostly I always liked thinking about a particle's eigenvalues, and thought I might apply the same thought to my excursions.

Jan 11

Jan 11 Communicating Physics

Victoria Martinez

Science

I gave this talk at the 2013 Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference on science communications geared for young physicists. I talked a lot about the importance of outreach for balancing minority and female presence in the field and some of the problems of perception that go with Physics and science in general. These are the Cliff's notes.

Also, very cool: the judges liked it so much they gave my talk the runner-up award in applied physics, despite the lack of actual physics in this presentation.