Spring 2003 Meeting of the Illinois Section of the AAPT
"Applications
of Physics"
April
11-12, 2003
Department
of Physics, Knox
College
Galesburg, Illinois 61401
Except for naming the session chairs, the Program Details are now complete.
Invited Presentation, Friday at 8:00 pm
"Nanobiology
and Nanophysics"
Robert H. Austin
Princeton
University
Biophysics Group of the Advanced Photon Source
Invited talk: "Looking Back on Four Decades of Physics Research", George W. Smith. He was Principal Research Scientist and Director of General Motors Research Labs and is now retired. Friday at 4:30 pm.
Invited talk: "Teaching Physics with Mössbauer Spectroscopy: A Universal Interactive Tool", Jon Spijkerman, Ranger Scientific, Inc., Burleson, Texas. Saturday at 11:00 am.
Panel Discussion, Friday at 3:00 pm. "Physics Outreach and Alliance", Panelists: Ann Brandon, Duane Ingram, James Rabchuk, Kimberly Shaw and Carl Wenning.
Workshop W1. "Teaching
Buoyancy and Optics Using Inquiry", Carl Wenning, Illinois State
University
Workshop W2. "Junk Box Wars", Christopher LaRoche,
Sherrard High School
Workshop W4. "Simple Experiments in Physics",
Thomas Kuhn, Pasco
Scientific
Contributed papers including those of the Student Research Symposium are scheduled on Friday afternoon (1:00-2:45, 3:00-4:15) and Saturday morning (8:30-9:45, 10:00-11:00). The Friday evening banquet will be at 6:30 pm.
The Council has a regular meeting scheduled for Saturday morning at 7:00 am.
| Call for Papers | Online | Mail or Fax |
| Registration | Online | Mail or Fax |
Contributed papers
- current list: submitted abstracts |
details
Registration info - name tags | name/address/e-mail |
fees
| take-fives | workshops |
symposium
Galesburg - lodging
| special rates on lodging |
directions | Galesburg
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Parking is free to all in the lots west and south of the Umbeck Science-Mathematics Center, on both sides of Academy and Berrien Streets, and on the east side of West Street.
The program chair and local contact for sending forms by regular mail or FAX and for checking on classroom and lab facilities is:
If you have any problems with submitting information via the online forms or if there are corrections to be made, contact the person who maintains these pages:
Charles Schulz
Department of Physics
Knox College
Galesburg, IL 61401
Phone: 309-341-7397
FAX: 309-341-7718
cschulz@knox.edu
- David R. Renneke
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Augustana College
- Rock Island, IL 61201-2296
- Phone: 309-794-3403
FAX: 309-794-7722 - phrenneke@augustana.edu