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Houston, Texas |
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Texas Section of the American Physical Society |
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Texas Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers |
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Society of Physics Students, Zone 13 |
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National Society of Hispanic Physicists |
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Friday, October 27 (the scientific program begins Saturday, October 28) |
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Mariott Medical Center Hotel |
9:00-17:00 |
APS Committee on Minorities (COM) |
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1049 Duncan |
12:00-17:00 |
NSHP Board meeting |
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210 Herzstein (Physics) |
15:00-19:00 |
Quantum Optics Group (Robert Beck Clark) |
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122 Herzstein (Physics) |
18:00-21:00 |
On-site Registration |
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Lounge, Herzstein (Physics) |
18:00-21:00 |
SPS reception for all meeting participants |
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1044 Duncan |
19:00-22:00 |
TSAPS Board |
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1049 Duncan |
19:00-22:00 |
TSAAPT Board |
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Saturday, |
(Central Daylight Savings Time) |
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Deerfields Restaurant, Marriott Medical Center Hotel |
7:30 |
Chairs' Breakfast |
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117-120 Herzstein (Physics) |
all day |
Exhibitors |
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Lounge, Herzstein (Physics) |
all day |
Graduate programs displays |
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122 Herzstein (Physics) |
7:30-18:00 |
On-site Registration |
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8:15 |
Contributed Papers and Workshops |
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210 Herzstein (Physics ) |
8:15 |
Session A1. Atomic/Molecular/Optical Physics. |
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Ampitheatre, Herzstein (Physics) |
8:15 |
Session A2. Theory. |
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212 Herzstein (Physics ) |
8:15 |
Session A3. Condensed Matter I. |
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301 Sewall |
8:15 |
Session A4. AAPT I. |
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309 Sewall |
8:15 |
WorkshopW1. Teaching about GPS (I) |
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220 Herzstein (Physics ) |
8:15 |
Workshop W2. Using the LabPro |
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Amphitheatre, Herzstein (Physics) |
10:30 |
Plenary Session (Invited Papers) Lawrence C. Shepley, Chair |
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10:30 |
welcome: |
Jordan Konisky, Vice Provost of Research and Graduate Studies, Rice University |
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10:35 |
speaker |
Michael Lubell, CUNY, "All Politics is Local, Even for Science" |
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11:20 |
speaker: |
Reginald J. Dufour, Rice U., "Children of the Stars" |
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Herzstein (Physics) Arcade |
12:00 |
Luncheon |
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Amphitheatre, Herzstein (Physics) |
12:30 |
Business meetings of TSAPS, TSAAPT |
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Amphitheatre, Herzstein (Physics) |
13:30 |
Plenary Session (Invited Papers) Walter L. Borst, Chair |
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13:30 |
speaker: |
James Kafka, Spectra-Physics Lasers, "Ultrafast Lasers and Ultrafast Science" |
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14:15 |
speaker: |
Jorge Lopez, UT-El Paso, "Evaporation of Nuclear Liquid" |
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15:15 |
Contributed Papers and Workshops |
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210 Herzstein (Physics) |
15:15 |
Session B1. Nanoscience.. |
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301 Sewall |
15:15 |
Session B2. Chemical Physics. |
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212 Herzstein (Physics) |
15:15 |
Session B3. Condensed Matter II. |
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309 Sewall |
15:15 |
Session B4. Earth and Sun. |
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Ground Floor, Herzstein (Physics ). |
15:15 |
Session B5. Posters (Posters may be displayed before this time and may remain through Sunday morning, but authors should make themselves available during this session.) |
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Ampitheatre, Herzstein (Physics) |
15:15 |
Session B6 AAPT II & SPS |
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Room 105, Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories |
15:15 |
Workshop W3 Ripple tanks |
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207 Herzstein (Physics) |
15:15 |
Workshop W4 Light in a shoebox |
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220 Herzstein (Physics) |
15:15 |
Workshop W5 Magnetism using LabPro |
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17:00-18:30 |
Research laboratories open house |
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Sewall Hall Foyer |
18:30 |
Complimentary wine reception (sponsored by NSHP) |
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Cohen House(Faculty Club) |
19:30 |
Banquet |
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speaker: |
Dava Sobel, "From 'Longitude' to 'Galileo's Daughter'" |
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Sunday, |
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Herzstein (Physics) 117-120 |
morning |
Exhibitors (some?) |
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Lounge, Herzstein (Physics) |
morning |
Graduate programs displays |
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Amphitheatre, Herzstein (Physics) |
8:45 |
Plenary Session (Invited Papers) Wayne M. Saslow, Chair |
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8:45 |
speaker: |
Roderick Jensen, Weslyan U. , "Nonlinearity and Neuroscience" |
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9:30 |
speaker: |
Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M U. "Coherence Effects in Quantum Optics" |
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10:30 |
Contributed papers and Workshops |
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309 Sewall |
10:30 |
Session C1. Space Physics and Astronomy. |
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212 Herzstein (Physics ) |
10:30 |
Session C2. Polymer Physics. |
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210 Herzstein (Physics ) |
10:30 |
Session C3. Thin Films. |
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301 Sewall |
10:30 |
Session C4. Nuclear and Particle Physics. |
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Amphitheatre, Herzstein (Physics ) |
10:30 |
Session C5. AAPT III. |
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207 Herzstein (Physics ) |
10:30 |
Workshop W6 Teaching about GPS (II) |
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220 Herzstein (Physics ) |
10:30 |
Workshop W7 Light using LabPro |
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