Plenary Speakers All plenary talks will be aimed at a general physics audience.

  • Physics Education:

    • Leon Lederman (Illinois Institute of Technology)
    •                         Education to Know the World in All Its Splendor

    • Philip Sadler (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
    •                         What Predicts Success in Learning Physics?

  • Experiment:

    • Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)
    •                         Icefishing for Neutrinos

    • Young-Kee Kim (Fermilab and University of Chicago)
    •                         Fermilab and the Quantum Universe

    • Paris Sphicas (CERN and University of Athens)
    •                         Probing the physics of the TeV scale:
    •                                the CMS experiment at the LHC

    • Michael Tuts (Columbia University)
    •                         Elementary Particle Physics at the Terascale:
    •                               Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider
  • Theory:

    • Chris Quigg (Fermilab)
    •                         The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics

    • Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)
    •                         Stringy Predictions for Particle Physics

  • Banquet Speaker: Leon Lederman, Nobel Prize in Physics 1988

  • There will be a special parallel session: Einstein's Waves: where is the graviton? focussed on the searches for gravitational waves.
Organizing Committee
  • George Alverson (Northeastern University)
  • Don Donovan (Thayer Academy)
  • David Kraft (University of Bridgeport)
  • Nick Nicastro (Wachusett RHS)
  • Tomasz Taylor (Northeastern University, Chair)
  • Christos Zahopoulos (Northeastern University)
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