2009 New England APS/AAPT Meeting

Place: Northeastern University, West Village F

Program

Friday, May 8
11:30 AM--6:00 PM		Registration
Noon--6:00 PM		Exhibitors
1:00 PM	20F	Welcome
		Chair: Pran Nath, Northeastern University
1:10 PM	20F	Plenary Talk: Young-Kee Kim, Fermilab and University of Chicago Fermilab and the Quantum Universe
2:00 PM	20F	Plenary Talk: Paris Sphicas, CERN and University of Athens Probing the physics of the TeV scale: the CMS experiment at the LHC
2:50 PM	20F	Plenary Talk: Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University Stringy Predictions for Particle Physics
3:40 PM		Refreshment Break
		Chair: Tomasz Taylor, Northeastern University
4:10 PM	20F	Plenary Talk: Leon Lederman, Illinois Institute of Technology Education to Know the World in All Its Splendor
5:00 PM	20F	Plenary Talk: Philip Sadler, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA What Predicts Success in Learning Physics?
6:00 PM		Poster Sessions:  APSP AAPTP Place: Curry Student Center, Ballroom
7:00 PM		Banquet (Cash Bar 6:00--8:00 PM) Place: Curry Student Center, Ballroom
		Banquet talk: Leon Lederman (Nobel Prize in Physics 1988)

Saturday, May 9
7:00 AM--8:00 AM	262F	AAPT Executive Committee Breakfast Meeting
8:00 AM--10:00 AM		Registration
8:00 AM--9:30 AM		Parallel APS and AAPT talks: 20F-   APS1: Einstein's Waves and Cosmology 272F- APS2: Condensed Matter 262F- APS3: General Physics 170F- AAPT1 moderator: Martina Arndt, Bridgewater State College 178F- AAPT2 moderator: Nick Nicastro, Wachusett Regional High School 260F- AAPT3 moderator: Don Donovan, Thayer Academy 270F- AAPT4 moderator: Zenobia Lojewska, Springfield College
9:30 AM		Refreshment Break
		Chair: Haim Goldberg, Northeastern University
9:50 AM	20F	Plenary Talk: Michael Tuts, Columbia University Elementary Particle Physics at the Terascale: Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider
10:40 AM	20F	Plenary Talk: Francis Halzen, University of Wisconsin Icefishing for Neutrinos
11:30 AM	20F	Plenary Talk: Chris Quigg, Fermilab The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics

Saturday Lunch Time Sessions

12:20--1:50 PM

262F

APS Executive Committee lunch meeting

AAPT Teachers' workshops

		Registration is required for all workshops.
2:00 PM	272F	Workshop 1: An Energy-Based Introductory Physics Curriculum Aaron Osowiecki and Jesse Southwick, Boston Latin School
2:00 PM	270F	Workshop 2: Three workshops for the price of one! Mark D. Greenman, Marblehead High School
2:00 PM	260F	Workshop 3: Phenomenal- Physics: A Guided Inquiry Curriculum for Pre-College Education, Teacher Preparation, and Conceptual Physics Instruction at the College Level J. Russel Harkay, Keene State College
2:00 PM	178F	Workshop 4: PTRA Dark Matter Workshop (Conclusion from Fall Meeting) Marti Lynes and Laura Nickerson
2:00 PM	170F	Workshop 5: VEX Robotics Gary Garber, Boston University Academy