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APS
9th Annual Meeting
American Physical Society
Northwest Section
May 17-19 2007
Idaho State University
Pocatello, Idaho, USA
 
    
 
 

        The 9th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Northwest Section will be held Friday through Saturday May 17-19 2007, at Idaho State University in Pocatello Idaho. This meeting brings together participants from institutions in the Northwest region of the United States and Western Canada.

 

 
Program

Thursday Evening Reception, 4:30 - 7:00 p.m.

The Costs of Bad Science, 7:00 - 10:00 (open to all)

Benjamin Radford of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Sharon Weinberger, author of Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld.

Program

Room Assignments

Directions to the NWAPS venues

Parallel Sessions and Session Chairs

Friday

  • Particle Physics, Jim Brau, UO
  • Nuclear Physics, Dan Dale, ISU
  • Health and Biophysics, R. Brey, ISU
  • Condensed, You Qiang, UI

Saturday

  • Condensed Matter, Chris Berven, UI
  • Atomic-Molecular-Optics, Boris Blinov, U Calgary
  • Education, Dewey Dykstra, BSU
  • Astro-Cosmology-Gravity, E.J. Zita, Evergreen

Plenary Speakers

Friday Morning May 18

  • Jon Stoner, (Sr. VP and CTO of AMI Semiconductor), Making a Living, Real Life Physics, Semiconductors and Jobs
  • O. Vilches, (UW), Thermodynamics and Structure of One Monolayer of Simple Atoms Absorbed on Carbon Nanotube Bundles
  • J. McKenna (UBC), What is the Matter with Antimatter? CP Violation in the B Meson System
  • A VanEngen-Spivey (UPS), Dephasing of Light Hole and Heavy Hole Excitons in GaAs Quantum Wells
  • S. Shropshire (ISU), The Value and Use of Demonstrations
  • M. Halpern (UBC), WMAP and Cosmic Structure: Beginning to Constrain Inflation

Saturday Morning May 19

  • J. Heise (SNOLAB), The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Past, Present and Future
  • A. Govyadinov, (OSU), Controlling Light at the Nanoscale
  • L. Lee (Manitoba & TRIUMF), Strange Quark Contributions to the Proton
  • J. Heath (Linfield), Good Defect, Bad Defect, Electronic Properties of CuGaSe2 Solar Cells
  • R.G.H. Robertson (UW) Deep Science: The Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory
  • B. Blinov (UW), Quantum Entanglement of Matter and Light
 

 

 
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