Re: Salt Lake City?

[Dan MacIsaac <Dan.MacIsaac@NAU.EDU>]

On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 12:06 PM, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
> far I was only reading what others have done recently; I am no longer
> saying it is all nonsense. A good and simple experiment through which a
> clear YES or NO answer can be obtained is worth doing, even if the
> chance for YES is very small.
>
> After devoting a lot of time to the subject (this is my sabbatical year
> project) I think that I am ready to make a good presentation, for
> example, an invited talk at the AAPT meeting, entitled "Cold Fusion,
> Thirteen Years Later."  Do you think that suggesting this would be too
> pretentious? After all I am only a teacher.

Ludwik:

Invitations are done by committees and generally shaped around a
session theme including invited and contributed papers.  I don't know
of anyone else 'doing' cold fusion.   Invited papers get 30 min; and
either the lab comm or apparatus comm might be appropriate -- but I
don't see enough presenting folk for a session.  It's _much_ easier to
do a 15min contributed paper, maybe keyed to your web site.  I'd
strongly encourage the latter approach.  Certainly I'm interested in a
discussion of CF, there's lots of science to be learned and sociology
of science to be learned and my students love this.

"Only a teacher" is a complete non-issue.  The Association's current
past-president and president-elect are currently HS teachers.  See
<http://www.aapt.org/Directory/board.cfm>.  Are you a member of AAPT?
If so, use you member number ID to search UT for AAPT members; there's
lots of potential witnesses...

Dan M
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