--- Forwarded mail from ernst@compsci.cas.vanderbilt.edu (David Ernst)
Pan-American Association for Physics
Austin, Texas
May 17-18, 1996
(all presentations are informal and open to discussion)
Friday, May 17
8:45 leave Courtyard by Marriott, transportation furnished
9:00 Welcome - Carlos Ordonez, U. Texas and PAFP
David Ernst, Vanderbilt and PAFP
(Bob Webb, moderator)
9:10 Carlos Handy, Clark Atlanta University, Center for Theoretical
Studies of Physical Systems (NSF Research Center of Excellence)
9:25 Sekazi Mtingwa, North Carolina A&T, National Society of Black
Physicists
9:55 William Velez, University of Arizona and the Society for the
Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
10:25 Coffee Break
(David Raymond moderator)
11:00 J. D. Garcia, National Science Foundations, NSF Programs
11:15 Eddie Gonzalez, American Association for the Advancement
of Science, AAAS programs
11:30 Richard Saenz, Calpoly at San Luis Obispo and the American
Physical Society, APS Programs
11:45 Lunch
(Mario Diaz moderator)
1:30 Carlos Ordonez, U. Texas and Pan-American Association for Physics,
PAFP Programs
2:00 David Ernst, Vanderbilt University and Pan-American Association
for Physics, Overview of Hispanics and Education
2:30 Discussion - Hispanics and Other Minorities in the Sciences
(Jorge Pullin moderator)
3:00 Coffee Break
3:30 Proposed Constitution and By-Laws -- David Ernst
4:00 Discussion - Establishing the National Society of Hispanic
Physicists.
5:00 Adjourn
Saturday, May 18
8:45 leave Courtyard by Marriott, transprtation furnished
(Jorge Lopez moderator)
9:00 Manuel Berriozabal, Prep Office, University of Texas at
San Antonio,
9:15 Ruth Gonzalez, Exxon Corporation, Women in Science
9:45 Discussion -- Recruitment and Retention of Hispanics in Science
--- What can PAFP and NSHP do? (Informal coffee break included)