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(Fwd) Preliminary Agenda




--- 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)

11:45 Lunch

(George Negrete moderator)
1:30 Discussion -- continued.

2:30 Coffee Break

3:00 Summary and Action Items -- Carlos Ordonez

4:00 Adjourn


6:00 Banquet


--- End of forwarded mail from ernst@compsci.cas.vanderbilt.edu (David Ernst)

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