The following message is from the Executive Office of the American Association of Physics Teachers, College Park, Maryland.
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1. 2001 SUMMER MEETING PREREGISTRATION FOR ROCHESTER
2. 2001 SUMMER MEETING POSTDEADLINE ABSTRACTS
3. HIGHLIGHTS OF 2001 SUMMER MEETING AT ROCHESTER
4. ABSTRACT SEARCH AND MEETING SCHEDULER
5. GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON PHYSICS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
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1. 2001 SUMMER MEETING PREREGISTRATION FOR ROCHESTER
Save money! The %%%early-bird%%% pre registration for the 123rd AAPT National Meeting July 21-25, 2001 in Rochester, NY, is May 28. Information and forms can be found at the AAPT website, http://www.aapt.org, under Meetings.
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2. 2001 SUMMER MEETING POST DEADLINE ABSTRACTS
The deadline to submit post deadline contributed and poster abstracts for the Summer Meeting in Rochester, NY is July 13. There is no longer a fee associated with abstract submissions, and while only one contributed oral paper may be given per individual, there is no limit to the number of poster papers that may be submitted. Submit electronically through the web at www.aapt.org/meetings/submit.html.
The 123rd AAPT National Meeting being held in Rochester, NY, July 21-25, 2001, will focus on the science of light...optics! Included in the theme will be a workshop on light, sessions such as Women's Contributions to Contemporary Optics, Integrated Physics - Lecture, Lab & Demo: Optics, Optical Fiber Communications, and Photography and Physics to name a few. Outstanding Plenary speakers include: Joseph Eberly speaking Monday on %%%Even Stranger Than We Supposed: From Max Planck to Teleportation,%%% Emil Wolf's %%%Recollections of Max Born%%% on Tuesday, and David Williams on Wednesday with %%%The Limits of Human Vision.%%% Other special events taking place: sessions involving the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, poster sessions, and the PER Conference. The meeting will culminate Wednesday evening with a picnic and tour of the George Eastman House, followed by a Demo Show and Laser Light Show on High Falls. It's not too late to participate...the deadline to submit!
papers or posters is July 13! For more information or to register, go to http://www.aapt.org, and look for the 123rd AAPT National Meeting under the Meetings category.
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4. ABSTRACT SEARCH AND MEETING SCHEDULER
AAPT is now offering a personal scheduler for the 123rd National Meeting in Rochester. You may view the meeting program by day, select the sessions you would like to attend, and print your customized version of each day's schedule and the schedule for the entire meeting. At this time, we do not have the capability to save your schedule so you must print your itinerary at the time you create it. The URL for the abstract search and meeting scheduler is http://www.aapt.org/meetings/sum01/
Please remember that the unexpected often happens, and that you should check the onsite addendum to make sure you have the correct information.
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5. GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON PHYSICS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
**QUANTUM MECHANICS**
June 9-14, 2002 at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
Vice Chair, Harvey S. Leff, Cal Poly Pomona, hsleff@csupomona.edu
Vice Chair, David P. Jackson, Santa Clara University, jacksond@dickinson.edu
This is the second Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in a series of conferences that will focus on how research in physics and research in physics education can be used to improve the teaching of physics, primarily at the undergraduate level.
The first of these conferences, held in June 2000, focused on the teaching of thermal and statistical physics, and a theme issue of the American Journal of Physics was published on this topic in December 2000.
The focus of the 2002 conference is the teaching of Quantum Mechanics. Special attention will be given to areas of current research and technological interest that can be included in such courses, physics and chemistry education research on conceptual understanding of quantum mechanics, and innovative curricular materials and approaches. Examples of appropriate topics include lab experiments, computational projects, quantum physics at the introductory level, ways of incorporating modern developments and applications, and the integration of quantum mechanics and classical mechanics. The goal is to bring together workers who are active in research in quantum mechanics, researchers in the new field of physics education, and people who teach courses in quantum mechanics at the undergraduate level. A web site dedicated to this GRC is at URL http://physics.dickinson.edu/qm