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NWAPS-Program

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Program Overview

  • Thursday evening: Registration and Reception in Weniger Hall 212: 4:00 – 7:30 pm
  • Thursday evening: Public Lecture in Weniger Hall 151: 7:30 pm
  • Friday morning: Registration desk open in LaSells Stewart Center lobby 8:00 am – noon
  • Friday morning: Plenary session in Construction & Engineering Hall
  • Friday afternoon: Registration desk open in LaSells Stewart Center lobby 1:15 – 4:00 pm.
  • Friday afternoon: Parallel sessions in the LaSells Stewart Center
  • Late Friday afternoon: Poster Session and Reception in LaSells Stewart Center lobby
  • Late Friday afternoon: Annual Section Business Meeting in the Weyerhaeuser Board Room
  • Friday Evening: Banquet in the Giustina Gallery of the LaSells Stewart Center, featuring speaker:
  • Saturday morning: Registration desk open in LaSells Stewart Center lobby 8:00 am – 11:00 am
  • Saturday morning: Plenary session in Construction & Engineering Hall
  • Saturday lunch: Society of Physics Students (SPS) luncheon
  • Saturday afternoon: Parallel sessions in the LaSells Stewart Center

Invited Plenary speakers

  • Isabel Trigger, TRIUMF, “Searches for the Higgs Boson and Physics Beyond the Standard Model with ATLAS at the LHC”
  • Stanley Schriber, Boise State University, "The ILC - Straight to the Future"
  • Gordon Semenoff, UBC, “Relativistic Dynamics of Graphene”
  • Jose Reyes, OSU, “Nuclear Power – Post Fukushima”
  • Dean Karlen, University of Victoria & TRIUMF, “Recent Progress on Neutrino Oscillations”
  • Yun-Shik Lee, OSU, “New Frontiers in Optical Science: Terahertz Spectroscopy of Two Dimensional Systems”
  • David Thouless, University of Washington, "Topological Quantum Numbers and their Importance for Precise Measurements
  • Thomas Ruth, TRIUMF, “Can Accelerators Meet the Medical Isotopes Needs of the World”
  • Ken Krane, OSU, “Halliday-Resnick Plus 50”
  • Andrei Kounine, MIT, "AMS Experiment on the International Space Station"