October 20 - 22, 2011
IMPORTANT REGISTRATION NOTICE: Pre-registration via FAX closes Tuesday October 18 at 5pm PDT. After that we will have on-site registration only. Banquet tickets will not be available after October 18, 5pm. On-site registration is available Thursday October 20 from 4pm (one hour before the start of the reception) to 7:15pm (15 minutes before the start of the public lecture) in Weniger Hall room 212 and Friday all day and Saturday morning in LaSells. Note that on-site we accept checks or cash only. Please bring exact amounts for cash, with small numbers we will not have much change.
RECEPTION: The conference reception is Thursday from 5pm to 7:30pm in Weniger 212.
IMPORTANT LAST MINUTE CHANGES
- Session H4, Condensed matter II, Saturday 1:30pm will have one break only at 3:18 pm. Talk H4.09 will start at 3:50pm and all following talks will also start 12 minutes earlier.
- The business meeting on Friday will be held in the Agricultural Science Room.
Scientific Program
- Applied Physics & Industrial Applications
- Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gravity
- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
- Biophysics
- Condensed Matter
- Nuclear Physics
- Particle Physics
- Physics Education
- Thursday Evening, Oct 20: Reception Drinks hosted by OSU Physics. Public lecture by Prof. Mario Livio [1] on the Scientific Achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope. Poster below.
- Friday Evening, Oct. 21: Banquet. After dinner speaker: Prof. Edward Brook from OSU Geosciences on the history of greenhouse gases and climate from polar ice cores
- Saturday Midday, Oct 22: Undergraduate Luncheon hosted by the Society of Physics Students (SPS)
Student participation is encouraged, including contributed talk or posters. Student travel awards [2] are offered by the Northwest section.
Abstracts submission deadline: EXTENDED DEADLINE Noon on Friday Sept 23d, 2011
Abstracts for contributed talks and posters can be submitted via the APS website. [3]
Abstract submission [4] and registration information [5] is now available. Online registration [6] is open. Alternatively, you may FAX this registration form [7] to APS by October 14 or after that to OSU Physics at 541-737-1683.
The conference will be held at the LaSells Stewart Center [8] at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
Parking: Please note that parking on Friday is not free, see parking instructions [9]!
Click below to download the conference poster or the public lecture poster.
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- Public lecture by Prof. Mario Livio [1] on the Scientific Achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope.
- Plenary talk by Prof. Gordon Semenoff [12] on Graphene
- Plenary talk by Prof. Isabel Trigger [13] on the LHC and searches for Dark Matter
- Plenary talk by Prof. Andrei Kounine on the AMS Space Probe [14]
- More details on the Program page [15]