Rules and Preparation Guidelines

Please send abstracts to Larry Cain (lacain@davidson.edu) in Word, WordPerfect or ASCII text format.  Please include NCS-AAPT Abstract on the subject line.  Otherwise mail to: Department of Physics, Davidson College, PO Box 1719, Davidson, NC 28036. 

A. Who may submit an abstract — The privilege of contributing papers is restricted to:

• NCS-AAPT and AAPT members in good standing;
• Nonmembers whose completed membership applications and payments for the first year's dues are submitted before the appropriate deadline;
• Nonmembers whose abstracts are sponsored by members. These abstracts must include a footnote with the statement: "Sponsored by (member's name)."

B. Time — Contributed papers are 12 minutes in duration, with three minutes for questions.

C. Deadline — Abstracts must arrive by the submission deadline of March 28.

D. Multiple papers — You may present one oral paper at this meeting. 

E. Format of Abstract Submission: Title, Presenter(s), Affiliation, Address, Phone & FAX numbers, and e-mail address.

F. Abstract and Title Length — Abstracts must be less than 150 words. The program chair reserves the right to edit abstracts, if necessary, for clarity, grammar, or good usage. Abstracts above the 150-word limit will be edited.  Titles of abstracts are limited to 10 words.

G. SPS poster session — Student (undergraduate and high school) authors must present their paper at this NCS-AAPT meeting in poster format rather than the usual speaking format.  Posters will be given a 4'x4' display space in the scheduled poster session at which you will need to be present.  See the separate poster guidelines.

H. Audiovisual equipment — We have two-state of the art classrooms with a fixed computer with internet, vga connection for laptops, a data projector, and a document camera.  We have wireless access for the building.

I. Scheduling — As soon as the program is set, the local program chair will notify authors of their session time. This information will also be on the Web.

J. Policy — In accordance with the AAPT Constitution and policy, authors are requested to be sensitive to, and show respect for, ethnic, cultural, religious, and gender diversity. For example, you should not use language that suggests that physicists are exclusively male. Additionally, AAPT's official measurement system is the International System of Units (SI). We recommend that our members and those writing for our publications make every effort to use the SI system exclusively.