SUMMER
NEWSLETTER
OF THE
SOUTHEASTERN SECTION
OF THE
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR
The
73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the APS will be
held in beautiful
If you have colleagues in your department who are members of the APS but are not members of SESAPS, please urge them to join SESAPS now! Joining is free and can be done at http://www.aps.org/memb/unitapp.cfm. Once at the unit membership site, they will have two options: (1) adding SESAPS to their membership online using the APS secure server (this option requires their APS web username and password), and (2) printing out a units membership form and faxing the completed form to the APS headquarters in College Park, MD. We now have approximately 2300 SESAPS members out of approximately 5000 APS members living in the Southeast, with membership increasing rapidly in recent years. Increased membership has direct benefits in that the additional funds we received from APS help pay for undergraduate travel and meeting costs. It also promotes a more active involvement in issues that affect all of us in our region.
One of the ways our unit recognizes those who make outstanding contributions to physics research, service and teaching in the Southeast is through the SESAPS awards. This is made possible by your identification of highly worthy candidates. Please take the time to nominate them; details are included below. An important component of the funding for these awards comes from contributions made by SESAPS members. Your gift to any of the awards will help keep their financial base sound and will be greatly appreciated. Contributions to the SESAPS awards funds are tax deductible. Please visit our web site for details on making contributions to the SESAPS award funds: http://www.phy.davidson.edu/SESAPS/welcome.htm, or use the form found later in this newsletter.
Paul Avery
Professor of Physics,
A MESSAGE FROM THE MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR
We are asking all members of SESAPS to encourage the members of your department who are not yet members of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society (SESAPS) to seriously consider joining. We would ask that you bring up the issue of SESAPS membership in one of your departmental meetings. Moreover, those of you who have students who are members of APS but not yet members of SESAPS should encourage them to join.
There is no cost to a member of the APS to join SESAPS. Joining is easy to do. Simply go to the SESAPS web page at http://www.aps.org/memb/unitapp.cfm.
There are many advantages to
being a member of SESAPS and no disadvantages. In particular, membership is a
way to become more actively involved in issues that affect everyone in our
region and to become acquainted with the undergraduate and graduate students,
postdocs and students involved in the regional physics projects. Our annual meeting (to be held this year on
There are more than 2300 members of SESAPS out of approximately 5000 members of the APS in Southeast. We would hope that every member of APS in the Southeast will eventually become a member of SESAPS. If you have questions about membership in SESAPS, please feel free to contact Brad Cox, the membership coordinator at cox@uvahep.phys.virginia.edu
MEETING INFORMATION
The 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern
Section of the American Physical Society (SESAPS) will be held
The local arrangements committee is chaired by
Dr. Marc T. Sher
Department
of Physics
757-221-3538 (phone)
The Program Committee chair is
Dr. Thomas B. Clegg
Department of Physics
919-843-8168 (phone)
An alternative hotel is the Days Inn Downtown at
Participants are expected to make their own hotel arrangements (please see the conference web site at http://conferences.jlab.org/SESAPS/index.html for the latest detailed information).
MEETING
FACILITIES
The scientific sessions will take place at the Hospitality House. All meeting rooms will be equipped with LCD projectors and speakers are strongly encouraged to use electronic projection. You may use your laptop for driving the projector. However, in order to save setup time, it is strongly preferred that speakers use the conference computer for presentation. We recommend that you bring the electronic file for your presentation either on a CD or a memory stick. All speakers using electronic projection in contributed talk sessions should plan to arrive at the meeting room at least 30 minutes prior to the start of the session to check that the technology will work with minimum delay between speakers. Overhead projectors will also be available for those who prefer using transparencies. Questions about the facilities or program should be directed to Professors Sher or Clegg, respectively.
The meeting hotel is equipped with wireless access to the internet. Any laptop with wireless capability will be able to use this feature, though there may be a fee assessed for this use.
MEETING PROGRAM
Welcome
Reception: The program begins with a
Welcome Reception Wednesday
evening (6:00PM – 8:00PM) at the Hospitality House. Everyone is cordially invited.
Scientific Program: The scientific program begins Thursday morning, November
9 and concludes by Saturday at
Call for Abstracts of Contributed Papers:
The SESAPS meeting will use electronically submitted abstracts for publication in the BULLETIN of the AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY. All abstracts of contributed papers must be prepared in the standard APS format as specified in recent issues of the APS News. If the abstract is submitted to the APS only on paper, just the title and authors will appear in BULLETIN. For details on abstract submission go to http://www.aps.org/meet/abstracts/online.cfm. The deadline for abstract submission is 5:00 PM EDT on Friday, August 18, 2006. The scheduled time for your presentation will be available electronically on the web prior to the meeting.
MEETING
REGISTRATION and REGISTRATION FEES
To facilitate preparation of name tags and meeting packets, online preregistration for the meeting is encouraged via a link at the conference website at http://conferences.jlab.org/SESAPS/index.html. Credit card payment will be accepted. Alternatively, payment by credit card or check can be made upon arrival at the registration desk.
To compensate for the rising costs of professional meetings, the
Executive Committee decided last year to increase the registration fees of the
SESAPS meetings. The new fee structure represents a weighted compromise between
raising sufficient revenue to significantly ease the burden on the hosting
institution while keeping the meeting affordable for the community it
serves. The registration fees for the
SESAPS06 meeting are:
SESAPS and APS members: $60
Nonmembers: $80
Retired APS members: $30
Graduate students: $30
Undergraduate students: free
Banquet fees: $35
Awardees and the banquet speaker
will not pay the registration or banquet fee.
Contributed/Invited
Papers:
Invited papers at this meeting, as in all APS meetings, are given by experts in areas selected by the Program Committee, and these talks are usually of 25 to 30 minutes duration. Contributed papers, however, are on topics of the author's choice and are ten minutes in length. On the day following the abstract deadline, all papers are organized into sessions and the sessions into the program of the meeting. Some of the contributed abstracts are of such interest that the committee will INVITE THE AUTHOR(S) to give a SPECIAL PAPER of twenty minutes duration on the topic of their abstract at the beginning of the contributed paper session to which their talk is assigned. There will only be a few such papers selected. The invitations will be listed in the printed program of the meeting and will be verified promptly by mail to the authors. If the author(s) would like to be considered for such an invitation, they are asked to type the following statement in the special instructions box: If invited to do so, the author is willing to expand the talk for the above abstract to twenty minutes.
SPS SESSION
The Society of Physics
Students Chapter at William and Mary is organizing a contributed paper
session and a poster session for undergraduate students. These and other SPS
activities will be concentrated on Friday and
Undergraduate students who present only in the SPS sessions are not required to register for the SESAPS meeting. These students are not eligible for the SESAPS student travel grant.
Instructions for
submitting an abstract to the SPS sessions
1.
Submission:
By email only to Dr. Jan Chaloupka
Deadline:
2. Abstract file format: MSWord
3. Abstract style: Use the template
4. Presentation type: Oral or poster presentation (should be specified at the bottom of the abstract)
TRAVEL
SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS
Students will be pleased to learn that modest travel grants
will again be available for those presenting research papers at the SESAPS
sessions. Undergraduate students giving
papers only in the SPS sessions are not eligible for travel support. An application is included below.
AWARD
NOMINATIONS
Your
help is sought in advertising the upcoming deadline for annual nominations for
the three SESAPS awards. The deadline for nominations for
SESAPS awards is August 15. These awards will be presented at our Annual
Meeting in November.
The Jesse W.
Beams Award recognizes especially significant or meritorious research in
physics, the major portion of which was carried out in the ten-state SESAPS
region in the Southeast.
The George B. Pegram Award honors someone with a career of
"Excellence in the Teaching of Physics in the Southeast."
The Francis G.
Slack Award honors persons who have during their career exhibited
"Excellence in Service to Physics in the Southeast."
Four copies of each nomination, consisting of a nominating letter and up to three supporting letters (a maximum of two pages each), should be sent. No other supporting documents are needed. The nominator is also asked to send an email to the Chair (avery@phys.ufl.edu) and Vice Chair (david_haase@ncsu.edu) of the Section informing them of the submission. Nominations will be considered active for three years; updating materials for nominees not chosen in the prior year is encouraged.
Nominations for
the Jesse Beams Award should be sent to:
Dr. Mark A. Novotny
Department of Physics & Astronomy
P.O. Drawer 5167
Nominations for the George B. Pegram
Award should be sent to:
Dr. Steve Teitsworth
Department of Physics
Nominations for the Francis G. Slack Award should be sent
to:
Professor Laird Kramer
Department of Physics, CP 204
Your help is needed in identifying talented members of our regional physics community who would be interested, willing, and effective in serving in a leadership role within SESAPS. Elections will be held electronically by SESAPS in October to select a Vice‑Chair (who would in subsequent years serve as Chair-Elect and then as Chair). Results of the election will be announced at the November meeting in
Beams, Pegram and Slack Award
Donations
The three awards presented by the
Southeastern Section rely on member contributions to sustain them. Many members of the section have
made previous donations for the Jesse Beams Award, the George Pegram Award, and the Francis Slack Award. If you would like to contribute to the Beams-Pegram Fund and/or the Slack Fund, please feel free to
print this section and use it to make your contribution by sending it and your
check made out to SESAPS to Dr. Laurence Cain, SESAPS Treasurer, Department of
Physics,
Name _____________________________
Beams-Pegram Award Fund Amount ___________
Slack Award Fund Amount __________
Total Contribution _________
Executive Committee
|
Chair Dr.
Paul Avery |
Chair-Elect Dr. Tom Clegg |
Vice Chair Dr. David Haase The Science House 919-515-6118 P |
|
Past Chair Dr. Calvin Howell |
Secretary Dr. Stanley R. Deans Department of Physics, PHY 114 |
Treasurer Dr. Larry Cain 704-894-2347 P |
|
APS Council Observer Dr. Brad Cox Department of Physics,
434-982-5377 P |
Executive Committee 06, 07-10 Dr.
Kathy Whatley 828-250-3880 P |
Executive Committee 04-07 Dr. Victoria Greene 615-343-0657 P |
|
Executive Committee 05-08 Dr. Paul Sheldon (Street Address) 615-343-0484 P |
Executive Committee 06-09 Dr. Bob Jones
434-924-3088 P |
Membership Coordinator Dr. Brad Cox Department of Physics
434-982-5377 P |
APPLICATION FOR STUDENT TRAVEL SUPPORT TO THE SESAPS MEETING
The student must be a presenter at a SESAPS session
NAME: ____________________________________________________________
ADDRESS: _________________________________________________________
CITY:
ZIP: ___________ EMAIL: _______________________________________
SCHOOL: ___________________________________________________________
UNDERGRADUATE/CLASS: ___________________________________________
GRADUATE/CLASS: __________________________________________________
ABSTRACT TITLE: _____________________________________________________________________
ABSTRACT AUTHORS: ______________________________________________________________________
AMOUNT REQUESTED ($250 MAX): ____________________________________
PURPOSE OF REQUESTED FUNDS: _______________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
CERTIFICATION OF RESEARCH ADVISOR (Please have your research advisor sign this line certifying that you are presenting this paper and send an email to Dr. Howell.)
________________________________________________________________________
RETURN BY OCTOBER 15th TO:
Dr. Calvin Howell
Department of Physics and TUNL
P. O. Box 90308
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0308