OF THE
SOUTHEASTERN SECTION
OF THE
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
I wish to remind
you of our annual meeting (see below for details) to be held in
In addition, I
ask you, as a member of SESAPS, to encourage non-members to join. There is no cost to an APS member to join
SESAPS, and it is very easy to do. One
can simply go to the SESAPS web page (http://www.phy.davidson.edu/sesaps/)
and click on the link “Application to Join Units.” There are several advantages to being a
member of SESAPS, and no disadvantages.
There are over 1800 members of SESAPS out of approximately 5000 members
of the APS in the Southeast. Membership
is a way to get everyone to become more actively involved in issues that affect
all of us in our region. I hope all SESAPS
members will encourage their colleagues to become members of our regional
society.
Lee Riedinger
Chair,
Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society
APS
COMMITTEES
Professor
Joe Hamilton of
ELECTION
For
the first time the election of new SESAPS officers for 2005 will be held
electronically, following the lead of the American Physical Society in
converting to electronic elections at all levels. This process will be initiated in middle
October by an e-mail message to each SESAPS member giving instructions on how
to access the APS web site and vote for the nominees for SESAPS vice chair,
secretary, and executive committee. The
current SESAPS executive committee has taken suggestions for these elections
and decided on a slate of candidates that the membership will vote upon in
middle October. Results of the election
will be announced at the November meeting in
ANNUAL
MEETING INFORMATION
The
71st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American
Physical Society (SESAPS) will be held November 11-13, 2004 (Thursday-Saturday),
in
Chang-Hong Yu
865-574‑4493
The
Program Committee chair is
Calvin Howell
919-660-2632
The
conference hotel is the
DoubleTree Hotel in
865-481-2468 (phone)
865-481-2474 (fax)
Directions
to the hotel can be found at http://doubletreeoakridge.com/location.html. Rooms cost $69/night single and $79/night
double. You must book before OCTOBER 10
and mention “SESAPS group.” The conference banquet will be on Friday evening.
A
tour of the Spallation Neutron Source construction
site at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will be offered to the meeting
attendees late Thursday afternoon. Tour
participants that are
MEETING
FACILITIES
The scientific sessions will take place in the recently
renovated
The
PROGRAM
The
scientific program will begin on Thursday, November 11, with invited sessions
on the Spallation Neutron Source, upgraded and new
major research facilities in the southeast, and astrophysics. The Friday meeting will include invited
sessions on nanoscience, nuclear physics, neutrinos,
and magnetism. The SESAPS business
meeting will be held on Friday at 5:30-6:00 p.m., and the banquet will start at
7:30 p.m. The topic for the banquet
presentation is "Energy Policies for the
SPS SESSION
The Society of Physics Students (SPS) chapter at
the
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:
MEETING
REGISTRATION FEES
Registration
will be $40 for SESAPS and other APS members, $55 for nonmembers, $5 for
retired physicists, and $20 for graduate
students. Undergraduate students
register for free. Awardees and banquet
speakers will not pay the registration or banquet fee.
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. SPS students giving papers in the SPS
sessions only are not eligible for travel support. An application is included below.
AWARD
NOMINATIONS
The
deadline for nominations for SESAPS awards given each year at the fall meeting
has been extended to September 15. The
Beams, Pegram, and Slack awards are given each year
for contributions in research, teaching, and service, respectively, on behalf
of physics in the southeast. Nominations
for the Jesse Beams Award for Outstanding Research should be sent to
Dr. Kirby Kemper
Office of the Vice President
for Research
109 Westcott Building
Nominations
for the George B. Pegram Award for Excellence in
Teaching should be sent to
Dr. John Shriner
Department of Physics
Nominations for the Francis G. Slack Award for Excellence in Service to Physics in the Southeast should be sent to:
Dr. Marllin Simon
Department of Physics
201 Allison Laboratory
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 e mail to the Chair (riedingerl@ornl.gov) and Vice Chair (avery@phys.ufl.edu) of the Section
informing them of the submission.
AMENDMENT
OF BYLAWS
Because
of changes in the APS Constitution and how Sections are represented, the
Section bylaws must be amended. Under
the new rotating schedule of Section Councillors, the
Southeastern Section has had a Councillor from
2001-2004. The next Southeastern Section
Councillor will serve from 2017-2020. The following sections in our Bylaws must be
changed. As specified in the Bylaws,
this newsletter is the distribution of the changes in the Bylaws. These changes will be discussed at the
Business Meeting at
ARTICLE VI – SECTION OFFICERS, AND SECTION COUNCILLOR ADVISOR AND COUNCIL OBSERVER
ARTICLE VII—ELECTION AND TENURE OF
THE OFFICERS, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS, AND SECTION COUNCILLOR ADVISOR
The
full text of the current Bylaws can be found at http://www.phy.davidson.edu/SESAPS.
NOMINATIONS
FOR SECTION OFFICERS
Nominations for members of the Executive Committee are encouraged. Each year the vice chair and one member of the executive committee are elected. The vice chair serves for three years (vice chair, chair elect, and chair) and the executive committee member serves a four-year term. The secretary and treasurer serve five-year terms. You may nominate yourself or someone else. Nominees must be APS and SESAPS members according to the bylaws. Send nominations to Professor Larry Cain, the SESAPS treasurer (lacain@davidson.edu).
SOUTHEASTERN SECTION OF THE
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2004
|
Chair Lee Riedinger 865-574-4321
P 865-241-2967
F |
Chair-Elect Calvin Howell Department
of Physics and TUNL 919-660-2632
P 919-660-2634
F |
|
Vice Chair Paul Avery Department
of Physics Department
of Physics 352-392-9264
P 352-392-8863
F |
Past Chair Brad Cox Department
of Physics 434-982-5377
P 434-982-3575
F |
|
Secretary Kenneth Hardy Department
of Physics 305-348-2605
P 305-348-6700
F |
Treasurer Larry Cain Department
of Physics 704-894-2347
P 704-894-2894
F |
|
APS Representative Joseph Hamilton Department
of Physics and Astronomy 615-322-2456
P 615-343-7263
F |
Executive Committee 2001-04 Glenn Edwards Department
of Physics 919-660-2674
P 919-681-7416
F |
|
Executive Committee 2002-05 Stephen Teitsworth Department
of Physics 919-660-2560/2551
P 919-660-2525
F |
Executive Committee 2003-06 Dale Sayers Department
of Physics 919-515-4453
P 919-515-3371
F |
|
Executive Committee 2004-07 Victoria Greene Department
of Physics and Astronomy 615-343-0657
P 615-343-7263
F |
|
APPLICATION FOR STUDENT TRAVEL SUPPORT TO THE SESAPS MEETING
The student must be a
presenter at a SESAPS session.
NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP: E-MAIL:
SCHOOL:
UNDERGRADUATE/CLASS:
GRADUATE/CLASS:
ABSTRACT
TITLE:
ABSTRACT
AUTHORS:
AMOUNT
REQUESTED ($250 MAX):
PURPOSE
OF REQUESTED FUNDS:
RETURN
BY OCTOBER 15 TO:
Brad
Cox
Department
of Physics