WINTER
NEWSLETTER
OF
THE
SOUTHEASTERN
SECTION
OF
THE
AMERICAN
PHYSICAL SOCIETY
APRIL
1, 2000
The 67th Annual Meeting of the
Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society (SESAPS) will be held November 2-4, 2000 (Thursday-Saturday) at Mississippi State
University in Mississippi State, MS.
Our host for this meeting will be the Mississippi State University
Department of Physics and Astronomy.
The local arrangements committee is chaired by Rodney (Buzz) Piercey who
may be reached at (662)-325-2688 (phone), (662)-325-8898 (fax), and RBPl@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (e-mail). The Program Committee Chair is Ronald Mickens
of Clark Atlanta University of Atlanta, GA, who may be reached at
(404)-880-6923 (phone), (404)-880-6258 (Fax) and ROHRS@MATH.GATECH.EDU (e-mail).
THIS IS THE FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OF
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS: SESAPS will use electronically
submitted abstracts (brief instructions are at the end of this newsletter) for
publication in the Bulletin of the AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY. The deadline for
the receipt of contributed papers and abstracts is no later than Friday,
August 25, 2000. The entire program will be organized the following week.
All abstracts received electronically by the deadline will be published in the
November 2000, 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 the BULLETIN.
THE ABSTRACT FEE HAS BEEN ELIMINATED, AND
THE FEE STRUCTURE FOR THE MEETING HAS ALSO BEEN CHANGED. THE NET COST TO
MEMBERS WHO SUBMIT ONE ABSTRACT WILL BE LOWER. The
Program Chairman is:
Dr.
Ronald Mickens
Department
of Physics
Clark
Atlanta University
Box
172, Atlanta, GA 30311
(404)
880 6923 (Phone)
(404)
880 6258 (Fax)
ROHRS@MATH.GATECH.EDU (e-mail)
The scheduled time for your presentation
must be obtained from the bulletin WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY on
the WWW. Meeting rooms will have an overhead projector and chalkboard - to
request other audio-visual aids, including 35 mm projectors, please make your
request in writing by typing it in the special instructions box of the abstract
template. Any questions about the program should be directed to Dr. Mickens.
THE
INNOVATION FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS IN CONTRIBUTED PAPERS WILL BE CONTINUED! 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 thirty 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. This year the Program
Committee will continue an idea suggested by an APS member. Some of the
contributed abstracts are of such interest that the committee will INVITE THE
AUTHORS 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.
THE 67th ANNUAL
MEETING OF THE SOUTHEASTERN SECTION of the American Physical Society
(SESAPS) will be held November 2-4, 2000 (Thursday-Saturday) in Mississippi State, MS. The Physics and Astronomy Department at
Mississippi State University will host the meeting. The conference will cover a number of important and exciting
topics, including physics education research, applied physics and industrial
applications of physics, material sciences, computational physics, optics and
quantum optics, astrophysics, and free electron laser physics.
Naturally,
contributed papers on any subject in physics will be accepted but may not have
a session devoted exclusively to their subject matter. The Local Arrangements
Chair is Rodney Piercey, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State
University, Mississippi State, MS 39762; E-mail: mrbpl@ra.msstate.edu; Telephone: (662) 325-2688. The Program Chair is Ronald Mickens, Physics Department, Clark
Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA 30314; E-mail: rohrs@math.gatech.edu: Telephone:
(404) 880-6923. For more information on
SESAPS 2000 link to URL: http://SESAPS.msstate.edu.
This is a very good web site, with lots of information about the area and
several good links to attractions, etc.
A PROGRAM OF
PHYSICS TEACHING DEMONSTRATIONS IS BEING PLANNED.
On Friday afternoon, November 3, starting at 5PM the traditional lecture
demonstration session will take place in Hilbun Hall on the Mississippi State
campus.
THE MISSISSIPPI
STATE PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY DEPARTMENT will be our host for this meeting. All primary meeting sessions
will be held at the Wise center on campus. Registration on Thursday is from
5-8PM at the Dial Research Facility with an informal reception. On Friday and
Saturday, registration will be in the Wise center lobby. All sessions are
planned for the Wise center. The banquet will take place Saturday evening in
the Bost center following a reception.
The
Mississippi section of AAPT has agreed to meet with SESAPS. A schedule of their
meetings will be in the summer newsletter.
THE
REGISTRATION FEE STRUCTURE HAS BEEN CHANGED. In order to accommodate the electronic submission of abstracts,
the executive committee of SESAPS made the following changes in the
registration fee structure. It should be emphasized that a member submitting
one abstract will save money with the new fee structure. Registration will be
$35.00 for SESAPS and other APS members, $50 for nonmembers, $5 for retired
physicists and $15 for graduate students. Awardee and banquet speakers will not
pay the registration or banquet fee.
Undergraduate students may register free at the Society of Physics
Students' table.
A MEETING OF
THE SOCIETY OF PHYSICS STUDENTS is also anticipated in conjunction with the SESAPS meeting and
will include a student paper session where the Marsh W. White Award will be
presented for the best paper given at that session. This meeting is planned for
Saturday.
TRAVEL
SUPPORT WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS THIS YEAR. 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 in this
letter.
NOMINATIONS
FOR THE JESSE BEAMS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING RESEARCH, THE GEORGE B.
PEGRAM AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AND THE NEW FRANCIS SLACK AWARD
FOR EXCELLENCE IN SERVICE ARE REQUESTED AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE TIME, BUT NO
LATER THAN JUNE 1, 2000.
The nomination letter should include appropriate supporting information with no
more than three letters of support for each nominee. The materials for the
Beams award should be sent to:
Dr. Donald Clayton
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-1911
mailto:clayton@gamma.phys.clemson.edu
The materials
for the Pegram award should be sent to:
Dr. Kian S. Dy
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
The materials
for the Slack award should be sent to:
Dr. Joe Hamilton
Department of Physics
Vanderbilt University
PO Box 1807-B
Nashville, TN 37235
HAMILTJ1@CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU
SESAPS
members are urged to nominate candidates for these awards, as a large number of
candidates generally results in meaningful awards.
SUGGESTED
NOMINATIONS FOR SECTION OFFICERS should be sent to the Secretary at the address given at the end
of this letter for consideration by the Nominating Committee, which is made up
of the Executive Committee.
CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE ELECTION WINNERS.
The new vice chair is Walter Croft of Mississippi State. A new executive
committee member that will serve from 2000-2003 is David Ernst of Vanderbilt.
I, Ken Hardy, was elected for another term, and I thank the membership.
MISSISSIPPI
STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY will host the annual meeting of
the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society November 2 - 4,
2000. The meetings will be held at the
Wise Center College of Veterinary Medicine Building located in the Southwest
quadrant of Mississippi State University.
MSU is located in Starkville, Mississippi, which is in the northeast
part of the state. Starkville is
approximately 165 miles from Memphis, Tennessee, 250 miles from Nashville,
Tennessee, 290 miles from Little Rock Arkansas, 293 miles from New Orleans,
Louisiana, 226 miles from Mobile, Alabama, 170 miles from Montgomery, Alabama,
150 miles from Birmingham, Alabama, and 125 miles from Jackson,
Mississippi. If traveling by
automobile, the main highways into Starkville are State Highways 12, 25, and
389, and Federal Highway 82. Highway
45 South can also reach Alternate U.S. 45 east of Starkville. The Golden Triangle Regional Airport (GTRA),
located between the cities of Columbus, Starkville and West Point, Mississippi,
serves the area. This airport is only 15 minutes from Mississippi State
University. Atlantic Southeast Airlines
(ASA) recently introduced Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) service between GTRA and
Atlanta, Georgia. Northwest Airlink
Airlines also serves passengers through the Atlanta, Dallas and Memphis hubs to
anywhere in the world.
Lodging has been guaranteed through:
Best Western – Starkville, MS Phone: 662-324-5555
Hampton Inn – Starkville, MS Phone: 662-324-1333
Holiday Inn - West Point, MS Phone: 662-494-7090
Ramada Inn – Starkville, MS Phone:
662-323-6161
University Inn - Starkville, MS
Phone: 662-323-9550
Guaranteed room rates vary for each
hotel. Lodging arrangements should be
made by September 30, 2000. MSU is
located only minutes from the Starkville hotels. The Holiday Inn in West Point
is about 15 minutes away from MSU. Numerous restaurants are located
nearby. Downtown Starkville, where
several unique shops are located, is very near the Starkville lodging
facilities. Other shopping centers are
also located nearby. Bus transportation to the Wise center will be provided.
Registration for the meeting is available
online at SESAPS@msstate.edu.
THE
FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS GENERATED BY APS TO ASSIST YOU WITH THE PREPARATION
OF ELECTRONICALLY SUBMITTED ABSTRACTS
Abstract
Submission
The deadline
for the submission of all abstracts is Friday, August 25, 2000, 5:00 pm EST at
the APS Headquarters.
Q The deadline is firm, so don’t wait
until the last minute; Send early - save yourself the stress.
Electronic
Submission
Last year, the APS instituted an
electronic abstract submission process, which was an enormous success, with
almost 80% of all the abstracts being submitted electronically. We are hoping for an even better turnout
electronically this year. There are
many advantages to submitting electronically.
·
E-mail
message confirming receipt of your abstract
·
E-mail
notification of the scheduling of your paper
·
The complete
abstract will appear in the electronic version of the program which will be
posted on the APS Home Page, well in advance of the printed program. (Abstracts
submitted in paper form will have only the title and author listed in the
electronic program)
For information on how to submit an
abstract electronically, send an e-mail message to "abs-info@aps.org"
and use the word “info” in the text of your message. To receive the template, send a message to
"abs-request@aps.org" and put the words "request <meeting
ID>" in the text of your message. The information and/or template will
be returned to you by e-mail. If you
have particular questions regarding the information, or need assistance, send a
message to "abs-help@aps:org" .
Submitting electronically is very
easy. The mark-up language we use is
LaTex, but you do not need to know LaTex in order to submit an abstract. Simple
ASCII text will suffice, unless you need to put mathematical symbols or Greek
characters in the text of your abstract - and most of those instructions are
very simple.
Paper
Submission
Abstracts received via postal mail will
be accepted; however, only the title and authors of the paper will appear in
the printed version of the Bulletin and on the World Wide Web version of the
Bulletin.
Please follow the instructions for the
preparation of paper abstracts as they appear in each issue of APS Meeting
News. These abstracts should be sent to:
<Meeting ID or Meeting Name>
Meeting Abstracts
APS Meetings Department
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740-3844
Please do NOT also send a paper
abstract to APS if you are submitting your abstract electronically. All abstracts must be at the headquarters
office by the deadline date. APS
assumes no responsibility for mail delays.
Receipt of paper abstracts will not be confirmed unless accompanied by a
self-addressed, stamped envelope.
Some
Electronic Do's and Don't’s
Do not simply "reply" to the
address from which you received the abstract template. Send the abstract to
"abs-submit@aps.org'' . Make sure
you have the correct meeting ID <Meeting ID>.
One abstract per message! The system is
automated. Sending two or more abstracts in one message increases the
likelihood that all but the first abstract will disappear into the ether.
Use only one sorting category for your
abstract in the “Sort Category” field. In order to sort the papers properly, it
is important that the system deal with only one request. If you wish to give additional guidance to
those who are putting the program together, please do so in the “Special
Instructions” field. The “Sort Category" field has four curly braces.
Please use them as follows:
\Sort Category {15}{L}{}{}. Not \Sort Category {15L}{}{}{} and
not \sort Category {15}{L}{32}{B}. Do
not remove left over braces.
Only submit your abstract once. You should
receive an e-mail message telling you that we got your message within 24
hours. If you have not, contact
"abs-help@aps.org".
Respectfully,
Kenneth A. Hardy
Physics Department
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33199
(305) 348-2605 (phone), (305) 348-6700
(fax)
hardyk@fiu.edu (e-mail)
SOUTHEASTERN SECTION OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2000
|
Chair Dr. Thomas Gallagher Department of Physics University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22901 804 924 6817 P 804 924 4576 F |
Chair Elect Dr. Ronald Mickens Department of Physics Clark Atlanta University Box 172, Atlanta, GA 30311 404 880 6923 P 404 880 6258 F |
|
Vice Chair Dr. Waiter Croft Mississippi State Univ. Drawer N.C. Mississippi State, MS 39762 662 325 2806 P 662 325 8898 F |
Past Chair Dr. Kirby Kemper Department of Physics Florida State Univ. Tallahassee, Fl 32306 850 644 2338 P 850 644 9848 F |
|
Treasurer Dr. Larry Cain Department of Physics Davidson College Davidson, NC 28036 704 892 2347 P 704 892 2894 F |
Secretary Dr. Kenneth Hardy Department of Physics Florida International Univ. Miami, FL. 33199 305 348 2605 P 305 348 6700 F |
|
Executive Committee 97-00 Dr. Calvin Howell Department of Physics Duke University Box 90308 Durham, NC 27708 919 660 2632 P 919 660 2634 F |
Executive Committee 98-01 Dr. Rodney Piercey Dept: of Phys. and Ast. Mississippi State Univ. Drawer 5167, Mississippi State, Ms. 39762 662 325 2688 P |
|
Executive Committee 99-02 Dr. Lawrence Akers Department of Physics 401 Crewdson Ave. Chattanooga, TN 37405 423 756 2329 P 423 755 4279 F |
Executive Committee 00-03 Dr. David Ernst Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37235 615 322 2828 P 615 322 1103 F |
|
APS Representative Dr. Joe Hamilton Department of Physics Vanderbilt Univ.,·PO Box 1807-B Nashville, TN 37235 615 322 2456 P 615 343 7263 F HAMILTJ1@CTRVAX.
VANDERBILT. EDU |
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APPLICATION FOR STUDENT TRAVEL SUPPORT TO THE SESAPS MEETING
NAME: _____________________________________________________________
ADDRESS:
__________________________________________________________
CITY: _________________________________
STATE: ______________________
ZIP: ___________
SCHOOL: ___________________________________________________________
UNDERGRADUATE/CLASS:
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GRADUATE/CLASS:
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ABSTRACT TITLE:
___________________________________________________
ABSTRACT AUTHORS: _______________________________________________
AMOUNT REQUESTED ($100 MAX):
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PURPOSE OF
REQUESTED FUNDS: _____________________________________
__________________________________________________
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RETURN
BY 1 OCTOBER TO:
KENNETH
A. HARDY, SECRETARY SESAPS
PHYSICS
DEPARTMENT
FLORIDA
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY
PARK, MIAMI, FL 33199