SUMMER NEWSLETTER
OF THE
SOUTHEASTERN
SECTION
OF
THE
AMERICAN
PHYSICAL SOCIETY
AUGUST 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 RBP1@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 LAST 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 paper and invited paper abstracts is no later than 5:00
PM 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, then just the
title and authors will appear in the BULLETIN. Naturally, contributed papers on
any subject in physics will be accepted but may not have a session devoted
exclusively to their subject matter.
Contributions from students about research results, even at intermediate
stages of completion, are strongly encouraged. Undergraduate students completing
summer research projects should seriously consider this opportunity to
communicate their results.
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 on the abstract template. Any questions about the
program should be directed to Dr. Mickens.
Invited papers at this meeting, as at 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 by 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 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 below the abstract: If
invited to do so, the author is willing to expand the talk for the above
abstract to twenty minutes.
Poster
Presentations:
Facilities will also be available for poster presentations. If a SESAPS
contributor would prefer a poster presentation, it should be noted with the
following statement typed below the abstract: Poster presentation preferred.
You should also check the appropriate box or fill the appropriate blank on your
electronic submission form.
Abstract
Submission:
Complete abstract submission instructions can be found at <http://www.aps.org/meet/meet-abstract.html>. Authors are strongly urged to proof their
abstract carefully before submission. Contributors may submit in one of two
ways:
(1) Via
the web: To submit a contributed abstract using the online web submission
process, an author needs to know two things: (a) the number and ordering of
authors and collaborations; and (b) what to write for the abstract
content. The web page will guide you
through the rest. Try a test submission
before submitting your abstract. Log
onto < http://abstracts.aps.org > and select the meeting TEST. Follow the directions online to create your
own practice abstract. When ready to
submit your abstract online, select the meeting (SES00) by clicking on the
appropriate button. A form will be created for you. Simply input the information.
(2) Via
e-mail: Contributors must create their abstracts from an electronic template
supplied by the American Physical Society.
The template and instruction files for contributed abstracts can be
obtained by sending email to <abs-request@aps.org> with the phrase
REQUEST SES00 in the message. Also, see attached material at the end of this
newsletter.
If you
have questions regarding abstract submission, please send them to
<abs-help@aps.org>.
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 meeting 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. 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.
Registration will be $35.00 for SESAPS and
other APS members, $50 for nonmembers, $5 for retired physicists and $15 for
graduate students. Awardees and banquet speakers will not pay the registration
or banquet fee. Undergraduate students
may register free at the Society of Physics Students' table. There is provision
for advance registration on the web site for the meeting: (http://sesaps.msstate.edu). Credit cards
will be accepted.
The Local
Arrangements Chair is Rodney Piercey, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi
State University, Mississippi State, MS
39762; E-mail: rbp1@ra.msstate.edu; Telephone: (662)325-2806. 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
scheduled time for each presentation must be obtained from the Bulletin which
will be available electronically.
Society
of Physics Students Meeting: A separate SPS meeting for undergraduate students will be
scheduled in conjunction with the SESAPS meeting. Registration will be separate
from the SESAPS registration and at a separate SPS desk in the hotel
lobby. The primary student paper
session, with 10-minute oral presentations, is where the Marsh W. White Award
will be given for the best paper. Depending on demand, alternate poster
presentations may also be possible.
A LETTER
FROM THE CHAIR
The SESAPS annual meeting is one of the
few APS meetings which spans all of physics.
For example, this years meeting includes a broad range of topics,
ranging from high energy and nuclear astrophysics to industrial applications of
physics. Exposure to such a range of
topics is extremely valuable, for it reminds us of the intellectual breath of
physics and the fact that there is elegant physics everywhere. It is all too
easy to lose sight of the exciting advance in areas of physics other than your
own, and for this reason I hope to see you in November at Mississippi State.
This year the APS council has decided to
give, for the first time, sectional representatives a vote, on a rotating
basis. At any given time two of the sections can vote. Our turn is for the next four years, so if
you have an issue which you wish to have brought before the APS council, now is
the time to do so, and you should speak to either a member of the executive
committee, or our
representative
Joe Hamilton.
Tom Gallagher, Chair
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. Please use the form included with
this newsletter.
The
Pegram, Beams, and Slack committees have not made their recommendations. The winners of these awards
will be announced on our home page. 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 included on the election ballot, which is included, for
consideration by the Nominating Committee, which is made up of the Executive
Committee. Please vote!
MEMBERS
SHOULD CHECK OUT THE SESAPS HOME PAGE. The home page may be found through the link from the APS home
page at "HTTP://WWW.APS.ORG". Click
on sections and click on Southeastern. The home page is at Davidson and was put
together and is maintained by our treasurer, Larry Cain. Larry would welcome
suggestions for changes to make the page more useful. Thanks Larry.
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS GENERATED BY APS TO ASSIST YOU WITH THE PREPARATION OF ELECTRONICALLY SUBMITTED ABSTRACTS
The
deadline for the submission of all abstracts is Friday, August 25, 2000, 5:00
pm EST at the APS Headquarters.
The
deadline is firm, so don't wait until the last minute! Send early - save yourself the stress!
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
<ses99>" 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 your abstract electronically
is surprisingly simple. 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.
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:
<ses00>
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.
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
<ses00>.
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 deals only with one request. If you wish to give additional guidance to
those who are putting the program together, please feel free to 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 received your message within 24 hours.
If you do not receive such a message then contact
"abs-help@aps.org"
for assistance.
THE
SESAPS BALLOT for
the election of the 2000 officers is included in this mailing to be marked and
returned to the SESAPS TREASURER no later than 5PM on November 2, 2000. Ballots may be returned by mail or at the
meeting, but in either case, must be in the envelope provided with your
signature at the upper left. This is
your opportunity to participate in the selection of the leadership for your
organization. Please vote for the Vice-Chair
and Member of the
Executive
Committee. The ballot also provides a
means for input for future nominations do not hesitate to suggest yourself if
you would like to participate in this way.
There is also a place on the ballot where you can make contributions to
the Beams, Pegram and Slack Award Funds.
Such contributions are our means to continue the yearly presentation.
Respectfully,
Kenneth A.
Hardy
Physics
Department
Florida
International University0
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 TFG@VIRGINIA.EDU |
Chair Elect Dr. Ronald Mickens Department of Physics Clark Atlanta University Box 172, Atlanta, Ga. 30311 404 880 6923 P 404 880 6258 F ROHRS@MATH.GATECH.EDU |
|
Vice Chair Dr. Walter Croft Mississippi State Univ. Drawer N.C. Mississippi State, MS 39762 662 325 2806 P 662 325 8898 F wlcroft@ra.msstaes.edu |
Past Chair Dr. Kirby Kemper Department of Physics Florida State Univ. Tallahassee, Fl 32306 850 644 2338 P 850 644 9848 F KIRBY@PHY.FSU.EDU |
|
Treasurer Dr. Larry Cain Department of Physics Davidson College Davidson, NC 28036 704 894 4129 P (home) 704 894 2894 F lacain@DAVIDSON.EDU |
Secretary Dr. Kenneth Hardy Department of Physics Florida International Univ. Miami, FL. 33199 305 348 2605 P 305 348 6700 F HARDYK@FIU.EDU |
|
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 RBP1@RA.MSSTATE.EDU |
Executive Committee 99-02 Dr. Lawrence Akers Department of Physics 401 Crewdson Ave. Chattanooga, Tn. 37405 423 756 2329 P 423 755 4279 F larry-akers@utc.edu |
|
Executive Committee 00-03 Dr. David Ernst Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tn 37235 615 322 2828 P 615 322 1103 F DAVID.J.ERNST@VANDERBILT.EDU |
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 howell@tunl.tunl.duke.edu |
|
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 |
|
APPLICATION
FOR STUDENT TRAVEL SUPPORT TO THE SESAPS MEETING
NAME:____________________________________________________________
ADDRESS:_________________________________________________________
CITY:__________________________________
STATE:_______________
ZIP:___________
SCHOOL:__________________________________________________________
UNDERGRADUATE/CLASS:_____________________________________________
GRADUATE/CLASS:__________________________________________________
ABSTRACT
TITLE:________________________________________________________
ABSTRACT
AUTHORS:______________________________________________________
AMOUNT
REQUESTED ($100 MAX)___________________________________________
PURPOSE OF
REQUESTED FUNDS:____________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
RETURN BY 1 OCTOBER TO:
KENNETH A. HARDY, SECRETARY SESAPS
PHYSICS DEPARTMENT
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY PARK, MIAMI, FL 33199
SOUTHEASTERN SECTION
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
2000 BALLOT
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FOR
VICE-CHAIR
Brad Cox UVa.
_____________
Steve Mintz FIU. _____________
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FOR
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Glen Edwards Duke ______
E. Craig Dukes UVa.
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FOR APS
REPRESENTATIVE
Joe Hamilton Vanderbilt ______
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Please
list below any suggestions for future officers of the section
NAME OFFICE
Many members of the section have made
donations to the Jesse Beams Award for outstanding contributions to research
and to the George Pegram Award for outstanding contributions to teaching so we
want to offer an opportunity for others to contribute to the Beams-Pegram and
Slack fund. Please feel free to cut
this section from the ballot and use it to make your contribution by sending it
to Dr. Laurence Cain, Department of Physics, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
28036. Dr. Cain will also accept contributions at the SESAPS meeting.
Name_____________________
Beams-Pegram
Amount_____________________
Slack Amount_____________________