Public Lectures and Technical Talks (Check Back For Updates)

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Friday, October 19, 2007
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM: Registration on the 2nd Floor of Rudder Tower.
M o r n i n g
	8:45-9:00 AM	Rudder - 601	Introductory Comments by Edward S. Fry, Head of Physics Department, and Michael B. Hall, Executive Associate Dean, College of Science
	9:00-9:45 AM	Rudder - 601	Dudley Herschbach, Nobel Laureate, Harvard University and Texas A&M University "Einstein's Theory of Specific Heats: The Third Coming of Planck's Constant"
	9:45-10:30	Rudder - 601	Douglas Osheroff, Nobel Laureate, Stanford University "How Advances in Science Are Made"
	10:30-12:00		Coffee and Other Refreshments Available APS, AAPT, and SPS parallel sessions and workshops on physics research and teaching
	11:00-11:30	Rudder - 601	Helmut Katzgraber, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich "The Physics of Diving"
A f t e r n o o n	12:30 PM		Conference Luncheon
	1:30-1:45		Luncheon Talk followed with Presentation of First Robert S. Hyer Research Award Robert Hyer Thomas "The Teaching Legacy of Robert S. Hyer"
	2:00-2:45	Rudder - 601	Oscar Vilches, University of Washington "One, Two, and Three Dimensional Physics with Films Absorbed on Carbon Nanotube Bundles"
	2:45-5:00		Coffee and Other Refreshments Available APS, AAPT, and SPS parallel sessions and workshops on physics research and teaching
	2:45-3:15	Rudder - 601	Don Engel, Senior Science Policy Fellow, APS "China and India: A New Sputnik?"
	6:00		Conference Banquet
	7:00-7:40		Banquet Presentation Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor "Einstein on Race and Racism"
	8:00		Bus leaves banquet for Texas A&M Observatory, for night sky observing (with activities supervised by professional and amateur astronomers)
	11:00		Bus returns from Texas A&M Observatory to banquet site

Saturday, October 20, 2007
All Day: Physics/Chemistry Open House.
M o r n i n g	9:00-9:45 AM	Rudder - 601	Laura Smoliar, CEO and Founder of Mobius Photonics, Santa Clara, CA "Starting a Photonics Company After the Telecom Meltdown"
	9:45-10:30	Rudder - 601	Keith Baker, Yale University "Exciting Prospects and New Experiments in both High Energy and Nuclear Physics"
	10:30-12:00		Coffee and Other Refreshments Available APS, AAPT, and SPS parallel sessions and workshops on physics research and teaching
	11:00 AM - 1:00 PM		Davidson Young Scholars Discussion and Picnic Melanie Becker, Chair Don Brownlee, University of Washington "Rare Earth"
	11:00-11:30	Rudder - 601	Helmut Katzgraber, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich "La Física del Buceo", en español
	11:30-12:00	Rudder - 601	Lucas Macri, National Optical Astronomy Observatory "Como Medir la Edad del Universo", en español
A f t e r n o o n	1:30-2:00 PM	Rudder - 601	Vy Tran, University of Zürich "The Great Observatories: New Windows into the Universe"
	2:00-2:30	Rudder - 601	Casey Papovich, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona "Probing the Universe in the Infrared with the Spitzer Space Telescope"
	2:30-3:00	Rudder - 601	Lucas Macri, National Optical Astronomy Observatory "How to Measure the Age of the Universe"
	4:00	Rudder - 601	Don Brownlee, University of Washington "STARDUST: a NASA comet exploration mission"