Conference Schedule

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Schedule of Events

Thursday October 22, 2009 – All events in Roy F. Mitte Building

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Registration

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM SPS Reception

7:00 PM Executive Meeting TSAPS

7:00 PM Executive Meeting TSAAPT

Friday October 23, 2009 – All events in LBJ Student Center

7:00 AM - 3:00 PM Registration

8:00 AM Announcements

8:15 AM Opening by provost Texas State University Dr. Perry Moore

8:30 AM Invited Session

Etch-a-Sketch Nanoelectronics, Dr. Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh

Polarization Electronics – A Path to Multifunctional Materials, Dr. Thomas Myers, Texas State University at San Marcos

10:00 AM Contributed Sessions - Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Research, Biological and Chemical Physics, Physics Education: AAPT, Astronomy and Astrophysics

12:00 PM Lunch, Business Meetings, and Awards

TSAPS Distinguished Service Award honoring Robert Beck Clark, Len Diana, and David Gavenda, Remarks on the history of the Texas Section

2:00 PM Contributed Sessions - Condensed Matter, Nanoscience, Theoretical Physics, High Energy Physics,

Invited Talk: Women of the Manhattan Project, Dr. Jill Marshall, University of Texas at Austin

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Poster Session

6:00 PM Bar opens at banquet

6:30 PM Banquet

After dinner talk - Van Gogh's Starry Nights, Lincoln's Moon, Shakespeare's Stars and More: Tales of Astronomy in Art, History, and Literature, Dr. Donald Olson, Texas State University.

Saturday October 24, 2009 - All events in LBJ Student Center

8:30 AM Plenary session

The Observable Universe, Dr. Kim-Vy Tran, Texas A&M University

Profiting from the Inflationary Universe with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment, Dr. Karl Gebhardt, University of Texas at Austin

10:00 AM Contributed Sessions – Condensed Matter Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear Physics, Atomic, Molecular and Optics Physics (9)

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Women in Physics Poster Session

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Women in Physics Networking Luncheon

Workshops (all workshops to be held in RFM building)

Friday, October 23, 2009

1:00 – 3:00 PM The Ritz of Telecommunications and Sound

1:00 – 3:00 PM Making a Galilean Telescope with Your Students

3:00 – 5:00 PM Building an Electric Guitar from PVC

3:15 – 5:15 PM New Ideas for Teaching Physics: Part I

Saturday, October 24, 2009

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Microfabrication Workshop

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Using PhET Simulations in the Introductory Physics Classroom

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM New Ideas for Teaching Physics: Part II

9:00 AM – 2:00 PM Radiation and Health: A Workshop for Grade 4-12 Science Teachers

10:30 AM – 1:00 PM Short Tutorial on Photovoltaics