Schedule : Physics APS-AAPT : UMass Lowell

Program for the Spring 2011 Joint Meeting of the
New England Sections of the
American Physical Society
&
American Association of Physics Teachers

Program Schedule (pdf)

Friday, April 8, 2011 UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center
11:30 a.m.	Registration desk opens (ICC Function Area Lobby) Vendor and Exhibitor Displays
1:00 - 1:10 p.m.	Welcome
Session A1 Materials I	Chair: Daniel Wasserman (ICC Ballroom)
1:10 - 2:05 p.m.	Nader Engheta (University of Pennsylvania) Taming Light and Electrons with Metamaterials
2:05 - 3:00 p.m.	Richard Averitt (Boston University) Terahertz Spectroscopy of Complex Materials
3:00 - 3:30 p.m	Refreshment Break
Session B1 Materials II	Chair: Jayant Kumar (ICC Ballroom)
3:30 - 4:25 p.m.	Alain Karma (Northeastern University) Pattern Formation in Materials
4:25 - 5:20 p.m.	Michael Rubner (MIT) Nature Inspired Surface Coatings
Session C1	ICC Lower Locks Room, Cash Bar
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.	APS and AAPT Posters
Session D1	Banquet ICC Ballroom, Ticket required
7:00 - 9:30 p.m.	Banquet - Speaker: Eric Mazur (Harvard) The Make-Believe World of Real-World Physics

Saturday April 9, 2011 Olney Science Center
Session E1
7:00 - 8:00 a.m. (OH - 522)	NES-AAPT Committee Breakfast Meeting
7:00 a.m. - Noon	Registration desk opens Vendors and Exhibitors
7:00 - 10:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast (Complimentary)
Session F	Contributed Oral Papers
8:00 - 9:15 a.m.	F1 Biomedical, Health, Nuclear Physics (O-316) Chair: Mark Tries
8:00 - 9:15 a.m.	F2 Materials, Devices, and Applications (O-517) Chair: Mengyan Shen
8:00 - 9:15 a.m.	F3Materials, Optics (O-519) Chair: Shiva Vangala
8:00 - 9:15 a.m.	F4 Enviornment, Astronomy, Theory (O-115) Chair: Aram Karakashian
8:00 - 9:15 a.m.	F5 Physics Education (O-218) Chair: David Pullen
Session G1 Undergraduate Education	Chair: Partha Chowdhury (O - 150)
9:00 - 9:45 a.m.	Robert Beichner (North Carolina State University) The Student-Centered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs (SCALE_UP) Project
Session H1 Materials III	Chair William Goodhue (O - 150)
9:45 - 10:40 a.m.	Viktor Podolskiy (UMass Lowell) Bending the Laws of Diffraction with Hyperbolic Materials
10:40 - 11:35 a.m.	Zhifeng Ren (Boston College) Nanostructure Approach for High-Performance Thermoelectrics, Photovoltaics, and Biosensing
Session H2 Physics Teaching	Chair: Zenobia Lojewska (O - 218)
9:45 - 10:15 a.m.	William Church (Littleton High School, Littleton, MA) Physics With Robotics - A Decade with Our Little Electromechanical Friends
10:15 - 10:45 a.m.	David Lustick (UMass Lowell Graduate School of Education) Exceptional Science Teaching
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.	Sachiko Tosa (Wright State University, Dayton, OH) Effective Instructional Strategies in Physics Education
Session J1	Concluding Plenary Session (O - 150) Chair: Albert Altman
11:35 - 12:30 p.m.	Mark Silverman (Trinity College) A Series of "Fortunate" Events: Serendipitous Encounters with Remarkable Materials
12:30 - 1:00 p.m.	Box Lunch and AAPT Demonstrations
Session K1
12:30 - 2:30 p.m.	NES-APS Executive Committee Lunch Meeting (O-522)
Session L1	Workshop I (O - 104)
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.	J. Russell Harkay Phenomenal Physics - A Guided Inquiry Curriculum for Pre-College Education and Conceptual Physics Instruction at the College Level
Session L2	Tutorial (O-115)
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.	Laurence Gould (University of Hartford) Tutorial: Anthropogenic "Global Warming" - Illuminating Some of its Scientific and Methodological Flaws
Session L3	Tour I (Lobby)
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.	UMass Lowell Research Facilities
Session M1	Workshop II (O-106)
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.	Mark Greenman (Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow, Marblehead (MA) High School (Ret.)) Interactive Lecture Demonstration - A Research-Based Active and Minds-On Learning Pedagogy
Session M2	Tour II (Lobby)
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.	UMass Lowell Research Facilities