The Fall 2022 Meeting of the New England Section of AAPT will be hybrid: an onsite conference with a virtual option...
The Meeting Theme: Connecting Students to Current Science Events
Location: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Olin Hall (100 Institute Rd, Worcester MA 01609 is the correct GPS address.) Both our section and the host institution require masking indoors (except when consuming food and drink).
Breaks sponsored by ‽ Pearson
Sponsors include PASCO and WPI
Official printed program available in person. Online Zoom Room starting at 8:30 am Saturday, November 5th. Zoom link will be emailed to participants on Friday before meeting...
OFFICIAL PROGRAM: As of 11/4/2022... see link at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16VFkYd76biUkirEU-epQ35kleM-x9o38/view?usp=sharing
PROVISIONAL Schedule: As of 10/12/2022. Talk start times will be consecutive as much as possible.
Saturday, November 5 2022; AAPT Saturday Session
8:00 am - 10:00 am Posters presenters set up, and at posters (9 - 9:45)
8:30 am - 10:00 am Zoom Room openfor Testing/Open Chat, Etc.
9:00 am - 9:45 am New England Section Business Meeting
9:50 am SESSION CALLED TO ORDER, Opening Remarks
Ed Hasenohr, President AAPT-NES ( hasenohre.AT.gmail.com )
David Sturm, New England Representative to AAPT ( sturmde.AT.maine.edu )
AAPT Summer Meeting 2024 Boston!
Dr Andria Schwortz, AAPT-NES Board, introducing our morning speaker
10:00 am - 10:55 am Morning Keynote Speaker
Dr Sean Linden, Postdoctoral Researcher, James Webb Space Telescope
University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Department of Astronomy
"JWST Early Release Science"
Dr Linden works with images from JWST that are 'revealing the activity in merging luminous infrared galaxies', and will talk about how these current events in science connect to what we teach in physics and astronomy.
10:55 am - 11:10 am Followup Questions and Break
11:10 am - 11:45 pm Invited Speaker
Dr William Waller, Author
Co-founder and Co-Editor of The Galactic Inquirer, past high school physics teacher, university researcher/lecturer/professor, scientist, and astronomer.
"Towards an Earth & Space Science Curriculum Sequence in American High Schools"
11:45 am - 1:00 pm Lunch break (On Your Own/next door at the Union)
11:45 am - 1:00 pm Poster presenters at posters around lunch
1:00 pm Afternoon Call Back to Order
1 pm - 2 pm Invited Speaker
Dr Eugenia Etkina, Professor
Rutgers University
title TBA
2 pm - 2:35 pm Inivited Speaker
Reed Prior, AAPT-NES Board, introducing our second afternoon speaker:
Kailyn Vaillancourt, nanotechnology engineering junior at University of Waterloo, and undergraduate researcher at Harvard
Kailyn is working in a new STEM field, working with the manipulation and creation of devices in materials at a scale so small that an unaided human eye cannot see it. She is working for Harvard's Dr Federico Capasso (Applied Physics, and Electrical Engineering) whose main areas of research involve quantum cascade lasers and metasurfaces: such as the process known as “flat optics.” Kailyn will share what 2D flat optics is, potential applications, design and fabrication, and why this can be a current science topic of real interest for discussion with high school and college physics students. Flat optics can help pave the way for improved Virtual Reality (VR) and Argument Reality (AR) lenses, cell phone cameras, sensors on machines and hologram applications.
Additional Talks*:
And additional poster presenter time:
? pm - ? pm Poster presenters at posters
Dinner Break 5 pm - 7 pm (On Your Own or with Groups)
(tentative) Telescope Observations with Local Experts 7 pm - ?
Open questions fitting the theme for contributed talks* might include:
(1) How do you engage students of physics using current events like the JWST launch, or the Artemis missions?
(2) How do you access information about current topics in science?
(3) Resources and programs available at no cost to teachers of physics...
And any talk related to the teaching of physics is always welcomed to be submitted as a contributed talk.
** Note, APS members are always welcome to register for AAPT sessions and workshops with the understanding that there is no APS documentation of presentations as at AAPT or AAPT-led joint meetings.
* If you plan to contribute a paper or poster, please send your abstract before the end of the day, Friday, October 28th. Abstracts (contributed and posters) may be submitted
*
https://forms.gle/ktPrfZu628hj2coAA
AAPT welcomes all other contributed papers/posters at link above.
ONSITE HOST Contacts:
Ed Hasenohr, President AAPT-NES ( hasenohre.AT.gmail.com )
Reed Prior, Board member AAPT-NES ( reedprior.AT.aol.com ), affiliated with WPI
ZOOM HOST Contact:
David Sturm, University of Maine
sturmde.AT.maine.edu 207-478-4937 (text only)