The Fall Meeting of the
Appalachian Section will
be held in Hodges and White Halls at West Virginia University,
Morgantown, WV,
on Friday, October 14 and Saturday, October 15, 2011.
If you plan on submitting a
contributed paper, please contact Greg Puskar at gpuskar@wvu.edu or
304-293-3422 extension
1455, with your title. Deadline
for
submission is September 30.
Contributed
papers will be 10 to 15 minutes in length, depending on the
number of
submissions. To
make speaker
transitions more seamless, please send electronic versions to
Greg by Friday,
October 7.
On
Friday afternoon from Noon to 5 PM, we will be hosting a
VPython workshop for
High School teachers. However,
anyone
is welcome to attend. Martina
Bachlechner
and Kelly Wolf will be leading the workshop. Workshop fees are
$10 if registered by
September 30 and $15 thereafter. Five
hours of professional development credit is available to high
school
teachers. You
can register directly
with Greg by contacting him at gpuskar@wvu.edu.
The announcement
is online at
www.wju.edu/academics/phy/aapt/2011/VPython.11.gif.
There will be a reception and dinner
Friday evening from 5:30 to 7 PM in Newman Hall (close by
Hodges and White
Halls). Dr.
Gregory Good, Director of
the American Institute of Physics Center for the History of
Physics, will be speaking
at 7:30 PM about “The Messiness of Discovery: Rutherford’s
Exploration of the
Atom”. He
will also be presenting an
Invited Talk on Saturday morning on “Tools for Physics
Teachers at AIP, APS and
AAPT”.
Our meeting coincides
with the “Farewell to
Hodges Hall” weekend of events.
The
Physics Department will be located in White Hall on the
Downtown Campus of WVU
beginning in January, 2012.
Attendees
at each event are welcome to visit the sessions of both. A complete schedule
of both events will be
forthcoming.
Meeting registration
fees are $25 ($5 section
membership dues and $20 to offset food costs).
A list of Morgantown hotels can be found at http://www.westvirginiahotels.org.