Recommended Sessions for Undergraduate Students
Feb 13 2010 8:30AM, Saturday
Session A1 The Energy Frontier at the LHC
Sponsor: DPF Chair: Patricia McBride, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Invited Speakers: Andrew Lankford, Joseph Incandela
Session A3 Pulsars in the Fermi Era
Sponsor: DAP Chair: Maxim Lyutikov, Purdue University Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Invited Speakers: Lucas Guillemot, Anatoly Spitkovsky 
A3.00002 Implications of Fermi Observations for Gamma-Ray Pulsar Emission Models
Session A5 Art and Physics
Sponsor: FPS AAPT Chair: Charles Ferguson, Council on Foreign Relations Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Invited Speakers: Jim Sanborn, Felice Frankel, George Whitesides
Feb 13 2010 10:45AM, Saturday
Session B1 Beyond the Standard Model: Searches for New Physics
Sponsor: DPF Chair: Jacobo Konigsberg, University of Florida Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Invited Speakers:
Session B4 Panel Discussion: Physics in Africa
Sponsor: FIP Chair: David Ernst, Vanderbilt University Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Invited Speakers: Paul Gueye, Gordon MacLeod
Session B5 Secrecy and Physics
Sponsor: FHP FPS AAPT Chair: Peter Galison, Harvard University Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Invited Speakers: Peter Galison, Steven Aftergood, William Happer
Session B11 SPS Undergraduate Research I Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics Room: Maryland C
Feb 13 2010 1:30PM, Saturday
Session D2 Bethe and Bonner Prizes
Sponsor: DNP Chair: Lawrence Cardman, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Invited Speakers: C. Rolfs D2.00001 Hans A. Bethe Prize Talk: LUNA: a Laboratory Underground for Nuclear Astrophysics
Session D5 Nonproliferation
Sponsor: FPS Chair: Lawrence Krauss, Arizona State University Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Invited Speakers: Frank von Hippel, Pavel Podvig
Session D11 SPS Undergraduate Research II Chair: Ann Viano, Rhodes College Room: Maryland C
Session D13 Ground-based and Space-based Instruments and Techniques Sponsor: DAP Chair: Eric Grove, Naval Research Laboratory Room: Washington 6
Feb 13 2010 4:00PM, Saturday
Session E1 The Kavli Foundation Joint Plenary Session: Re-Energizing America's Focus in STEM Education
Sponsor: APS/AAPT NSBP NSHP Chair: Alex Dickison, AAPT President and Seminole State College of Florida Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 1-2
Invited Speakers: Linda Slakey, Shirley Malcom, Robert P. Moses
Feb 14 2010 8:30AM, Sunday
Session G3 Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Sources
Sponsor: DAP Chair: Brenda Dingus, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Invited Speakers: Jonathan Granot, Erin Wells Bonning, Nepomuk Otte G3.00003 TeV Observation of Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Sources
Session G6 Panel Discussion: Benefits of Undergraduate Research Experiences
Sponsor: FEd AAPT Chair: Catherine Mader, Hope College Room: Washington 5
Invited Speakers: Patrick Mulvey
Session G11 SPS Undergraduate Research III Chair: Kendra Rand, American Institute of Physics Room: Maryland C
Session G13 Astrophysical Searches for Dark Matter and New Physics
Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Simona Murgia, SLAC KIPAC Room: Washington 6 G13.00007 Verification of Indirect Indications of the Nature of Dark Matter
Feb 14 2010 10:45AM, Sunday
Session H1 Panofsky, Bouchet and Wilson Prizes
Sponsor: DPF DPB Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Invited Speakers: Eugene Beier, John Peoples, Jr, Herman B. White
Session H5 Physicists Inside the Beltway
Sponsor: FPS AAPT Chair: Charles Ferguson, Council on Foreign Relations Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Invited Speakers: Allen Sessoms, Brendan Plapp, Peter Lyons H5.00002 A Decade in DC: The Congressional Science Fellowship and Beyond
Session H10 History of Physics Contributed Papers Sponsor: FHP Chair: David Cassidy, Hofstra University Room: Maryland B
Session H11 Physics Education Research Sponsor: FEd Chair: Samuel Lightner, Westminster College Room: Maryland C
Feb 14 2010 1:30PM, Sunday
Session J1 Remembering Enrico Fermi
Sponsor: FHP AAPT Chair: James Cronin, University of Chicago Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 1-2
Invited Speakers: Tsung-Dao Lee, Richard L. Garwin, Jerome Friedman J1.00003 A Student's View of Fermi
Session J6 Panel Discussion: Policy for Physics and Science in Developing Countries
Sponsor: FIP FGSA Chair: Galileo Violini, Universita della Calabria, and Paul Gueye, Hampton University Room: Washington 5
Invited Speakers: Carlos Aguirre-Bastos, Mustafa El Tayeb, William Lawrence, Jose Hipolito Garcia-Garcia, Gustavo Atilio Crespi
Feb 14 2010 3:30PM, Sunday
Session K4 Earth, Sky and Moon: Gravity Tests Across 13 Orders of Magnitude
Sponsor: GGR GPMFC Chair: John Gillaspy, National Institute of Standards and Technology Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Invited Speakers: Pierre Touboul K4.00002 ESA's GOCE gravity gradiometer mission
Session K11 SPS Undergraduate Research IV Chair: Thomas Olsen, American Institute of Physics Room: Maryland C
Feb 14 2010 7:00PM, Sunday
Session M1 Welcome Reception and Poster Session II: (7:00-9:00 PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall A-B-C M1.00034 Designing Electronics and PMT Housing for a Liquid Scintillation Detector to be Used for Measuring Muon-Induced Processes at Homestake
Feb 15 2010 8:30AM, Monday
Session N1 Plenary Session II
Chair: Barry Barish, APS President-Elect and California Institute of Technology Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 1-2
Invited Speakers: Naomi Makins, Judith Lean
Feb 15 2010 10:45AM, Monday
Session P5 Energy Education
Sponsor: FPS FEd AAPT Chair: Charles Ferguson, Federation of American Scientists Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Invited Speakers: Alan Meier, Mary Spruill
Session P6 Developing Exemplary Undergraduate Physics Programs: The SPIN-UP Regional Workshops
Sponsor: FEd AAPT Chair: Ruth Howes, Ball State University Room: Washington 5
Invited Speakers: C. Steven Whisnant, Jack Hehn
Feb 15 2010 1:30PM, Monday
Session Q5 Origins of Research and Teaching at Selected Physics Departments
Sponsor: FHP FEd AAPT Chair: James Stith, American Institute of Physics Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Invited Speakers: Hans von Baeyer, Warren Collins, Jerry Gollub Q5.00003 Research and Education in Physics and Astronomy at Haverford College
Session Q6 Perspectives of Women Physicists As Seen From Academia, National Laboratories, and Industry
Sponsor: COM/CSWP FGSA/AAPT Chair: Kawtar Hafidi, Argonne National Laboratory Room: Washington 5
Invited Speakers: Lidija Sekaric, Beverly Karplus Hartline
Feb 15 2010 2:00PM, Monday
Session R1 Poster Session III: (2:00 - 5:00 PM) Room: Exhibit Hall A-B
Feb 15 2010 3:30PM, Monday
Session S5 Sakharov Prize
Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Invited Speakers: Joseph L. Birman, Morris (Moishe) Pripstein S5.00003 Andrei Sakharov Prize Talk: Human Rights and International Science -- a Symbiotic Relationship
Session S15 Physics Outreach
Sponsor: FEd Chair: Peggy Norris, Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake Room: Harding S15.00002 After-school, Activity-based Physical Science in a Low-income, Rural County
Feb 16 2010 8:30AM, Tuesday
Session V1 Plenary Session III
Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 1-2
Invited Speakers: John Carlstrom, William J. Borucki, Rob Roser
Feb 16 2010 10:45AM, Tuesday
Session X2 Strategies for Improving Climate and Diversity in Physics Departments
Sponsor: CSWP FEd AAPT Chair: Kawtar Hafidi, Argonne National Laboratory Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Invited Speakers: Apriel Hodari, Kate Quinn
Session X4 The Laser: Historical Perspectives and Impact on Precision Measurements
Sponsor: FHP GPMFC Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Invited Speakers: J.A. Giordmaine, Federico Capasso, John L. Hall
Feb 16 2010 1:30PM, Tuesday
Session Y2 An Introduction to the New Nuclear Physics
Sponsor: DNP AAPT Chair: Howard Matis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Invited Speakers: Bradley Sherrill