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Recommended Sessions for Undergraduate Students

Mar 15 2010 8:00AM, Monday

Session A4 Human Mobility: The Statistical Physics of When, Where, and How Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Northeastern University Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Invited Speakers:  Dirk Brockmann,  Alessandro Vespignani,  Nathan Eagle,  Joseph Klafter 

Session A27 Evolutionary and Ecological Systems Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jeff Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: D137

Session A42 Focus Session: Physics Teacher Preparation: Effective Strategies, National Models, and Challenging Issues Sponsor: FEd Chair: Stamatis Vokos, Seattle Pacific University Room: D138
Invited Speakers:  Valerie Otero 
 A42.00002 Becoming a physics teacher: A perspective on learning and teaching Physics by Inquiry

Mar 15 2010 11:15AM, Monday

Session B7 Evolutionary Dynamics Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Herbert Levine, University of California, San Diego Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Invited Speakers:  Jeff Gore 

Session B8 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Redux: The Physics of Global Catastrophes and Global Countermeasures Sponsor: FIP Chair: John W. Clark, Washington University in St. Louis Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Invited Speakers:  Alessandro Vespignani,  Kathleen Carley,  Jonathan Katz,  H. Eugene Stanley 

Session B27 Experimental Techniques in Biophysics Sponsor: DBP Chair: Mark Reeves, George Washington University Room: D137
 B27.00001 Reducing the Viscosity of Blood by Pulsed Magnetic Field

Session B28 SPS Undergraduate Research I Sponsor: SPS Chair: Gary White, AIP/SPS Room: C124

Mar 15 2010 2:30PM, Monday

Session D3 Materials for Solar to Electricity Conversion: Status and Future Sponsor: DMP GERA Chair: Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Invited Speakers:  W. Walukiewicz,  Michael McGehee 

Session D4 Quantum Computer Science Sponsor: GQI Chair: Dave Bacon, University of Washington Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Invited Speakers:  Sandy Irani,  Stephanie Wehner 

Session D5 Pais Prize Talk; Sam Goudsmit: Physics, Editor, and More Sponsor: FHP Chair: Gloria Lubkin, Physics Today, Editor Emerita Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Invited Speakers:  Russell McCormmach,  Esther Goudsmit,  Jonothan Logan,  Benjamin Bederson,  Peter M. Levy 

Session D28 SPS Undergraduate Research II Sponsor: SPS Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society Room: C124

Mar 15 2010 6:45PM, Monday

Session F1 Welcome Reception Room: Exhibit Hall B
Invited Speakers: 

Mar 15 2010 8:00PM, Monday

Session G1 Physics Community Outreach: Physics with a Bang! Chair: Samuel Bader, Argonne National Laboratory Room: C120-C122
Invited Speakers:  Heinrich Jaeger 

Mar 16 2010 8:00AM, Tuesday

Session H4 Polymer Physics Prize Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Hyuk Yu, University of Wisconsin-Madison Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Invited Speakers:  Michael Rubinstein,  Ralph Colby,  Sergey Panyukov,  Ludwik Leibler 
 H4.00001 Polymer Physics Prize Talk: Our Love Story with Polymers or ``Is This Really Physics?''

Mar 16 2010 11:15AM, Tuesday

Session J3 Energy Research and Applications: Future Materials and Systems Sponsor: GERA Chair: Joseph Poon, University of Virginia Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Invited Speakers:  A. Zunger,  Donald Morelli,  G.M. Stocks 

Session J8 LaserFest: Laser Education and Outreach Sponsor: FEd Chair: Theodore Hodapp, American Physical Society Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Invited Speakers:  Chad Orzel,  Paul Gueye,  Harold Metcalf,  Stephen Jacobs 

Mar 16 2010 2:00PM, Tuesday

Session K1 Poster Session II (2:00 pm - 5:00 pm) Room: Exhibit CD

Mar 16 2010 2:30PM, Tuesday

Session L5 Promoting Excellence: Preparation, Execution, and Opportunities Sponsor: COM Chair: William Evans, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Invited Speakers:  Walter Massey,  Anthony Johnson,  Suhithi Peiris,  Jaime Fernandez-Baca,  APS/COM Panel of Students 

Mar 17 2010 8:00AM, Wednesday

Session P7 Physics, Culture and the Arts Sponsor: FPS Chair: Philip L. Taylor, Case Western Reserve University Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Invited Speakers:  David Saltzberg,  Jodi Lomask,  Brian W. Holmes 
 P7.00001 Physics and the Making of ``The Big Bang'' TV Comedy Series

Session P8 Physicists as Entrepreneurs Sponsor: FIAP Chair: T. Venkatesan, National University of Singapore Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Invited Speakers:  Vitaly Talyansky,  Axel Scherer,  Santanu Bhattacharya,  Chris Doughty,  Daniel Ehrlich 

Session P10 Focus Session: Physics of Behavior Sponsor: DBP Chair: Will Ryu, University of Toronto Room: A106
Invited Speakers: 
 P10.00002 Reconstructing the behavior of walking fruit flies

Mar 17 2010 11:15AM, Wednesday

Session Q3 Physics for Everyone Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ivan K. Schuller, University of California, San Diego Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Invited Speakers:  Ray Orbach,  Charles Falco,  Eugenie Samuel Reich,  Alan Nathan 

Session Q4 Celebrating 50 Years of Lasers in Condensed Matter Physics: Surfaces, Imaging & Technology Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Marcus Cicerone, National Institute of Standards and Technology Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Invited Speakers:  Y. Ron Shen,  Andrew Marcus,  John Conboy,  Eric Betzig 
 Q4.00001 Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy as a Unique Probe for Surfaces of Liquids, Polymers and Solids

Session Q6 Science Literacy, the Nature of Science and Religion Sponsor: FEd Chair: Lawrence Woolf, General Atomics Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Invited Speakers:  Sheril Kirshenbaum,  Murray Peshkin,  Judith Scotchmoor,  Art Hobson 
 Q6.00002 How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future

Mar 17 2010 2:30PM, Wednesday

Session T1 Prize Session: Buckley, Lilienfeld Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Pine, New York University Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Invited Speakers:  Dov Levine,  Paul Steinhardt,  David Campbell,  Shlomo Havlin 
 T1.00004 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize Talk: Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks

Session T6 Graduate Education in Physics: Which Way Forward Sponsor: FEd FGSA Chair: Theodore Hodapp, American Physical Society Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Invited Speakers:  Janet Tate,  Cherry Murray,  Nigel Goldenfeld,  Julia Phillips,  Keivan Stassun 

Session T14 Energy Resources Followed by Energy Production, Sustainability and Environment Sponsor: GERA Chair: Terry Tritt, Clemson University Room: B113
 T14.00003 Energy Security: From Deal Killers to Game Changers

Mar 17 2010 7:00PM, Wednesday

Session U10 Panel Discussion: Fuels of the Future Sponsor: GERA Chair: George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Invited Speakers:  George Crabtree,  Stephen Long 

Mar 18 2010 8:00AM, Thursday

Session V5 Industrial Applications of Neutron Scattering Sponsor: DCMP FIAP Chair: Michael Crawford, DuPont Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Invited Speakers:  Eric Lin,  Andrew Allen,  Camden R. Hubbard,  Jihui Yang,  Hubert King 

Session V6 The Impact of Large Scale Computing on Research in Physics Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider, National Science Foundation Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Invited Speakers:  Matthias Troyer,  Erik Schnetter,  T.C. Germann,  Anthony Kennedy,  Johannes Feist 

Mar 18 2010 11:15AM, Thursday

Session W5 Renewable Energy Education Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robert Ehrlich, George Mason University Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Invited Speakers:  Cheryl Kennedy,  Robert Bass,  Philip Gleckman,  Robert Ehrlich 

Mar 18 2010 2:30PM, Thursday

Session X6 The Neural Dynamics of Songbirds Sponsor: DBP Chair: Dezhe Jin, The Pennsylvania State University Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Margoliash,  Richard Hahnloser,  Michael Long 

Session X42 Physics Education: Research, Techniques, Classic Experiments, and Policy Sponsor: FEd Chair: Thomas Olsen, American Institute of Physics Room: D138

Mar 19 2010 8:00AM, Friday

Session Y3 Two-particle Entanglement with Single Particle Emitters Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Janine Splettstoesser, Institute for Theoretical Physics A, RWTH Aachen, and Peter Samuelsson, Lund University Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Invited Speakers:  Peter Samuelsson,  Izhar Neder,  David Ritchie 
 Y3.00001 Entanglement in a fermionic two-particle interferometer

Mar 19 2010 11:15AM, Friday

Session Z4 Plasmonics Applications Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ernesto Marinero, Hitachi Research Center-San Jose Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Invited Speakers:  Harry Atwater,  Rupert Oulton,  Nader Engheta,  Naomi Halas