Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2015
Volume 60, Number 4
Saturday–Tuesday, April 11–14, 2015; Baltimore, Maryland
Session X8: Invited Session: APS and Public Engagement in Historical Perspective |
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Sponsoring Units: FHP FOEP Chair: Joseph Martin, Michigan State University Room: Key 4 |
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
X8.00001: The American Physical Society and the Ethics of Cold War Science Invited Speaker: Sarah Bridger |
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 11:21AM - 11:57AM |
X8.00002: The Society's Involvement in the Defense of Human Rights Invited Speaker: Edward Gerjuoy The history of the Society's involvement in the defense of human rights, a history of which the Society can be proud, will be summarized; the summary will include illustrative specific APS human rights defense actions in illustrative specific cases. As will be emphasized, the aforesaid involvement has been primarily through the activities of the APS Committee on International Freedom of Scientists (CIFS). It is noteworthy--and one of the reasons the Society can be proud--that CIFS is charged with ``monitoring concerns regarding human rights for scientists,'' not solely for physicists, and that CIFS indeed has sought to protect the human rights of nonphysicists. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 11:57AM - 12:33PM |
X8.00003: History of the Forum on Physics and Society (1972-2015) Invited Speaker: David Hafemeister Physics is a major component of many of society's difficult issues: nuclear arms and their proliferation, energy shortages and energy impacts, climate change, and technical innovation. Because physics principles underlie so many of these societal issues and because physics offers a way to quantify some aspects of them, members of the American Physical Society (APS) should be encouraged to understand, analyze and debate them. This is precisely why APS members formed the Forum on Physics and Society (FPS). To those of us who have been involved in FPS affairs for a long time, it seems like only yesterday that we attended the organizing meeting at the 1972 APS San Francisco meeting. Some 43 years later, it's a good time for FPS to look back at its accomplishments and look ahead at the direction of its future activities. [Preview Abstract] |
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