Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session R06: Publishing in Areas Outside of Peer Reviewed JournalsInvited Undergraduate
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Sponsoring Units: FGSA FECS Chair: Ana Vizcaya Hernandez, Carengie Mellon University, and Jason S Gardner, Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 15 |
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 1:54PM |
R06.00001: Losing the Nobel Prize: a cosmological memoir Invited Speaker: Brian G Keating The inside story of a quest to unlock one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries, derailed by the lure of the Nobel Prize. What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful telescope of its kind, revealed that they’d glimpsed the spark that ignited the Big Bang. Millions around the world tuned in to the announcement, immediately igniting rumors of an imminent Nobel Prize. But had these cosmologists truly read the cosmic prologue or, swept up by astronomical aspirations, had they been deceived by a galactic mirage? In his first "popular science" book, selected as one of the Best Science Books of the Year by Science Friday, Amazon, Science News, Physics Today, Forbes, and Symmetry Magazine. cosmologist and inventor of the BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) experiment Brian Keating tells the inside story of BICEP2’s mesmerizing discovery and the scientific drama that ensued. In an adventure story that spans the globe from Rhode Island to the South Pole, from California to Chile, Keating takes us on a personal journey of revelation and discovery, bringing to vivid life the highly competitive, take-no-prisoners, publish-or-perish world of modern science. Along the way, he provocatively argues that the Nobel Prize, instead of advancing scientific progress, may actually hamper it, encouraging speed and greed while punishing collaboration and bold innovation. In a thoughtful reappraisal of the wishes of Alfred Nobel, Keating offers practical solutions for reforming the prize, providing a vision of a scientific future in which cosmologists may, finally, be able to see all the way back to the very beginning.
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Monday, April 15, 2019 1:54PM - 2:18PM |
R06.00002: Capturing LIGO Through Comics Invited Speaker: Nutsinee Kijbunchoo Comics is accessible by all generations, which makes it a great outreach tool. In this talk we will walk through the process of creating comics, how to convey messages, thought process, and how to use them to reach out to different audiences and situations. We will also walk through examples of how to create good comics without having to draw well. |
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:18PM - 2:42PM |
R06.00003: Science in the Public Sphere: Pitfalls and Possibilities Invited Speaker: James Weatherall I will relate two themes in this talk. One will concern my own experience writing about physics and adjacent fields in magazines, newspapers, and books directed at a general audience. The other will concern some of the ideas I discuss in my most recent book, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, where I discuss the role that scientists sometimes play in the persistence and spread of false belief. The moral will be that public outreach is an important and attractive part of science -- but one that needs to be approached carefully, lest one contribute to serious and potentially dangerous misunderstandings about how science works. |
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:42PM - 3:06PM |
R06.00004: The Ins and Outs of Book Publishing in the 21st Century Invited Speaker: Jermey N.A. Matthews Nonfiction books are an important source for acquiring any appreciable depth of knowledge, but they require subject-matter experts to write them. This talk will introduce the three major categories of books published by academic presses: the textbook (such as MTW's "Gravitation" published by Princeton University Press), the professional monograph (such as Steven Weinberg's "Quantum Theory of Fields" published by Cambridge University Press), and the trade book (such as Clifford Johnson's "The Dialogues" published by The MIT Press). We will explore which type of book a scientist may choose to write, and why (hint: it's about impact), why and how scientists should pitch their book idea to an academic press, and how authors and publishers can partner to make the author's book a success. |
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