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Fall 2007 Joint Meeting of the New England Sections of the
American Physical Society and the
American Association of Physics Teachers
At the Department of Physics, University of Connecticut

Carbon in the 21st Century

in conjunction with the

Connecticut Nanotechnology Initiative (CNI) and the
Nano-Biotechnology Research Group at the
Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut

Program

Nano-Biotechnology Conference

Friday, October 19
8:00 AM--Noon		Registration
8:30 AM	IMS-20	Plenary Talk: Alexander Star, University of Pittsburgh Carbon Nanotube FET-Based Biosensors
9:30 AM	IMS-20	Plenary Talk: Shirley Tang, University of Waterloo Interactions of Carbon Nanotubes with Biological Systems on Molecular and Cellular Levels
10:30 AM		Refreshment Break
10:50 AM	IMS-20	Plenary Talk: James Rusling, UConn Highly Sensitive Immunodetection of Cancer Biomarkers using Carbon Nanotube Amplification Schemes
Noon		Lunch

APS / AAPT New England Meeting

Friday, October 19
8:00 AM--6:00 PM		Registration
Noon--6:00 PM		Exibitors
1:30 PM	PB-36	Welcome
1:45 PM	PB-36	Plenary Talk: Antonio Castro Neto, Boston University Drawing Conclusions from Graphene
2:45 PM		Refreshment Break
3:00 PM	PB-36	Plenary Talk: Philip Kim, Columbia University Relativistic Quantum Physics at Your Pencil Tips: Dirac Fermion in Graphitic Carbon
4:00 PM	PB-36	Plenary Talk: Tony Heinz, Columbia University Optical Spectroscopy and Dynamics in Carbon Nanotubes
5:00 PM		Poster Session Place: Gant Science Building, Ground Floor
6:30 PM		Banquet Place: Student Union Ballroom
7:30 PM		Post-banquet talk: Harry Kroto, Florida State University Architecture in Nano-Space

APS / AAPT New England Meeting

Saturday, October 20
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	IMS-147A	AAPT Executive Committee Breakfast Meeting
8:00 AM - 2:00 PM		Registration
8:00 AM - 2:00 PM	PB-38/36 Lobby	Exibitors

Parallel APS and AAPT talks

APS Contributed Talks			AAPT Invited Talks: Art & Physics
8AM - 9:45AM 8AM - 9:45AM 8AM - 9:45AM	Physics of Vision Theory General Physics		8:00 AM	George Gibson, UConn Physics of Music	PB-36
			9:00 AM	Fred Myers, Glastonbury Publ. Sch. Physics of Photography	PB-36
9:45 AM	Refreshment Break

Parallel APS and AAPT talks

	APS Invited Talks		AAPT Contributed Talks
10:00 AM	PB-36	Plenary Talk: Walter de Heer, Georgia Tech Epitaxial Graphene: A New Material for Electronics		General
11:00 AM	PB-36	Plenary Talk: Codruta Zoican and Lisa Pfefferle, Yale University Exploration of Nanotube Structure Selectivity Using Bimetallic Catalysts
Noon--1:30 PM		Lunch break

Lunch Time Sessions

Noon--1:30 PM	Women's Center, Student Union	Women & minorities luncheon Ronald Mallett, UConn Time Travel (registration required)
Noon--1:30 PM	IMS-147A	APS Executive Committee lunch meeting
Noon--1:30 PM	PB-38	David Perry, UConn Bring your favorite demo session (registration required)

Parallel AAPT workshops

		Registration is required for all workshops.
1:30 PM	PB-36	William Gerace & Ian Beatty, UMass Amherst Question Driven Instruction with Classroom Response Technology
1:30 PM	IMS-20	Christine Broadbridge, SCSU Nanocharacterization: Atomic Scale Visualization with Microscopy
1:30 PM	M-203	Eugenia Etkina, Rutgers University The Role of Experiment in Physics Education
1:30 PM	PB-121	Russell Harkay, Keene State College Phenomenal Physics-A Guided Inquiry Curriculum for Pre-College Education, Teacher Preparation, and Conceptual Physics Instruction at the College Level
2:00 PM	PB-38	Laurence Gould, University of Hartford Global Warming: A Critical View

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