Tenth Annual Meeting
Northwest Section
American Physical Society
15 - 17 May 2008
Lewis & Clark College
Portland, OR
The Tenth Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Northwest Section will be held Thursday Evening through Saturday Afternoon 15 - 17 May 2008, at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. This meeting brings together participants from institutions in the Northwest region of the United States and Western Canada. Program
Title & Author Program
Detailed Program Campus Map for venue locations. Thursday Evening Registration and Reception
(16:30 - 19:00)
Registration, Albany 207
Reception, Smith Hall Friday Morning Plenary Session (08:30)
Evans Auditorium
Ernest Henley, Chair - Magnetars
- Semiconductor Nanowires: Defects Update
- Radiation Detection for Homeland Security Applications
- Fizzlers
- Astroparticle Physics & the SNOLAB Underground Laboratory
- Climate Change and Aerosol Feebacks
Friday Afternoon Parallel Sessions (14:00)- Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics
- Biophysics
- Condensed Matter Physics I
- Nuclear Physics
- Astrophysics, Cosmology, & Gravity
Poster Session (16:30)
Fields Dining Hall, Templeton Center
Kara Keeter, Chair Northwest Section General Meeting (18:00)
Monteith Room, Templeton Center
Ernest Henley, Chair Banquet (19:00)
Fields Dining Hall, Templeton Center
David Monette, Speaker
The Very Applied Acoustics of the Manufacture of World Class Wind Instruments Saturday Morning Plenary Session (08:30)
Evans Auditorium
Kara Keeter, Chair - Characterization and Control of Chaos
- The role of physics departments in the recruitment, preparation, and support of pre-college teachers of physics
- Frontiers in understanding matter at the extremes
- Novel Dynamics of One-Way Coupling
- Applications of Two-Photon Absorption in Medicine and Biology Enabled by Specially Designed Biological Molecules
- Generation-IV Nuclear Energy Systems
Saturday Afternoon Parallel Sessions (14:00)- Condensed Matter Physics II
- Physics Education
- Industrial/Applied Physics
- Particle Physics
- Undergraduate Research and Outreach
Co-sponsored by the Society of Physics Students (SPS)
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