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2011
Saturday, November 19th
7:00 AM

Contential Breakfast

Gerald Peterson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

7:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Registration

Gerald Peterson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

7:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Session E: NES AAPT Executive Committee Breakfast

Gerald Peterson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

8:00 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers - F1: Physics Education: Class Explorations in Space: From the Blackboard and History to the Outdoors and Future

Elizabeth Cavicchi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:00 AM - 8:12 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F2: Energy, Climate, Nuclear Medicine: Reducing Energy Consumption and CO2 One Street Lamp at a Time

Peter Somssich, Osram Sylvania Inc

Room 163C, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:00 AM - 8:12 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F3: Cosmology, Theory: Theoretical Considerations for Black Hole Formation in Supernova Ejecta

Andrew Hayes, University of Maine

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:00 AM - 8:12 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F4: Theory: New insights into the nucleon structure through bag model studies of the energy momentum tensor

Matthew Neubelt
Peter Schweitzer

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:00 AM - 8:12 AM

8:12 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F1: Physics Education:Messing about with Euclid

Yan Yang, Harvard University
Houman Harouni, Harvard University
Mackenzie Hird, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brian McCarthy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amanda Pillsbury, Harvard University
Zengxu Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:12 AM - 8:24 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F2: Energy, Climate, Nuclear Medicine: Biochar As a Renewable Energy Source

Richard Stein, Retired

Room 163C, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:12 AM - 8:24 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F3: Cosmology, Theory: Understanding Cosmological Probes of the Dark Side: Computational Studies of Type Ia Supernovae

Robert Fisher, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
Suoqing Ji, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
Jan Behrends, Freie Universitat Berlin

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:12 AM - 8:24 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F4: Theory: Density Matrices in the Quenching of Positronium by Electron Exchange

Sudha Swaminathan, Worcester State University
Wyatt Merrill, Worcester State University
Stephen Glynn, Worcester State University
Joseph Quattrucci, Worcester State University

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:12 AM - 8:24 AM

8:24 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F1: Physics Education: Play Ball!: The House That Euclid Built

Amanda Pillsbury, Harvard University
Houman Harouni, Harvard University
Mackenzie Hird, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brian McCarthy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zengxu Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:24 AM - 8:36 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F3: Cosmology, Theory: Relativity on Rotated Graph Paper

Robert Salgado, Bowdoin College

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:24 AM - 8:36 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F4: Theory: Hadronic Parity Violation

Jared Vanasse, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:24 AM - 8:36 AM

8:36 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F1: Physics Education: Improving Astronomy Education in American High Schools and Colleges: A Review of Recent Progress

William Waller, Rockport Public Schools

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:36 AM - 8:48 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F2: Energy, Climate, Nuclear Medicine: Is Earth's sea level currently rising? If so are humans responsible?

Peter Glanz, Rhode Island College

Room 163C, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:36 AM - 8:48 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F3: Cosmology, Theory: Blogging as a Research Tool

Douglas Sweetser

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:36 AM - 8:48 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F4: Theory: A non-QM explanation of Jacques' (2007) ``Wheeler gedanken experiment with delayed choice,'' without delayed choice

Jeffrey Boyd, Retired

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:36 AM - 8:48 AM

8:48 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F1: Physics Education: Simple Pendulum on a NASA Reduced Gravity Flight

Gary Garber, Tufts CEEO

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:48 AM - 9:00 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F2: Energy, Climate, Nuclear Medicine: A Network Model and Computational Approach for the Mo-99 Supply Chain for Nuclear Medicine

Ladimer Nagurney, University of Hartford
Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 163C, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:48 AM - 9:00 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F3: Cosmology, Theory: The Universe is not expanding

Ari Brynjolfsson, Applied Radiation Industries

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:48 AM - 9:00 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F4: Theory: Hermann Grid's Dark Diagonals Disprove QM's ``Beliefs,'' Reveal Stringy Electron, Nucleons, Stick Figure Constellations

Roger David McLeod, University of Massachusetts - Lowell
David Matthew McLeod, Bastyr University

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:48 AM - 9:00 AM

9:00 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F1: Physics Education: The Dating Game -- with Google Maps and Vector Algebra

Charles H. Holbrow, Colgate University
Shane Larson, Utah State University
Margaret Jensen, Utah State University

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

9:00 AM - 9:12 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F3: Cosmology, Theory: Visualizing the Superposition Process

Michael Ambroselli, University of Connecticut
Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri, University of Connecticut

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

9:00 AM - 9:12 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F4: Theory: For AAPT: Teaching the Wave Mechanics of McLeods' Stringy Electron, Explicit Nucleons, and Through-the-Earth Projections of Constellations' Stick Figures

David Matthew McLeod, Bastyr University

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

9:00 AM - 9:12 AM

9:12 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers - F1: Physics Education: Misconceptions in Physical Science at the Middle School Grades

Zenobia Lojewska, Springfield College - Springfield, MA - Chair
Robert Barkman, Springfield College - Springfield, MA
Peter Polito, Springfield College - Springfield, MA
Julianne Smist, Springfield College - Springfield, MA
Richard Konicek-Moran, Springfield College Team - Springfield, MA-Retired

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

9:12 AM - 9:24 AM

Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F4: Theory: The Horizon of the Universe could be the source of the Electroweak Force

Richard Kriske, University of Minnesota

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

9:12 AM - 9:24 AM

10:00 AM

Session G1: Plenary Session: Nuclear Power and Climate Change - When Sciences Fails Society: Toxicology's 20th Century Legacy

Edward J. Calabrese, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Session G: Nuclear Power/Climate Change – Plenary

Margaret McCarthy, University of Massachusetts - Amherst - Chair

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Session G: Nuclear Power/Climate Change – When Sciences Fails Society: Toxicology’s 20th Century Legacy

Edward J. Calabrese, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

10:50 AM

Session G1: Plenary Session: Nuclear Power and Climate Change - Climate v. Climate Alarm

Richard S. Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

10:50 AM - 11:40 AM

Session G: Nuclear Power/Climate Change – Climate v. Climate Alarm

Richard S. Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Auditorium Campus Center University of Massachusetts - Amherst

10:50 AM - 11:40 AM

11:40 AM

Session G1: Plenary Session: Nuclear Power and Climate Change - TerraPower's Traveling Wave Reactor

Tyler Ellis, TerraPower

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM

Session G: Nuclear Power/Climate Change – TerraPower’s Traveling Wave Reactor

Tyler Ellis, TerraPower - Project Manager

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM

Lunch

Gerald Peterson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Campus Center University of Massachusetts - Amherst

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Session H: Lecture Demonstrations

Karl Martini, Western New England University

Room 20, Hasbrouck Hall, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Session I: NES-APS Executive Committee Lunch Meeting

Gerald Peterson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

1:00 PM

Session J1: AAPT Tutorial: Anthropogenic Global Warming: Data Supporting Anthropogenic Global Warming: Balancing Ecology with Economics

Paul H. Carr, University of Massachusetts - Lowell

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

1:15 PM

Session K1: AAPT Workshops - Primer on Ionizing Radiation

Margaret E. McCarthy, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 212 Hasbrouck, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

1:15 PM - 3:00 PM

Session K2: AAPT Workshops - Nanoscale Science And Engineering in High School Physics

Robert E. Snyder, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Morton M. Sternheim, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 329, Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

1:15 PM - 3:00 PM

Session L: Society of Physics Students - Welcome

Zachary Nemtzow, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

1:15 PM - 1:20 PM

Session M: Power Plant Tour - APS/AAPT/SPS

Arthur R. Quinton, University of Massachusetts - Amherst - Facilitator

Power Plant, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

1:15 PM - 5:00 PM

1:20 PM

Session L: Society of Physics Students - Discussion: Undergraduates Physics

Thomas Olsen, National Society of Physics Students - Assistant Director

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

1:20 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM

Session J2: AAPT Tutorial: Anthropogenic Global Warming: Anthropogenic Global Warming--Illuminating Some of Its Scientific and Methodological Flaws

Laurence I. Gould, University of Hartford

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Session L: Society of Physics Students -Science Writing: Building a Career Outside of the Lab, While Promoting What Goes on Inside It

Calla Cofield, Free Lance Science Writer

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:00 PM - 2:40 PM

2:40 PM

Session L: Society of Physics Students - Undergraduate Poster Presentations and Refreshments

Gerald Peterson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:40 PM - 4:00 PM

3:00 PM

Session K3: AAPT Workshops - Introductory Level Experiments in Electricity: Ideas from Batteries and Bulb Circuits, and from Electric Fields

David E. G. Sturm, University of Maine

Room 214 Hasbrouck, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

4:00 PM

Session L: Society of Physics Students - Undergraduate Oral Research Presentations

Gerald Peterson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

5:00 PM

Session L: Society of Physics Students - Closing Remarks

Gerald Peterson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

5:00 PM - 5:10 PM