April Meeting 2012 • March 31 - April 3 • Atlanta, GA
Lunch with the Experts - Graduate Students
Registration
Register on-site in Atlanta.
Sign-up will open Friday, March at 2:00 p.m., near the Registration Desk.
APS Registration Desk
Register Early!
Registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Attendance is limited to eight students per topic.
APS Units
Sunday, April 1
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Hyatt Hotel
Courtland and Edgewood
Cost: Free
Graduate students may sign up to enjoy a complimentary box-lunch while participating in an informal discussion with an expert on a topic of interest to them. Sign-up will open Friday, March at 2:00 p.m., near the APS Registration Desk in the Grand Foyer.
APS Registration Desk
Graduate Student Lunch Tables
Division of Astrohysics (DAP) Sponsored Topics
1. Communicating Science to the Public,
Expert: Lynn Cominsky, Sonoma State University
2. Pulsar Timing and Gravitational Waves
Expert: Andrea Lommen, Franklin & Marshall College
3. Is the Black Hole in Our Galactic Center Really a Black Hole?
Expert: Clifford Will, Washington University
Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP) Sponsored Topic
4. Computational Methods in Gravitational Physics
Expert: Deirdre Shoemaker, Georgia Tech
Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) Sponsored Topics
5. Hot Quark Soup
Expert: Krishna Rajagopal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6. Exploring the Unknown: Discovering New Nuclides
Expert: Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University
Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) Sponsored Topics
7. Higgs Boson
Expert: Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers University
8. Neutrinos
Expert: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Forum on Education (FEd) Sponsored Topic
9. Balancing Research with Effective Teaching
Expert: Scott Franklin, Rochester Institute of Technology
Forum on Physics and Society (FPS) Sponsored Topic
10. Fissions, photons and arms control
Expert: Pierce Corden, Visiting Scholar, Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy, AAAS
Topical Group on Gravitation (GGR) Sponsored Topic
11. The Predictive Power of Numerical Relativity
Expert: Pablo Laguna, Georgia Tech
Topical Group on Hadronic Physics (GHP) Sponsored Topics
12. Nuclear Physics: Nuclei, Nucleons and Quarks
Expert: Volker Crede, Florida State University
13. Creating Charm and Bottom from Lead and Gold
Expert: Ramona Vogt, Lawrence Livermore National Lab & University of California, Davis







