Attendees and Abstracts

Graduate Education Conference participants included Directors of Graduate Studies from 66 PhD-granting physics departments in the United States, both large and small, as well as members of the physics community from industry, funding agencies, and professional societies.

Conference Organization

The National Science Foundation supported this program under Award No. PHY-0701352.

• Janet Tate, Oregon State University, APS Committee on Education
• Theodore Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
• Chandralekha Singh, University of Pittsburgh, APS Committee on Education
• Michael Thoennessen, Michigan State University, AAPT Committee on Graduate Education in Physics
  

• Sue Otwell, APS Women & Education Programs Administrator

• Renee Diehl, Professor of Physics, Penn State University; Member of the Joint APS-AAPT Task Force on Graduate Education in Physics
• Steven Girvin, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics & Applied Physics; former Director of Graduate Studies, Yale University
• Kenneth Heller, Past President (2006), American Association of Physics Teachers; Professor of Physics, University of Minnesota
• Theodore Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society; Professor of Physics, Hamline University.
• John Markert, Professor and Chair of Physics, University of Texas, Austin
• Margaret Murnane, Professor & Assoc. Chair of Graduate Studies of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder; Fellow of JILA
• Horst Stormer, Professor of Physics & Applied Physics, Columbia University, Nobel Laureate & former Director of the Physical Research Laboratory, Bell Laboratories.