Attendees and Abstracts

The 2nd Graduate Education Conference participants include Department Chairs and Directors of Graduate Studies from 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 supports this program under Award No. PHY-1107258.

Organizing Committee

• Renee Diehl, Penn State University
• Theodore Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
• Chandralekha Singh, University of Pittsburgh
  
• Michael Thoennessen, Michigan State University
• R Steve Turley, Brigham Young University
• Lawrence Woolf, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
  

• Deanna Ratnikova, APS Women & Education Programs Administrator

Conference Participants

Attendees and abstracts will be posted prior to the conference.

Name	Affiliation	Abstract
Mohan Aggarwal	Alabama A&M University
Marcel Agueros	Columbia University
George Alverson	Northeastern University
Edmund Bertschinger	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
C.J. Bolech	University of Cincinnati	Highlights of the Physics Graduate Program at the University of Cincinnati
Collin Broholm	Johns Hopkins University
Colin Campbell	Penn State University
Simon Capstick	Florida State University
Claudio Chamon	Boston University
Shailesh Chandrasekharan	Duke University
Jolie Cizewski	Rutgers University	Rutgers University: Challenges and Opportunities in Graduate Education in Physics and Astronomy
Megan Comins	Cornell University
Axel Cortes Cubero	CUNY Graduate Center
Richard Creswick	University of South Carolina
Beth Cunningham	American Association of Physics Teachers
Ricardo Decca	Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis	The Physics Graduate Program at IUPUI
Belay Demoz	Howard University	Department of Physics & Astronomy at Howard University: An Overview of the Graduate Program
Renee Diehl	Penn State University
Volkmar Dierolf	Lehigh University	Freshman Physics for Graduate Students
Vernessa Edwards	Alabama A&M University
Sarah Eno	University of Maryland
Gary Farlow	Wright State University
Hume Feldman	University of Kansas
Hendrik Ferdinande	European Physical Society & Ghent University	Physics Graduate Education in Europe
Joan Frye	Office of Science & Technology Policy
Tom Furtak	Colorado School of Mines	Combined Degree Programs
Carl Gagliardi	Texas A&M University
Juilo Gea-Banacloche	University of Arkansas
Zelda Gills	Lockheed Martin
Jack Hein	American Institute of Physics
Frances Hellman	University of California Berkeley
Kevin Hewitt	Dalhousie University
Bob Hilborn	American Association of Physics Teachers
Theodore Hodapp	American Physical Society
Christina Ignarra	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chueng-Ryong Ji	North Carolina State University	NCSU Physics Graduate Program Task Force Report
Anthony Johnson	University of Maryland Baltimore County
A T Charlie Johnson	University of Pennsylvania
Ivy Krystal Jones	Hampton University
Randy Kamien	University of Pennsylvania
Mark Koepke	West Virginia University
Joseph Kozminski	Lewis University
Abhishek Kumar	University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Cagliyan Kurdak	University of Michigan
Amy Liu	Georgetown University
Charles Liu	CUNY Graduate Center
Mike Lopez	Sandia National Laboratory
Arlene Maclin	Morgan State University
Gary Mankey	University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa	Graduate Seminar: A Perpetual, One-Hour Course for All
Jim McClymer	University of Maine
Victor Migenes	Brigham Young University
Casey Miller	University of South Florida	Using Minimum Acceptable GRE Scores Adversely Impacts Diversity
JT Mlack	Johns Hopkins University
Patrick Mulvey	American Institute of Physics
Cherry Murray	Harvard University
Hisao Nakanishi	Purdue University
Jeffrey Nelson	William & Mary
Kathie Newman	University of Notre Dame
Edmund Nowak	University of Delaware
Serdar Ogut	University of Illinois at Chicago
Andrea Palounek	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Alex Panchula	First Solar
Bruce Patton	The Ohio State University
Weiqun Peng	The George Washington University
Doug Petkie	Wright State University
Alexey Petrov	Wayne State University
Monica Plisch	American Physical Society
Joseph Poon	University of Virginia
Geoff Potvin	Clemson University
Scott Pratt	Michigan State University
Kathy Prestridge	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Talat Rahman	University of Central Florida	Enhancing Physics Graduate Education and Research Opportunities at the University of Central Florida
David Reid	University of Chicago
Richard Robinett	Penn State University
Jorjethe Roca	University of Illinois at Chicago
Idaykis Rodriguez	Florida International University
Jessica Rosenberg	George Mason University
Alvin Rosenthal	Western Michigan University
Christopher Salvo	University of California, Riverside
Abhijit Sarkar	The Catholic University of America
Carlo Segre	Illinois Institute of Technology
Sean Shaheen	University of Denver
Chandralekha Singh	University of Pittsburgh
George Siopsis	University of Tennessee
Roel Snieder	Colorado School of Mines
Paul So	George Mason University
Steven Spangler	University of Iowa
Keivan Stassun	Vanderbilt University / Fisk University
Cacey Stevens	University of Chicago
Christyn Thibodeaux	Rice University
Michael Thoennessen	Michigan State University
James Thomas	University of New Mexico
Marshall Thomsen	Eastern Michigan University
Steve Turley	Brigham Young University
Meg Urry	Yale University
Koen Visscher	University of Arizona
Kenneth Voss	University of Miami
Alice White	Bell Labs
Christopher White	Illinois Institute of Technology
Fred Wietfeldt	Tulane University
Lawrence Woolf	General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
Andrew Zangwill	Georgia Institute of Technology	A New Textbook for Graduate Classical Electrodynamics
Andrew Zentner	University of Pittsburgh
Stefan Zollner	New Mexico State University
Benjamin Zwickl	University of Colorado Boulder	The Physics Graduate Program at the University of Colorado Boulder