Laying on of Hands

Photo by Michael Lucibella/APS

On January 13, 26 physicists from around the country gathered at APS headquarters in College Park to sort more than 1000 abstracts for the April Meeting, which will take place this year from March 31 to April 3 in Atlanta, Georgia. In the photo, Bernard Kelly of NASA Goddard conducts the ritual blessing of the manuscripts while Vicky Kalogera of Northwestern University (left) and Manuela Campanelli of Rochester Institute of Technology (right) read abstracts.