Past Meeting Topics & Locations
The past meetings of the New England Section of the American Physical Society, meeting themes and the host institutions are as listed below. See newsletters for meeting information.
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1961-Spring |
Mount Holyoke College (MA) |
Molecular Beam Research at Harvard University |
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1961-Fall |
Amherst College (MA) |
Physical Oceanography |
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1962 Spring |
Providence College (CT) |
Superconductivity |
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1962-Fall |
Yale University (CT) |
High Energy Physics |
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1963-Spring |
Harvard University (MA) |
Research in High Energy Physics in the Cambridge Area |
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1963-Fall |
Wesleyan University (CT) |
Solid State Physics |
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1964-Spring |
Brandeis (MA) |
Atomic and Molecular Physics |
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1964-Fall |
Amherst College (MA) |
Atomic Collisions |
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1965-Spring |
Worcester Polytechnic |
Coherence and Lasers Institute (MA) |
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1965-Fall |
Univ. of Maine at Orono |
Plasma Physics |
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1966-Spring |
Brown University (RI) |
Semiconductor Physics |
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1966-Fall |
Univ. of New Hampshire |
Fields and Particles in Space |
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1967-Spring |
UARL and Trinity College (CT) |
Behavior at Surfaces |
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1967-Fall |
Bates College (ME) |
Molecular Biophysics |
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1968-Spring |
Tufts University (MA) |
High Energy Nuclear Physics |
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1968-Fall |
Dartmouth College (NH) |
Electron-Magnetic Field Interaction |
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1969-Spring |
U. Conn. at Storrs |
Atomic & Molecular Physics X-Ray Astronomy |
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1969-Fall |
Mount Holyoke College (MA) |
Astrophysics |
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1970-Spring |
Boston University (MA) |
Low Temperature Physics, General Relativity |
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1970-Fall |
Univ. of Maine at Orono |
Near Future of Physics and Amorphous State of Matter |
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1971-Spring |
Amherst College (MA) |
Physics and the Environment Non-Linear Optics |
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1971-Fall |
Yale University (CT) |
Current State of Nuclear Physics |
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1972-Spring |
Boston College (MA) |
Space Physics and Optical Properties of Ions in Crystals |
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1972-Fall |
University of Vermont |
Disordered Solids and Liquid State |
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1973-Spring |
University of Hartford and United Aircraft (CT) |
Laser Physics Fusion Power |
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1973-Fall |
U. Mass at Amherst |
Astrophysics, New Accelerator Physics |
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1974-Spring |
Brown University (RI) |
Models of Learning Oceanography |
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1974-Fall |
Clark University (MA) |
History of Physics Alternative Energy Sources |
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1975-Spring |
Quinnipiac College (CT) |
Physics in Medicine High Energy Physics |
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1975-Fall |
Univ. Maine at Orono |
Biomedical Engineering Surface Physics |
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1976-Spring |
Southeastern Mass. Univ. |
Astrophysics Nuclear Energy: Problems and Alternatives |
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1976-Fall |
U. Conn. at Storrs |
Synchrotron Radiation New Materials Technology |
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1977-Spring |
Springfield Technical Community Coll (MA) |
Physics and Computers: Applications in Research and Education |
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1977-Fall |
Univ. of New Hampshire |
The Subject I'd Like to Talk About Most, Structure of Amorphous Materials |
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1978-Spring |
Wesleyan University (CT) |
Contemporary Astrophysics & Lasers in Research and Development |
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1978-Fall |
Williams College(MA) |
High Energy Astrophysics (HEAO), Quark Dynamics |
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1979-Spring |
University of Lowell (MA) |
The Sweep of Physics, Education and Careers in Physics |
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1979-Fall |
Bates College (ME) |
Experimental Relativity, Current Applications of Physics |
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1980-Spring |
Univ. of Rhode Island |
Physical Oceanography, Physics in One and Two Dimensions |
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1980-Fall |
M.I.T. (MA) |
Terrestrial Energy Sources& Extraterrestrial Energy |
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1981-Spring |
Worcester P.I. (MA) |
Biophysics, Nonlinear Optics |
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1981-Fall |
U. Maine at Orono (ME) |
Submicron Physics Environmental Physics |
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1982-Spring |
Boston U. (MA) |
Degenerate Fermi Fluids Polymer Physics |
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1982-Fall |
Dartmouth (NH) |
Free Electron Lasers Old and New Superfluids |
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1983-Spring |
Bowdoin Coll. (ME) |
Physics of Electronic Devices for the 80's, Liquid Crystals |
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1983-Fall |
U. Vermont (VT) |
Miniaturization in Solid State Electronics, Physical Probes of Biological Systems |
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1984-Spring |
Brown U. (MA) |
Amorphous Solids Electro-Weak Interactions |
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1984-Fall |
Northeastern U. (MA) |
Biological Physics Quantum Hall Effect |
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1985-Spring |
Clark U. (MA) |
Computer Simulation in Physics, Instrumentation in Condensed Matter Physics |
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1985-Fall |
U. Conn (CT) |
CHAOS & Physics behind Superaccelerators |
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1986-Spring |
Univ. of Rhode Island |
The Atomic Nucleus: From Quarks to Supernovae, Physics and Climate |
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1986-Fall |
U. New Hampshire |
Probing the nucleus, Symmetries |
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1987-Spring |
Mount Holyoke |
Research at undergraduate institutions |
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1987-Fall |
Middlebury College |
Physics of Sport, Astrophys. incl SN/1987A |
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1988-Spring |
Fairfield University |
Gravity & Perturbations High-temp. superconductors |
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1988-Fall |
Univ. of Massachusetts |
Physics of Small Things |
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1989-Spring |
Wesleyan University |
Synchrotron radiation, advanced light sources, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics |
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1989-Fall |
University of Maine |
Radon in the environment Alternative energy sources |
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1990-Spring |
University of Lowell |
Optics (Applications& Joint mtg. w. OSA research, education, scattering) |
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1990-Fall |
Yale University |
Major Accelerator Facilities Test of Discrete Symmetries |
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1991-Spring |
Smith College |
Dynamics in Confined systems& News about nu's |
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1991-Fall |
Bates College |
Large-scale Universe, Lasers: Cooling & Trapping—spectroscopy, dynamics |
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1992-Spring |
Wellesley College |
Physics in Medicine Physics and the Environment |
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1992-Fall |
Dartmouth College |
Astronomy and Space Physics Planetary Magnetism |
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1993-Spring |
Williams College |
Laser cooling and Trapping of Atoms Buckyballs and other Fullerenes |
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1993-Fall |
Amherst College |
Precision Measurements, Physical Phenomena in Restricted Dimensions |
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1994-Spring |
Harvard University |
Science, Society, and Education, Quantum Mechanics at Work |
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1994-Fall |
Brown University |
Dark Matter The Search for the Top Quark |
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1995-Spring |
Univ. of Connecticut |
The Structure of the Nucleon Atom Manipulation & Nanoscience |
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1995-Fall |
Bowdoin College |
History of Physics - 100th anniversary of discovery of x-rays and radioactivity, Magnetic Recording Technologies |
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1996-Spring |
M.I.T. (MA) |
Relativity in Astrophysics: General and Applied Imaging (medical and otherwise) |
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1996-Fall |
Univ. of Vermont |
Biophysics Quantum Devices & Nanostructures |
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1997-Spring |
Univ. of Maine |
Tribology – Modern Perspectives on Friction & Related Phenomena |
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1997-Fall |
Hanscom AFB |
Physics in Industry and Government |
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1998-Spring |
Clark University |
Granular Matter and Pattern Formation, Magnetism and Superconductivity |
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1998-Fall |
Univ. of New Hamp. |
Advances in Condensed Matter& Undergraduate Education |
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1999-Spring |
Yale Univ. |
History of Physics, Physics of water |
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1999-Fall |
Colby College (ME) |
Quantum Technology, Novel Semiconductors |
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2000-Spring |
Rhode Island College |
Physics, Industry, and Society, Teaching Physics |
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2000-Fall |
Central Connecticut State Univ. |
Photonics and Electroactive materials, Industrial Roundtable, General Physics |
| 2001-Spring | Middlebury College | Chaos, Complexity, and Self - Organization |
| 2001-Fall | Keene State College | Confluence of Physics & Chemistry |
| 2002-Spring | Brandeis University | Expanding Horizons of Physics |
| 2002-Fall | Bridgewater State College | Exploring the Physics of the Big and Small |
| 2003-Spring | Williams College | Quantum Bits, Ultrafast Pulses, Beyond the Visible Spectrum, and Teaching Physics |
| 2003-Fall | Bates College | "Physics We Haven't Told You Yet" and "Passing The Torch: Helping new Physics Teachers without getting burned (out)" |
| 2004-Spring |
Philips Exeter Academy | Astronomy and Space Physics |
| 2004 - Fall |
Pratt & Whitney Corporation | Climate and Filght |
| 2005-Spring |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Einstein |
| 2005 - Fall |
University of Vermont | Nano and Soft Matter Physics |
| 2006 - Spring |
Boston University | Physics and Cosmology - at the interface |
| 2006 - Fall |
The College of the Holy Cross | The Physics of Sports |
| 2007 - Spring |
University of Maine, Orono | Statistical Physics and Applications |
| 2007 - Fall |
University of Connecticut, Storrs CT | Carbon in the 21st Century |
| 2008 - Spring |
The United States Coast Guard Academy, New London CT | The Science of Homeland Security |
| 2008 - Fall | University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA |
Out of Equilibrium |
| 2009 - Spring | Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
Elementary Particle Physics in the 21st Century |
| 2009 - Fall |
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH |
Our Universe – 400 Years After Galileo |
| 2010 - Spring |
Union College, Schenectady, NY |
Modern Nuclear Applications |
| 2010 - Fall |
Brown University, Providence, RI |
Nanobiophysics in the 21st Century |
| 2011 - Spring |
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA |
Materials: The Foundation of Our Future |
| 2011 - Fall |
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA |
Climate Change and the Future of Nuclear Power |