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The Fall 2012 meeting will be held 14-17 November in Tallahassee, Florida, hosted jointly by Florida A&M (co-organizer Charles Weatherford) and Florida State University (co-organizer Winston Roberts).

Congratulations to the 2011 SESAPS award winners

Francis Slack Award: David Ernst of Vanderbilt University

George B. Pegram Award: Stephen Robinson of Tennessee Tech

Jesse W. Beams Award: John Thomas of NC-State

Congratulations to the co-winners of the "Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation" contest:

Christopher Frye of the University of Central Florida, "Identifying Electromagnetic Events in the Forward Hadron Calorimeter" 

William Love of Virginia Tech, "Characterization of large-scale velocity fluctuations in the Princeton MRI experiment" 

In addition, two students from the North Carolina School of Science and Math received honorable mention:

Mithi de los Reyes, "Use of Spray Adhesives for the Manufacture of 3-D Capillary Origami Microstructures"

Nishkala Shivakumar, "Acoustic Radiation from Smart Foam for Various Foam Geometries"

Congratulations to the co-winners of the "Best Undergraduate Oral Presentation"

David Abbott from the University of Virginia, "Study of the Sensitivity of Plastic Scintillators to Fast Neutrons"

Ahmed Roman of Virginia Tech, "Boundary conflicts and cluster coarsening: Waves of life and death in the cyclic competition of four species"

78th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section (SESAPS 2011)

Meeting Website

Highlights of SESAPS 2011 Meeting

• Mentoring Workshop
• Panel Discussion: The Under-represented Majority
• Banquet Speaker Ronald E. Mickens, Distinguished Fuller E. Callaway Professor, Clark Atlanta University, will discuss his book on Edward Bouchet, the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in physics from a US Institution (1876).

New Officers of SESAPS

In the 2011 election, Prof. Mary Ellen Zvanut of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, was elected Vice Chair. She will serve in the Chair line for the next four years.

Prof. John Yukich of Davidson College was elected as an at-large member of the Executive Committee. He will serve through 2015.

We are grateful to Prof. Matthew Edwards of Alabama A&M for his service as member-at-large, and to Prof. Paul Cottle of Florida State University for his four years of service in the Chair line.

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