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Four Corners Section of the APS: Annual Meeting

co-located with

Zone 14 Meeting of the SPS

Colorado School of MInes, Golden, CO

October 23-24, 2009

Latest news: Abstract submission is now closed.

The response to this conference has been record-setting - we have over 265 abstracts for this conference, easily more than any other 4CS conference.

Late registration is still possible for an extra $15.

Look in Travel section for links to Doodle polls for ridesharing to/from DIA and to/from area hotels.

Program is now available online:

Click for the Program/list of abstracts (pdf format)

Online APS program

Welcome

The Department of Physics at the Colorado School of Mines will host the Fall, 2009, joint meeting of the Four Corners Section of the APS and Zone 14 of the Society of Physics Students.

The meeting will take place from Friday and Saturday, October 23 and 24, 2009 in the Green Center, next to Meyer Hall (Department of Physics) on the campus of CSM in Golden, Colorado. Check-in starts at noon on Friday, and the last session ends at 5pm on Saturday.

Conference Poster

This prints out to 11x17". click here for the conference poster (pdf format)

Pre-registration, abstract submission deadline: Friday, 25 September 2009

Abstract submission is now closed. We are finalizing the schedule for the talks, and if you submitted an abstract, you will receive an email with your time slot soon. We have honored all requests for oral and poster presentations.

To present a contributed talk or poster, you must submit an abstract and register for the conference.

Please note: We encourage submissions from all areas of physics. If you are submitting an oral presentation and it fits within one of our mini-symposia (see descriptions in the Technical Program area below), then you can indicate that when you submit your abstract at the APS site.

Click here for Registration Form (pdf format)

Submit an abstract (link to APS site)

For more information on abstract preparation and submission please go to the 4CS abstract preparation and submission page.

There will be prizes for the best student presentations. There are separate categories for undergrad/grad, talk/poster.

To encourage student participation, we are keeping the registration fees low.

Registration fee includes admission to technical sessions, conference program, breaks, and lunch on Saturday. Student registration automatically includes SPS sessions/activities.

	Regular	Student	MS/HS teacher or Retiree
Early registration (25 Sept)	$60	$20	$35
Late registration (after 25 Sept)	$75	$35	$50
Friday evening banquet	$30	$15	$30

When you register for the conference, you will have the choice of two lunches:

an indoor lunch with a special invited speaker Richard Wiener from the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement. He will be presenting a talk entitled Research Funding Opportunities for Early Career Scientists
an outdoor lunch (weather permitting) with the SPS.

Please note that the banquet talk is open to the public, but we encourage all conference participants to attend the banquet.

Student travel grants

Some support is available to assist students traveling to Golden for the conference. You must register for the meeting before applying for a travel grant.

Fill in, scan, and email the completed form to Jean-Francois Van Huele, 4CS secretary-treasurer, at vanhuele@byu.edu by Thursday, 1 October 2009. You will be notified ahead of the conference on the support you receive. Checks will be distributed at the conference in Golden.

click here for Student travel grant application (pdf format)

Meeting Information and Conference Program

Conference hours:

Friday, 23 October:
- 10am: check-in and on-site registration starts (Green Center Lobby)
- 12:30pm - 5:00pm: conference sessions
- 5:00 - 6:30pm: poster session
- 6:30 - 9:30pm: reception, banquet and speaker
Saturday, 24 October:
- 8:00am - 5:00pm: conference sessions

Click for a Schedule Outline

Click for the Program/list of abstracts (pdf format)

SPS Meeting

The SPS Zone Meeting Activities are open to all registrants of the 4-Corners meeting. SPS events include:

Lecture Demonstrations Competition
Physics Career Panel
Barbecue Lunch
Business meeting

For more information about the School of Mines chapter, visit the CSM SPS website.

Technical Program

We are pleased to have an exciting lineup of plenary and invited speakers. Click on the speaker's name for more information.

Banquet speaker
John Grunsfeld	NASA astronaut, Leader of 3 Hubble repair missions A Hubble Story

Plenary speakers
Cherry Murray	President of the APS Dean of School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard The Role of Physicists in the 21st Century
Alex Zunger	Fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Quantum-Mechanical Combinatorial Design of Solids with Target Properties
Mark Serreze	Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), U. Colorado. Environmental Impacts of a Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Cover
Richard Boyd	Science Director, National Ignition Facility, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Creating a Star in the Laboratory: The National Ignition Facility
Alan Hurd	Director, Lujan Neutron Scattering Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Research Opportunities at LANSCE in Neutron Scattering: The Legacy of Louie Rosen
Antoinette Taylor	Division Leader, Materials Physics and Applications former co-director of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnology, LANL Tunable THz materials
Shufang Su	University of Arizona New Physics beyond the Standard Model: from the Earth to the Sky

Mini-symposia As always, submissions from all areas of physics are welcome. This year, we are highlighting research in certain areas of physics which are found at many of the Four Corners universities and national labs. If this is successful, these topics will change from year to year as the conference moves around the area.

We are highlighting these areas with mini-symposia - 2 time blocks within the parallel sessions that are organized around these topic areas:

Renewable energy (contact: Craig Taylor, CSM)

The plenary speakers Alex Zunger (NREL) and Mark Serreze (CIRES) are associated with this highlighted area.

High energy astrophysics (contacts: Fred Sarazin, CSM, David Kieda U. Utah)

This topic area includes research into high energy cosmic and gamma ray sources.

Invited speakers:

Gus Sinnis (Milagro Gamma Ray Observatory, LANL) The Milagro Gamma-Ray Telescope – A New Look at an Old Problem

Stephan LeBohec (U. Utah) VERITAS observation of the E>200GeV gamma ray sky

David Nitz (Michigan Technical University) The Northern Site of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Advanced optical measurements (contact: Chip Durfee, CSM)

Invited speaker: Arvinder Sandhu (University of Arizona) Real-time observation of attosecond and femtosecond quantum dynamics using ultrafast lasers

Soft condensed matter and biophysics (contact: Tom Furtak, CSM)

Invited speaker: Tom Perkins (University of Colorado/JILA) Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy using Optical Traps and AFMs

Physics Education (contact: Vince Kuo, CSM)

Invited speaker: Valerie Otero (University of Colorado, Boulder) What does it mean to learn physics?

Additional invited speakers
Christoph Boehme	University of Utah Observing coherent spin motion with electrical currents
Kevin Curtis	Chief Technology Officer, InPhase Tech., Longmont, CO, Commercial Holographic Data Storage
Gus Hart	Brigham Young University Finding one of Nature's missing crystal structures
Tim Niebauer	President, Chief Scientist, Micro-g, Lafayette, CO Listening to the Earth with Gravity Meters
Saturday lunch speaker: Richard Wiener	Research Corporation, Research Funding Opportunities for Early Career Scientists
Dinner speaker: Richard Peterson, Bethel University Advanced Physics Labs and Undergraduate Research: Helping Them Work Together

Timeline

4CS abstract preparation and submission

Abstract Submission deadline will be 25 Sept. Submission is through the APS website. For useful information on format and abstract preparation, click on the following link: 4CS abstract preparation and submission

APS abstract submission page (link to APS site)

If you are an invited or plenary speaker, please submit your title and abstract at this site:

APS abstract submission page (Invited and Plenary only!)

Information for Presenters

Contributed talks are APS-style format: 10 minutes + 2 minutes for questions.

Invited talks (within the parallel sessions) are 20 minutes + 4 minutes for questions.

Plenary talks are 30 minutes + 6 minutes for questions.

To save time during the conference, we encourage presenters to upload their talks in advance of the conference (you must login with the authentication code sent to your email). If you do not preload your talk before the conference, you may do it on-site up to 1 hour before your session begins.

Presenters should have already received an email with instructions on how to upload talks into the system. If you did not receive this message you should contact Charles Durfee for your authentication code. Presenters may upload presentations in one of the following formats:

Microsoft Office PowerPoint (*.ppt)
OpenDocument Presentation (*.odp)
Adobe Acrobat Reader format (*.pdf)

Additional documents (such as movies) should be uploaded together with the presentation in a compressed folder (*.zip, *.tar.bz2, *.tar.gz). At check-in presenters will be asked to test their presentation on the same hardware that will be provided for the talks.

The poster session is Friday evening, 5pm - 6:30pm. Mounting boards and pushpins will be provided.

Maximum poster width: 48 inches

Registration

To present a contributed talk or poster, you must submit an abstract and register for the conference.

Late registration is an extra $15.

click here for Registration Form (pdf format)

To park on campus, you will need a parking pass. If you indicate on your registration that you need a parking pass, we will email a printable pass to you.

Exhibitors

We are pleased to have exhibitors join our meeting! As an exhibitor you will have the opportunity to meet with many of our finest students from the Four Corners Area (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah). Please contact the organizers in order to reserve your table today. Space is limited and is first-come first serve. The Exhibitor registration deadline is October 19, 2009. We look forward to seeing you in October!

Travel and Lodging

Click on the header above for information.

If you are coming into Denver International Airport and want to coordinate rides, click on the link below to indicate if you are renting a car, and what your arrival/departure times are. Email me at cdurfee@mines.edu if you have suggestions on improving this process.

Doodle poll for DIA rideshares

Many area hotels are a short drive (10min) from campus. If you are staying in one of these hotels, try this poll to coordinate carpooling to/from campus:

Doodle poll for hotel/campus rideshares

Conference Organization

Click above for a list of organizers

Contact/Further Information

For additional information contact the Department of Physics (303) 273-3830 or by e-mail at cdurfee@mines.edu.

Please send any web-related change requests to cdurfee@mines.edu.

To request permission to edit these pages, please register as user, finish the email verification process, then email Charles Durfee User:Cdurfee to approve you for editing.

Plenary Talk Downloads

The following plenary talks are available for download: