California-Nevada APS 2012--Program

Meeting Schedule

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Time	Session	Topic	Location
8:30-10:00	Registration		Chumash Auditorium
10:00-11:45	Session A1: Plenary Session I		Chumash Auditorium
	10:00-10:15	Welcome, Lynn Cominsky [Section Chair] Nilgun Sungar, [Cal Poly Physics Chair]
	10:15-11:00	"The Surprising Behavior of Magnetic Spins", Barbara Jones [IBM Almaden]
	11:00-11:45	"Quantum Matters", Chetan Nayak [Microsoft Station Q and UCSB]
11:45-12:45	Session B1: Business Meeting		Chumash Auditorium
12:45-14:00	Lunch - Open
	Executive Committee Working Lunch		UU 216
14:00-15:48	Session C: Parallel Session I
	C1:	Education, Energy, and Medical Physics	Business 003-0205
	C2:	Condensed Matter I - Phase Changes and Liquid Crystals	Business 003-0112
	C3:	High Energy and Accelerator Physics	Business 003-0209
15:48-16:12	Coffee Break		Business 003 Breezeway
16:12-18:00	Session D: Parallel Session II
	D1:	Gravitation and Quantum Mechanics	Business 003-0205
	D2:	Condensed Matter II - Nanotechnology and Materials	Business 003-0112
	D3:	Nuclear and Plasma Physics	Business 003-0209
18:30-21:00	Session E1: Banquet and After-dinner Speaker
	18:30-20:00	Dinner	PAC Lobby
	20:00-21:00	"A Life Not in Physics", Brian Hackney [KCBS San Francisco]	Philips Hall

Time	Session	Topic	Location
09:00-10:30	Session F1: Plenary Session II		Philips Hall
	09:00-9:45	"Guateca: The intercultural, collaborative, Appropriate Technology Summer School in the Guatemalan Mountains", Peter Schwartz [Cal Poly SLO]
	09:45-10:30	"Search for Extremely High Energy Neutrinos from the GZK Process", Steven Barwick [UC Irvine]
10:30-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-12:30	Session G1: Panel Discussion: Careers for Physicists in Aerospace		Philips Hall
		Markus J. Aschwanden [Lockheed Martin] Jodi Christiansen [Cal Poly San Luis Obispo] Rolf Danner [Northrop-Grumman] Dakota Decker [SpaceX] Sam Waldman [SpaceX]
12:30-14:00	Lunch - Open
	Student lunch with the experts - free for all pre-registered students		VG Cafe
14:00-16:00	Session H: Parallel Session III
	H1:	Astrophysics	Business 003-0205
	H2:	Condensed Matter III - Superconductors	Business 003-0112
	H3:	Atomic and Molecular Physics	Business 003-0209
	H4:	Condensed Matter IV - Atoms and Molecules	Business 003-0113
16:00	Conference Closed