American Physical Society -- Northwest
Section Meeting
Pullman/Moscow, May 21-22, 2004
A Meeting of the Northwest
Section of the American Physical Society
was held on campuses of the University of Idaho, Moscow, and
Washington State University, Pullman, on Friday and Saturday, May
21-22, 2004. The Section hold meetings each spring that
bring together physicists from all over the Pacific Northwest states
and
adjacent provinces of Canada. The Program Chair was Larry Hall
and the Local
Organizing Committee was headed by myself, Gary S. Collins, WSU, and
Bernhard
Stumpf, UofI. The meeting had a registered attendance of 155,
including 60 APS
members, 47 graduate students and 38 undergraduate students.
There were 72 invited and other oral presentations and 21 poster
presentations. Session details, epitome and abstracts can be
found at
http://www.aps.org/meet/NWS04/baps/index.html.
Oral sessions were held on the campus of the
University of Idaho on both days. A combined wine reception and
poster session
was held on the 12th floor of Webster Sciences Building on the WSU
campus on Friday afternoon, followed by a banquet dinner in the Compton
Union Building. Ruprecht Machleidt, of the University of Idaho,
gave a tremendously entertaining after-banquet talk entitled "The
Never-ending Dream of Mankind: the Theory of Everything",
spanning the history of science from atomic theory of the Ancient
Greeks to Grand Unified Theories.
Because of rain and clouds, a visit to the Jewett
Astronomical Observatory organized by Sukanta Bose to follow the
banquet regrettably
had to be
canceled. From all reports, participants had a great
time professionally and personally.
Below are photos
taken by me at the poster reception and banquet. Click on the
thumbnails and see whom you can
identify!
Gary S. Collins (collins at wsu.edu)
Gary S. Collins (collins
at wsu.edu). Gary
Collins's home page.
