The Joint OSAPS, Ohio AAPT, and SPS Zone 7 Spring Meeting
Hosted by: College of Wooster, Department of Physics, on March 29 - 30, 2019
Join your colleagues for two days of collaboration, learning, and communication at the Spring 2019 meeting of the OSAPS at The College of Wooster! Friday afternoon and Saturday morning presentations will address a wide range of nonlinear topics. Also, please plan to join us Friday evening for the banquet and a subsequent public presentation on the interdisciplinary topic: Order Out of Chaos. The OSAPS meetings provide an ideal venue for students and science teachers to attend, present their research results and engage in active discussion.
Information about speakers, abstract submission, registration and travel accommodations are available, or by contacting hosts Niklas Manz and John Lindner.
Confirmed Invited Speakers:
- Stéphane Coutu, Penn State University, Particle Astrophysics
- Taviare L. Hawkins, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, Biophysics
- Stephen Morris, University of Toronto, Nonlinear Physics
- John Pojman, Louisiana State University, Nonlinear Phenomena in Polymeric Systems
- Swara Ravindranth, Space Telescope Science Institute, Instrument Scientist
- Richard Field, University of Montana, The Luck of Good Timing in Science
- Tom Greenslade, Kenyon College, Bringing Early Physics Apparatus and Demonstrations into the Twenty-First Century
Student Travel:
Students who present posters or oral presentations at the OSAPS meeting are eligible for travel support from the OSAPS. The amount of the travel grant is up to $100 per student, subject to OSAPS budget constraints. Students will be notified of the amount of the award after the meeting. See meeting website for the application form.
Undergraduate Research Poster Award:
The OSAPS section will give an award for the best undergraduate poster presentation. The $100 award will be presented at the Friday banquet by the section awards committee.
Report from the Fall 2018 Meeting of OSAPS at The University of Toledo »
The Fall 2018 OSAPS Meeting was held in the Student Union on the main campus at the University of Toledo on September 28-29, 2018. The theme of the meeting was “Celebrating Planck’s 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics: The Many Implications of Energy Quanta”, which was highlighted by four invited speakers. A total of 127 attendees registered for the meeting and 86 presentations were given: 44 contributed talk, 38 posters, and 4 plenary/invited talks. An OSAPS Business Meeting was held prior to the formal OSAPS conference kick-off.
After brief welcoming remarks by the co-organizers, Profs. Randy Ellingson and Nikolas Podraza, the first parallel sessions kicked off on Friday September 28 with 21 contributed talks in the areas of Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Space Science; Condensed Matter Physics; and Optics and Biophysics. Conference attendees reconvened for the first plenary talk, presented by Prof. Emily Weiss of Northwestern University on the topic of Colloidal Photocatalysis. The poster session followed – featuring 38 poster presentations – and during which refreshments were available.
The poster session segued into the Friday evening banquet, which featured comments from Dean Karen Bjorkman of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, as well as from the Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Prof. Sanjay Khare. Prof. Emeritus Lawrence Anderson-Huang presented the evening plenary talk entitled “Planck’s Antecedents: Ideas and People in Late 19th Century Physics”.
The 2nd day of the meeting, on Saturday, September 29, started with 20 additional contributed talks in four parallel sessions, on the topics of Astronomy, Physics Education, Condensed Matter, Energy and the Environment, and Atomic, Molecular, Optical, and Quantum Physics. The morning session was followed by two plenary talks: the Chief Scientist of First Solar, Markus Gloeckler, spoke on “The Future of CdTe Solar Photovoltaics”, and the University of Arizona graduate student Carolyn Raithel presented “Journey to the Center of a Neutron Star: From Astrophysical Observations to the Neutron Star Equation of State”. Subsequently, three additional contributed talks comprised a special “Lunchtime Physics” session which concluded the conference.
The conference received financial and additional support from OSAPS, the University of Toledo’s Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Society of Physics Students, and the University’s Marketing and Communications Office.
The local organizing committee consisted of Professors Randy Ellingson and Nikolas Podraza, with significant administrative support provided by Ms. Lynda Obee and Ms. Lori Burkeholder, and technical support provided by Prof. Richard Irving.
Invited speakers from left to right: Emily Weiss, Lawrence Anderson-Huang, Markus Gloeckler, and Carolyn Raithel.