The Joint Fall 2018 Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS (TSAPS)
TSAPS 2018 Fall Meeting Website
Deadlines:
- Abstract submission for contributed and poster deadline is September 21.
- Online Registration is currently available, and the early registration deadline is September 21. Higher fees apply after this date. Note that one need not be an APS member to register for the meeting.
- Student travel award application: Application and registration are both due September 21.
- Judge student presentations Attendees with Ph.D.s are encouraged to sign up to judge student oral and poster presentations. We need you!
Speakers
Banquet Speaker: TSAPS Banquet, 6:15 PM, Friday October 19 at Club Suite- TDECU Stadium
Prof. Paul C.W. Chu (U. of Houston) – Solid State Physics and Superconductivity
Prof. Chu is the T. L. L. Temple Chair of Science, and Founding Director & Chief Scientist of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston. His primary research interests center on experimental solid state physics: superconductivity, magnetism, and dielectrics at high pressure and low temperature; searching for novel superconductors; unraveling the mechanism behind high temperature superconductors (HTS); raising the Tc; fabricating HTS; and developing practical uses of HTS. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing), the Academia Sinica (Taipei), the Third World Academy of Sciences, The Electromagnetic Academy and the Russian Academy of Engineering.
Plenary I, Friday October 19, 2018
Prof. David Alexander (Rice University) "The Space Physics of Star- Planet Interactions"
David Alexander is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, where his primary areas of research are solar physics exoplanetary physics and earth remote sensing.
Alexander received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2004 and was appointed a Kavli Frontiers Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. He is currently Chair of the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Users’ Committee. He is also former Chair of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society and former Chair of the Solar Heliospheric Interplanetary Environment (SHINE) program.
Plenary II, Saturday, October 20, 2018
Prof. Margaret S. Cheung (University of Houston) “Molecular Underpinnings of Postsynaptic Calmodulin-dependent Calcium Signaling”
Margaret Cheung’s is the Moores Professor of Physics, of Chemistry, and of Computer Science at the U. of Houston. Her research focuses on the field of theoretical biological physics. She is interested in understanding the physical principles of macromolecules whose behavior inside a cell amounts to specific functions at a subcellular level. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and she received the Hyer Award in 2010. She also serves as the Outreach Director, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and as the Co-Director, Science Teacher Equity Project for Physics Teachers at the University of Houston.
Plenary III, Saturday October 20, 2018
Prof. Robert L. Kleinberg (Columbia University and Boston University) “mK to km: How Millikelvin Physics is Reused to Explore the Earth Kilometers Below the Surface”
Robert L. Kleinberg is Principal of Presidio Energy Technology, a non-resident senior fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Boston University, and adjunct senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy of Columbia University. From 1980 to 2018 he was employed by Schlumberger, attaining the rank of Schlumberger Fellow, one of about a dozen who hold this rank in a workforce of 100,000. Dr. Kleinberg is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and is the 2018- 2019 American Physical Society Distinguished Lecturer on the Application of Physics.
AAPT/TSAPS Lunch Speaker
Luncheon AAPT/TSAPS Business Meeting, 11:50 AM, Saturday October 20, Club Suite - TDECU Stadium
Prof. Rhett Allain (Southeastern Louisiana University) “Communicating Science with MacGyver and MythBusters”
Dr. Allain's research interests are in the field of Physics Education Research (PER). The primary goal of PER is to explore how students understand physics. This typically leads to the development of new curriculum and instructional techniques.
Allain is interested in physics for elementary teachers, computational methods in introductory physics and student understanding of the nature of science.