Fall 2011 Joint Meeting of the NYS Sections of the American Physical Society (NYSS-APS)
and the American Association of Physics Teachers (NYSS-AAPT)

October 7 & 8, 2011 – SUNY College at Oneonta
AGENDA / PROGRAM


Friday, October 7, 2011 Detailed Agenda (PDF)
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM On-Site Registration (Lobby area outside SCI1 121)
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Welcome Remarks:
Dr. Sunil Labroo, Chair, Executive Board, NYSS-APS
Dr. Maria Thompson, SUNY Oneonta Provost and VP for Academic Affairs
Dr. Nancy Kleniewski, President, SUNY Oneonta
1:15 PM - 1:55 PM Dr. Gianfranco Vidali, Syracuse University
Superconductivity: The Beginnings
1:55 PM - 2:35 PM Dr. Matthew Sullivan, Ithaca College
Superconductivity: One Hundred Years Young
2:35 PM - 3:15 PM Dr. Ramesh Gupta, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Advances in HTS Magnets for Accelerator and Other Applications
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Dr. Venkat Selvamanickam, University of Houston: High Temperature Superconducting Wires for Electric Power and Magnetic Applications
4:10 PM - 4:50 PM Dr. Mark Ketchen, IBM
Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Poster Session & Cash Bar (Le Café, Morris Hall)
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Banquet (Otsego Grille, Morris Hall)
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Keynote Lecture (Craven Lounge, Morris Hall)
Prof. Ivar Giaever (Nobel Prize 1973), GE & RPI
Discovery of Superconducting Tunneling

Saturday, October 8, 2011
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast (Lobby area outside SCI1 121)
9:00 AM - 12:00 AM NYSS-AAPT “Ranking Tasks” PTRA Workshop for teachers (PSCI 105)
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM Dr. Minfeng Xu, GE Global Research
Superconducting Magnets for Medical MRI Applications
9:40 AM - 10:20 AM Stephen Wilson, Boston College
Exploring the Magnetic and Structural Phase Transitions in BaFe2As2
10:20 AM - 10:35 AM Coffee Break
10:35 AM - 11:15 AM Dr. Britton Plourde, Syracuse University
Quantum Computing with Superconducting Circuits
11:15 AM - 11:55 PM Dr. Michael Lawler, SUNY Binghamton
Electronic Liquid Crystal Correlations in the Pseudogap Phase of High Tc cuprates
11:55 PM - 12:00 PM Concluding Remarks (Dr. Sunil Labroo)