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.
