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  • APS Plenary Session "Producing Superheavy Elements" (Presider: Renee Diehl, Pennsylvania State University)

      • The Quest for Superheavy Elements: W. Loveland, Oregon State University

      • PL07
      • Tue 07/16, 2:00PM - 3:30PM

      • Type: Plenary
      • I will examine the current status of heavy element research. Among the questions addressed are: Why are heavy elements important? What is their unique role in chemistry? How has the Periodic Table evolved with time and what are the limits of the Periodic Table? How do you make new heavy nuclei? How does one do chemistry one atom at a time? What are the
      • Exploring the Limits of Nuclear Stability: Glimpsing the Island of Stability: Mark A. Stoyer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

      • PL08
      • Tue 07/16, 2:00PM - 3:30PM

      • Type: Plenary
      • The Dubna/LLNL collaboration has been investigating the nuclear and chemical properties of the heaviest elements since 1989. Elements 113-118 have been synthesized and characterized using fusion-evaporation nuclear reactions of 48Ca beams on actinide targets (237Np, 242,244Pu, 243Am, 245,248Cm, 249Bk, and 249Cf, respectively) at the U400 cyclotron located at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Russia. This talk will discuss the ramifications of the experimental work during the last 10-15 years on the synthesis of elements 113 – 118, including the recent IUPAC acceptance of element names for 114 (flerovium) and 116 (livermorium). Prediction of the heaviest element possible is highly uncertain because of the complex interplay of strong nuclear forces, Coulomb forces, surface/volume effects and shell corrections. For some combination of protons (Z > 118) and neutrons, the strong nuclear force which binds nucleons together will not be able to counter the Coulomb repulsion of the protons in a nucleus, and thus nuclei will cease to exist. Experimental and theoretical efforts to locate and access the next region of doubly-magic spherically-shaped nuclei, the Island of Stability, will be presented.
  • Alan M. Nathan - Physics of Baseball

      • Alan M. Nathan - Physics of Baseball

      • PL06
      • Tue 07/16, 9:00AM - 10:00AM

      • Type: Plenary
  • David Halliday and Robert Resnick Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Physics Teaching

      • Teaching Physics and Its Role in the Survival (And Growth) of A Physics Program: Michael Jackson, Central Washington University

      • PL01
      • Mon 07/15, 10:30AM - 12:00PM

      • Type: Plenary
      • The past six years has been a challenging but successful period for the faculty, staff, and students in the physics program at Central Washington University (CWU). Despite budgetary cuts and reductions in faculty, the CWU physics program has about quadrupled the number of majors and has achieved double digit graduation classes in physics. This can be attributed to the implementation or continuation of a number of recommendations outlined in the SPIN-UP report including advising and mentoring, dual-degree programs, and providing all majors with an undergraduate research experience. Instilling a collective ownership of the physics curriculum and a genuine commitment to all aspects of excellent teaching has been key to creating a vibrant undergraduate physics community at CWU. This presentation will outline some of the challenges the physics department has faced during this period and provide an overview of what has changed and how these changes have been implemented
  • Homer L. Dodge Citation for Distinguished Service to AAPT

      • Daniel H. Phelps, Columbia College, Vancouver and Bob Powell, University of West Georgia

      • PL03
      • Mon 07/15, 10:30AM - 12:00PM

      • Type: Plenary
  • Melba Newell Phillips Medal

      • DBER - A View from Physics: Lillian C. McDermott, University of Washington - Seattle

      • PL08
      • Wed 07/17, 10:00AM - 11:00AM

      • Type: Plenary
      • Discipline-based education research (DBER) on student learning in undergraduate science and engineering courses is a relatively new field. The history in physics is longer than in other disciplines. The Physics Education Group in the Physics Department at the University of Washington began conducting research in physics education (PER) in the early 1970s in courses designed to prepare preservice teachers to teach physics and physical science by inquiry. The scope of our research soon expanded to include undergraduates in the standard introductory courses and inservice teachers. We wanted to determine the degree to which all of these populations develop a functional understanding of physical concepts, interpret their formal representations, distinguish related concepts from one another, and do the reasoning required for their application. Later, we extended our investigations to more advanced courses, in which mathematical abstractions play an increasingly prominent role. Our research has not only been discipline-based but also discipline-specific. Examples will illustrate the nature of our investigations and their application to the development of our two research-based and research-validated curricula: Physics by Inquiry and Tutorials in Introductory Physics. Our experience has led to a few ideas about future directions for PER that we believe can help improve student learning from the elementary grades to the graduate level.
  • Paul W. Zitzewitz Award for Excellence in Pre-College Physics Teaching

      • Thomas F. Haff, Issaquah High School

      • PL02
      • Mon 07/15, 10:30AM - 12:00PM

      • Type: Plenary
  • Robert A. Millikan Medal

      • New Challenges for Old Physics Departments: Harvey Gould, Clark University

      • PL05
      • Mon 07/15, 6:10PM - 7:10PM

      • Type: Plenary
      • The use of computation has expanded the type of problems of interest to physicists and can allow us to reach more students. At the same time the concepts and techniques of physics are becoming increasingly important in the other sciences and engineering as well as in many areas of social science. I argue that the biggest challenge facing physics departments is not increasing the number of physics majors, however desirable that would be, but is teaching physics to other science majors as well as to non-science majors. I will discuss examples of how physicists have inuenced other _elds, as well as how concepts from other _elds are being used by physicists. These developments are of much interest to physics majors and other students and imply that we need to change what and how we teach.