Fall 2018 Meeting of the Illinois Section of the AAPT

"Physics and Astronomy: Making Meaning from Data"

October 26-27, 2018
Department of Physics
Illinois State University
Normal, IL

We are pleased to invite you to attend the Fall 2018 meeting of the ISAAPT. Come to learn more about physics, discover new tools and techniques for teaching physics, share your experiences via contributed presentations and Take Fives, and meet old and new friends.

Program Fees Attendees Photos Ultrasonic levitator video (Take 5, Rodger Baldwin)

Campus map - Parking - Hotels - Map

The 2017-2018 Outstanding High School Physics Teacher Award will be presented at the banquet on Friday evening. The recipient is Kristi Brown who teaches at Springfield High School, Springfield.

Invited Speakers

"Gravitational waves and light? The birth of multi-messenger astronomy and the detection of the fastest bursts in the Universe", Friday at 7:00
Dr. Jeffrey Cooke, Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia

"Constructing Gravity and the Standard Model", Saturday at 9:30
Dr. Neil Christensen, Department of Physics, Illinois State University

Workshops

W1. "Laboratory Techniques Workshop"

Carl Wenning

W2. "IOLab – a multi-sensor device for K1-College"
Morten Lundsgaard, Physics Department, UIUC

Host - Ken Wester, Illinois Statue University, kwester@ilstu.edu