Spring 2013 Meeting of the Illinois Section of the AAPT

"Setting New Standards in Physics Teaching"

March 1-2, 2013
Department of Physics
Western Illinois University
Macomb, Illinois 61455

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● Tours of research labs will be given on Friday afternoon following the final session.

● The Council will meet on Saturday morning.

● Awards for the Student Research Symposium will be presented during lunch on Saturday.


Invited Talks

Panel Discussion - "The Next Generation Science Standards", Joint session of the ISAAPT and the Secondary Science Conference, 1:05
Panel members: Gwen Pollock (ISTA), Jim Rabchuk (WIU), Jill Bucher (Lincoln College), Gil Downey (ISBE), and Pat Schlinder (Scope Shoppe, Inc. and Flinn Scientific)

"Radio Astronomy: Observing the Invisible Universe", Friday at 7:15
Esteban D. Araya, Department of Physics, Western Illinois University

"Super-Resolution: Quantum Tricks to Beat the Diffraction Limit", Saturday at 9:15
Kishor T. Kapale, Department of Physics, Western Illinois University

Host - Brian Davies, Department of Physics, Western Illinois University, bm-davies@wiu.edu