Spring 2017 Meeting of the Illinois Section of the AAPT
"Solar Physics"
April 7-8, 2017
Physics Department
Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, Illinois 61920
We are pleased to invite you to attend the Spring 2017 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. Note that this meeting includes the annual Student Research Symposium.
Directions to campus - parking map - building map - hotels
2017 Distinguished Service Citation. This will be given during the banquet on Friday evening. Congratulations to Morten Lundsgaard, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Invited Speakers
"The Science of Space Weather", Friday at 1:15
Ramon E. Lopez, Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington
"Step-By-Step Through The Solar Eclipse: What to Expect and How to Prepare", Friday at 2:15
David Linton, Eastern Illinois University
"Eclipses as Heavenly Laboratories: Launching Revolutions in General Relativity and Exoplanets", Friday at 6:30
Brian Fields, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Growing Up at the Dawn of the Space Age", Saturday at 11:00
David Linton, Eastern Illinois University
Workshops
W1. "Integrating Computation into Introductory Physics Courses"
Kelly Roos, Bradley University
W2. "Make and Take: Build a Sun Funnel"
Carl Wenning, Illinois State University
W3. This is a repeat of Workshop W1.
W4. "IOLab – a multi-sensor device"
Morten Lundsgaard, Physics Department, UIUC
Host - Cherie Lehman, Eastern Illinois University, cblehman@eiu.edu