2022 Spring Zone 7 Meeting

Meeting Announcement

The Spring 2022 Zone Meeting for SPS Zone 7 was held in person on April 1-2, 2021, on the campus of Youngstown State University in conjunction with the Spring 2022 Meeting of the Eastern Great Lakes Section of the American Physical Society (EGLS APS). The meeting was locally hosted by Youngstown State University SPS chapter. There was no cost for students to attend  the zone meeting, but you did need to register at the meeting's web site, which also contains information about travel and accommodations. 

You need to set up a free APS account to register for the EGLS APS meeting.  Note that free APS membership  is available for students who are first-time APS members (yes, it's really free!), so you might as well join!

Students who are not presenting at the EGLS APS meeting do not need to be an APS or SPS member to participate in the SPS zone meeting activities (except for the banquet).  But, of course, we encourage all students to join SPS to take advantage of its great benefits!

Some EGLS APS Travel Grants were available for students (mostly undergraduate students).  The grants will cover up to $100 in expenses for transportation and lodging.  The application due date for these grants was March 26, 2022. If you would like to attend the banquet but cannot afford the banquet fee ($20 for students), then please contact the Zone Councilor.

Zone Meeting Schedule

Zone meeting events were largely scheduled around  or in conjunction with other events on the EGLS APS meeting  schedule to enable students to attend those sessions. 

Friday, April 1, 2022

12:30 pm - 3:50 pm  EGLS APS Plenary Talks

After an introduction, plenary talks were given by 

• Al Shapere, University of Kentucky and Institute for Advanced Studies, "Quantum Codes from Condensed Matter to Quantum Gravity" (1:00-1:50 pm)

• Alaina Green, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, "How to Use a Small Quantum Computer and Why" (2:00-2:50 pm)

• Sean McWilliams, West Virginia University, "Analytic Black-Hole Binary Mergers: Waveforms and Kicks from First Principles"  (3:00-3:50 pm)

Abstracts are available on the meeting's website. 

4:00-4:30 pm:  Zone 7 Meeting Kick-off Event

The kick-off event gave students the chance to meet students and faculty from other chapters around the zone. Associate Zone Councilor, Rebecca Abbott-McCune, and Zone Councilor, Prof. Ronald Kumon, provided an overview of the latest news, events, and programs from the SPS National Council.  We livestreamed the kick-off event via Zoom for people who were not able to make it to the meeting in person.  An edited video recording of the Zoom session is available on the SPS Zone 7 YouTube page. The slides from the presentation have also been posted. At the kick-off event, we had representation in person from Youngstown State University and Kettering University and remotely from Marshall University.  (Unfortunately the plenary sessions ran over into the designated time for the kick-off event and into the time of the poster sessions, limiting in-person attendance.)  

4:30-6:00 pm: EGLS APS Contributed Posters Session

A total of 12 posters were presented, and 8 of the presenters were undergraduate students from Marietta College, Ohio Northern University, Saginaw Valley State University, and the University of Dayton.

6:30-8:50 pm:  EGLS APS Banquet and Plenary Speaker ($20 for students; must pre-register)

After the buffet dinner, YSU alumnus David Gohlke, Ph.D., from Argonne National Laboratory spoke on the topic of  "Decarbonization Pathways in Transportation."

Saturday, April 2, 2022

8:00-10:00 am:  EGLS APS Contributed Talks

A total of 22 talks were scheduled, and 8 presentations were made by undergraduate students from Case Western Reserve University, Lawrence Technological University, Miami University, Ohio State University, and Youngstown State University. 

10:15 am -1:30 pm: EGLS APS Plenary Talks

• Victor Galitski, University of Maryland, "Many-Body Quantum Chaos and Emergence of Statistical Mechanics" (10:15-11:15 am)

• Marilyn Wade, Kenyon College, "Uncovering the Invisible: Results from LIGO and Virgo's Third Observing Run" (11:30 am-12:30 pm)

• Jesse Berezovsky, Case Western Reserve University, "Coupling and Control of Defect Spin Qubits via an Engineered Magnetic Environment"  (12:30-1:20 pm)

Abstracts are available on the meeting's website. 

Thanks to everyone who was able to attend!  

A total of 20 undergraduate students from  10 chapters across the zone attended the joint SPS/EGLS APS meeting, including Case Western Reserve University, Kettering University, Lawrence Technological University, Marietta College, Miami University, Ohio Northern University, Ohio State University, Saginaw Valley State University, University of Dayton, and Youngstown State University.  A full zone meeting report has been posted.

Check back on the SPS Zone 7 web site for announcements about future zone meetings!