Program

1. Meeting Agenda and Program
2. Topics
3. Oral Presentations
4. Posters
5. SPS Sessions

An overview of the SESAPS 2004 meeting agenda can be viewed online or downloaded.

A detailed program of all the oral presentations can be found at the APS meetings website. It is also possible to search the program by author name or session name.

See the meeting corrigenda for the latest changes, corrections, additions and withdraws after the APS Bulletins (which you will receive a copy at the meeting) were printed.

2. Topics

3. Oral Presentations

For most topics listed above, there will be an invited session and a contributed session. The invited speakers are determined by the meeting's program committee, and contributed speakers are those who submit their abstracts by the August 10, 2004, deadline. Each contributed speaker will be alotted 10 minutes for his/her talk.

All the invited sessions will take place in the auditorium at the Pollard Center, and contributed sessions will be held in the Dogwood, Iris or Mockingbird rooms (please see the floor plan of the conference center for locations of these rooms). All meeting rooms will be equipped with both overhead projectors and computer based LCD projectors.

The LCD projector in each meeting room will be connected to a computer, which has the latest version of Microsoft Power Point and Acrobat Reader 6.0 installed. To ensure smooth transitions between talks, speakers are strongly encouraged to use the meeting facility's computers instead of their own laptops for presentations. Presentation files on a CD or a flash memory drive (that can be plugged in to the computer's USB port) are readily accepted. However, all speakers must present their CD's or flash memory drives to corresponding session chairs or meeting-room computer managers 30 minutes before the sessions start. If you cannot find your session chair or room computer manager, contact the secretaries at the registration desk.

If you must use your own computer for presentation, we ask that you connect your laptop computer to the VGA switch box in the meeting room well before the session starts, so that the transition time between speakers is minimized.

Speakers should be aware that the time used to connect/boot computers or fix software problems, etc. will be counted against their allotted speaking time.

In addition to invited and contributed oral presentations, poster contributions are also accepted. Those who wish to present only a poster at the meeting must submit their abstracts by September 10 and should register for the meeting.

Poster presenters should have their posters ready to be mounted before the meeting. The meeting site will not provide printing facilites. Posters should fit into the size of a 30" X 40" rectangle in either landscape or portrait orientation. Poster boards (30" X 40") will be provided by the meeting. Poster presenters are expected to mount their own posters according to their ID's on Thursday, November 11. Poster ID's are listed in the meeting program under DD and GD sessions. All posters must be dismounted by 7:30 p.m. on Friday, November 12.

The Society of Physics Students (SPS) chapter at the University of Tennessee is organizing a contributed session and a poster session for undergraduate students. These SPS sessions will be held on Saturday, November 13. Undergraduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for presentation in the SPS sessions. Abstracts for the SPS sessions should be emailed to Professor James E. Parks at UT-Knoxville. The deadline for SPS-session abstract submission is October 8, 2004. All students who present at one of the SPS sessions are eligible for the Marsh White Award, which will be given to the best undergraduate presenter. Undergraduate students who present at the regular SESAPS sessions will not be eligible for this award.

Undergraduate students who present only in the SPS sessions are not required to register for the SESAPS meeting. These students are not eligible for the SESAPS student travel grant.

The program for the SPS sessions at SESAPS 2004 is now available online.

Instructions for submitting an abstract to the SPS sessions:

1. Submission: By email only to Prof. James E. Parks
2. Deadline: Friday, October 8, 2004
3. Abstract file format: MSword
4. Abstract style: Use the template
5. Presentation type: Oral or poster presentation (should be specified at the bottom of the abstract)

Please contact Dr. Calvin Howell for questions on the meeting program.