APS New England Section/ AAPT Joint Spring Meeting

March 30 - 31, 2001

Middlebury College

Middlebury, Vermont

General Information

The 2001 Spring Meeting of the New England Section of the American Physical Society (NES/APS) and American Association of Physics Teachers (NES/AAPT) will be held at Middlebury College on Friday and Saturday, March 30 - 31, 2001. Further information on the conference may be obtained at the conference web site: http://cweb.middlebury.edu/nesaps

Program

FRIDAY AFTERNOON - Chaos, Complexity, and Self-Organization

SATURDAY MORNING - General Physics; Chaos, Complexity and Self-Organization in the High School and the College Classroom.

Banquet

A reception and banquet will be held Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. at the Kirk Alumni Center, Middlebury College.

Registration

See the registration form in this announcement. Local registration begins at 1:00 p.m. on Friday in Bicentennial Hall, continuing on Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Free registration and a travel subsidy of up to a maximum of $100 is available to all students attending this meeting.

Abstract Submission

We welcome contributed and poster papers in any area of contemporary physics. We especially welcome papers on the topics of chaos, complexity, and self-organization that will include demonstration of classroom or research apparatus to meeting participants. There will be parallel oral and poster sessions on Saturday morning, March 31.

Complete abstract submission instructions can be found at http://www.aps.org/meet/meet-abstract.html.

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, March 16, 2001. We strongly urge you to proofread your abstract carefully before submission. Contributors may submit one of two ways:

Submitting abstracts via e-mail: Contributers must create their abstracts from an electronic template supplied by the American Physical Society. The template and instruction files for the contributed abstracts can be obtained by sending email to abs-request@aps.org with the phrase request NES01 in the message. Invited speakers should refer to their letters of invitation for instructions on receiving the invited template. Those contributers who are absolutely unable to submit an abstract via the web or electronically should contact meetings@aps.org.

If you have questions regarding abstract submission, please send them to abs-help@aps.org.