The Department of Physics hosted a joint meeting April 16-17, 2010, of the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers and Zone 5 of the Society of Physics Students. More than 114 physics professors, high school teachers and students from the Carolinas attended.
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The joint conference featured two notable keynote addresses.
On Friday evening, 2002 Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle described his discovery of a new state of matter, the Bose-Einstein condensate. On Saturday, Arthur Eisenkraft, winner of the 2009 Millikan Award for physics education, gave a speech encouraging educators to make physics accessible to all.
This conference piloted a new format for the NCS-AAPT meetings with heavy emphasis on workshops and student posters. Elon University faculty presented one of these workshops, showing participants how to assemble and use a “Galileoscope” telescope.
Elon physics majors Matthew Marcum, Daniel Glass, and Aaron Summers also presented posters on their research and outreach programs.
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