Program

Meeting Program

Program Overview

• Thursday evening: arrival, registration, Maxey Auditorium lobby 4 – 7:30 pm
• Thursday evening: Brattain Lecture by Dr. Barry Barish, Maxey Auditorium, 7:30 pm
• Friday morning: Registration desk open in Maxey Auditorium lobby 7:30 am – noon
• Friday morning: Plenary session in Maxey Auditorium
• Friday afternoon: Registration desk open in Hall of Science 146 1:15 - 4pm.
• Friday afternoon: Parallel sessions in the Hall of Science
• Late Friday afternoon: Poster Session and Reception in Cordiner Hall Foyer
• Late Friday afternoon: Annual Section Business Meeting in the Reid Campus Center
• Friday Evening: Banquet in the Young Ballroom of the Reid Campus Center, featuring speaker:
  • Kevin Pogue, Department of Geology, Whitman College, "Quantifying Terroir"
• Saturday morning: Registration desk open in Maxey Auditorium lobby 7:30 am –11 am
• Saturday morning: Plenary session in Maxey Auditorium
• Saturday lunch: Society of Physics Students (SPS) luncheon
• Saturday afternoon: Parallel sessions in the Hall of Science

Invited Plenary speakers include:

• David Atkinson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Explosives Detection
• Rory Barnes, University of Washington, Terrestrial Exoplanets
• Barry Davids, TRIUMF, Nuclear Astrophysics
• Anna Goussiou, University of Washington, Particle Physics
• Lucas Illing, Reed College, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
• Michael Landry, LIGO, Gravitational Waves
• Matt McCluskey, Washington State University, Materials for Energy Applications
• Sally McFarlane, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Remote Sensing of Clouds and Aerosols
• Valery Milner, University of British Columbia, Ultrafast Coherent Control
• Raghu Parthasarathy, University of Oregon, Physical Properties of Biological Membranes
• Marty Ytreberg, University of Idaho, Biophysics