January 13-15, 2012
All conference events will be held in Sudler Hall (WLH 201) unless otherwise noted.
Friday, January 13
- 3:00 PM Registration Begins (Dwight Hall)
- 5:00 PM Welcome Reception & Dinner (Dwight Hall)
- 6:00 PM Opening Address
- Dr. Meg Urry, Physics Department Chair, Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Yale University - 7:00 PM Break
- 7:15 PM Liquid Crystals and Their Contribution to the Field of Organic Photovoltaics
- Dr. Luz Martinez-Miranda Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
University of Maryland - 8:15 PM Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream & Physics of Dance Demos (Davenport Dining Hall)
- Saturday, January 14
- 8:15 AM Breakfast
- 8:45 AM Welcome & Introductions
- Dr. Bonnie Fleming Associate Professor of Physics, Yale Univeristy
- 9:00 AM A Career in Ocean Physics: From New England Beaches to African Pirates
- Michele Dufault Memorial Lecture
- Dr. Amy Bower Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
- 10:00 AM Break
- 10:15 AM Graduate Student Panel
- Adele Plunkett Moderator, Yale University
Dania Nasser Yale University
Kristi Beck MIT
Laura Kreidberg University of Chicago
Liz Wayne Cornell University
Raquel Martinez Wesleyan University - 11:30 AM Lunch with Speakers and Yale Faculty (Rooms in WLH)
- 1:00 PM Using Computational Chemical Physics to Interpret Genomic Information
- Dr. Mary Jo Ondrechen Professor of Theoretical Chemical Biology/Physics
Northeastern University - 2:00 PM An Era of Opportunities and Choices: A Physicist’s Dilemma (Simulcast)
- Dr. Persis Drell Director, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- 3:00 PM Break
- 3:30 PM Research in Theoretical Physics: Particles, Strings, and Mathematics
- Dr. Anastasia Volovich Associate Professor of Physics, Brown University
- 4:30 PM Break
- 4:45 PM Career Panel
- Dr. Bonnie Fleming Moderator, Yale University
Dr. Lily Childress Yale University/Bates College
Flora Lichtman Science Friday
Dr. Yvonne Akpalu Why Science - 6:30 PM Social Hour & Planetarium Shows (Yale Planetarium)
- 8:00 PM Dinner
- Sunday, January 15
- 8:45 AM Breakfast & Poster Set-Up
- 9:15 AM Random Lasers, Bio-Inspired Lasers and Anti-Lasers
- Dr. Hui Cao Professor of Applied Physics & Professor of Physics, Yale University
- 10:30 AM Student Talks - Schedule TBD (WLH)
- 11:45 AM Lunch & Student Poster Session (WLH)
- 1:15 PM Lab Tours (Science Hill)
- 3:15 PM Break
- 3:30 PM Hunting for the Higgs and other pursuits at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
- Dr. Sarah Demers Assistant Professor of Physics, Yale University
- 4:30 PM Closing Remarks
- Dr. Sarah Demers Assistant Professor of Physics, Yale University
- Ellen Klein and Ariel Ekblaw Co-Presidents, Women in Physics