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PRELIMINARY ZONE X MEETING AGENDA – MARCH 9 – 11, 2007
Meeting rooms and speaker details will be announced at a later date
Friday, March 9: LSU Union, Atchafalaya Room 342
8:00 am – 9:00 am – On-site registration plus Continental breakfast (LSU Union)
9:00 am – 9:30 am – Introductory and Welcome talks
9:30 am – 10:20 am – Keynote Lecture - Dr. Gary White
- A Great Time to Do Physics: from spintronics to spallation to spandex and more.
10:20 am – 10:30 am – Coffee break
10:30 am – 11:10 am – Student research presentations - Session A
11:10 am – 12:00 noon – Keynote Lecture - Dr. Phillip T. Sprunger - IR to x-rays...
12:00 noon – 1:00 pm – Lunch your own
1:10 pm – Bus departs LSU Union for CAMD facility
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm – Tour of CAMD
2:50 pm – Bus arrives at LSU Union
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Tour of Physics Dept / LSU campus
5:30 pm – Bus departs LSU Union for evening banquet
6:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Meeting banquet at Nottoway plantation
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Meeting banquet keynote lecture - Dr. Edward Seidel
- Solving Einstein's Equations of Supercomputers
10:30 pm – Bus arrives at LSU Union
Saturday, March 10: Nicholson Hall, Room 130
8:00 am – Bus departs LSU Union for LIGO facility
9:00 am – 12:00 noon – Tour of LIGO facility
12:00 noon – 1:00 pm – Paper bag lunch at LIGO facility
1:45 pm – Arrive at LSU Union
2:00 pm – 2:50 pm – Keynote Lecture - Dr. Kenneth Hogstrom
- Medical Physics and the Medical Physicist
2:50 pm – 3:00 pm – Coffee break
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Student research presentations - Session B
5:30 pm – Bus departs LSU Union for HRPO facility
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Bar-B-Q dinner at HRPO
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm – Tour and observing at HRPO
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Keynote Lecture - Dr. Gregory Guzik - 120,000 Feet Above Antarctica
10:00 pm – Bus arrives at LSU Union
Sunday, March 11: Nicholson Hall, Room 130
8:30 am – 9:00 am – Continental breakfast (Nicholson Hall)
9:00 am – 10:30 am – Student research presentations - Session C
10:30 am – 10:45 am – Coffee break
10:45 am – 11:30 am – Student Chapter Reports
11:30 am – 12:30 pm – Zone X Region business meeting
12:30 pm – Adjourn meeting |