Meeting
SPS Zone Meeting
Event sponsor
Society of Physics Students
Event location
CSU - East Bay, Hayward, CA
Event description
Join Zone 18 for tours, talks, demos, and more!
Society of Physics Students Zone 18 Meeting Agenda
Friday February 1st 2019
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Afternoon Lab Tours:
· NASA’s Ames Research Center
· Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
· SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
· CSU East Bay Lab Tours
Note: times to be announced; register to attend via the registration form and look out for a follow-up email
5:00 pm – 10:00 pm Registration
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Movie and Game Night at CSU East Bay Chabot Space and Science Center
Note: transportation will not be provided to the planetarium located off-campus
Saturday February 2nd 2019
8:00 am – 9:00 am Registration/Coffee & Donuts
9:00 am – 9:30 am Welcome to CSU East Bay!
9:30 am – 10:30 am Plenary 1: Lauren Wallace, Meteorologist on KSEE 24 News (NBC affiliate in Fresno, CA) Certified by the American Meteorological Society
10:30 am – 11:00 am Student Talks 1
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Workshop: Dr. Amy Furniss, Assistant Professor of Physics at CSU East Bay, Astrophysics - Having a Growth Mindset and Imposter Syndrome
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Break
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Society of Physics Students, National Council: Kerry Kidwell-Slak (National Office), Annette Lopez (Zone 18 Associate Zone Councilor): The Society of Physics Students and PhysCon 2019
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Speaker: Dr. Maridith Janssen, Director CSU Pre-Doctoral Program at California State University Office of the Chancellor Sally Casanova Scholars
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Student Talks 2
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Speaker: Dr. Kathryn Grimm, Assistant Professor of Physics at CSU East Bay, Particle Physics The ATLAS Experiment at CERN and CSU NUPAC
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Poster Session/Coffee Break
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Physics Outreach: Don Williams, Lecturer at CSU Fresno Hands-on Demos
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Dinner Provided at CSU East Bay
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Plenary 2: Janelle Wellons, Instrument Operations Engineer at NASA’s JPL
8:00 pm – 8:15 pm Closing Remarks
Annette Lopez, annette8251 [at] mail.fresnostate.edu
Dennis Calderon, dennis.henry.calderon [at] gmail.com