We regret to inform that NCNAAPT member Scott Chan and his daughter were among those who lost their lives in the recent scuba boat fire tragedy. His longtime friend Dan Burns shared the thoughts below with us.
Author: David Marasco
Save the date! We are returning to Foothill in November. Our keynote speaker will be SJSU’s Cassandra Paul. Registration is now closed, the walk-up pricing is $25. On Friday night we’ll meet for a social at one of the officers’ house in San Jose at 6. He’s cooking up a mountain of food, so bring $10 to drop in the honor jar. An RSVP link will be sent to folks who register for our meeting. At around 8 we’ll finish up dinner, and will go to Foothill’s observatory for some star-gazing.
Our next local AAPT meeting will be hosted by the University of the Pacific Physics Department on April 5th and 6th. Parking and directions can be found here. So, what will our conference look like? We’ll have vendor workshops in the late afternoon/early evening on Friday the 5th, followed by some no-host dining. Our main event will be on Saturday the 6th, and will feature invited talks from Natasha Holmes and Binod Nainabasti followed by workshops in the afternoon. Program
Here’s a copy of Carl Wieman’s PPT, we’ll include other materials as they roll in: wieman aapt ncal 2018
Our next meeting will be at Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose on November 9 and 10. We are pulling out all of the stops for this one! We’ve got two great invited speakers. In the morning we’ll have Carl Wieman, 2001 Nobel Prize winner, and the driving force behind the PhET simulations project.
In the afternoon we’ll feature Tracy Van Houten. She took a leave from NASA’s
Jet Propulsion Laboratory to run for California’s 34th Congressional District, in an attempt to become the first woman engineer in Congress. She was showcased in this article from The Atlantic. She spoke to us via Skype at a previous meeting, and we liked her so much we’re bringing her north.
To register, go to https://ncnaapt.org/event-registration?ee=43. If your dues are current, you should have received an email giving you a free registration coupon code. If not, then yearly dues are $20, which includes two meetings and a whole lot of food. If you are interested, but have responsibilities around taking care of loved ones on Saturdays, we have mini-grants that help cover dependent care. Read here for details: https://ncnaapt.org/archives/2948. We will also have a lactation room available.