The American Association of Physics Teachers, Northern California/Nevada Section
AAPT National’s Summer 2016 Meeting is being held in our backyard, at the Sacramento Convention Center with workshops at Sacramento State University. Saturday, July 16 – Wednesday, July 20, 2016 Whether you’ve never been to a National meeting, or are a regular attendee, this is a great opportunity to attend with lower travel costs. One day will be a “High School” day, with a lower registration fee for teachers who wish to only attend that day (although we encourage you to attend all days!) Information can be found here: Meeting home page (registration is not up yet, but will appear…
Here’s our group photo from Saturday, November 15, 2015 at Sacramento State (click it for full-size): Sixty-six folks in the photo. In reflecting on our keynote speaker’s presentation, there are 22 women in the photo: 33%. We may be ahead of the physics average, but still have work to do.
Maps and carpool info are at the bottom of the page.
Draft Schedule (Subject to Revision)
Sac State’s SPS chapter is hosting a free-to-the-public event on campus and we are invited! Josh Moss will give a talk on what’s been going at the ATLAS experiment at CERN.If you were at our last meeting, you heard that we were going to change our dues structure. Due to a generous annual donation from the Foothill College Physics Show, we will be able to reduce membership costs to in-the-trenches physics teachers. We will no longer charge fees for our meetings, but will instead revert to a membership model. When you attend a meeting, you will be required to pay a year’s worth of dues. These will be set at $25, although if you register via the web we will discount to $20. Membership covers two meetings (plus associated meals).
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