Student opportunities

Physics In and Through Cosmology Workshop 2019

2006 Nobel Prize Winner George Smoot and 2011 Nobel Prize Winner Saul Perlmutter are seeking students for the thirteenth annual summer workshop for high school students and teachers presented by the Physics Division of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab and QuarkNet.

The Physics in and Through Cosmology Workshop will be held at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory adjacent to the University of California Berkeley Campus beginning Tuesday, June 25 and ending Friday, June 28.

Spring Conference April 6 at University of the Pacific (Stockton)

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

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Listening to Einstein’s Universe; March 20th at Sonoma State

Join scientists from across the globe for a unique event to celebrate the exciting new field of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy, awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics.

Tuesday, March 20; 7:00-9:00 PM

The Cooperage at Sonoma State University Continue reading “Listening to Einstein’s Universe; March 20th at Sonoma State”

We are at Contra Costa College in April!

We’ll be at the Contra Costa College on April 13/14 for our spring conference. We’ll have a social event on Friday, and on Saturday we’ll have our main event. Continue reading “We are at Contra Costa College in April!”

Spring Meeting – Mt. Diablo HS – April 28/29

We’ll be in Concord for our Spring Meeting!

Our keynote speaker is Jessie Dotson, project scientist for NASA’s K2 Mission. Invited Speaker Jessie Dotson Pictured to the right, she’ll tell us about recent Kepler results. We’ll also have all of the other things that make our meetings so much fun, Share&Tell, a panel, workshops and we are bringing back the poster session. If you paid dues last Fall, registration is free (we’ll send you an email with a discount code), otherwise dues are $20 through Wednesday night, $25 at the door. Click here to register for the main event: https://ncnaapt.org/event-registration?ee=39 Continue reading “Spring Meeting – Mt. Diablo HS – April 28/29”