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2012 Zone 2 Meeting

Adelphi University, Garden City, NY  March 2-3, 2012

Please register at the the link given below.  Reduced rates for registration by Feb. 17.

See the links at the bottom of this page to register as well as download pfd copies of the meeting flyer, descriptions of the talks, and meeting schedule (note it is also possible to just get a ticket for the Brian Greene lecture as detailed in that file, but for just a few dollars more you can get access to the other talks, activities, meals, etc).

Meeting Schedule:

Friday, March 2, 2012

  2:00-4:00 pm:  Check-in

  4:00-4:30 pm:  Welcome

  4:30-6:30 pm:  Physics Games, Jeopardy, & Poster Contest*

  6:30-8:00 pm:  Dinner

8:00-10:00 pm:  Dr. Brian Greene, String Theory:  Reaching for Einstein's Dream

10:00-11:00pm:  Book Signing by Dr. Greene

11:00pm-Midnight:  Observatory Session (weather permitting)

Saturday, March 3, 2012

9:00-10:00 am:      Breakfast

10:00am-1:00pm:  Cradle of Aviation Museum

1:00-2:30pm:  Lunch & Talk:  Dr. Elna Nagasako, Protecting the Health of the Sickest and Most Vulnerable Patients:  How Physicists Can Help the Field of Medicine in an Era of Health Reform

2:30-4:00pm:  Closing Ceremony, Awards, & Check-out

*Anyone may enter the poster contest with a physics research-based project, but if you do plan to bring a poster, please email the author names and title to bentley@adelphi.edu so we will know who to expect.

Most questions should be answered by the files in the links below, but you may also email justindove@mail.adelphi.edu or bentley@adelphi.edu

If mailing a check (payable to Adelphi University) for meeting registration or Brian Greene tickets, send to:  Prof. Sean Bentley, Dept. of Physics, Adelphi University, 1 South Ave, Garden City, NY 11530

Thanks and hope to see you in March!!