NYSS APS - AAPT Conference

2008 APS/AAPT Spring Topical Symposium Agenda (Tentative)

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

Friday, April 18 - Saturday, April 19, 2008

Overview of Program

All Symposium events will take place either at the auditorium of the Robert Purcell Community Center (RPCC) or at Appel Commons (AC). Please see the Cornell Campus Life map or Cornell's official map or an annotated version highlighting the symposium venues.

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Friday 4/18

9:00-12:00 NYSS APS Executive Committee Meeting (AC - room TBD)
12:00-4:30 Registration open (RPCC)
1:00-5:00 Sessions on Superconducting Radio Frequency Science and Technology (RPCC)
4:30-5:30 NYSS AAPT Executive Board Meeting (AC - room TBD)
5:00-6:00 Social hour (cash bar) and Poster Session (AC - large breakout rooms)
6:00-7:30 Symposium Banquet and Keynote Address (AC Multi-purpose Room)

Saturday 4/19

8:30-10:30 Registration open (AC)
8:30-9:00 Continental breakfast (AC Multi-purpose Room)
9:00-10:30 First session on Synchrotron Radiation Science (AC Multi-Purpose Room)
10:30 Coffee/tea Break
10:45-12:00 Second session on Synchrotron Radiation Science (RPCC)
12:00-1:00 Lunch (tickets required) (AC Multi-Purpose Room)
1:00-1:45 Plenary talk on the Standard Model (RPCC)
1:45-3:45 Session on High Energy Physics (RPCC)
1:45-3:45 Programs for Teachers (AC - various rooms TBD)
4:00-5:00 Tours of facilities

Details of Sessions

Friday 4/18
Superconducting Radiofrequency Technology
(Robert Purcell Community Center Auditorium)

Superconducting RF Cavities for Particle Accelerators: An Introduction,
Ilan Ben-Zvi, Brookhaven National Laboratory

RF Superconductivity
Jim Sethna, Cornell University

Past, present and future SRF accelerators around the world: A Success Story
Hasan Padamsee, Cornell University

SRF Cavity Preparation and Testing? It's cool
Matthias Liepe, Cornell University

Higher Order Mode Damping in SRF Cavities, Elise Novitski, Yale

The Race for Highest Gradients,
Grigorii Eremeev, Cornell University

SRF Surface Studies and the High Field Q-slope Mystery,
Alexander Romanenko, Cornell University

Saturday 4/19
Scientific Advances with Synchrotron Radiation
(Appel Commons Multipurpose Room)

9:00-9:45 am
Synchrotron Generated X-rays: Cool Uses for Hot Beams, Ken Finkelstein, Cornell

9:45-10:30 am
Beyond Rocks: Geology and Planetary Sciences with X-rays, John Parise, SUNY Stony Brook

10:30-10:45 am
Coffee Break

(RPCC Auditorium)
10:45-11:25 am
If You Build It, Will It Work? Using X-rays to Study Atom-by-Atom Materials Fabrication, Arthur Woll, Cornell

(RPCC Auditorium)
11:25-noon
Art and Science Coming Together to Determine the Unique Construction of a Painting by David Teniers the Younger, Noelle Ocon, North Carolina Museum of Art

High Energy Particle Physics (RPCC Auditorium)

1:00-1:45 pm
The Standard Model, Maxim Perelstein, Cornell

Parallel Sessions
2:00-3:45 pm
I. HEP continued
Neutrinos, Jim Napolitano, RPI
LHC: Why Protons?,Kyle Cranmer, NYU
ILC: Why Electrons?, Karl Ecklund, Buffalo

1:45-3:45 pm
II. Teacher Workshops
Information and updates on the Cornell Phys-TEC program will be provided.
Those interested should register on-line for one of the following workshops:
Cloud Chambers and Cosmic Rays (Lora K. Hine, sponsored by LEPP)
Diffraction (Kevin Dilley, sponsored by CCMR)
Light Emitting Diodes (Julie Nucci, sponsored by CNS)

Tours
4:00-5:00 pm
Tours of three areas will be available. Select one of the three tours when you sign-in at the symposium.
High Energy Physics facilities (Wilson Laboratory)
Superconducting RF facilities (Newman Laboratory)
CHESS/ERL facilities (Wilson Laboratory)