2011 AAPT Winter Meeting Highlights

The 2011 Winter Meeting in Jacksonville, Florida was a great success. The meeting was atteded by physics educators and students from 15 countries outside of the United States: Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Greece, Iran, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Thanks to all that particpated. 
The 2011 Winter Meeting highlights and program will give you an overview of this meeting.

Streaming Video

AAPT captured all plenaries and award presentations at the 2011 Winter meeting via streaming video. To view please go to http://www.ustream.tv/user/physicsteachers or see the links below.

Plenary Speakers and Award Winners

• Plenary Speakers
• Fred Dylla (AIP), Ernest Rutherford and the Accelerator (PowerPoint Slides)
• Lee Peddicord (Texas A&M University), Nuclear Power: Breeder Reactors and Beyond (PowerPoint Slides)
• Nancy Mendenhall (UF Proton Therapy Institute), State-of-the-Art Nuclear Medicine: Proton Therapy (PowerPoint Slides)
• Award Winners
• Oersted Medal-James Rutherford, UC Berkeley: The Particle Enigma, High School Physics, and the Search for Scientific Literacy (PowerPoint Slides)
• Richtmyer Memorial Award - Katheryn Moler, Stanford Univeristy: Quantum Whirlpools: Tiny Vortices of Tireless Electrons (PowerPoint Slides)

Special Event

• A Living History of Madame Marie Curie

• AAPT Winter meeting attendees had an unusual opportunity to meet famous scientist, Madame Marie Curie, as protrayed by scholar/actress Susan Marie Frontczak. She has given over 300 performances as Marie Curie across the United States, Canada, and Europe. For more information, please go to http://storysmith.org/manya/pd.html.
• SPS Poster Gallery: View the SPS posters from the 2011 Winter meeting at www.MeetingPosters.com/sps2011.htm.