Program

Friday October 14:

9:00 AM. Executive Committee Meeting, Merrill House
12:00 PM Registration, Lobby, Olin Hall
1:20 PM: Welcoming Remarks, Love Auditorium, Olin Hall.
- Rebecca Chopp, President, Colgate University
- Bob Pompi, Vice-Chair, New York State Section, American Physical Society.
1:30-2:50 PM Session: Photons, Chair: Ken Segall, Love Auditorium
- 1:30 Arthur Zajonc, Amherst College,
  “The Idea of the Photon: What Recent Research Tells Us.”
- 2:10 Stephan Friedrich, Lawrence Livermore, National Laboratory,
  "Measuring Photons Precisely: From Black Holes to Nuclear Terrorism".
2:50-3:15 PM Coffee Break
3:15:4:35 PM Session: Quantum Mechanics, Chair: Ken Segall, Love Auditorium
- 3:15 Robert W. Boyd, University Rochester,
  "Quantum Imaging: Enhanced Image Formation Based on the Quantum Statistical Properties of Photons"
- 3:55 William K. Wootters, Williams College,
  "Quantum Entanglement: How a Former Paradox Is Becoming a Technology"
5:00-6:00 PM Poster Session, Edge cafe
6:00-7:30 PM Banquet, Edge Cafe
8:00 PM Public Lecture, Love Auditorium, John Stachel, Boston University,
"The Man Behind the Myth"

Saturday October 15:

9:00-10:20 AM Session: Relativity, Chair: Tom Balonek, Love Auditorium
- 9:00 Neil Ashby, University of Colorado, "Relativity in the Global Positioning System"
- 9:40 Rachel Bean, Cornell University
  "Einstein's 'Biggest Blunder' and other attempts to explain cosmic acceleration"
10:20-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:20 Session: Gravitational Waves, Chair: Tom Balonek, Love Auditorium
- 11:00 Peter Saulson, Syracuse University,
  "LIGO and the Search for Einstein's Gravitational Waves"
- 11:40 Shane Larson, Penn State University,
  "Listening to the Cosmic Fugue: LISA and the low frequency gravitational wave Universe"
12:20-1:45 Lunch
1:45-3:05 Session: Statistics, Chair: Joe Amato
- 1:45 Nicholas P. Bigelow, University of Rochester,
  "Bose-Einstein Condensation: Particle Statistics and the Quantum Identity Crisis"
- 2:25 Dean Astumian, University of Maine,
  "Brownian Motors: swimming in molasses and walking in a hurricane"
3:05 Closing remarks: James Owens, Chair, NYSS.