Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 14 MARCH 2001

Session T1. FPS: Successful Physicist Writers: The Medium and the Message (followed by Book Signing).

Wednesday afternoon, 17:30, Ballroom 6A, Washington State Convention Center

17:30 T1.001 Portraying Physicists and Physics in Hard Science Fiction

John G. Cramer (Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1560)

18:06 T1.002 Science Light and Foamy: Presenting Physics in the Popular Media

Sidney Perkowitz (Physics Dept., Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322)

18:42 T1.003 Physicists as Characters

Michael Riordan (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

Session T3. GIMS: A Salute to NIST and Keithly Award Session.

Wednesday afternoon, 17:30, Ballroom 6C, Washington State Convention Center

17:30 T3.001 A Century of Physics at NIST

Katharine B. Gebbie (Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology)

18:06 T3.002 Precision Measurement with Gravity

James E. Faller (JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado)

Session T21. DBP: DBP Business Meeting.

Wednesday afternoon, 17:30, Room 604, Washington State Convention Center