Ohio Section Fall Meeting

Ohio Section Fall Meeting
1-2 November 1996
Ohio University
Athens, OH
Preliminary Announcement

General Information

The 1996 Fall Meeting of the Ohio Section of the American Physical Society will be held at Ohio University, Athens, OH, on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, 1-2 November, 1996. The theme of the invited talks delivered during plenary sessions is "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos".

Friday afternoon plenary session
Earle Hunt, Ohio University, "Chaos in Electrical Circuits"
William Ditto, Georgia Tech., "Controlling Chaos in Biomedical Systems."

Professor Hunt, Ohio University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been working on various nonlinear circuits that exhibit chaotic behavior since 1980 and is perhaps best known for an experimental technique (reported in a 1991 Physical Review Letter) to control chaos in a high frequency diode resonator system. Subsequently, the technique, called Occasional Proportional Feedback (OPF), has been used in various forms by several researchers on a variety of systems. Prof. Hunt plans to include some live demonstrations of chaos in electrical circuits in his presentation.

Professor Ditto, Director of the Applied Chaos Laboratory, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, has numerous publications in applied chaos including articles in Scientific American, Nature, and Science. He will discuss recent experiments which exploit the sensitivity of chaotic systems to manipulate their dynamical behavior in desirable ways. Experiments on biological systems will be emphasized.

Saturday morning plenary session
Neil Gershenfeld, MIT, Media Lab, "The State of the State,"
Martin Gutzwiller, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Ctr., "Quantum Signatures of Classical Chaos."

One of the most remarkable results in the modern study of complex systems is the idea of state-space reconstruction from time series data of a single variable. While a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1989 to 1992, Professor Gershenfeld co-directed a Santa Fe Institute/NATO study on nonlinear time series. He is co-editor of a proceedings volume "Time Series Prediction - Forecasting the Future and Understanding the Past" published by Addison Wesley. His talk will review a number of the more broadly applicable recent extensions to the notion of state estimation for nonlinear systems.

Dr. Martin Gutzwiller, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, has worked on problems related to chaos in classical Hamiltonian systems and their manifestations in the corresponding quantum systems for twenty years. He is the author of a well known book: "Chaos in Classical and Quantum Mechanics" published by Springer-Verlag in 1990 as the first volume in a series on interdisciplinary applied mathematics.

Banquet

After the Friday afternoon plenary session there will be an open house of the Physics and Astronomy Department followed by a reception and banquet Friday evening. After the banquet Professor Neil Gershenfeld, Director of the Physics and Media group and co-director of the Things that Think research consortium, MIT, Media Laboratory, will give an address entitled "Musical Instruments, Models, and Machines".

Contributed Papers

Contributed papers dealing with all areas of original research, the teaching of physics, and physics and society are solicited. Ten minute oral presentations will be scheduled in parallel sessions from 8:00-10:00 a.m. Saturday morning. Undergraduate and graduate students are welcome and encouraged to present papers. The second plenary session of the meeting will follow the contributed paper sessions on Saturday, 2 November.

Support for Student Papers

The OS/APS recognizes that funds for students to attend meetings are quite limited at many institutions. In an effort to encourage student participation, limited funds are available to pay for the banquet, up to $20 for transportation and $25 for lodging, for students who present contributed papers. To request these funds, students should have their faculty advisor contact Roger Rollins or Louis Wright by telephone, fax, email, or by U.S. mail. (see "Information".)

Abstract Information

To have your abstract published in the Bulletin of the APS, your abstract must be submitted electronically, and an abstract fee of $40 must be sent to Ohio University with your meeting registration and reference your abstract by title and authors and log numbers if submitted electronically. The abstract publication fee must be included with payment of your registration fee. Abstracts will appear in the Transactions A Bulletin.

Submission of abstracts
You may choose to submit your abstract either on paper or electronically, using the APS email template. We strongly encourage you to try the email submission because there are several advantages:

You will receive an email acknowledgment that APS has received your abstract.
You will receive an email notice, assigning you a log number, once your paper has passed all of the automated technical check points of the template.
Once the program has been designed, you will receive a message letting you know what your assigned presentation day and time is.
When the program has been finalized and posted on the Ohio Section Homepage, you will be able to read your abstract, and those of fellow colleagues who submitted electronically. (Paper submissions will be listed by title and author only.)

Electronic Template Information
There are several ways to receive email submission information and the template. Go to the APS Home page "http://aps.org" and go to the subheader "Meeting Information" and then select "Electronic Submission of Contributed Abstracts." From that point you will be able to view all of the instructions necessary to successfully download the files and complete the template. You may also receive general information on submitting electronically, by sending email to abs-info@aps.org and put the word "Info" in the text of your message. An alternate route is via the Ohio University Physics and Astronomy Homepage (http://www.phy.ohio.edu/) and click successively on Ohio Section/APS Fall 1996 Meeting, Contributed Abstract Info, and Electronic Submission.

To receive the electronic template and files send a message to abs-request@aps.org and put the words request OFM96 in the text of the message. You will then receive five files containing information as well as the template. Please read them first, as the instructions indicate, before you start.

VERY IMPORTANT!!! Include the Meeting ID OFM96 in the "\Meeting ID" field. If it is not included, your paper will not make it through the electronic checking mechanism.

When you submit your abstract, you must send it to the address listed at the end of the template abs-submit@aps.org. Because the email messages are sent by automatic response programs, if you reply back to "abs-info@aps.org" or to "abs-request@aps.org", your paper will not be processed.

Paper Submission
For paper submission, you must submit a total of three copies of your abstract in standard APS Bulletin format (See APS News for format) and in camera-ready copy. The deadline for receiving submitted abstracts is 9 October 1996, 5:00 p.m. EST at the APS headquarters. Please enclose a self-addressed stamped postcard if you wish acknowledgment of receipt of your abstract. If you wish to have your abstract published in the Bulletin of The American Physical Society, your abstract must be submitted electronically and a publication fee of $40.00 for each abstract must be included with payment of your registration fee.

Send your abstracts to:
APS Meetings Department
Ohio Section Abstracts
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740-3844

Registration

The conference registration fee is $15 for participants who register by 18 October and $20 for those registering after that date. The cost of the banquet will be $15 for members and $10 for students. Reservations for the Banquet must be made and paid for by 18 October. See registration form on page M27.

Directions

Detailed information concerning directions and parking will be included in the mailing to all those on the Ohio Section mailing list. You may also consult the Ohio University Department of Physics and Astronomy home page URL: http://www.phy.ohiou.edu.

Housing

The conference motels are The Ohio University Inn, 331 Richland Ave. (within walking distance of campus), and The Amerihost Inn, 20 Home St., and The Days Inn, 330 Columbus Rd. (both less than a 5 minute drive). A block of rooms has been reserved for conference participants at each of these motels. To make reservations you must call the motel and request the conference rate by mentioning your attendance at the OS/APS meeting. To receive the conference rate, reservations must be made by 11 October.

Hotel
Ohio University Inn
Amerihost Inn
Days Inn Rate
$59.00 + tax
$53.10 + tax
$45.00 + tax Phone
(614) 593-6661
(614) 594-3000
(614) 592-4000

Information

Correspondence and questions should be addressed to one of the local co-chairs for the meeting:

Roger Rollins
Ohio University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Athens, OH 45701
email: rollins@chaos.phy.ohiou.edu
phone: (614) 593-1728
fax: (614) 593-0433

Louis Wright
Ohio University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Athens, OH 45701
email: wright@next.phy.ohiou.edu
phone: (614) 593-1713
fax: (614) 593-0433

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