Annual Southeastern Section Meeting

9-11 November 1995

Tallahassee, FL

Announcement

The 62nd Meeting of SESAPS will be held in Tallahassee, Florida on 9-11 November 1995. Our hosts for this meeting will be the professional staff of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL). The Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee will be Ms. Merry Ann Johnson, assisted by Ms. Janet Patten. Their respective addresses are: Fax: 904-644-0534, Voice: (904) 644-6257, Email: johnson@magnet.fsu.edu and Fax: (904) 644-0867, Voice: (904) 644-6257, Email: patten@magnet.fsu.edu. The mailing address is: National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32310.

Submission of Abstracts

The deadline for the receipt of contributed paper abstracts is for them to be in the office of our Program Chairman no later than Friday, 1 September 1995. The Program Chairman is: Dr. Edward G. Bilpuch, Department of Physics, Duke University, Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708.

The entire program will be organized the following day to be transmitted to the publisher. All abstracts received by the deadline will be published in their entirety in the November 1995 BULLETIN of the AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY. Authors of abstracts failing to meet the deadline will be notified of the late receipt. AN ABSTRACT FEE OF $20/ABSTRACT should accompany the submitted abstracts. All abstracts of contributed papers must be furnished in QUADRUPLICATE (4 copies) and must be prepared in the standard APS format as specified in recent issues of the APS NEWS. No acknowledgment of receipt for your abstract is normally sent. If you wish an acknowledgment, send a stamped self addressed post card requesting this information with your abstract and check. Likewise, the scheduled time for your presentation must be obtained from the BULLETIN; if you wish this information prior to the BULLETIN, please include a stamped self addressed postcard requesting the time and date.

AN INNOVATION IN CONTRIBUTED PAPERS HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR THIS MEETING! Invited papers at this meeting, as at all APS meetings, are given by experts in areas selected by the Program Committee and these talks are usually of 30 minutes duration. Contributed papers, however, are on topics of the author's choice and ten minutes in length. On the day following the abstract deadline, all papers are organized into sessions and the sessions into the program of the meeting. This year the Program Committee will try an idea suggested by an APS member. Some of the contributed abstracts are such that the Committee will INVITE THE AUTHORS to give a SPECIAL INVITED PAPER of 20 minutes duration on the topic of their abstract at the beginning of the contributed paper session to which their talk is assigned. There will only be a few such papers selected. The invitation would be shown in the printed program of the meeting. If the author(s) would like to be considered for such an invitation, they are asked to type the fo

If invited to do so, the author is willing to expand the talk for the above abstract to a 20 minute talk. These invitations will be verified promptly by mail.

LATE ABSTRACTS: We realized that the deadline for papers is early but this is necessary if abstracts are to be published and readily available to the members prior to the meeting. If you cannot meet the deadline but still wish to present an abstract, send it to the Program Chairman before November 1 for inclusion as a Post Deadline presentation so that it can be incorporated into the appropriate session and listed on the bulletin board at the meeting. These abstracts must also be accompanied by the $20 abstract fee.

Accommodations

THE HOLIDAY INN CAPITOL PLAZA will be the headquarters hotel for this 62nd SESAPS meeting. The Capitol Plaza is located at 101 South Adams Street, Tallahassee, FL 32301 this is in the heart of downtown and is easily accessible, appropriate maps will be included in the SESAPS SUMMER NEWSLETTER. The reservation telephone number is (904) 224-5000. Room rates are $59.00 plus 10 percent tax for single or double. Identify yourself as attending the SESAPS meeting to assure getting the special rate. A block of rooms has been reserved for this special meeting, but the cutoff deadline is 20 October 1995. After this date availability and the special rate cannot be assured.

Transportation

TALLAHASSEE IS EASILY ACCESSIBLE as it is located on INTERSTATE-10 halfway between Jacksonville and Pensacola and is 30 miles South of Georgia/Florida state line. The Tallahassee Airport is served by Delta, USAir and Continental Air lines. All major rental car companies are available. The Capitol Plaza Hotel also has a shuttle service from the Airport. Again, additional travel information will be follow with the SUMMER NEWSLETTER.

Special Tours

TOURS OF THE NATIONAL HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD LABORATORY (NHMFL) will be scheduled for the SESAPS attendees, likely on Thursday evening. The NHMFL, which is a user support facility, houses the DC Magnetic Facility, the NMR, ICR and ESR Facility, the Millikelvin Facility and the research and theory program. These facilities house, and will house, the most powerful research magnets ever developed. Discussions with the local groups indicate that this may be one of most interesting and informative meetings in the history of SESAPS - and that's quite a feast considering the recent successful meetings at Oak Ridge and CEBAF.

Registration Fees

REGISTRATION FEES will be $20 for SESAPS and other APS members, $30 for nonmembers and $5 for retired physicists and graduate students. Undergraduate students may register free at the Society of Physics Students table. Registration will be open at the Capitol Plaza Hotel from 18:00 to 21:00 on November 8 and will continue each day of the meeting. The SESAPS banquet will be at the headquarters hotel on Friday evening and will include the presentation of the PEGRAM AND BEAMS AWARDS.

Additional Information

A REGIONAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY OF PHYSICS STUDENTS is also anticipated in conjunction with SESAPS, including a student paper session where the Marsh W. White Award will be presented for the best paper presented at that session. More information will be included in the SUMMER NEWSLETTER and sent directly to the Chapters from the SPS National Office.

STUDENTS WILL BE PLEASED TO LEARN THAT MODEST TRAVEL GRANTS WILL AGAIN BE AVAILABLE for those presenting research papers at the SESAPS sessions. The total amount will be $1500 with a maximum of $100 to any one individual. We hope that this will provide appropriate encouragement to those considering submitting a paper. Forms for making your request will be included with the SUMMER NEWSLETTER.