Send your hard copy abstracts and publication fee of $20 to:
Checks for abstract fees must be made out to SESAPS. No acknowledgment of receipt for the hard copy of your abstract is normally sent. If you wish an acknowledgment, or receipt, send a stamped self-addressed post card requesting this information with your abstract and check. Remember, your abstract fee is not your meeting registration fee. Likewise, the scheduled time for your presentation must be obtained from the bulletin WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY on the WWW. Meeting rooms will have an overhead projector and chalkboard -to request other audio-visual aids, including 35 mm projectors, please make your request in writing by typing it near the bottom of the hard copy of your abstract or including it in the "Special Instructions" on the electronic abstract. Any questions about the program should be directed to Dr. Durham at phone: (504) 865-5520, fax: (504) 862-8702, email: FED@MAILHOST.TCS.TULANE.EDU.
The innovation in contributed papers used at last years meeting will be continued! 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 thirty minutes duration. Contributed papers, however, are on topics of the author's choice and are 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 continue an idea suggested by an APS member. Some of the contributed abstracts are of such interest that the committee will INVITE THE AUTHORS to give a SPECIAL INVITED PAPER of twenty 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 invitations will be listed in the printed program of the meeting and will be verified promptly by mail to the authors. If the author(s) would like to be considered for such an invitation, they are asked to type the following statement below the abstract: If invited to do so, the author is willing to expand the talk for the above abstract to twenty minutes.
The Program Chairman Requests Suggestions from the Membership Regarding the Subject of Invited Papers.
Travel to Atlanta is convenient as Atlanta is a major airline hub and a junction of several major interstate highways.
Registration Fees will be $20.00 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 headquarters hotel from 18:00 to 21:00 on November 13 and will continue each day of the meeting.
For companions, as well as those attending the meeting, there are many regional attractions.
A Meeting of the Society of Physics Students is also anticipated in conjunction with SESAPS and will include a student paper session where the Marsh W. White Award will be presented for the best paper given at that session.
Travel support will be available for students this year. Students will be pleased to learn that modest travel grants will again be available for those presenting research papers at the SESAPS sessions. SPS students giving papers in the SPS sessions are not eligible for travel support.
The following information was generated by APS to assist you with the preparation of electronically submitted abstracts.
The deadline is firm, so don't wait until the last minute! Send early _ save yourself the stress.
Electronic Submission
Last year, the APS instituted an electronic abstract submission process, which was an enormous success, with almost 80 percent of all the abstracts being submitted electronically. We are hoping for an even better turnout electronically this year. There are many advantages to submitting electronically.
For information on how to submit an abstract electronically, send an email message to "abs-info@aps.org" and use the word "info" in the text of your message. To receive the template, send a message to "abs-request@aps.org" and put the words "request SES96" in the text of your message. The information and/or template will be returned to you by email. If you have particular questions regarding the information, or need assistance, send a message to "abs-help@aps.org".
Submitting electronically is very easy. The mark-up language we use is LaTex, but you do not need to know LaTex in order to submit an abstract. Simple ASCII text will suffice, unless you need to put mathematical symbols or Greek characters in the text of your abstract - and most of those instructions are very simple.
Paper Submission
Contributed abstracts received by APS via postal mail will be accepted; however, only the title and authors will appear on the World Wide Web version of the Bulletin. In order for an abstract to be published in the Transactions A Bulletin, the submitter must pay the $20 fee to the Program Chair of the Southeastern Section and submit the abstract electronically. Paper submissions will not be printed in the Bulletin.
Please follow the instructions for the preparation of paper abstracts as they appear in each issue of APS Meeting News. These abstracts should be sent to:
Please do NOT also send a paper abstract to APS if you are submitting your abstract electronically. All abstracts must be at the headquarters office by the deadline date. APS assumes no responsibility for mail delays. Receipt of paper abstracts will not be confirmed unless accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
Some Electronic Do's and Don't's
Do not simply "reply" to the address from which you received the abstract template. Send the abstract to abs-submit@aps.org. Make sure you have the correct meeting ID SES96.
One abstract per message! The system is automated. Sending two or more abstracts in one message increases the likelihood that all but the first abstract will disappear into the ether.