Program
Thursday, January 16th | ||||||||||
| 5:00pm - 9:00pm | Check-in/Registration (dinner on your own) | |||||||||
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Reception at International House with appetizers and liquid nitrogen ice cream | |||||||||
Friday, January 17th | ||||||||||
| 8:00am - 8:45am | Breakfast at your hotel | |||||||||
Students will take either the Fermilab or Argonne Tour Buses leave promptly at 9:00am | ||||||||||
| Fermilab Tour | Argonne Tour | |||||||||
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| 9:00am - 10:30am | Travel from hotel to Fermilab | Travel from hotel to Argonne | ||||||||
| 10:30am - 12:30pm | Tour of Fermilab | Tour of Argonne | ||||||||
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Lunch at Fermilab with women scientists and engineers from Fermilab and local companies | Lunch at Argonne with women scientists and engineers from Argonne and local companies | ||||||||
| 2:00pm - 4:00pm | Continue tour of Fermilab | Continue tour of Argonne | ||||||||
4:00pm - 6:30pm | Travel from Fermilab to I-House | Travel from Argonne to I-House | ||||||||
| 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Check-in/Registration for people not attending tour | |||||||||
| 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Buffet dinner at I-House | |||||||||
| 7:15pm - 7:25pm | Welcome from Tom Rosenbaum, Provost | |||||||||
| 7:25pm - 7:35pm | Welcome from Rocky Kolb, Dean of Physical Sciences | |||||||||
| 7:35pm - 7:45pm | Welcome from Savannah Thais, Undergraduate Committee Member | |||||||||
| 7:45pm - 8:30pm | Willetta Greene-Johnson, Loyola University | |||||||||
Saturday, January 18th | ||||||||||
| 8:00am - 8:30am | Check-in/Registration | |||||||||
| 8:30am - 9:15am | Networking breakfast at International House(breakfast buffet) | |||||||||
| 9:15am - 10:00am | Anastasia Belozertseva, ThoughtWorks, Inc. Emily Casey, ThoughtWorks, Inc. | |||||||||
| 10:00am - 10:30am | Break | |||||||||
| 10:30am - 11:15am | Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin, Madison (pdf) | |||||||||
| 11:15am - 12:15pm | Undergraduate Research Panel Kaitlyn Lee, Undergraduate Cacey Stevens, REU Coordinator (ppt) Carol Thompson, Undergraduate Mentor | |||||||||
| 12:15pm - 1:00pm | Lunch | |||||||||
| 1:00pm - 2:30pm | Keynote Speaker: Debra Fischer, Yale (ppt) - Broadcast from Penn State conference site | |||||||||
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Undergraduate poster session | |||||||||
| 4:30pm - 6:00pm | Lab tours (UChicago research groups) | |||||||||
| 7:00pm - 8:00pm | Banquet dinner | |||||||||
| 8:00pm - 8:05pm | Opening remarks from Young-Kee Kim, The University of Chicago | |||||||||
| 8:05pm - 8:10pm | Remarks from past APS President, Michael Turner, The University of Chicago | |||||||||
| 8:10pm - 8:15pm | Present poster awards | |||||||||
| 8:15pm - 9:00pm | Evalyn Gates, Cleveland Museum (key) | |||||||||
Sunday, January 19th | ||||||||||
| 7:00am - 8:00am | Breakfast at your hotel | |||||||||
| 8:30am - 9:30am | Career panel Grace Wolf-Chase, Adler Planatarium Ellen Martinsek, Jones College Prep High School Erin Abouzaid, Stony Brook Foundation Monica Plisch, American Physical Society Kawtar Hafidi, Argonne National Laboratory | |||||||||
| 9:30am - 10:15am | Cecilia Gerber, University of Illinois at Chicago | |||||||||
| 10:15am - 10:45am | Break | |||||||||
| 10:45am - 11:30am | Michelle Larson, Adler Planetarium (pdf) | |||||||||
| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Lunch | |||||||||
| 2:00pm - 2:45pm | Heather Whitney, Wheaton College | |||||||||
| 2:45pm - 2:50pm | Closing remarks, Young-Kee Kim, The University of Chicago | |||||||||
| 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Writing workshop, Tracy Weiner, UC Writing Program | |||||||||
