Special Events

Educator's Day

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Graduate Student Symposium

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. (09:00-17:00)
The Nittany Lion Inn

Welcome Reception

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
6:00-9:00 p.m. (18:00-21:00)
The Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom

Meet the APS Journal Editors and Celebrate 50 Years of PRL

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
3:30-5:30 p.m. (15:30-17:30)
112 Kern Hall

Women in AMO Physics Reception

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
4:30-6:30 p.m. (16:30-18:30)
Room 129A HUB-Robeson Center

Public Lecture: "The energy/climate change problem and what we can do about it"

Steven Chu is a Nobel Laureate in Physics, the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and professor of physics and professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
8:00 p.m. (20:00)
Eisenhower Auditorium

Followed by an ice cream social

Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Community Meeting

Thursday, May 29, 2008
5:00-6:00 p.m. (17:00-18:00)
101 Osmond Laboratory (across from the HUB-Robeson Center)

Conference Banquet

Thursday, May 29, 2008
7:00 p.m. (19:00)
The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel

After-dinner talk: "Explaining how things work, even when they don't"
Louis Bloomfield is a professor of physics at the University of Virginia, the author of How Things Work, The Physics of Everyday Life and co-host of the Discovery Channel show Some Assembly Required.

Shuttle buses will be provided from The Nittany Lion Inn and the poster session to The Penn Stater.

Lab Tours

Saturday, May 31, 2008
2:00-4:00 p.m. (14:00-16:00)
Davey Lab

The AMO research labs at Penn State will be open for tours by conference participants. Details and sign up sheets will be at the conference registration desk.